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Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Queer Representation in Movies & TV with Rowan Ellis

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Global Media & Entertainment

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8651 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week, Hannah celebrates pride with YouTuber and Advocate for women's rights & LGBTQ+ issues, Rowan Ellis. They focus on Queer representation in movies & TV, with Rowan talking us through terms like Queerbaiting, Queer-Coding, Queer-Catching, and tropes such as Bury Your Gays. They also discuss who should be playing Queer characters, and the controversy around straight, cis-actors winning awards for playing LGBTQ+ characters. Finally, Hannah and Rowan explore what good LGBTQ+ representation looks like, with Rowan sharing her movie & TV recommendations.

Rowan: https://twitter.com/heyrowanellis

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0:00.0

At Barclays, we run programs that help communities across the UK,

0:05.1

whether you're a young person, gaining skills to enter the workplace,

0:09.5

a small business trying to grow and find its place in the modern world,

0:13.6

or a girl in school, building confidence on and off the pitch through football.

0:20.6

We believe everyone deserves to fly.

0:24.4

Search Berkeley's communities to find out more.

0:27.5

Barclays, here for every goal.

0:30.0

I remember this so well because I was disgusted by it.

0:34.6

Because I was so young that I was just like, ew, gross.

0:37.2

And their mouths were slightly apart and you could see tongue. And I was so young that I was just like, ew, gross. And their mouths were

0:38.6

slightly apart and you could see tongue.

0:41.4

And I was like,

0:42.0

despicable. And that was a straight kiss.

0:44.8

Like, even worse.

0:46.5

Even worse.

0:49.9

Welcome to doing it with me, Hannah Witten,

0:52.5

where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies.

1:02.5

Hello, so we have made it to episode seven of doing it.

1:07.1

And according to podcast industry folks, seven is the magic number that most podcasts get to.

1:16.6

So if we get beyond seven, I think we're doing pretty good. So thank you so much for tuning in,

1:22.5

for listening and for all of your feedback on social media, I absolutely love hearing from you.

1:28.3

So June was Pride Month and the Pride Parade in London is this weekend.

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