sexuality

The way that sexuality is shown to people in the world is a different way to the way it is shown in tv dramas and films. Sometimes in a tv dramas or films, you can never identify which one is gay, lesbian or bi-sexual. Theorist Andy Medhurst (1998) claims that sexuality disrupt representation claims, like those made by Dyer ("How we are seen determines in part how we are treated; how we treat others on how we see them; such seeing come from representation" Dyer, 1993) because in the REAL world you cannot 'see' sexuality. Unless someone tells you they are homosexual you have no way of knowing it. 

However, in the media stereotypes are used to explore ideological positions about sexuality. “Films and television comedies are full of images of gay men as effeminate screaming queens…It chooses that aspect of gay male behaviour (SELECTION), inflates it into the defining male characteristic of male homosexuality (MAGNIFICATION), then establish it as the most easily recognizable image (REDUCTION).”

“This is why stereotypes of sexuality strive so vigorously to create two, polarized sexualities, hetro and straight, and to insist with such obsessive reductiveness that people who belong to those poles are easily identifiable – hence the recurring presence across media texts of the screaming queen and his female equivalent the butch dyke.”

In real life, if there is a son or a daughter who knows they are a different sexuality to others, they want to tell their family members such as moms and dads. Sometimes the parents are not proud and don't respect their childs sexuality unlike when you notice in a tv drama their moms and dads have different perspectives. Here is an example from the tv drama Glee, where santana