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Homosexuality in the modern American media has been relatively new, becoming more prevalent in the 1980’s. The duel between the negative imagery and positive imagery is evident when one watches or reads a media with a gay character. Since the media is the largest impact on how members of this society focus on homosexuality, one must understand and unmask these individual characters and see the multi-faces that gays are seen as. There is clearly a connection with the way that society places stereotypes on homosexuals and the images they portray in popular media, including movies, television, magazines/literature, the web, and even in politics.
Since homosexuality is such a popular topic in this coming age, released many homosexual characters in hit movies as well movies geared toward a strictly homosexual audience. Each movie chooses a different path to follow in how they portray homosexuals. Most movies, especially comedies geared toward youth, portrays homosexuals as feminine, weak individuals who are usually sidekicks or side characters. Although these characters are not main roles, the way they act and are seen greatly effect how society sees gay individuals. They are placed in these roles to strictly provide humor to a “straight” audience. There are a few examples that best show the most popular images of homosexuality in mainstream films. Damien, the “too gay to function” side character that is one of the first to befriend the new girl in school along with his socially rejected best friend, Janice, in the hit movie Mean Girls (Paramount Pictures 2004). The focus of his character is to gossip and talk negatively about other members of his class as well as “dress up” his all female friends. This image chooses to focus on the side of the “homosexual as a caddy, materialistic ‘queen.’” His best friend Janice, a dark, independent freethinker, is mocked through out the movie for being a lesbian, although she is not. The...
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