Homosexuality In The Glee

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The Glee has been one of the most popular sitcoms in recent years. It was identified as a gay-friendly show on the mainstream TV station. The show breaks the boundaries and stereotypes that have been set and present audience with the real world of gay and lesbian. More specifically, the unique gay/lesbian characters representation in the show not only allows heterosexual people to have their finger on the pulse of homosexual culture but also resonates the homosexual audience. In this paper, I interviewed 3 different people about their opinions on the gay and lesbian representation in the Musical Television show Glee. All the three people I interviewed have at least some familiarity with the show (they all watched at least 5 episodes of the show.) The first people I interviewed was my roommate Qiu, who has been watching the show over and over again for years. I also interviewed my boss Herman, a middle age male (around 30 years old) who watched the show occasionally for fun; and my friend’s eleventh-grade sister Lily, a big fan of musical shows. Honestly, the interview subjects for this analysis …show more content…

I reached many other people since last week, some of them did not show much interest in doing the interview when they heard it was about homosexual representation analysis; the other people were unable to do the interview because the lack of time or other reasons. Anyway, diverse interviewees were picked to convey a considerably fair research for the attitudes toward the homosexual representation in the show Glee. These three chosen interview subjects not only vary in race (Both my boss and my roommate are Asian-American and my friend’s sister Lily is Caucasian) but also in gender (My boss is male and the other two are female). Because the main focus of the show Glee is about daily life of a group of high school students who attend their school glee club, the audience’s age range is unavoidably narrow. Despite the fact

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