Throughout multiple decades of television broadcasting, homosexuals and bisexuals have remained unseen. Whenever an episode of a television series featured a homosexual character, controversy would emerge. Also, if a television series were to include reoccurring themes of homosexuality and homosexuals, more controversy would emerge. However, as time went on, homosexual themes were slowly becoming more acceptable on television. Unfortunately, the progression rate of homosexual themes in movies is much slower.
Australia was the first country to introduce a television series with homosexual characters, and the United Kingdom being the second. However, in the United States, the progression rate is much slower in the United States compared to Australia and the United Kingdom. To transition to movies, the progress of homosexual themes in movies is much slower. In Britain, for example, the first movie to have a lesbian theme appeared in 1990 known as, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit. In the United States, the most highly recognized movie with gay characters is Brokeback Mountain, which came out in 2005.
To conclude this essay, it is unfortunate to see the slow acceptance of homosexuality in the media. However, the only thing we can hope for is that homosexuality will be continuously more accepted in the media.
