The gay community acquired a huge space in the media in
the internet and broadcasting. The tolerance in society has risen gone by so
many years of repression and hypocrisy. Nowadays, we can see specialized stores,
bars, newspaper, internet sites and even television shows. People are more respectful
for those different ones and in spite of not totally perfect yet, things are
better than we could imagine ten years ago.
If there were important things that the gay community reached
until now, part of it is the result of its advent. With the incredible speed
of communication that the world is linked today, ideas, discussions, meetings
and many more other things happened due to the internet capacity of unite people
all around the world. By accessing the internet there are available to us, millions
and millions of gay-friendly sites, offering meetings, erotic/pornographic
materials, products, videos, and a huge quantity of frolics to this public.
It would be correct to say that everything available to the heterosexual public
(exclusive entertainment purposes) is available to the gay community,
too.
When the subject is television show, the space occupied by the
gay community improves by leaps and bounds. Ten years ago, there were
just a few special guests in sitcoms and movies, today however, there are exclusive
television channels to gays and lesbians and successful television shows.
The next best thing, created just to please their demanding taste, gathered
an immense heterosexual public and the role played in the society was revised
and pretty much accepted. Shows like "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"
revealed not only the good taste they have for things like decoration, food
and culture. But also, it shown to the society that there is such a thing called
"sexual orientation" and being gay is just one thing among
millions of other things they are. Such TV shows are so well accepted among
the general public that the idea of "acceptation and tolerance" spreads
without any kind of opposition. Naturally, things are happening due to acknowledgement
of what once was labeled as "wrong" - people can not be resumed in
a single word. |