{"id":734,"date":"2021-09-16T11:34:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T15:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=734"},"modified":"2021-09-19T14:02:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T18:02:22","slug":"queer-keyword-alvin-mugarura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/16\/queer-keyword-alvin-mugarura\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer keyword-Alvin Mugarura"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queer media was heavily underrepresented in the past but has come to be more accepted in the recent years due to a cultural shift that has seen rise of inclusive media. Representation of the visual queer media in modern media and\u00a0 pop culture is still facing criticisms because it is believed that most artists in the 21st century actually produce content inclusive of queer media for financial gains and public approval. This causes us to question the representation of the true queer lifestyles in today\u2019s media and the influence it has on the consumers. I think more credit should be given to the earliest representations of queer media for example the German classic \u201cAnders als die Andern\u201d which literally translates to different from others and was one of the first movies ever to address the matter of same sex love at a time it was considered to be illegal and immoral in Germany and various parts of the world. I think these representations of queer media in such difficult times are responsible for the huge cultural shift that has led to more production and consumption of queer media throughout the years. While comparing early and modern representations of queer media, more credit can be given to modern media which has a lot more inclusivity of all kinds of queer lifestyles. Top tier actors taking on the roles of queer characters for example Jared Leto acting a trans-woman with AIDS in<\/span>\u00a0Dallas Buyers C<\/span>lub challenging the norm of male actors taking on female roles and also representing the problems facing the queer community at the same time\u00a0 has an overall positive effect on the consumption of queer media\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club<\/p><\/div>\n

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Queer media was heavily underrepresented in the past but has come to be more accepted in the recent years due to a cultural shift that has seen rise of inclusive media. Representation of the visual queer media in modern media and\u00a0 pop culture is still facing criticisms because it is believed that most artists in the 21st century actually produce… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68046],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","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\/734","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\/5392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}