The television series The L Word portrays a long-term lesbian couple attempting to start a family, and counters the negative "U-Haul" lesbian stereotype, which is that lesbians move in on the second date. The 1961 drama The Children's Hour gives viewers the idea that lesbians live a "dark" and almost depressing lifestyle. Many 20th-century films put a negative connotation on the lesbian community. Such plays include The Lisbon Traviata (1985) by Terrence McNally, Porcelain (1992) by Chay Yew, The Secretaries (1993) by the Five Lesbian Brothers, and The Dying Gaul (1998) by Craig Lucas.Īctress Portia de Rossi came out as a lesbian in the early 2000s. Theatre scholar Jordan Schildcrout has written about the recurrence of the "homicidal homosexual" in American plays, but notes that LGBT playwrights themselves have appropriated this negative stereotype to confront and subvert homophobia.
Community members organized protests and boycotts against films with murderous gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender characters, including Cruising (1980), Silence of the Lambs (1991), and Basic Instinct (1992).
Columnist Brent Hartinger observed that "big-budget Hollywood movies until, perhaps, Philadelphia in 1993 that featured major gay male characters portrayed them as insane villains and serial killers". LGBT rights activists have fought against fictional representations of LGBT people that depict them as violent and murderous. In television, 12.5 percent of series regular characters on broadcast networks from 2021 to 2022 were LGBTQ with a significant increase in the percentage of LGBTQ characters of color but a decrease in the percentage of LGBT characters with disabilities. While the percentage of LGBTQ characters of color increased slightly in 2021, no transgender or non-binary characters were added. According to the 2021 GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index, 22.7 percent of films released by Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, STX films, United Artists Releasing, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, and Warner Bros. However, LGBT members continue to be underrepresented and typecast. In 2018, Love, Simon was recognized as the first film from a major Hollywood studio that familiarized young male homosexuality and its accompanying hardships to a larger, non-specialized audience.
In 2016, Moonlight, a coming-of-age drama about a young African American man's struggle with identity and sexuality, became not only the first LGBT movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, but also the first LGBTQ film with an all-black cast. While there may not be many prominent LGBT characters in the current mainstream media, the community has achieve significant milestones in recent years. This modern moment makes The_Mueller as yet another unique, and fascinating, example of how political expression has evolved.The media has made some progress toward more equitable representation of members of the LGBT community. But politics in the Trump era has become a whirling dervish of cultural crazy glue, sticking to almost everything as it almost everything revolves around it. It's a odd world we live in which an appointed special counsel investigating a president's wrong doing is heralded with memes and upvotes. "While we have to acknowledge that the trolling and gaslighting is mostly coming from r/The_Donald users rather than others across the political spectrum, we think we can maintain a healthy community that allows multiple viewpoints to be seen, including criticism of the moderators." "The antagonism from r/The_Donald is showing every day, but we expect our community to respond in good fashion," the moderators said. Rivalry between subreddits is nothing new, but The_Mueller has become something of a target.
Of course, the internet is a dark place, full of terrors, and partisanship rears it's ugly, orange head regularly. Don't forget, Robert Mueller is, besides a patriot, a Republican himself." But also a place to hold up a mirror to both sides of the aisle. "r/The_Mueller is a place to both unwind and get excited for what's in store in the investigation.
"The community response has been overwhelmingly positive," moderators of The_Mueller said. Daily news links are included in amongst the bushel of memes. The sub has also become a place for news about the investigation. When you're a Special Prosecutor they let you do it.