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Serving Eleganza: How non-hetero dominant TV show represents homosexuality in relation to stereotypes The topic for this research essay will be how non-hetero dominant TV show represents homosexuality especially in relation to stereotypes. As the society is becoming more tolerant and accepting, gay characters/personalities are shown more prominently than ever before. This study will focus on how gay people are represented not in mainstream TV shows such as “Modern Family” and “Supernatural” where most of the main characters are heterosexual. In this study, however, the main focal point will be the stereotypical representation found in gay-predominant TV shows, particularly, RuPaul’s Drag Race. Theoretical research including scholarly essays and examples from the show as well as online surveys/questionnaires will be used as methods. The hypothesis will be that …show more content…

Listing and briefly explaining the disposition of “stereotypical” gay males in mainstream tv series, tv shows and so on. (“X-factor” contestants, Mitchell and Cameron from “Modern Families”). Then, I will introduce the famous RuPaul’s Drag Race, a competition for drag queens where the queens competed against each other in acting, dancing, theatrics, fashion, comedy and lip-sync challenges. Theories I will then refer to previous research about the effect of stereotypes and just general characterization of these shows. The knowledge gap that I discovered is that there is very few research on this topic that’s conducted on shows that are predominated by lgbtq+ people. Thus, this leads to the study. My hypothesis would be that so called “gay” reality shows impacts people’s perception not by completely defying all the stereotypes, but instead by promoting some of them, and a lot of times, the results are positive. Key terms: sexuality, TV shows, representation, stereotypes

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