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¶ … Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
The gay and lesbian subculture in the second half of the twentieth century experienced significant progress and made it possible for society as a whole to acknowledge its existence. Through getting actively involved in a series of movements throughout the era, these communities managed to raise public awareness and to influence the masses to perceive them as being an important part of the social order.
How did society came to acknowledge the existence of the homosexual community in the second half of the twentieth century?
Although they received limited support from the outside world, gay and lesbian communities primarily used their own resources in first understanding their role and in then addressing a series of popular topics in the context of this respective role.
What personal resources did gay and lesbian communities use with the purpose to get involved in popular matters?
Capitalism introduced the idea of freedom as something that almost anyone could have access to. As a consequence, gay and lesbian communities realized that they could improve their social status by concentrating on the sequence of freedoms they were entitled to.
Were gay and lesbian communities considered to be entitled to freedoms that the rest of the world benefited from?
The traditional idea...
This led to a series of groups (including gay and lesbian communities) openly expressing themselves within movements that seemed to attack traditionalism in the context of the conventional family.
What role did the fall of the traditional nuclear family play in helping gay and lesbian communities express themselves?
Gay and lesbian communities growing stronger through the twentieth century also brought on a paradox: society was clinging on to several traditional ideas, one of them being patriarchy. This meant that white gay men were more likely to receive support in comparison to other groups.
Were gay and lesbian communities subjected to discrimination on different levels than the ones associated with sexual preferences?
In spite of the idea of freedom becoming more and more popular consequent to the Second World War, numerous actions have made it increasingly difficult for gay and lesbian communities to express their ideas.
Did post-Second World War freedoms provide gay and lesbian communities with the ability to express themselves freely?
Homonationalism and Biopolitics
The racial aspect of homosexuality is an intriguing concept, as non-white men and women in the contemporary United States are more likely to refrain from…
references. Concepts like the one caricaturizing Osama bin Laden as a gay man only shows the way that the masses perceive homosexuality -- while it is a relatively acceptable thing in the western world, it appears to be used as a form of ridicule in the situation involving terrorists.
Why do the masses perceive homosexuality as a ridicule idea when it is present a the context that they are not supportive of?
Society can progress in the context of equality for homosexual men and women if it refrains from using the very idea of homosexuality as an idea of otherness. By influencing the masses to accept this concept as one that is part of their world, the world as a whole can progress significantly.
Is acknowledging homosexuality as being part of society likely to put an end to people perceiving gay and lesbian people as 'others'?
This is to the extent whereby the theorists have begun to look at lesbianism as a provisional identity in that it takes into account the racial, class and ethnical differences and these are what the queer theory has failed to do so far Epstein, 1994: 197() Some scholars have argued that the development of the queer theory means that lesbianism is not going to disappear anytime in the recent future.
But what makes up a positive portrayal of homosexuality in the media? Ellen and Will are both examples from prime-time television, the kind described by Calzo as "laughable, one dimensional figures." Are such one dimensional representations of homosexuals capable of altering a public's perception of homosexuality in a positive way? If so, what is to be said of the erotically-charged representations shown by cable and premium networks, such as Showtime,
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