Queer Theory

The queer theory revolves around sexual minorities within mass culture/media and an intellectual extension of the Gay & Lesbian rights movement. The queer theory recognizes queers as a disadvantaged class in society whose voices are obscured, misrepresented in, or omitted from mainstream popular culture. Also television upholds mainstream values (dominant ideology) and “normalizes” them and television upholds mainstream values (dominant ideology) and “normalizes” them and homosexual/queers positions challenge societal gender roles.