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Today it’s harder to make clear what, pre-social media, seemed so obvious you don’t really stumble upon queer culture, you are actively inducted into it. At their house I saw Nosferatu, David Lynch, Muriel’s Wedding and, more influential than anything else, queer movies, like My Beautiful Launderette and Velvet Goldmine, A Beautiful Thing,Priscilla, lost greats like James Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus, at that point only just rereleased, some Bruce LaBruce and, divine providence, most of John Waters. I’m trying to think what I saw at the cinema around that age: Armageddon, various iterations of Austin Powers, Bridget Jones’ Diary and Jackass. The serendipity was the interests of my friend’s mother, who cultivated a library of incredible movies. My family moved away, but not so far we went to different schools but hung out a lot, most weekends, and as a teenager, that was the escape. They had a son, a month older than myself, and we became friends. As a very small child a new family moved in as our nearest neighbours, a mile away. When I was a very little kid, you see, I lived in a long, low valley that was sparsely populated. At the weekend, though, I could escape, through a miracle of serendipity. I wasn’t even a particularly rebellious teenage fag, just a morose one, going home from the ‘60s comprehensive classrooms with their pinboards and carpet tiles to a tangle of medical equipment and healthcare workers. I was the only gay kid in school, and my mum was very sick, and my memories are built around a scaffolding of emotions that overwhelm the facts, mainly revolving around the idea of getting out, of escaping. I’m sure I’ve told this sob story before, but life was hard for a teenage fag in the early noughties. Let’s say my teenage years were the turn of the century, for drama’s sake.
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But has it? While it’s true that there are more openly queer people on TV than ever before, how has their presence in otherwise straight storylines changed the way queer stories are told? Are we seeing more queer experience on television - or are we just getting gay stories for straight allies? It’s said that the representation of queer people on television has been revolutionised over the past ten or twenty years. For this week only I’m offering 20% off for a year’s subscription, meaning you pay $4 a month or $40 for a year’s worth! A steal…
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