Does the media oversexualize homosexuality?

Question

I joined my college's GSA. I've never really watched any LGBT related shows except for "South of Nowhere," but I've watched several LGBT related movies. We were playing a Jeopardy-based game. We had to identify certain movies/shows/people, etc. When a question was answered we got to watch videos of TV shows related to the topic. I'd heard of "Queer as Folk" and "The L Word," but I've never seen an episode. We watched the promos and it just seemed to be about sex, sex, sex. Then we watched clips of Ru Paul's Drag race as well as half of his Peanut Butter video...I don't get it.

I feel like when it comes to homosexuality in the media, even the TV shows and sometimes the movies, many of the themes seem to be about sex. The Drag race show is the only one I know of that represents drag queens and it is hyper-sexualized to death. Not every drag queen/king/LGBT person is really, really into sex. I'm bisexual myself but I don't like PDA or anything like that. Still, the media for the most part makes it seem like LGBT people just want sex, sex, sex, which is why some ignorant people think that homosexual people and others on the spectrum are child molesters- because they want sex all the time- or that even that their kids will suddenly have tons of questions about sex in general if they see two people of the same sex kissing- because if they're together they're having sex and the kid will sense it, ~obviously~.

Am I the only one who feels like this?

Answer 1

Well, sex is a huge part of the human experience.



"There's nothing wrong with gay sex, but even straight sex on TV is annoying as hell..."

-So you're just rather prudish?

Answer 2

That's just TV. Hetero focused shows are all about sex too (at least the good ones, Breaking Bad being the only good show ever that didn't use gratuitous sex at every chance.) It's not just shows with homosexual main characters, it's any show that's not on a basic network. Because TV execs know that Americans want murder and sex on TV, we don't watch shows without it.



Take Game of Thrones. The stuff between Renly and Loris was very subtle in The Song of Ice and Fire series, some readers didn't even catch it till later books. HBO looked at that subtlety and said "Naw, let's have lots of dude sex." And that's fine because it's not TV, it's slutty, slutty HBO.

Answer 3

What about Jersey Shore, Nineteen & Counting, Teen Mom; There was a hell of a lot more in Queer as Folk then just Sex and besides Sex is natural. It happens, it exists; shading over it to make us appear to be picture perfect assumptions in their tiny ignore illiterate brains doesn't change anything other then us conforming to their image for "Acceptance". At least the media isn't posing us as Pedophiles and Mass Murders anymore...



Noted: That is what a lot of QAF is, sure there is sex thrown in; but that is because it is based on life there are people like that.

Answer 4

Glee, (gay, lesbian, everybody else)

Will And Grace

Modern Family

Answer 5

the media is over sexualised, over biased and over stupid as a whole..



why you and others still watch it is beyond me..