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the reason as to why i am picking this as my question is to get my point across that there isn't much representation of the LGBT+ community even though it has been improving there are still elements that doesn't give good representation for example killing of an LGBT+ character.

How the LGBT community is represented in TV shows in the past decade?

how queer women are represented in TV shows in the past decade? 

how has the representation of LGBT developed within the past decade?

Harvard reference 

  • Out.com. (2017). 62 Lesbian & Bisexual Female Characters Killed Over Past Two Television Seasons. [online] Available at: https://www.out.com/news-opinion/2017/7/11/62-lesbian-bisexual-female-characters-killed-over-past-two-television-seasons [Accessed 11 Jul. 2017].
as it says in the title this source is about the bury your gays trope, which it talked about how there has been so many deaths of the lesbian and bisexual female characters over the past two television seasons, i found the information very helpful as it was a big part of what i was talking about and to be honest my essay could have just been about this one trope.
  • vox (2016). [video] Available at: https://youtu.be/Rl22caUj-oo [Accessed 12 Feb. 2020].
again this one is about the bury your gays trope which showed me why they where being killed off, which i found helpful because it gave me a more understanding of it.
  • Autostraddle. (2016). All 210 Dead Lesbian and Bisexual Characters On TV, And How They Died. [online] Available at: https://www.autostraddle.com/all-65-dead-lesbian-and-bisexual-characters-on-tv-and-how-they-died-312315/ [Accessed 12 Feb. 2020].
again about bury your gays, this gave me a list of how many female LGBT+ characters and how they died, i found this helpful as this gave me some examples for my essay which i wrote about, even though i already knew a good few such like Lexa from the 100.
  • Sarkissian R. (2014) Queering TV Conventions: LGBT Teen Narratives on Glee. In: Pullen C. (eds) Queer Youth and Media Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, London
this is about how we have had so much more queer characters come to the screen, this has been helpful as i got to get a load of different examples of how many they has been, given me so many for the decade from pretty little liars and teen wolf and shameless which is all mentioned in the book and i did mention some of the examples in my essay.
  • TV Tropes. (2020). Bury Your Gays - TV Tropes. [online] Available at: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BuryYourGays [Accessed 4 Mar. 2020].
again bury your gays, with the amount of research i found on this one trope was unbelievable, which it just proves that there has been so many unnecessary deaths of the LGBT+ community, i found this helpful because it gave me so many examples other then lesbian and bisexual women there is also gay men that are mentioned.
  • ellis, r. (2020). The A-Z of LGBT Tropes (A-E). [video] Available at: https://youtu.be/_voHb4NMHkI [Accessed 3 Dec. 2015].


this is a video about some of the different tropes that i have mentioned in my essay, to which i found this the most useful because if it wasn't for this video i wouldn't have gone into the full search of more tropes and would have just focused on the bury your gays trope, and she is mentioned a few times through my essay.
  • Framke, C., 2016. Queer Women Have Been Killed On Television For Decades. Now The 100'S Fans Are Fighting Back.. [online] Vox. Available at: <https://www.vox.com/2016/3/25/11302564/lesbian-deaths-television-trope> [Accessed 13 March 2020].
this is a article about how there is so many queer women been killed of on televisions with in the past decade and how the fandom of the 100 is starting to fight back for what is right, this was helpful because i spoke about how the community was getting back and having such a bad reaction to the death of Lexa and how it should change for them.
  • Ogles, J. (2020). 18 Unforgivable Deaths of LGBT TV Characters. [online] Advocate.com. Available at: https://www.advocate.com/television/2016/7/12/18-unforgivable-deaths-lgbt-tv-characters#slide-1 [Accessed 6 Mar. 2020].
again this is about the bury your gays trope, which this was helpful as i mention the top two saddest and unforgivable deaths of the LGBT community.
  • Vinke, E. (2020). Why Queerbaiting In Films and On TV Really Needs To Stop. [online] Her Campus. Available at: https://www.hercampus.com/school/aberdeen/why-queerbaiting-films-and-tv-really-needs-stop [Accessed 21 Sep. 2018]
this is about how queer-bating needs to stop in films and tv, which i found really helpful because it gave me an insight of how bad it really is and that it truly does need to stop which i write a whole paragraph as of why it needs to stop, FALSE HOPE PEOPLE THAT'S WHY.
  • Dibdin, E., 2020. TV Writers Need to Stop Killing Off Their Gay Characters. [online] Marie Claire. Available at: <https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/news/a28685/gay-lesbian-character-deaths-tv/> [Accessed 2 April 2020].
again another website about queer characters being killed off, with looking at so many i got the feel that this was such a big movement that was going on, to which i got some quotes from to say that one creator is trying to stay away from killing of her LGBT+ characters. BULLETPROOF VESTS ARE THE BEST. (Wynonna Earp a must watch if you like western Sci Fi)
  • Busis, H., 2020. 'G.B.F.' Director Blames 'R' Rating on MPAA's Gay Double-Standard. [online] EW.com. Available at: <https://ew.com/article/2013/12/20/gbf-mpaa-r-rating-gay/> [Accessed 2 April 2020].
this is an article about the film G.B.F. getting an r rating in the us, which helped me talk about the r rating queerness, to which to your surprise its a real thing, which is so wrong to be happening. 

  • Ellis, R., 2018. Gays React to Queerbaiting Feat. Calum Mcswiggan. [video] Available at: <https://youtu.be/BriGs6CLWB8> [Accessed 8 November 2018].   
this is a video about different tv and films queer-baiting which gave me some great points to talk about especially that representation is important to the LGBT+ community.
  • TV Tropes. 2020. Armoured Closet Gay - TV Tropes. [online] Available at: <https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArmouredClosetGay> [Accessed 1 April 2020].
this is about the armoured closet gay trope which gave me some great examples to use and i was able to understand the trope in more detail
  • Gallagher, B., 2020. Ewan McGregor and Chris Messina tease that their Birds of Prey villains Black Mask and Victor Zsasz are 'probably gay'. the daily mirror, [online] Available at: <https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7936363/Ewan-McGregor-Chris-Messina-tease-Birds-Prey-villains-probably-gay.html> [Accessed 2 April 2020]. 
this is an article on the fact that Ewan McGregor and Chris Messina joked about their characters being gay, which this helped me get a quote and prove a point that it is bad to queer bait and why it needs to stop.
  • (figure 1) Ogles, J. (2020). 18 Unforgivable Deaths of LGBT TV Characters. [online] Advocate.com. Available at: https://www.advocate.com/television/2016/7/12/18-unforgivable-deaths-lgbt-tv-
    characters#slide-1 [Accessed 6 Mar. 2020].1. Lexa — ‘The 100’
this is about the deaths of LGBT+ characters and the reason to why i used the picture is because i could show you who i was talking about and that she is apart of the big movement of stopping the trope Bury your gays.

  • FRAMKE, C., ZARRACINA, J. AND FROSTENSON, S.

    All the TV character deaths of 2015-'16, in one chart

    In-text: (Framke, Zarracina and Frostenson, 2016)
    Your Bibliography: Framke, C., Zarracina, J. and Frostenson, S. (2016). All the TV character deaths of 2015-'16, in one chart. [online] Vox.com. Available at: https://www.vox.com/a/tv-deaths-lgbt-diversity [Accessed 7 Feb. 2020].
this is a chart of how many LGBT+ characters had died from the years of 2015 and 2016 which it helped me a lot because i got so much more insight on the bury your gays trope
  • GREEN, J.

Why Stop at 10%? Advocates Push for Even More LGBT Characters on TV

  • In-text: (Green, 2019)
    Your Bibliography: Green, J. (2019). Why Stop at 10%? Advocates Push for Even More LGBT Characters on TV. [online] Bloomberg.com. Available at: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-08/representation-of-lgbt-characters-on-tv-why-stop-at-10 [Accessed 7 Feb. 2020].
  • this was an article on why we shouldn't be stopping at 10% for the representation and it also showed me how little of representation there is, especially through the years.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BuryYourGays


evaluation.

while doing my research for my first question i came across the idea of talking about the different tropes that i had found which i thought was great for my essay so i adapted my question to go with what i was writing and my research.

each of theses sources have been great and to the point of what i wanted to talk about the one that i had the most help from would be the tv tropes website and the youtube video which gave me a lot of information about all of the different tropes that are used with to represent the LGBT+ community even the the majority of them was bad representation of the lgbt+ community but however i have found in my research that it has gotten better especially in the past 2 years they have had a tv series come back that is just great representation for the LGBT community the L word, which i do mention in my essay i also mention about the teen sensation love simon, and the sci fi western wynonna earp which brings such a great storyline for the lgbt which with in my research i have found that the creator of the show wants to keep away from the tropes as much as she can to get the best representation out there for them. with having so much of my source from the same places i did however find more even though i may have not used them in my essay they are still relevant to what i am talking about.

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