“It’s easy to turn on your television now and go, ‘Almost every show has an LGBTQ character,’ and just assume that that’s a natural thing,” 🏳🌈
8:00 AM PST, February 27, 2020While television in America has been around since the 1930s, it wasn’t until the ‘70s before the LGBTQ community started seeing positive portrayals of themselves onscreen.
Over the course of the five-part series, an expansive list of A-list stars and notable LGBTQ celebrities -- everyone from Billy Crystal to Tim Gunn -- candidly discuss how storytelling and portrayals have changed over time. While chronicling 50-plus years of history may seem like a daunting challenge, Cruz says that after conducting all of the interviews -- over 90 in all -- themes started to emerge. “You start to see that people are pointing towards the same characters or television shows that affected them the most,” he explains.
Each hour-long episode, narrated by Janet Mock, Margaret Cho, Asia Kate Dillon, Neil Patrick Harris and Lena Waithe, explores various topics such as invisibility, homophobia, the evolution of the LGBTQ character, and coming out. before moving through the decades, touching on the many highs and lows of representation as America’s relationship with TV and LGBTQ rights continued to change.
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