Should it be illegal to portray LGBTQ in a positive light in a movie or tv show?

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Should it be illegal to portray LGBTQ in a positive light in a movie or tv show?

  1. Yes - But only for children movies.

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  2. Yes - For ALL movies, not just children's movie

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  3. No

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  1. Turin

    Turin Well-Known Member

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    There is a lot of uproar over Pixars new upcoming film. One of the characters is an LGBTQ personality. The Million Moms group is especially angry.

    So. Should it be illegal to portray LGBTQ in a positive light on TV? Movies? Or should it just be limited to adult style movies, banned from children programming?
     
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    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Only if it was publicly funded, not a position for the government to take. If its private industry, the customers will decide. If the liberals produce it and it bombs, they won't make that mistake twice. I'm no fan of the gay lifestyle and all that glitter bomb nonsense, but they have first amendment rights like all Americans as do idiot media outlets that want to promote that trash...
     
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    Bull crap.

    150,000 Americans die each year from lung cancer.
    About 10,000 to 14,000 die each year from AIDS related disease. 35% or those cases were through heterosexual transmission or IV drug use.
     
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    No. Nor should it be illegal to portray them in a negative light either.
     
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    Evidence thereof of the negative physical effect of the gay lifestyle? Actually since there is no single one, could you detail that for all the various gay lifestyles?
     
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    Of course not but it should be proportional to.

    Forced diversity always feels fake so if nothing else it hurts the artistic medium, represent reality is healthy.
     
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    It is wrong to but it shouldn't be illegal.
     
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    Danny

    when you consider that 2-3% engage in the gay lifestyle, and there are now treatments for AIDS, but lung cancer tends to be a death sentence, you can't defend the number of deaths due to the gay lifestyle






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    Showing LGBTQ individuals as friends sharing activities & interests for child shows is fine, but any hint of sexual activity should be reserved for adult shows only. Any democracy is supposed to respect differing points of view, & each other as individuals, even when we disagree with them. Being LGBTQ harms no one, & shouldn't ever be an issue for any of us.
     
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    I think "a lot of uproar" is overselling it. It seems like a couple of opportunist media outlets tried to spin something up and got a bit of a reaction from the unusual trolls and kooks on Twitter. Nothing that actually impacts the real world.

    As I read, it's a minor character who appears in one scene and mentions her girlfriend in passing conversation. It sounds like the kind of thing most people wouldn't even notice if they hadn't been told.

    Well this isn't about positive or negative light, this is just portraying them at all. Two characters have a conversation about their partners and a female one happens to say "she" rather than "he". I'd suggest gay characters (or camp characters clearly meant to be presumed to be gay, which is an issue in itself) are very rarely presented in an actively positive light. They're much more commonly figures of fun and ridicule as anything else.
     
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    False, the current overall population percentage is 4.5% and in younger generations it is at 8.2% [Gallup]. Furthermore studies on the subject acknowledged that the number is likely higher due to sampling bias.

    According to federal sources [CDC] 34.2M Americans smoke and 480K die annually from smoking related diseases, an incident rate of 1.4035% annually.

    209M Americans age 18+ were included in the sampling size for homosexuality leaving with a low estimate of 9.5M or a more likely estimate of 17.2M.
    16,350 people died of AIDS in 2018 and 69% were infected due to same sex relations [CDC], leading to 11,282 deaths among homosexuals / bisexuals.

    So at the low end the incident rate for homosexuality and HIV/AIDS is 0.1187%, on the more accurate end it is 0.0655% and likely even lower due to the self identified statistical bias mentioned above.

    So even using numbers getting us closest to your assertion, your statement is still false by a significant margin.

    But hey, anything to push your fraudulent narrative, right??
    The mental health issues are ignored because they are not cause by homosexuality but rather by people like you.
     
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    Of course not, it is hard to believe that people still want too in a free country. Which is why we should always protect the minority from the majority.
     
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    Get woke, go broke.

    But no, it should not be illegal. I support LGBTQ Rights. Just don't shove it down people's throats. Let things be gradually accepted.
     
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    That's where the problem lies. There is too much snowflaking going on and it's on the rise (no pun intended).
     
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    Should Trump win this will be pretty far from a free country for a long time. These authoritarian sorts are ramping up their activities in anticipation of being in charge after November. Ask yourself, is a higher 401K worth it?
     
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    I support LGB rights and it should not be illegal to portray them either positively or negatively.

    The Ts and the Qs however are going to end up setting the movement back decades.
     
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    I posted a link
     
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    I couldn't care less who the million moms is worked up over. does anybody?

    Bill burr sums it up nicely for me, warning, nsfw

     
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    Illegal? No. Is it right and proper for children no. I don't believe we should encourage or sanction homosexuality, bad for the society and species.
     
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    I had to read the poll question like four times to make sure I was reading it right. I was having trouble understanding the underlying concept behind it, having NOT been raised in Russia, Sudan or Saudia Arabia.


    I voted 'no'.
     
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    Voted no. I wouldn't be opposed to mandating a PG-13 rating on such things tho. Sexual attraction dynamics is not a pre-pubescent's issue.
     
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    What would be the difference in showing a male/female couple with no PDA as opposed to showing a female/female couple with no PDA? If sexual attraction dynamics is not a pre-pubescent issue, then that would hold equally true for a heterosexual dynamic as well as a homosexual one
     
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    In today's environment, might, might be more layered to allow an alphabet to be the bad guy rather than nearly sainted. Used to be pretty standard to be a bad thing (Silence of the Lambs). But enough of us actually know a BGLO or two (Biggles: bi gay lesbian other than straight: alphabetical and numerical) that are terrific people so barring them in culture would not be realistic. (BTW: the term LGBT rather than GLB started for reasons I find alarming. L in front is neither alphabetical nor numerical: it was put out front for reasons or supremacy. That L is so much more important than G. As and MRA, I object. Might make a fun topic to discuss on its own.
     
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    It could be argued that L is in front because lesbians are more acceptable than gay males.
     
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