Jolie Bridgeforth

Noelle Nagales

ENG 21001

Due: Nov 17th

 

Making my Multi Modal presentation was fun but also difficult for so many different reasons. It was extremely fun because I got to search through shows and movies I watched that really made me feel happy and felt real to me because of the fact that I felt like those characters. I understood what they were going through, I understood what was happening in their lives and what was going through their minds as well. I did my presentation based on my experiences of what I felt with the characters, but I did it also based on the fact that I wanted there to be representation of me, a gay feminine male who has passions and loves to share with the world and how it can be modern for men to be feminine as well, not just masculine.

 

How they usually portray gay femme men are slutty, hoe-ish, bitchy sometimes or even a guy who just wants to fuck everything. At the same time, it also does a bit of Bottom shaming, which is a huge thing in the community for the LGBTQ+ community. No shame in someone wanting something they want but it doesn’t stop people of the community shaming their own community as well. But it’s a good reason I wanted to do this project as well but I focused more on the representation of gays in shows and how that it could be modernized much more than just showing a single character who’s gay and nothing more than that.

But aside from that, the difficult part was more the fact that I could not think of shows and movies off the top of my head at first. I was looking through my head trying to find the perfect shows and movies showing what good representation of LGBTQ+ people feel or what they look like on television. LOVE SIMON is good for younger gay lives and shows how closeted men think and act and feel as well. Fire Island helps by just showing how gay men feel when they get older, have their own family with friends and how they all act with each other. Even though Fire Island has a few more stereotypes in it, it at least shows the truth about how gay people are there for each other when it really matters.

 

The point of the presentation is purely to allow myself to show how I feel as that of a gay man, a gay feminine man who should also have the ability to feel as those who have been able to see themselves in characters they watch who are familiar with that character even. It sometimes bothers me that I can’t find a show that fits me or that looks like me other than two shows but I’m not annoyed heavily by it but I’m disappointed mostly. But to have the representation means more than most can ever believe honestly. Having the recognition and the ability to be seen is what really matters in shows and movies honestly. At the same time, that recognition can also be shown to others who you think would also feel something from the show and/or movie that you’ve also watched. It really is all up to the person who watches the production and really matters if they take the time and consideration to really look at what they’re being shown.