Rhetorical Situation:

• Interviewee: Rebecca Sugar

• Subject: A discussion about the evolution of queer censorship on the show Steven Universe and how it was an uphill battle for years to finally get proper representation out there.

• Purpose: To expose the internal battle over censorship that this creator was facing but to showcase the change it ended up bringing to all children's media.

• Audience: General audience, people interested in animation, people interested in children's media

• Context: Creator has fought hard against censorship to bring more queer relationships on screen, making representation break throughs.

Rhetorical Situation:

• Interviewee: Alex Hirsch

• Subject: Disney imposes stunning censorship on the littlest of details in stories, especially regarding queerness. Things like any physical touch between same sex characters will be flagged. This impacts the morale of it's creators and hinders any sort of queer representation.

• Purpose: To expose the intense censorship Disney imposes on its creators and how this largely impacts the stories being told.

• Audience: General Audience, people interested in animation, victims of censorship

• Context: Creator shares censorship notes he received, Disney was censoring his queer characters.

Rhetorical Situation:

• Interviewee: Kate Herron

• Subject: An interview discussing how its important to acknowledge a long established queer identity of a big name character, how it opens up the doors for bigger and better representation going forward.

• Purpose: To acknowledge the importance of addressing identity and sexuality in a character.

• Audience: General audience, people interested in live action sci fi super hero genre

• Context: Director pushed for queer acknowledgement in a very censored setting. Acknowledging sexuality made a big breakthrough.

Rhetorical Situation:

• Author: Sarah K. Ellis

• Subject: An analysis piece listing and naming all of America's diverse queer stories in 2023-2024, from queer characters of different types and origins to queer live action series to animation series. It looks at all shows from streaming to cable with the intention to highlight positive or negative fluctuations in representation on TV.

• Purpose: To analyze and keep track of the exact amount of representation queer stories are getting in all forms of television each year to compare with the past and representation of cis/het stories.

• Audience: General audience in America, film and TV creatives along with studio executives, industry people interested in how queerness is fairing in the television market

• Context: Present day statistics outlining the current list of diverse queer stories in television amid an ever fluctuating industry

Rhetorical Situation:

• Author: Kayden Hayman

• Subject: The examination of public responses to a social media post about queer celebrities. This study particularly showcases the negative feedback that these posts get. Much of the negative feedback is hateful, ignorant, and homophobic.

• Purpose: To expose, analyze, and bring awareness to hateful responses over queer representation and it's impact on social media.

• Audience: General population, social media users, people interested in psychology, queer experiences and social impact of social media, people interested in film analysis.

• Context: Recent audience responses to queer media and hatred that is spread online on a daily basis.

Rhetorical Situation:

• Author: Acadia Bost

• Subject: The history and development of queer representation in Hollywood, from the 1920's until modern day. It details laws that were put in place first in the 1930's to censor immoral concepts, then a new law in the 1950's to undo this to an extent, bringing forth a new era of queer storytelling: queer coding.

• Purpose: To highlight the changes that have been made to queer representation since the early days of the industry, and to show why things are the way they are today, how we got here.

• Audience: General Audience, historians, people interested in the history of film, people interested in the history of queer representation

• Context: History of queer presentation on screen, how its presence has been treated by Hollywood. Laws that were put into effect to control queer storytelling.