ACMI: Queering the Small Screen
The Live in the Studio forum at ACMI takes a look at the evolving face of queer representation on the small screen.
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The monthly Live in the Studio television forum at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne this month takes a look at the evolving face of queer representation on the small screen.
With gay and lesbian characters popping up on everything from Modern Family and Glee to Nurse Jackie, The Good Wife and even animated hit Archer, queer visibility on the small screen has steadily risen over the past decade.
Join SameSame’s Travis de Jonk, Cherrie magazine’s Rachel Cook, cultural reviewer Tim Hunter, comedian Catherine Deveny, and author Alasdair Duncan, as they explore the most memorable series, characters and representations to come out of the television closet, and take a peek into what the future may hold for queers on the small screen.
One Thursday each month in ACMI’s television studio, Studio 1, a collection of pop-culture commentators, academics and industry experts and luminaries get together to present a night fits somewhere between analysis and entertainment, allowing audiences to revel in TV past and present. For more information on Live in the Studio, visit acmi.net.au
7pm Thursday 26 April
acmi.net.au
One Response
They’d better talk about Omar Little from The Wire, or this whole conversation is invalid. He was the first gay character I ever saw on TV who wasn’t defined by his sexuality – he wasn’t a badass gay stick up man, he was a badass stick up man who just happened to be gay.