Turner, G 
ORCID: 0000-0003-0825-7081
(2019)
'Bizarre Sapphic midlife crisis': (Re)thinking LGBTQ representation, age, and mental health.
Sexualities, 22 (7-8).
pp. 997-1016.
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Abstract
This article looks at viewers’ responses to the romance between two older women on the BBC medical drama Holby City. In the context of a continuing lack of representation of (older) women-loving women, viewers of all ages describe a transformative experience, with an emphasis on positive mental health outcomes – yet older women also orient to something implicitly problematic about this being the case. This is premised, I suggest, in the foregrounding of youth and adolescence in academic and public discussions of the role of the media in sexual self-realisation. The research demonstrates the need for qualitative case studies capturing LGBTQ portrayals, taking account of the experiences of older viewers, and of network television even in a fragmented and queer(er) digital market
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Audiences,, coming out,, LGBTQ, mental health,, older women, television |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Nov 2018 10:01 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 01:13 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1363460718794132 |
| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3028733 |
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