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LGBT identity and online new media By Christopher Pullen, Margaret Cooper

'“Truting” uses the pop song Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? By Culture Club (headed by openly gay male pop star icon, Boy George), which offers an upbeat tempo, yet focuses on the misunderstanding of sexual diversity with the line “this boy loves without a reason,” and repeating the title line and “Do you really want to make my cry?” frequently.'

Encyclopedia of gay and lesbian popular culture By Luca Prono

"Gay and lesbian celebrated queers as producers of culture, thus countering media representations of gays as producers of the plague. "

"The debates surrounding popular culture representations of gayness became increasingly politicized."

Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Critical Reader By Gail Dines, Jean McMahon Humez

"Despite some important advances in gay and lesbian visibility in media culture
in recent years, representations of sexuality in mainstream pop culture continue
to be, for the most part, rampantly heterosexual."

"Part of the reason for this is the continuing homophobia that producers assume continues to characterize the majority of media consumers in most targeted audiences. "

Pop culture wars: religion & the role of entertainment in American life William D. Romanowski

"How the media represent these groups (for example, negative portrayals
or exclusion) is largely the basis of the progressive critique."

"On the other side in the culture wars, progressives generally view popular culture as an expression of democratic pluralism and argue that because the United States is a culturally diverse society, adequate institutional representation..."

All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America By Suzanna Danuta Walters

"While invisibility and avoidance remained the norm in the 70s, depictions of lesbians and gays did pop up occasionally."

Authentic Human Sexuality: An Integrated Christian Approach By Judith K. Balswick, Jack O. Balswick

"Even after the emergence of heterosexual desires, the battle is not over; homosexual thoughts can pop up at the most"

The Ashgate research companion to queer theory By Noreen Giffney, Michael O'Rourke

"Judith Butler asserts: ‘If the term queer is to be a site of collective contestations, the point of departure for a set of historical reflections and futural imaginings, it will have to remain that which is, in the present, never fully owned, but always and only redeployed, twisted, queered from a prior usage and in the direction of urgent and expanding political purposes’."