Banng the Use of Gay and Trans Panic Defens - Williams Instute

Contents:

• HISTORY MA / GAYPANIC
• BANNG THE USE OF GAY AND TRANS PANIC DEFENS
• GAYNGST-INDUCED SUICI
• RELATED MA / GAYPANIC

HISTORY MA / GAYPANIC

While the real world, LGBTQ+ persons are jt as varied personaly and tras as straight/cisgenr on, has sued televisn wrers to e mon stereotyp for their gay characters li of actually makg them "real people".

The trop n volve negative attus towards or stereotyp about lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, asexual, and/or genr non-nformg people, and they n the gamut om relatively mor limatns (on clothg choic, mannerisms, jobs or reers and the like) to hostily and vlence. Armoured Closet Gay: A closeted gay who's prompted by Internalized Categorism to exprs homophobia agast others and aggrsively assert his heterosexual bona fis.

Ba-and-Swch Lbians: Two characters are subject to heavy and liberate Homoerotic Subtext, but are never explicly nfirmed as sexual partners, and one or both of them is a heterosexual relatnship by the end of the show. Tends to trivialize the same-sex romance, as if 's only there to enterta the mographic tillated by the ia of people of the same sex behavg homoerotilly together.

BANNG THE USE OF GAY AND TRANS PANIC DEFENS

Bury Your Gays: If beg gay is (one of) the worst thg(s) you n be and fictn is only satisfyg if virtue is reward and vice is punished, then the gay characters serve to die bee they're gay. Cure Your Gays: The ia that homosexualy is a form of disease or sany that n and mt be "cured" (In Real Life, has been discreded by profsnal anizatns, cludg the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn).

If the rints of a Gayborhood are picted engagg stereotypilly predatory behavurs, such a place (wh s large numbers of gays) across as threateng to a heterosexual dience.

Gayngst: Lkg homosexualy and unhapps/prsn/suici n imply that beg gay all those bad nsequenc (rather than the reactns of other people beg the e).

GAYNGST-INDUCED SUICI

Gay Panic: In TV Trop, this is when queer plotl and/or characters that were airg are sudnly changed or dropped entirely, suggts moral disapproval is behd their disappearance.

: The creators want to be clive, but are too aaid of the Moral Guardians to show gay behavr, so they rely heavily on stated assertns of homosexualy. Mascule–Feme Gay Couple: This n be Tth Televisn, but when all same-sex upl are assumed to be like this appeals to outdated genr stereotyp of every romantic relatnship needg to have a "man" and a "woman". Queer People Are Funny: Humour about gay relatnships bee the participants are gay (as opposed to jok about upl that uld apply to heterosexual upl, i.

Rape and Swch: This is based on heteronormative ia that heterosexualy is the "flt" state and th beg subject to sexual abe the victim to bee homosexual. She's a Man Japan: This is not always homophobic motivatn, but a large proportn of exampl volve changg a character's genr or cis/trans stat orr to avoid provokg Moral Guardians by havg non-cis characters and/or non-straight romantic relatnships.

RELATED MA / GAYPANIC

While this n be a eful trick a homophobic society, also suggts beg lbian means beg very unlike the normal folk the dience, and not a good way. Hi Your Lbians: In addn to the ual ncealment of homosexualy, this one n also imply that lbian women don't want sex (which is fed as heterosexual sex). Psycho Lbian: Plays on the purported lk between homosexualy and sany, flavoured wh the sexist implitn of "hysteria", as well as implyg that if they're willg to do somethg as bad as lbian sex, there's nothg they won't do.

All Gays Are Pedophil: Based partly on the purported hypersexualy of gays and partly on the ia that beg gay isn't herent anyone, this trope says that gays "rec" children and "turn" them gay.

Always Camp: The ia that certa profsns attract drama queens and people wh mpy sensibili verge to the stereotype area (when "mp" is equated wh "gay"), which leads to assumptns and mors about people those jobs. But Not Too Gay: In an effort to appeal to broad dienc whout offendg too many people, thors impose lims on homosexual exprsn that are more strict than those on heterosexual exprsn.