The Apple TV+ docuseries VisibleOutOnTelevision explores the many milestones — and compromises — on the path toward authentic queer representation and storytelling over seven decades. Read inkookang's review:
But the documentary also argues persuasively that, perhaps even more than characters designed to pull on heartstrings, it was necessary to see real-life LGBTQ people — on the news, clamoring for more government action to fight AIDS, on reality shows likeand on reputable talk shows like Winfrey's.
But the worst of that decade had to be the tabloid-flavored, gawk-at-the-freaks talk shows like Jerry Springer's, where trans women would be paraded out alongside a cis one so the studio audience could "guess which one is the real girl.
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