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We’ve been having a lot of feelings about some… questionable content on old TV shows. Kicking off a mini-series about how to resolve old shows we like with themes that aren’t appropriate, we’re focusing this week on queer culture in TV and how we’ve felt about it over the years.
To learn more about LGBTQ+ culture on TV, check out:
- Visible: Out on Television on Apple TV+ – explore the history of LGBTQ representation on TV
- The Celluloid Closet – 1995 documentary about homosexuality in Hollywood
- Gayest Episode Ever podcast talks about problematic representation
References in this episode:
- GLAAD President: It’s Time to Retire Annual LGBT TV Report, Sarah Kate Ellis, Variety, 2015
- Remembering Hollywood’s Hays Code, 40 Years On, Bob Mondello, NPR, 2008
- How the Hays Code—as Seen in Hollywood—Censored Hollywood, Temi Adebowale, Men’s Health, May 2020
- Nearly two decades later, ‘Dawson’s Creek’ actor reflects on historic gay kiss, Gwen Aviles, NBC News, October 2019
- #PopJustice, Volume 5: Creative Voices & Professional Perspectives, René Balcer, Caty Borum Chattoo, Nato Green, Daryl Hannah, David Henry Hwang, Lorene Machado, Mik Moore, Karen Narasaki, Erin Potts, Mica Sigourney, Michael Skolnik, Tracy Van Slyke, Jeff Yang, Liz Manne Strategy, 2016
- #PopJustice, Volume 3: Pop Culture, Perceptions, and Social Change (A Research Review), Rachel D. Godsil, Jessica MacFarlane, Brian Sheppard, Liz Manne Strategy, 2016
- Intergroup Contact Theory: Past, Present, and Future, Jim A. C. Everett, The Inquisitive Mind, 2013
- Why we can’t stop fighting about cancel culture, Aja Romano, Vox, Dec 2019