Where are the real LGBTI roles?_Mail and Guardian_24 April 2015

Where are the real LGBTI roles?_Mail and Guardian_24 April 2015


Date: April 24, 2015
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NAME OF ARTICLE: Where are the real LGBTI roles?

NAME OF PUBLICATION: Mail and Guardian

DATE: 24 April 2015

COUNTRY:  South Africa

Another example of Provoking debate about popular culture is in the thematic area of sexual orientation and gender identities. A story from Mail and Guardian, headline “Where are the real LGBTI roles?” published 24-29 April 2015, provides opinion and analysis that, while devoid of sources, presents context, research and insights.

“For trans people, the situation is even worse,” writes Owen Jones in reference to trans representations in popular culture. “Attitudes towards trans people are stuck roughly where they were for gay men back in the 1980s: a toxic rhetoric of disgust abounds, with a frightening prejudice that trans people are sexual predators who will somehow trick the unassuming into having sex with them.”


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