Jab Stockger, Toward a Gay Cricism, College English, Vol. 36, No. 3, The Homosexual Imagatn (Nov., 1974), pp. 303-311
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The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * in living color gay critics *
Tradnally, most LGBTQ characters on televisn were Whe, and the few Black gay characters were distorted stereotyp — feme, stuck tradnally female jobs, the source of humor about genr and genr rol or sequtered otherwise Whe televisual worlds.
When lbian and gay characters were clud (there was virtually no discsn of bisexualy or trans people), they were stereotyped ritur: Gay men were “feme” and often had “women’s” reers such as hairdrser and terr signer, and lbians were “butch” bee they, prumably, wanted to be “men.