Mapping lesbian sexuality on Queer as Folk

Title: Mapping lesbian sexuality on Queer as Folk
Creator: Beirne, Rebecca
Relation: Televising Queer Women: a Reader p. 99-107
Relation: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=302401
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2008
Description: The lesbian characters on Showtime's 'Queer as Folk' (2000-2005) were remarkable in that, unlike almost all previous lesbian characters on television, they were not positioned in relation to a heterosexual environment. The television world of these characters is one that revolves around queerness, indeed, they exist in a homonormative environment rather than a heteronormative one. What exactly, however, does this homonormativity constitute? As I argued in "Embattled Sex," lesbians are excluded from the domain of "queer" that 'Queer as Folk' privileges, and, by extension, from the realm of "sex." The series thereby enacts heteronormative patriarchal discourse even as it queers it, by maintaining gender distinctions that privilege male narratives and sexuality over female ones.
Subject: Queer as Folk; sexuality; lesbians; media representations; television; homonormativity; gender distinctions
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804812
Identifier: uon:6733
Identifier: ISBN:9780230600805
Language: eng

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