LGBTQ – Flow

Queer City: Interactive Storytelling through Twine as Queer Archival Resistance in Bangladesh
Mohammed Rashid / The University of Texas at Dallas

April 3, 2023 Mohammed Rashid / UT Dallas Leave a comment

Mohammed Rashid explores how Twine, a digital media platform, and more specifically, the Queer City interactive project, acts as a clandestine method of queer archiving and archival resistance through which the experiences and stories of the Bangladeshi queer community may be protected, archived, and carefully circulated.

**Over*Flow: Classifying Dahmer: Protecting Netflix’s Homonormative Canon**
Dan Vena / Queen’s University & Sarah Woodstock / University of Toronto

January 27, 2023 Dan Vena / Queen's University & Sarah Woodstock / University of Toronto 2 comments

Dan Vena and Sarah Woodstock argue that Netflix’s removal of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story from its LGBTQ TV category discards “unacceptable” queer history and protects the homonormativity of Netflix’s LGBTQ library.

An LGBTQ Netflix: Productive? Restricting? Lasting?
Chelsea McCracken / Beloit College

October 2, 2017 Chelsea McCracken / Beloit College 5 comments

Chelsea McCracken considers Revry – the LGBT Netflix – alongside historical responses and successes of LGBTQ production companies, distribution platforms, and film festivals.

The Homogenized Queerness of Historical Television
Britta Hanson / University of Texas at Austin

July 5, 2017 Britta Hanson One comment

What does the presence of queer characters accomplish in historical shows? How much historicity do their depictions require? Britta Hanson explores the positive – and frequently negative – implications of modern-framed queer characters placed in the past.

Can you imagine Mary Richards as a radical queer?
Gerald Walton / Lakehead University

February 19, 2017 Gerald Walton / Lakehead University One comment

Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Gerald Walton addresses the personal possibilities and pitfalls of identifying with the character of Mary Richards from a queer perspective.

Queering Justin

March 22, 2007 Hector Amaya / Southwestern University 9 comments

by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University
How does the Justin character on Ugly Betty factor into and complicate debates about queer representations on television?

Sex, Media, Celebrity: A Queer Culture of Media Production

March 21, 2007 Adam Fish / UCLA 3 comments

by: Adam Fish / UCLA
Subcultures become pop cultures and today’s underground emerges as tomorrow’s mainstream.

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Boy: Transgeneration‘s Meditation on the “Real”

November 18, 2005 Shana Agid / Sarah Lawrence College 3 comments

by: Shana Agid / Sarah Lawrence College
Thoughts on Transgeneration and TV’s quest to create a viable “normal” transgender person.

Fans of Lesbians on TV: The L Word’s Generations

April 25, 2005 Jill Dolan / University of Texas at Austin 24 comments

by: Jill Dolan / University of Texas at Austin
What The L Word gets “right” about lesbian relationships.

Boy Soaps: Liberalism Without Women

March 18, 2005 Allison McCracken / DePaul University 31 comments

by: Allison McCracken / DePaul University
What’s old is new again on television, as prime-time boy soap operas like Everwood, Jack and Bobby, Life As We Know It, Summerland, The Mountain, One Tree Hill, Smallville and The OC have come to replace girl-centered teen dramas like My So-Called Life, Popular, and Buffy.