The everyday women expla the programme, which airs tonight at 10.30pm, how they are more fortable referrg to themselv as a 'gay woman' or 'queer' to avoid beg 'sexualised'.
Contents:
- WHY ARE THERE GAY WOMEN?
- IS IT GAY HBAND? LBIAN WIFE? OR WHAT?
- HOMOSEXUAL WOMEN SAY THEY SCRIBE THEMSELV AS 'QUEER' OR 'GAY' BEE 'LBIAN' HAS BEEN HIJACKED BY MEN WHO 'FETISHIZE' SAME-SEX FEMALE RELATNSHIPS ON SCREEN
- UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI
- BUTCH, FEMME, OR STRAIGHT ACTG? PARTNER PREFERENC OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS
WHY ARE THERE GAY WOMEN?
Follow a gay uple’s lead as to how to refer to one spoe. And when doubt, “partner” ually satisfi everyone. * why are gay women called lesbians *
The word lbian means a female homosexual or woman who is primarily attracted to other women.
IS IT GAY HBAND? LBIAN WIFE? OR WHAT?
* why are gay women called lesbians *
This term was pecially popular the early 20th century, before lbian was a mon term ed to refer to gay women. It was such an unual cisn—and such a succs—that helped ph gay and lbian advertisg om the g to the mastream.
HOMOSEXUAL WOMEN SAY THEY SCRIBE THEMSELV AS 'QUEER' OR 'GAY' BEE 'LBIAN' HAS BEEN HIJACKED BY MEN WHO 'FETISHIZE' SAME-SEX FEMALE RELATNSHIPS ON SCREEN
Mastream movi and TV shows wh gay characters—like Will & Grace—were still a few years away, and few celebri were openly gay. When Ellen Degener beme a rare exceptn 1997, and her character the show Ellen me out as gay an episo of the s, many pani pulled their ads.
UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI
”At that time, gay-iendly advertisg was largely limed to the fashn and alhol dtri. When a 1994 IKEA ad featured a gay uple, the Amerin Fay Associatn, a nonprof, mounted boytts, and someone lled a (fake) bomb threat to an IKEA Poux explas, the attu of most bs toward LGBTQ advertisg was: “Why would you do somethg like that?
BUTCH, FEMME, OR STRAIGHT ACTG? PARTNER PREFERENC OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS
You’d be known as a gay pany. ” In the 1990s, Poux worked at Mulryan/Nash, an agency that specialized the gay market.