Humor and the Emergence of the Gay Culture
During America's growth, homosexuality became a very taboo topic, one seldom mentioned and rarely discussed. Just as the Sexual and Racial Revolutions promoted acceptance of once discouraged social matters, the Homosexual Revolution has promoted the acceptance of the gay culture in today's society. Undoubtedly, humorous homosexual characters in television and in other forms of entertainment are helping to increase the acceptance of the gay culture by portraying the stereotype in a digestible way.
To fully understand an analysis of gay humor, or rather, why other people find the gay culture so funny, a secure understanding of the history of the gay culture is necessary. The term homosexuality was not introduced into the English language until the late 19th century when Charles Gilbert Chaddock created the word (Halperin 15). That is not to say that homosexuality was not present before that time. As a matter of fact, homosexual......
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