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That Certain Summer Film Analysis

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Television has played an important role in perpetuating stereotypes about gays and lesbians. For years, portrayals of gays and lesbians on television were quite rare and typically negative. In recent years, this has started to change with more shows offering positive representations of homosexual characters. Societal attitudes toward homesexuality vary between the different cultures and historical periods. Every culture has its on values toward appropriate and inappropriate secuality. Since the 1970s the world has become more accepting to same-sex sexuality between partners of legal age. Ninety two percent of LGBT law society becoming more accepting over the last decade. Some of them still experienced discrimination (PEWResearch). LGBT stands for Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender. Even though same-sex sexuality has become more accepting forty-five percent of people still believe that engaging in homosexual behavior is a sin (PEWResearch). Americans that gays and lesbions who are rasining children is bad for today's society (PEW Research). It is setting a bad example for the children in …show more content…

In 1972 ‘That Certain Summer’, a movie for ABC by Lamont Johnson. It was a movie about a divorced father (Hal Holbrook) who hides his true love (Martin Sheen) from his teenage son. This movie was the first sympathetic depiction of gay people of television (New York Times). In 1977 ‘The Jeffersons’ by Norman Lear. He produced sitcoms with shows like “Hot / Baltimore” which is where he introduced one of the first gay couples on network television in the short lived ABC series (New York Times). In 1977 in the ABC sitcom ‘Soap’ Jodie Dallas played by Billy Crystal becomes the 1st gay dad on television (New York Times). In 1997 Ellen Degeneres comes on “The Puppy Episode” on an ABC sitcom, she was the first lead character to do so on television. It drawn 42 million videos (New York

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