Beyond the Straight and Narrow

Beyond the Straight and Narrow

#Long-fought cultural struggles persist over who gets to exist in our national imagination.


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1h 11m 2023 HD

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.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Director: Katherine E Sender
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