Beyond the Straight and Narrow | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Media scholar Katherine Sender shows how LGBTQ visibility and political progress have combined with new digital media te | dG1fSW9LZnZqVExZTkk

Transcript

00:00 [TV static]

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00:06 [upbeat music]

00:07 There is just more TV now,

00:09 mostly due to the rise of streaming services,

00:11 where there's just more representations of everybody,

00:14 and so there's, of course, more representations of queer people.

00:17 We've seen a dramatic shift in how we represent queer and trans identities,

00:22 in that we represent trans identities at all.

00:24 [upbeat music]

00:27 The real difference is primarily focused on younger people,

00:30 as a group for whom the gay issue is a civil rights issue.

00:34 So it's easy to take for granted the abundant roles that we have on television

00:38 for LGBTQ characters today, but it wasn't always this way.

00:43 [upbeat music]

00:56 I'm gonna cry for this.

00:58 (upbeat music)