Capstone Project Preview

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One of the biggest topics in entertainment right now is the media’s representation of LGBTQ characters. Progress has been made in recent years, with award-winning shows like Transparent and movies like Pride gaining positive attention. For many fans, however, change just isn’t coming fast enough. Major Hollywood movies featuring queer characters are few and far between, while television can’t seem to stop killing off its lesbians. When queer characters do make an appearance, they very often play minor roles, or are grossly stereotyped images of the effeminate gay man or the butch lesbian. Such images can be harmful to the LGBTQ community, and for young people especially, because they say that queer storylines (and therefore, people) don’t matter.

For my project, I hope to go into detail on both the positive and negative aspects and impacts of queer representation in today’s media. I may also bring up the measures that fans are taking to bring change to the industry, such as the #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend and #GiveElsaAGirlfriend twitter campaigns. For my infographic, I will be using a lot of statistics to show the facts of queer representation, including how many LGBTQ characters star in mainstream movies and how many of them have been killed in television. For my second media object, I will most likely do an animation, which will present similar facts as the infographic.

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