Queering Up the Media: An Historical View of LGBTQ Depictions in Media''''

Queering Up the Media: An Historical View of LGBTQ Depictions in Media''''

Guest Speaker: Brenda Richard, Ally at Dal and a professor at the 
Maritime School of Social Work

When: April 5th, 12 pm

Where: Mona Campbell Building, Room 1107

Portions of the film _The Celluloid Closet_ will be shown so that a 
discussion can take place considering queer depictions in media and how 
this has shaped our identities and communities.

A link to The Celluloid Closet of IMDB: 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112651/

The documentary interviews various men and women connected to the 
Hollywood industry to comment on various film clips and their own 
personal experiences with the treatment of LGBT characters in film. From 
the sissy characters, to the censorship of the Hollywood Production 
Code, the coded gay characters and cruel stereotypes to the progress 
made in the early 1990s. (Wikipedia)