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Mainstreaming Gays: Critical Convergences of Queer Media, Fan Cultures, and Commercial Television

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 20 Nov 2023 02:58:39
Mainstreaming Gays: Critical Convergences of Queer Media, Fan Cultures, and Commercial Television

Eve Ng, "Mainstreaming Gays: Critical Convergences of Queer Media, Fan Cultures, and Commercial Television"
English | ISBN: 1978831331 | 2023 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Mainstreaming Gays discusses a key transitional period linking the eras of legacy and streaming, analyzing how queer production and interaction that had earlier occurred outside the mainstream was transformed by multiple converging trends: the emergence of digital media, the rising influence of fan cultures, and increasing interest in LGBTQ content within commercial media. The U.S. networks Bravo and Logo broke new ground in the early 2000s and 2010s with their channel programming, as well as bringing in a new cohort of LGBTQ digital content creators, providing unprecedented opportunities for independent queer producers, and hosting distinctive spaces for queer interaction online centered on pop culture and politics rather than dating. These developments constituted the ground from which recent developments for LGBTQ content and queer sociality online have emerged.
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