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LGBT in Media - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Famous members of the LGBT community in media
        
        Lady Gaga
        
        Laverne Cox
        
        Neil Patrick Harris
        
        Jane Lynch
        
        There has been recent backlash against the tv and movie industry because they continue to cast straight, cis people in roles that could be played more authentically by LGBT actors.
    - - On June 26th, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples are guaranteed the right to marriage by the fourteenth amendment.
      - Barrett’s evasiveness alarms LGBTQ advocates fearful Supreme Court may roll back protections
        
        Supreme Court says federal law protects LGBTQ workers from discrimination
- - - - HIV is a virus that affects the body's immune system and is spread primarily through unprotected sex and sharing contaminated needles. AIDS is the name for the late term symptoms of the disease.
      - An HIV/AIDS pandemic broke out in the United States in the beginning of the 1980s and lasted to the beginning of the 1990s. AIDS had a greater impact on gay and bisexual men than the heterosexuals. It has been widely agreed that the Regan administration was slow to respond to the pandemic as a result of homophobia.
- - - - Christine Jorgensen was one of the first persons to have a widely known sex change surgery in the United States. Her surgery was in 1952. It is believed that the film Glen or Glenda was loosely inspired by her.
- - - - Contemporary artists
        
        Chris E Vargas
        
        Chris is an artist and video maker based in Washington who uses his work to highlight how queer and trans people find spaces for themselves and negotiate popular mainstream culture. He is also the creator and executive director of MOTHA, The Museum of Transgender History and Art.
        
        Mickalene Thomas
        
        Mickalene is a painter based in New-York whose paintings are known for incorporating rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Her work usually features young black women in provocative positions and same-sex relationships and includes elements African-American culture.
        
        Jes Fan
        
        Jes Fan is a Brooklyn based artist that uses their work to question the binary ideas of identity, gender, and also race. They use materials that often resemble biological objects such as organs, neurons, blood, and cells, sometimes even using the real thing in order to explore the biological components of identity.