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Why Queer Representation Matters Now, Then, and Always By Io Carpiso
As recently as fifty years ago, positive phobic parties decry it— is because it representation for the LGBTQIA+ community normalizes the queer experience. According to was a dream.
Many public service GLAAD’s 2019 survey report on the attitudes of announcements centered around the view that non-LGBTQIA+
Americans towards the queerness was a bad thing: queer people had exposure of LGBTQIA+ people in different to watch out for danger, not because of media, respondents who had been recently homophobia, but because they were queer. exposed to media that represented queer Homosexual, gender non-conforming, and people were quicker to accept people of the queer-coded characters in fiction were vilified community and were more open to interacting or exaggerated with tired stereotypes for with queer people as a whole. It was also found cheap laughs. Now, queer characters pop up in that these people were even more familiar with books, movies, and even children’s cartoons, orientations and slang from the community bringing about positive, relatable experiences than those who weren’t recently exposed to for queer folk. Representation is undeniably queer media. This study of more than 2,000 important…
but people ask why when respondents only goes to show that queerness already seems so rampant. “Representation” has become a buzzword in the media industry, but what does it really do for people?
One of the biggest reasons why representation is important—and why homophobic and trans-
Good, frequent, and humanizing representation not only benefits queer audiences but allows nonqueer audiences to relate to queer people, understand them, and see them as human.