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Race-ing Queerness: Normative Intimacies in LOGOs DTLA

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Journal of Communication Inquiry

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Abstract

We argue that the representations of sex, love, and relationships in the television series Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) mirrors existing racialized, gendered, sexualized, and classed hierarchies of masculinities among queer men. DTLA attempts to project a more inclusive ideology through its focus on typically marginalized groups but fails to offer a space for resisting or subverting those hierarchies. For that reason, we complicate DTLA’s representations as reproducing normative hierarchies. By doing so, we reimagine the potentiality of mediated spaces where the intersections and complexities of differences are embraced.