In the new Apple docuseries 'Visible: Out on Television,' the decades-long fight for LGBTQ representation on TV is only just beginning.
.” “Having Jeffrey play Maura reinforced a really dangerous stereotype that put trans people in harm’s way,” Soloway says, calling the decision “a huge mistake.”The point isn’t to disavow “Transparent,” or even to single it out. In “Visible: Out on Television,” created by Ryan White and Jessica Hargrave , nearly every queer landmark in the medium’s life span is scrutinized, complicated, reconsidered. “Three’s Company” was “funny but grotesque,” says “Grey’s Anatomy’s” T.R. Knight.
Lena Waithe is among those interviewed in the Apple TV+ docu-series “Visible: Out on Television.” Waithe also narrates an episode.In the second of its five installments, for instance, “Visible” pauses to examine ABC’s groundbreaking made-for-television movie “That Certain Summer,” starring Hal Holbrook and Martin Sheen as a committed couple.
The first use of “homosexual” on American television came amid the Lavender Scare of the 1950s. TV news failed to cover the Stonewall riots, then became an unwitting tool for disseminating the wildcat protests of ACT UP at the height of the AIDS crisis. The fight for marriage equality coincided with major breakthroughs on TV, albeit reserved primarily for white, cisgender men.
Clockwise from top left: Ellen DeGeneres during a taping of “The Ellen Show” in Burbank. Jussie Smollett in a scene from “Empire.” Wilson Cruz, left, and Claire Danes in “My So-Called Life.” Michael Kenneth Williams in “The Wire.”If there is a lesson to be drawn from “Visible,” then, a moral to its medium-spanning saga, it’s the notion that the arc of the universe doesn’t bend toward justice — it, shaped by the force we apply to it with our very own hands.
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