I guess my point is that there are more GLBTQ than you'd think, and being open about it is like finally letting out that breath you've been holding: it makes a bit of a noise at first before you can start breathing normally again. For people to react like it's overrepresented is kind of like being able to "excuse" there being gay people around them... this probably doesn't make sense. But at the same time I agree with you about the annoying stereotypes - as is the same for every minority. It's obnoxious. Curtis and I were just talking about gay people and television, and about how being a lesbian is generally more accepted because it's "workable gay" but being a gay man is like a big no-no.
You MIGHT see a Hollywood-out lesbian play a seductive (to men) woman in television, but you'd pretty much never see an out man play a straight man seriously. Being straight and playing gay is fun, silly, oh isn't that cute... it's like overhyping it (the annoying stereotyping) to keep it at that arm's distance, keeping up that, "It's cute and stylish" thing without at all internalizing the issue. Not that I expect them to, but you know...
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Date: 2008-08-30 07:47 am (UTC)this probably doesn't make sense.
But at the same time I agree with you about the annoying stereotypes - as is the same for every minority. It's obnoxious. Curtis and I were just talking about gay people and television, and about how being a lesbian is generally more accepted because it's "workable gay" but being a gay man is like a big no-no.
You MIGHT see a Hollywood-out lesbian play a seductive (to men) woman in television, but you'd pretty much never see an out man play a straight man seriously. Being straight and playing gay is fun, silly, oh isn't that cute... it's like overhyping it (the annoying stereotyping) to keep it at that arm's distance, keeping up that, "It's cute and stylish" thing without at all internalizing the issue.
Not that I expect them to, but you know...