Comments on: Not Your Average Prom Queen: Desperately Seeking Role Models http://thenewgay.net/2009/09/desperately-seeking-role-models.html For Everyone Over the Rainbow Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:21:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: J. Clarence http://thenewgay.net/2009/09/desperately-seeking-role-models.html#comment-14717 J. Clarence Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:44:17 +0000 http://thenewgay.net/?p=14081#comment-14717 There is most certainly a void of national LGBT role models; however, I suspect if you were to look at it from the ground up on the local levels it might be a different story, because there is a lot of resources there--depending on where you live of course. I can't really say that I see a lot of role models out there in the mainstream, where a teenager wouldn't have to go searching high and low to find one; and even if they did I think I would come up rather short. This could also be because that there is not a lot of LGBT exposure in the mainstream. The L Word and Queer As Folk are now both over, so characters to look up there and now gone. The few other gay characters in there just seem to fit the bill as the usual gay stereotypes, i.e. Mark from Ugly Betty, the kid of Glee, etc. There may not be many contemporary ones, but the old ones are still just as good, for example famous authors and so forth. There is most certainly a void of national LGBT role models; however, I suspect if you were to look at it from the ground up on the local levels it might be a different story, because there is a lot of resources there–depending on where you live of course.

I can’t really say that I see a lot of role models out there in the mainstream, where a teenager wouldn’t have to go searching high and low to find one; and even if they did I think I would come up rather short.

This could also be because that there is not a lot of LGBT exposure in the mainstream. The L Word and Queer As Folk are now both over, so characters to look up there and now gone. The few other gay characters in there just seem to fit the bill as the usual gay stereotypes, i.e. Mark from Ugly Betty, the kid of Glee, etc.

There may not be many contemporary ones, but the old ones are still just as good, for example famous authors and so forth.

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