Misrepresentation of the LGBT community in the mainstream media

• Often narrow and stereotypical
• Gay men often represented as camp, effeminate, theatrical, and act as visible markers of difference in relation to heterosexuality and masculinity.
• Doesn't reflect the diversity of male gay identities.
• Promoting hegemonic understandings of masculinity by constructing the gay man as 'other'.
• Masculinity is often equated to heterosexuality.
• This construction of dominant ideologies can be related to Hall's theories.