Media portrayal of homosexuality

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The portrayal of homosexuality in the media reflects and guides societal attitudes towards homosexuality. Significant portrayals of homosexuality are listed below.

Contents 1 Film 2 Literature 2.1 Comic books 3 Television 4 Theater 5 See also 6 Further research

[edit] Film

• Rocky Horror Picture Show
• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
• As Good as It Gets
• Bad Education
• Camp
• Boys on the Side
• The Birdcage
• The Boys in the Band
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Brokeback Mountain (sometimes identified as a portrayal of bisexuality)
• But I'm a Cheerleader
• Cruising
• Desert Hearts
• Go
• Gods and Monsters
• La Cage aux Folles
• The Laramie Project
• Lianna
• Longtime Companion
• Mambo Italiano
• Midnight Cowboy
• Philadelphia
• Wild Reeds

[edit] Literature

• Brokeback Mountain(sometimes identified as a portrayal of bisexuality)
• Drawing Blood
• Exquisite Corpse
• Hogg

[edit] Comic books

Main article: List of gay and bisexual people in comic fiction

• Wonderwoman
• Alpha Flight (see also Northstar)
• Catwoman
• Circles
• A Distant Soil
• Doom Patrol
• Dykes to Watch Out For
• Exiles
• Gotham Central
• Green Lantern
• Hard Time
• Heroes Anonymous
• Hothead Paisan
• The Invisibles
• Legion of Super-Heroes
• Power Company
• Purgatori
• Rawhide Kid
• Relative Heroes
• Runaways
• Sandman
• Supergirl
• X-Men
• Young Heroes in Love

[edit] Television

• Thirtysomething
• Another Country
• Buffy The Vampire Slayer (see also Willow Rosenberg, Tara Maclay and Kennedy)
• Brothers
• The L Word
• Gimme Gimme Gimme
• The Naked Civil Servant
• Queer as Folk (UK)
• Queer as Folk (U.S.)
• Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
• Six Feet Under
• Will & Grace

[edit] Theater

• Angels in America
• Bent
• La Cage aux Folles
• Torch Song Trilogy
• Rent

[edit] See also

• List of television episodes with coming-out themes
• List of television shows with LGBT characters.
• Media and sexual orientation
• Media portrayal of bisexuality

[edit] Further research

• The Celluloid Closet - Book and documentary on how Hollywood has depicted LGBT characters up to the mid-1990s.

• Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender characters in video and computer games - Look at how the video and computer game industry has depicted LGBT characters, with a focus on the market outside of Asia.