Beyond the Straight and Narrow

Beyond the Straight and Narrow (2023)

September 26th, 20231h 11min

Documentary
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How did the rise of LGBTQ visibility, political progress, and digital technologies in the 2000s come together to offer the abundance of complex queer and transgender representations we see today? Media scholar Katherine Sender shows how LGBTQ visibility and political progress have combined with new digital media technologies and television platforms to produce an increasingly complex range of queer and transgender representations.


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