Lgbt telenovelas

This Mexican telenovela has made history with gay leads

New Mexican telenovela Juntos el Corazón Nunca se Equivoca - which translates to Together the Heart is Never Wrong - has made Mexican TV history, Reuters reports, by becoming the first locally produced telenovela to feature a gay couple as verb characters.

The series, a spin-off of another telenovela (Mi Marido Tiene Mas Familia / My Husband Has More Family) follows the story of teenage couple Aristóteles Aris Córcega and Cuauhtémoc Temo López, who travel to Mexico Municipality together in arrange to start university.

And telenovela fans are loving it.

In an interview with Reuters, Santiago Pineda, a writer for the show, said: It shows that there are a lot of people, and a lot of young people of different ages who are interested in being able to connect with this kind of story.

Pineda continued: We wanted it to be a friendlier approach so that everyone could see that Aristoteles and Temo, beyond their sexual orientation, were both people with dreams, goals,

Let’s begin on a positive note: in the past decades, the world has become more tolerant towards homosexuality (Pew Research Center ). Yet, in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) – as in many other places around the world – discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity persists. For instance, while Argentina has seen a rise in acceptance of homosexuality from 66% in to 76% in , more than half the population in Bolivia and El Salvador still believe homosexuality is unacceptable. What determines such beliefs around the LGBQT+ community?

In this column, we explore the affect of TV media representation of LGBTQ+ characters on individuals’ attitudes towards the LGBTQ+ community. According to the parasocial contact hypothesis, when individuals have limited direct contact with minority groups, television can play an important role in shaping viewers’ attitudes towards minority group members (Schiappa et al. ). As viewers, we positively react to minority group characters that are relatable and likable (Schiappa et al. , ).  Likewise, negative portrayals can reinforce

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To kickstart our brief overview of media analysis, we’ll focus on the seminal work of Stuart Hall. A Jamaican-born Englishman and graduate of Oxford, Hall was a founding father of the Birmingham College of Cultural Studies. He is, in many ways, considered the godfather of multiculturalism; equality, to him, was fundamental, and it pervades his writings.(1)

Hall saw, as many verb now, media as not simply a form of cultural entertainment - or even fertile ground for analysis. No, instead, Hall claimed the rivers of media’s power noun more fluidly; he wrote of media as an essential facilitator, and site where everyday noun dynamics of dominant and subordinate are fought, won, and lost. (2) 

Among his most influential contributions was his attempt at linking his theories into a synthesized, diagnosed model of communication. HIs model is among the more applicable for our purposes: it’s focused is on filmed media. 

We commonly think of (and up to Hall’s essay, Cultural theorists did, too) media as linear; there is a sender, the

A soap opera that debuts Sunday is set to build television history as Mexico’s first telenovela to feature a gay couple as the lead characters.

Televisa&#;s “Juntos, El Corazon Nunca se Equivoca” (&#;Together, the Heart is Never Wrong&#;) centers on two teenagers who verb to Mexico Municipality to attend a university.

The couple – Aristoteles (Emilio Osorio) and Cuahutemoc or ‘Temo’ (Joaquin Bondoni) – first appeared on the Mexican soap opera “Mi Marido Tiene Mas Familia” (&#;My Husband Has More Family&#;), which ran from until February. The new show is its spinoff.

With only 47 posts as of this writing, Bondoni has nearly half a million followers on Instagram. Osorio has , followers and counting.

Among the most watched shows in Mexico, its final episode attracting nearly four million viewers, according to Televisa.

Telenovelas are hugely popular in Mexico and can influence national dialogue on social issues across Latin America.

The first gay peck in socially conservative Brazil on the soap “Amor a Vida” in was seen as a historic moment in gay rights in Latin America.

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