- Title
- Introduction: a critical introduction to queer women on television
- Creator
- Beirne, Rebecca
- Relation
- Televising Queer Women: A Reader p. 1-15
- Relation
- http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=302401
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- On February 11, 1975, the media committee of an organization known as Lesbian Feminist Liberation, Inc. wrote an open letter to television stations protesting the screening of programs that "are detrimental to our fight for our civil rights and dignity, because they foster and promote those negative and damaging stereotypes that have been the basis of bigotry and hatred," and enclosing guidelines for better representation of lesbians on television. Among the demands were consultation with lesbian groups regarding lesbian storylines, and the demand of "no negative portrayal of lesbians on television until 12% of all the women represented on television are portrayed as lesbians." While such a target still seems a long way away, over the years the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities (LGBT) have continued to demand, including through media watchdogs such as GLAAD in the United States and Stonewall in the United Kingdom, fairer and more accurate representation of LGBT people on television. When I conceived of Televising Queer Women I hoped to acknowledge and gather together discussion of existing work to provide future scholars with a starting point for their research, spur further research in the field, and, like Ringer, signal areas in need of research and publication in order to create an agenda for the future. I hope you will enjoy this work, and participate in your own unique way in the discourse surrounding the representation of queer women on television.
- Subject
- lesbianism; media representations; queer women; The L Word; queer representation
- Identifier
- uon:6786
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/805069
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780230600805
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