The media is like the human digestive track; it uses the parts it can and discards the parts it can't. If gays and lesbians aren't portrayed the way they really are it's because the media can't use the parts that [I]don’t[/I] differ from straight people. In other words they're not going to focus on our 'real lives' (going through the normal every day 9 to 5 crap everyone goes through). The media focuses on what makes us different (i.e. butch lesbians, sexed up lesbians, flaming gay boys, bitchy gay boys). If we want a different image in the media it’s up to us to make sure [i]we[/i] ourselves aren’t furthering the stereotype.

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