New on WMC: 50 years after Stonewall, a new media landscape for queer women, trishbendix writes.
Freeform's "The Bold Type" is among the TV shows that feature queer women of color as lead characters.
Fifty years ago, at the time of the Stonewall Riots, lesbian was a dirty word. It indicated a literal mental illness, according to the American Psychiatric Association.
The movement to create inclusive, accurate, and diverse portrayals of queer women in media, like the broader political movement that catalyzed it, has seen both progress and setbacks, but now queer women are more seen and heard than ever before, in all facets of pop culture, entertainment, and media.
Queer women and men had been engaging in political activism in the United States for years before Stonewall, which started in New York City on June 28, 1969. In its aftermath, lesbian and bisexual activists found themselves having to demand visibility and a voice within both gay and women's liberation groups. Often this meant creating their own media.
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