As I have mentioned before, the LGBTQ+ movement has been a constant struggle for the fulfillment of the rights that people who belong to the community deserve. A cultural movement that has had ups and downs and that despite everything has achieved great changes in the culture of society, starting with respect. But what is the relationship between television and the LGBTQ+ community?
The television created in 1926, has not been more than a device that has evolved as the society. Television is an instrument that has become omnipresent in our lives since it fulfills functions from informing to entertaining. It has a wide variety of content and become a part of our general culture.
television has made great advances in terms of content, however, a couple of decades ago the content that was shown was something different. The LGBTQ+ community has always been with us in our culture and society. But, years ago, the LGBTQ+ movement was heavily censored and criticized. There were always jokes and comments about homosexual people and even experts talking on their programs about how to "cure" the disease of homosexuality. It was a topic with a lot of disapproval in the communities. Despite this, in the 90s they began to include LGBTQ+ characters in series and movies. One of the best-known cases is presented in the Friends series. A chapter issued in 1996 shows a homosexual marriage. From this moment they began to include more and more LGBTQ+ characters to begin to normalize this movement as a regular part of daily life. Encouraging respect. But not everything was positive because even the content was harshly criticized and even the stories of the characters were stereotypes falling back into mockery.
Over the years these characters were gradually included until today we see them as a normal part of our daily lives. As normal as having cereal for breakfast or as normal as seeing a single father in a park with his child. as normal as a woman who does not want to have children and get married. Television is a mass medium of communication and can be used for countless purposes, such as normalizing what at some point was not "the right thing to do." Breaking with stereotypes helps to create an identity, to know ourselves as thinking and individual beings. The most important thing to live life is to BE HAPPY WITH WHO WE ARE.
Here we can see the small fragment of the TV show Friends.
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