Host Michel Mart and Judy Bradford of the Center for Populatn Rearch LGBT Health discs the Instute Of Medice's report fdgs, as well as the LGBT muny's most prevalent health issu. Demographer Gary Gat also jos the nversatn. He is bunkg famo sex rearcher Aled Ksey's claim that 10% of mal the U.S. are gay. He talks about this percentage, the real number of Ameri's LGBT people, and challeng to gatherg accurate data.
Contents:
- BURY YOUR GAYS: CONTROVERSY ON THE 100
- GAYT CI AMERI 2023
- IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?
BURY YOUR GAYS: CONTROVERSY ON THE 100
* is anyone gay in the 100 *
But now, fally, The 100 has troduced s first gay character (that we know of). In a media landspe where gay, lbian and bisexual characters are still often fed maly by their sexualy, havg Lexa — one of the show’s strongt, most well-liked characters — sually reveal that she’s queer and then rry on wh her day sends a strong and important msage to young viewers. Several supportg/recurrg gay characters are featured on Supernatural, The Vampire Diari, Jane the Virg, Arrow and The Origals (and last year both The Carrie Diari and Star-Crossed had gay/lbian/bisexual ma characters), but queer characters still rema shockgly unr-reprented on The CW.
GAYT CI AMERI 2023
The cisn — and the later intifitn of other characters, like Nathan Miller (Jarod Joseph), as gay — was simply world-buildg, and solely wh the world of The 100.
… Nobody ever classifi anybody, as , ‘She’s a woman lear, ’ or, ‘He’s a gay soldier.
IS BARBIE GAY AND WHY IS THE NEW MOVIE RATED PG-13?
Here are the major plats: Lexa’s ath falls to the Dead Lbian Trope, or “Bury Your Gays, ” which is harmful nsirg that many young people who watch The 100 watch bee of s posive portrayal of LGBTQ+ characters. ” I poted her to the recent study GLAAD did analyzg LGBTQ+ characters on televisn that I lked to my post about bisexual reprentatn on Crazy Ex-Girliend, which stat that of the 59 LGBTQ+ characters on TV last year, 39% were gay men, 36% were lbian, 15% were bi women & 5% were bi men. The ath of Commanr Lexa (Alycia Debnam-Carey) at the hands of her send--mand T (Neil Sandilands) after he attempted to kill her lover Clarke (Eliza Taylor) was wily rid as yet another stance of a TV seri treatg gay and bisexual female characters as expendable.
I believe eight gay characters have been killed on TV this year. “There is somethg lled the lbian ath trope which has ep roots homophobia. ”“Bury Your Gays, ” is a trope which gay characters’ arcs chronilly have unhappy endgs.
Even if they do end up havg some kd of relatnship, at least one half of the uple, often the one who was more aggrsive pursug a relatnship, th “pervertg” the other one, has to die at the end… This trope n also be seen as a head-on llisn between “Sex Is Evil” and “All Gays Are Promiscuo. For queer viewers, “Bury Your Gays” often leads to a plete lack of reprentatn.