MEDIA AND GENDER

Media and Gender

Media and Gender

Stereotypes and Gay And Lesbian Media

Media takes part in the "symbolic annihilation" of gays and lesbians by contrary stereotyping them (often consigning them to the margins of amusement newspapers, playing either "colourful" and "flamboyant" individual characteristics or unsafe psychopaths), by seldom depicting them realistically, or by not depicting them at all(O'Sullivan Jewkes 1997 pp.90-109).

The financial structure of the mass newspapers bounds the opening for comprising varied characters. Too often systems and movie businesses timid away from depicting gays and lesbians for worry of alienating or offending advertisers, investors, and audiences(Gauntlett 2002 Gill 207 pp.28-29).

Hollywood has applauded itself for being "gay- friendly," spotlighting the sitcom achievement of "Will & Grace" and making it Hollywood's poster progeny for the millennium. Entertainment Weekly even lately issued an topic dedicated to high-paid, mighty and well renowned homosexuals in the enterprise, with the cover boasting (what else?) "Will & Grace." Hollywood is virtually shouting how it has arrive out of the wardrobe, yet if one examines nearly they actually wouldn't observe a difference. Even amidst the gay individual characteristics that are televised, numerous are stereotyped as flamboyantly gay or butch lesbian types. And while not every man who is gay actions like Jack from "Will and Grace," numerous movies and TV displays are inclined to aim only these gay stereotypes.

The couple of displays that do display homosexuals as everyday persons furthermore deal with same-sex connections, and ironically are inclined to get shoved off mesh TV and up on a more adult-oriented position like Showtime or HBO(Curran Gurevitch 2005 pp.54-61).

While substantial advancement has been made with esteem to the portrayal of gays and lesbians in TV and videos, detractors contend that report newspapers still systematically disregard and falsify the inhabits and knowledge of gays and lesbians.

In a 1998 study that investigated 50 years of treatment of gay and lesbian matters in Time and Newsweek, Lisa Bennett discovered that report newspapers strengthen prejudice and discrimination against gays and lesbians. She observes that gays and lesbians are often connected to deviant or lawless individual demeanour without clues to support such claims; and that the newspapers often reprint attack and homophobic comments. Bennett summarizes that such practices strengthen stereotypical thinking that gays and lesbians are intrinsically inferior (O'Sullivan Dutton Rayner 2003 pp.112-113).

Before the dawn of the gay privileges action in the 1970s, gays and lesbians did not number prominently in mainstream report media. But with the emergence of HIV/AIDS as a public wellbeing topic in the 1980s, treatment became more strong, and more negative. During this time, newspapers treatment often depicted gay men as a grave risk to society.

Activists and academics for example Simon Watney, Douglas Crimp and Jan Zita Grover contend that report treatment of HIV/AIDS has consistently drawn on contradictory stereotypes about gays and lesbians. In their outlook, the treatment of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s echoed mainstream society's worry of and disapprove for the gay community—and vitally accused gay men for AIDS(Thwaites Davis Mules 2002 ...