{"id":706,"date":"2021-09-15T22:37:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T02:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=706"},"modified":"2021-09-15T22:39:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T02:39:18","slug":"queer-chloe-fandetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/15\/queer-chloe-fandetti\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer – Chloe Fandetti"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queer media challenges gender norms and heterosexual relationship stereotypes through the representation of the LGBTQ+ community. We can see the progression of queer acceptance in society in relation to queer representation in the media. In recent years, queer media has become more prevelent, with movies, tv, music, and podcasts including more LGBTQ+ characters\/ideas and using more queer methods of storytelling. I think for a lot of people it\u2019s important to see representation of someone like yourself in the media because it helps to find your identity and feel accepted. For example, in the coming of age film <\/span>Love, Simon<\/span><\/i>, the main character is a closeted high school student who struggles with his sexuality and fears coming out to his friends and family. Exploring the complexities that come with identity, sexuality, and coming out, this film is important for queer individuals to see themselves positively represented on the movie screen. Released in 2018, <\/span>Love, Simon <\/span><\/i>was the first film with a gay protagonist to be backed by a major film studio. There was a hugely positive reaction to the film, inspiring many individuals to come out and even share their experiences on social media. Below, I included some tweets of people sharing their experiences after watching the film. Queer representation in media is so important because media has such an infleuential role on our cultures and identities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tweets from 2018 after\u00a0Love Simon\u00a0<\/em>was released<\/p>\n

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Queer media challenges gender norms and heterosexual relationship stereotypes through the representation of the LGBTQ+ community. We can see the progression of queer acceptance in society in relation to queer representation in the media. In recent years, queer media has become more prevelent, with movies, tv, music, and podcasts including more LGBTQ+ characters\/ideas and using more queer methods of storytelling…. Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68046],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}