For years, the lesbian community hoped for a similarly quietly epic, emotionally intricate opus—the lesbian “Brokeback Mountain.” 2021’s “The World to Come” should have been that movie.
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Unlike the US, UK and Spain, Germany isn’t particularly well known in the international queer female community for its lesbian representation on TV. Since the mid-2010s, queer female couples on German TV shows haven’t gained the same visibility among international viewers. Put bluntly, the world’s lesbians aren’t watching them. Why not?
Read MorePer my spoon theory, there are three “spoon” types: big spoons, little spoons, and bispoonals. While the roles of big and little spoons are self-evident, “bispoonals” are more fluid. They can act as either a big spoon or a little spoon depending on the needs of their partner. For the most part—excepting bispoonals—two of the same spoon type seem unlikely to go well together in the long term.
Read MoreWhile 14% of queer female characters were killed internationally in 2016, by 2018 that number had dropped to only 3% (although still 8.6% in the US). But in some ways, the focus on Bury Your Gays was an identification of a symptom without recognizing the underlying illness: the lesbian unhappy ending problem. Per Autostraddle’s infographic, only 8% of queer female characters on US shows end well.
Read MoreEn What About Dat? escribimos de Maitino. Ecribimos del mundo del fandom Maitiner, y por eso conversamos Ylenia Baglietto (Maite Zaldúa) pero, como se ha repetido hasta el cansancio estas últimas dos semanas, Maitino no es solo una actriz. Es por eso que no podíamos dejar pasar más tiempo sin traerles una mirada más cercana de Camino Pasamar y de la mujer que la le da vida, Aria Bedmar. En una amena conversación, nos ha contado sobre cómo ha sido interpretar este papel, sus deseos para el futuro del personaje y más o menos que se nos viene en las próximas semanas. ¡Asi que abróchese cinturones y disfruten el viaje!
Read MoreNo es ningún secreto que aquí en WhatAboutDat nos encanta la televisión en español. Desde Chile a México, de Argentina a España, si hay mujeres queer, estamos ahí con palomitas de maíz. Una de nuestras mejores elecciones en este momento, en español o no, es la historia lésbica de "Acacias 38", una telenovela española. "Maitino", el acrónimo de Maite Zaldúa (Ylenia Baglietto) y Camino Pasamar (Aria Bedmar), cuenta la historia de una artista y su joven estudiante que se enamoraron en la España de 1913.
Read MoreSeveral years ago, I made the following argument: TV shows can drastically increase the size of their viewership by adding a well-written and well-acted lesbian storyline. This is because well-publicized, popular queer femalecouples accessible internationally through YouTube or other streaming can rally domestic queer audiences while simultaneously drawing in hundreds of thousands of global viewers in a way that the show’s heterosexual pairings—except in extremely rare circumstances—don’t. To support my argument, I used four case studies: an American daytime soap opera, a primetime sci-fi drama on an American broadcast network, a Brazilian telenovela, and a supernatural Western horror on an American cable network.
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Whither LGBT Representation in Young Adult Literature?
If you accept the numbers at face value, it looks like LGBT representation in Young Adult (YA) fiction has been steadily on the rise the last few years. According to data compiled by author Malinda Lo, in 2009, mainstream American publishers only published 27 LGBT YA books. In 2017, the number increased to 84. In 2018, it was 108. The problem, however, is that when looked at proportionally, this growth is only negligible at best. Here’s why:
Overall, since 2002, A List actresses in a queer role have approximately a 50-50 chance or better at an Oscar nomination.
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