Personally, I would be fine with either version. To me, Star Trek not only showed how we as the world came together but the many fascinating technological advances. As someone who has lived with a disability and used a powered wheelchair nearly my entire life, Star Trek gave hope that not only could disabilities be cured, but also that you wouldn't be treated differently if you did have a disability in the future. Star Trek showed a future of people accepting others regardless of their differences. Even those that are LGBT would be treated and respected as equals. Even the sluts (male and female alike) were accepted (i.e. Kirk and Troy). Gene Roddenberry shared with the world how he saw humans evolve past most of our differences. We have …show more content…
The United State's, in particular, has a very high number of people that refuse to be able to allow others to live their own lives freely. In this area, the US lags behind the rest of the world for the most part. The sad irony is that the country created to allow freedom for all has so many citizens that want to prevent large numbers of its citizen from their own freedom. Most other advanced countries are far ahead of us in this are. It's very odd that the country formed to guarantee freedom to its citizens takes a distant seat back behind other countries when it comes to rights for all. I still believe that humankind throughout the world will eventually meet and surpass Roddenberry's vision of our future. Those that don't approve of other's lifestyle will live in their own world off in a distant galaxy far, far, away. I don't care if the character Sulu is played as a gay role or not. Star Trek has already shown us interspecies relationships, transgender race, and yes, has loosely dabbled with the topic of LGBT. If we avoided topics/situations that groups don’t like or condone, books, movies, TV shows would become boring. Life is unique due to the many differences that each of us posses. Those differences should be celebrated, not
By looking at the history of homosexuality in theatre and clause 28 in particular when Margaret Thatcher was Prime minister we’ll be able to look back at how society has changed their opinion on the LGBT community.
Practice what you preach! The Unites States preaches democracy, freedom, liberty and justice by all. Our ancestors fled England to gain these basic rights and establish a land of liberty and justice for all. As I study history, I have come to question whether we, as a country, really live by these principles. By the late 1800s the United States had become a world power with the ability to influence other countries and expand to new lands by using it military and economic powers; America was divided on how to use this power and influence.
And then there was that inter-racial kiss between Kirk and Uhura (a kiss that was forced on them by aliens with telekinetic powers). Also consider how Star Trek has tried to be non-sexist—women officers who are mostly Star Trek phone operators in mini-skirts (“Captain, your wife is on line two”) and nurses (“Yes, doctor. No, doctor. Right away,
George Takei was not only a phenomenal actor, but also an inspiring icon to the social media and the “International Gay and Lesbian Association” (, also known as IGLA). George Hisato Takei was born in April 20th, 1937 and was discriminated as a Japanese-American at the time. Though he had a rough start at first, Takei worked his way up as an actor and starred in many movies and tv shows. One of his most popular roles was “Hikaru Sulu” from “Star Trek”.Among his Star Trek fans, there were rumors about his sexuallity. In October 2005, George Takei was self announced as a homosexual. With his strong belief, he made a huge impact in the views of Americans.
Hidden Figures is a film, it is the untold story of African-American women that is working in NASA, where they are being discriminate in the film. There is a segregation of bathrooms, staffs, facilities and libraries. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson worked as “human computers”. When Katherine was assigned to help calculate launch and landing trajectories of NASA’s Space task group on east campus, it is the start of the most hard time of her and her groups. The short film does a good try in showing how racism and discrimination, and integrity and teamwork affect and help us in achieving goals.
America is the land of the free and the foundation of democracy. This countries foundation is based on the fact that an individual can enjoy freedom from oppression and the minority's opinions can be heard along with the majority's. Our government is designed to be fair and open minded, to be a servant to the people it governs. Unfortunately once an opinion is placed into the collective mind of society, it is a struggle to alter that opinion through argument and information.
This addition of multiple different depictions of same-sex couples and gay and lesbian people by television is being widely praised by the LBGT community. It makes the idea of homosexuality more common and representative of the actual community.
...pectful) way“ (Valenti, 176). I hope that the portrayal of transgender people and characters on television can evolve even more so, and depict the transgender community in an inspiring and positive light.
American freedom has always been different from the freedoms of other countries. Our freedoms are awesome in their possibilities. The Constitution allows for endless opportunity in changing times, yet preserves the most delicate of all rights. Early Americans were foreigners who appreciated the choices they had been given, choices including immigration, religion, speech, and suffrage. There are alternatives to what we know in America as freedom, but throughout the history of the world, none has come close to creating and maintaining a country of satisfied individuals.
When television first appeared back in the 1940's, times were very different. What we would consider completely normal today would have seemed quite taboo just a few decades ago. For example, in 1953, Lucille Ball was not allowed to say the word "pregnant" while she was expecting baby Ricky and it wasn't until the 1960's show Bewitched, that we saw a married couple actually sharing the same bed. Considering how conservative the television networks were back then, it is not hard to deduce that something as controversial as homosexuality would be far from discussed or portrayed at any level. It was only in 1973 that television premiered its first homosexual character. Over the next three decades the emergence of gay and lesbian characters in television has increased and decreased as the times have changed. Due to the resurgence of conservatism that came back in the early 1980's, homosexual topics were again reduced to a minimum. Since that time though, as many people can see, there has been a rise of gay and lesbian characters on television. One might think after a first glance at the previous sentence that there has been progress among gay and lesbian communities to have a fair representation in the media. However, if one looks hard at the circumstances surrounding their portrayal, many people may start to believe that if there has been any progress then it has been quite minimal.
It had been the first American live-action series to have an interracial cast, where people of colour and women had been given recurring roles such as astronauts, engineers, and doctors. The multi-ethnic crew comprised an African-American woman, a Scotsman, a Japanese American, and later on a Russian cadet. The casting had opposed prevalent patriarchal norms of the 60’s generation and was a direct opposition towards racial and gender discrimination. The addition of the latest Russian crew member at a time when the United States had been at war with the USSR (Cold War) had been an implicit social commentary of weighing solidarity over schism. The show’s complex narrative was considered progressive because of its advocacies towards feminism, anti-racism, and anti-white hegemony in a society that put women and minorities at the bottom of its
also films that could have been seen for a small price, but if one has the time
The family unit has always been a treasured and revered dynamic on television and in movies. Dating all the way back to I Love Lucy, storylines focused on the relationship between man and woman. Ozzie and Harriet introduced us to the quintessential American family—father in a suit, mother in pearls, and two exceptional children. It wasn’t until the 1970s that gay characters and lifestyles began to emerge. In 1973, An American Family, a PBS series featured one of the family’s sons revealing his homosexuality. In 1977, the television show Soap costarred Billy Crystal as an openly gay man. In the 1980s, it became trendy to feature gay and lesbian characters in ensemble casts. If you watch reruns, you can always find the token gay, that is, the really flaming homo or the butch lesbian gym teacher. The motion picture Mannequin, starring Andrew McCarthy and Kim Catrall, featured Meshach Taylor as Hollywood, an eccentric, finger-snapping homosexual. Many stereotypes such as these continued until the early nineties.
The US is supposedly the most free, democratic, fair and just country. However, at the core is a h...
For example, many people believe Willow and Tara from Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a good portrayal of a lesbian couple as it was one of the healthiest relationships on the show as well as realistic in the fact that it did not draw on any of the stereotypes that may or usually are added in LGBT relationships or simply LGBT characters in the media. It was also one of the most extensive couples on the show, ending only when Tara was tragically killed- not as characters often are in LGBT relationships for the sole reason that they are gay, but merely to add suspense and as writer Joss Whed...