Media Effects Theories
-Framing-
The movie The Laramie Project framed how people reacted within Laramie to the beating of Matthew Shepard. The Interviews done in the movie showed a town broken by what happened, and that people from Laramie were victims as well as Matthew Shepard.
The New York Times, however, showed the incident in a way to focused on Mathew Shepard and his family, as well as the gay community, victims of the attack. The New York Times ran headlines like"Gay Man Beaten and Left for Dead; 2 Are Charged" (James Brooks, New York Times) or "Homophobia Often Found In Schools, Data Show"(James Brooks, New York Times)
Ideologies
-Hate Crimes-
Is an attack on a person based on a social group someone belongs to that you differ from. This is relevant to the Laramie Project because the attack on Matthew Shepard was labeled as one.
-Homophobia-
Is to have negative feelings for someone who falls under the LGBTQA.
Vocab, Themes, Framing
-Framing-
The movie The Laramie Project framed how people reacted within Laramie to the beating of Matthew Shepard. The Interviews done in the movie showed a town broken by what happened, and that people from Laramie were victims as well as Matthew Shepard.
The New York Times, however, showed the incident in a way to focused on Mathew Shepard and his family, as well as the gay community, victims of the attack. The New York Times ran headlines like"Gay Man Beaten and Left for Dead; 2 Are Charged" (James Brooks, New York Times) or "Homophobia Often Found In Schools, Data Show"(James Brooks, New York Times)
-Agenda Setting-
The movie as well as the New York Time framed this incident in a positive light. While a man had been killed because of his sexual orientation both show how it was dealt with in a way that helped people move on with what happened, and to help create a positive image of the town of Laramie as well as homosexuality.
-Gate-keeping-
The movie kept out what was happening in the outside world. How people beyond Laramie where felling about the killing of Mathew Shepard. Also in the movie the interviews never speek with Matthews parents, as well as any interviews with Russell Henderson or Aaron McKinney besides there police tapes listened during the trial.
Ideologies
-Hate Crimes-
Is an attack on a person based on a social group someone belongs to that you differ from. This is relevant to the Laramie Project because the attack on Matthew Shepard was labeled as one.
-Homophobia-
Is to have negative feelings for someone who falls under the LGBTQA.
Vocab, Themes, Framing
Religious Protesters during the trial.
Coming Out: a lifelong process of self-acceptance. People forge a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender identity first to themselves and then may reveal it to others. Publically identifying ones orientation may or may not be part of coming out.
Gay: The adjective used to describe people whose enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attractions are to people of the same sex in contemporary context.
Homosexual: Outdated clinical term considered derogatory and offensive by many gay and lesbian people.
Homophobia: Fear of lesbians and gay me. Prejudice is usually in more accurate description of hatred or antipathy towards LGBT people.
LGBT: acronym for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender.
Openly Gay: Describing people who self-identify as lesbian or gay in their personal, public, and/or personal lives.
Queer: traditionally a pejorative term, queer has been appropriated by some LGBT people to describe themselves. However, it is not universally accepted by the LGBT community and should be avoided unless quoting or describing someone who self identifies that way.
Sexual Orientation: describes an individuals enduring, physical, romantic and/or emotional attraction to another person. Gender identity and sexual orientation are not the same. Transgender people may be straight, lesbian, gay, or bisexual. For example, a man who transitions from male to female and is attracted to other women would be identified as a lesbian or gay woman.
Gender Identity: Ones internal personal sense or being a man or a woman (boy or girl). For transgender people, their birth assigned sex and their own internal sense of gender identity to not match.
Sex: The classification of people as male or female. At birth, infants are assigned a sex based on a combination of bodily characteristics including: chromosomes, hormones, internal reproductive organs, and genitals.
Gay Rights: Advocates for gay issues are concerned that the term may invite resentment by implying “special rights” that are denied other citizens; the advocates prefer phrases like equal rights or civil rights for gay people. But the shorter phrase is in wide use and often indispensable for confined headlines. When it occurs, define issues precisely.
Sexual Prejudice: Scientific analysis of the psychology of antigay attitudes will be facilitated by a new term. It serves this purpose nicely. Broadly conceived secual prejudice refers to all negative attitudes based on sexual orientation, whether the target is homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual. Given the current social organization of sexuality, however, such prejudice is almost always directed at people who engage in homosexual behavior or label themselves gay, lesbian, or bisexual.
Offensive and Preferred Terms
Offensive: Homosexual
Preferred: gay, gay man, or lesbian, gay person/people
Offensive: “Homosexual relations/relationship,” “homosexual couple,” “homosexual sex,” etc.
Preferred: “relationship” (or “sexual relationship”), “couple” (or, if necessary, “gay couple”), “sex”, etc.
Offensive: “sexual preference”
Preferred: “sexual orientation” or “orientation”
Offensive: “gay lifestyle” or “homosexual lifestyle”
Preferred: “gay lives,” “gay and lesbian lives”
Offensive: “admitted homosexual” or “avowed homosexual”
Preferred: “openly lesbian,” “openly gay,” “openly bisexual”
Offensive: “gay agenda” or “homosexual agenda”
Preferred: Accurate descriptions of the issue
Offensive: “special rights”
Preferred: “”equal rights” or “equal protection”
Offensive: “fag,” “faggot,” “dyke,” “sodomite,” “she-male,” “he-she,” “it,” “shim,” “tranny” and similar epithets.
Offensive: “deviant,” “disordered,” “dysfunctional,” “diseased,” “perverted,” “destructive” and similar descriptions.
Offensive: Associating gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people or relationships with pedophilia child abuse, sexual abuse, bestiality, bigamy, and polygamy, adultery and/or incest.
Offensive: "Outing" or telling someone about someone's sexual orientation when they haven't told them themselves.
Offensive: "Outing" or telling someone about someone's sexual orientation when they haven't told them themselves.
