Gender Stereotypes: Film Analysis

Traveling back years, even decades into the world of media, finding a film or television show where the portrayals and representations of homosexuals were not seen as the this negative subject or even a leper would have been basically nonexistent, and if there were representations it was only to showcase again negativity of that community but to also showcase this “dominance” that a white heterosexual male was the crucial and pivotal factor when it came to defining how and what mascuailty looked like, while homosxuals were showcased with this perceived notion that those individuals lacked masculinity, were feminine, and were desxualized. However, at first glance it, seems as though time has transformed and evolved when it comes to the representation …show more content…
He also goes into how QAF was not afraid to introduce its viewers, the world into this “gay culture” where there are discos, bathhouses, bars, threesomes, cyber sex, international relationships and not centered around “coming out” and not having this fear of “coming out” but instead again visually representing proud to be gay characters, and contrary to how Hollywood usually represented gay characters, showcased complexive characters who had desires and pleasures. However, Porfido also speakon this notion that though QAF does have this representation in which homosexual joys of life, sex, sexual freedom, pride and pleasures that are not interlaced with diseases and death and that there should be this sense of visual celebration, one has to keep in mind that in probably in cynical way, this glamorization of gay life and or gayness was a marketing, business strategy, that created this sense enticement of both homosexual and hetersexual