I
do not want to sweep gay rights in television under the rug; however,
I find it more important to focus on the lesbian aspect of Glee
since gay men have been moving forward in television since Will
and Grace
time, and not many mainstream shows feature a lesbian main character.
Besides, Kurt's problems were so last season. Now the focus is
Santana's coming out “party” which happened in the “I Kissed A
Girl” episode. This episode does a lot in that it does not portray
the girl on girl for sweeps week nor does it do the Buffy
transition of Alyson Hannigan's character. This shows so much more.
Finn to Santana states: “A few weeks ago some kid who made one of
those 'It Gets Better' videos killed himself. All right you deal with
your anxiety surrounding this stuff by attacking other people and
some day that's not going to be enough for you and you might start
attacking yourself” (14:57). An older study of television from
2001-2003
reveals that, “sexual content associated with nonheterosexuals was
found in about 15% of programs overall; however, rates of occurrence
within episodes were low...programs on commercial broadcast networks
were less likely to have nonheterosexual content than those on cable
networks” (Fisher, Hill, Grube & Gruber). Glee
is pushing issues in our media out of the closet and bringing the
message of acceptance along too.
Video courtesy of GleeOnFox
http://www.fox.com/glee/full-episodes/4286679/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2000838/
Related Links:
It Gets Better project: http://www.itgetsbetter.org/page/s/pledge
Sex and politics: http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/fewer-gay-lesbian-tv-characters-as-america-moves-into-election-season/politics/2011/09/28/27622
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