Damien O’Meara, RMIT University
When I interviewed Lee for my research, his advice to emerging creatives was: ‘Don’t just, for the sake of being representative, drop one [queer character] into a show.’
These industry leaders are working in what gender and sexuality studies scholar Margot Canaday describes as the ‘straight work world‘. My research identifies the hurdles this world can present to developing queer stories for mainstream TV, as well as how queer industry leaders manage to jump them.
