Chronicles of two times
LGBT representation in the 1990s and 2010s on the Tales of the City TV miniseries
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https://doi.org/10.19132/1807-8583.57.141162Keywords:
representation, LGBT, history, audiovisual, cultural studiesAbstract
This article aims to analyze the representation of the LGBT community in the first and fourth miniseries of the Tales of the City universe, both based on the writings of author Armistead Maupin and released, respectively, in 1993 and 2019. Both shows have in common the character of Mary Ann Singleton, a young straight white woman from Cleveland, who deals with a San Francisco filled with LGBT and feminist people, all on a progressive spectrum of bodily freedom, with scenes that show cultural clashes between the protagonist and supporting characters in both productions. To carry out this analysis, the method of critical media literacy proposed by Kellner was used, with Cultural Studies, Queer Studies and Gender Studies as its theoretical scope. The analysis of the narrative universe Tales of the City allowed us to understand the representational changes that occurred over the years. In the first miniseries, portraying a few white gay men and a trans central character seemed disruptive enough. In the 2010s, to evoke diversity it is necessary not only to multiply deviant identities but also to think about an almost infinite number of intersectionalities so that one can say a program is, in fact, diverse, with people with disabilities, interracial couples, people living with HIV, people of different locations, colors and bodies.
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