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 Leave a comment

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 4 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 2 comments

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.