This website is to demonstrate that there is propaganda surrounding the portrayal of homosexuals in popular media. It will also show what techniques of propaganda are and have been used, through various examples. There are links to the history of homosexual depictions in film to straight actors playing gay characters. For further research all sources can be found in the annotated bibliography link.
The following is the definition from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary for the term homosexuality:
Sexual orientation toward or activity with those
of the same sex, as distinguished from heterosexuality
The following is Marlin’s official definition for the term propaganda:
The organized attempt through communication to affect
belief or action or inculcate attitudes in a large audience
in ways that circumvent or suppress an individual’s
adequately informed, rational, reflective judgment. (p.22)
