Gaystreaming on American Television
Words: 1198 Pages: 4 5355“Gaystreaming” is the inclusion of LGBTQ-cantered television programming, which creates media content that has “assimilationist directions in LGBT political movements, often counterposed to genuinely ‘queer’ politics (Ng, 2013, p. 260).” Under the context of Logo, the American explicitly LGBTQ channel network, gaystreaming refers to the network’s internal strategy for a larger audience, especially heterosexual women (Ng, 2013, p. 259). The network recognizes the audience in the niche market and the decentralized trend that has emerged with the rapid increase as […]
