GSWS 318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Medicalization, Trans Woman, Celebrity Culture

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Gender Sexuality & Wom St
• Course: GSWS 318
• Professor: Eirini Kotsovili

Document Summary

Increasing media attention 1960s/70s: gay liberation movement, media activism and critical interventions, visibility, access to modes of representation key to shifting public opinion, 1980s aids crisis, shifting discourse and media images from celebratory and liberating to monstrous. Coming out of the closet: ellen degeneres 1997 time cover, historical moment that changed celebrity culture, degeneres blurred lines between public/private, professional consequences, paved way for more media representations of lgbtq folks. Mainstream of lgbtq culture: emergent representations offered safe" and de-eroticized portrayals of gay life, often individualized stories, removed from community, politics, acceptance of identity but not sexuality. Homonormativity (lisa duggan: lgbtq movement become increasingly depoliticized, less radical, focus on individual rights to live their lives just like straight people", assimilationists politics, white upper-middle class gay men figureheads. Are we in a post-gay" era: new era marked by acceptance and tolerance, equality achieved, nostalgic or retro images of lgbtq folks imply that oppression firmly in the past, e. g.