Sexuality

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• Research conducted by Stonewall (2011) concluded that the LGBT community were being subjected to symbolic annihilation
• LGBTs were disproportionately consigned to the status of comedic relief – their characters presented as something to laugh at or deride
• Representations of lesbianism were frequently presented as over-sexualised and exotic, for male's viewing pleasure
• Majority of the coverage represented gays as

  • Unhappy and distressed about their sexual orientation
  • As people who had been bullied and rejected by their families
• There was very little reference to lesbians or transsexuals
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