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Ep. 11 - Gimme, Gimme, Gimme A Good Gay Best Friend Character

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LGBTQ+ people have fought for decades for positive representation in movies and tv shows. And we started winning! A slew of very friendly gay characters started to emerge, but so did a suspicious trend. In today's episodes, your hosts tackle the Gay Best Friend trope. GBF's are often walking stereotypes - but are stereotypes really a bad thing? And when the price of representation is a character only there to support the main character without any real depth themselves, is it worth it? Special thanks for our audio and theme music to Graham Waller www.grahamwaller.com If you want to get in contact, we're BoxNotIncluded on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and @gmail.com and we have our individual Twitters at @HamishSteele and @JadeOxfordRose
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LGBTQ+ people have fought for decades for positive representation in movies and tv shows. And we started winning! A slew of very friendly gay characters started to emerge, but so did a suspicious trend. In today's episodes, your hosts tackle the Gay Best Friend trope. GBF's are often walking stereotypes - but are stereotypes really a bad thing? And when the price of representation is a character only there to support the main character without any real depth themselves, is it worth it? Special thanks for our audio and theme music to Graham Waller www.grahamwaller.com If you want to get in contact, we're BoxNotIncluded on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and @gmail.com and we have our individual Twitters at @HamishSteele and @JadeOxfordRose
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