In my Composition 101 class, we started our semester off by
choosing a character from a television show, movie, commercial, music video or
any source relating with American pop culture. We were then supposed to analyze
our character and see what they could tell us about the culture that we live in today. The show I was into at the time was The Fosters so I
decided to choose Lena, the African American lesbian mother, in the show. If
you haven’t yet seen this show it’s about two lesbian mothers, Lena and Stef,
who raise a multi-ethnic family consisting of biological, adopted and fostered
children. Also, I would recommend watching it as well!
While I was doing research on Lena, I was looking up the social and very controversial issue of gay couples and them being parents. As I dug a little deeper, I realized something very apparent; the children of the gay couples weren't getting much of the focus. I then decided instead of focusing on gay rights and being parents, I focused on a whole: what a traditional family can look like and how the kids turn out socially, mentally and academically. In other social media, like Modern Family and Glee, you see that children of gay and lesbian couples aren't any different than children raised in what we think of as a traditional family.
In the next pages of my website, I explore up-to-date coverage on homosexual parents. In the Honey Maid commercial, this is wholesome, you see both types of families: heterosexual and homosexual. Viewers also see the perspective of a homosexual parent and see that they have the same wants and needs for their children. In Frozen, they show a snippet of a gay couple at the store. It shows one partner standing with all of the kids and what I noticed, it seemed very natural, some didn't even notice the gay couple until finding articles or hearing peers talk about it. Kordale and Kaleb are famous through their Instagram accounts and are actually being seen more because of the picture they posted with their two daughters and son. They are showing the world that two men can raise three happy, normal children. These all show that homosexual couples are all around us and becoming more of a traditional family than what our culture ever expected.
In designing my website, I chose some pretty specific stylistic techniques. First, I chose to use a black and white photo of a homosexual couple with their three children for my first page and header pages throughout. I chose black and white because I wanted my other pictures to stand out on my source pages and because black and white as a starter page seemed very clean cut. I also chose to show pictures of all of my sources so my readers could get a visual aspect and be more interested in my topic.
While I was doing research on Lena, I was looking up the social and very controversial issue of gay couples and them being parents. As I dug a little deeper, I realized something very apparent; the children of the gay couples weren't getting much of the focus. I then decided instead of focusing on gay rights and being parents, I focused on a whole: what a traditional family can look like and how the kids turn out socially, mentally and academically. In other social media, like Modern Family and Glee, you see that children of gay and lesbian couples aren't any different than children raised in what we think of as a traditional family.
In the next pages of my website, I explore up-to-date coverage on homosexual parents. In the Honey Maid commercial, this is wholesome, you see both types of families: heterosexual and homosexual. Viewers also see the perspective of a homosexual parent and see that they have the same wants and needs for their children. In Frozen, they show a snippet of a gay couple at the store. It shows one partner standing with all of the kids and what I noticed, it seemed very natural, some didn't even notice the gay couple until finding articles or hearing peers talk about it. Kordale and Kaleb are famous through their Instagram accounts and are actually being seen more because of the picture they posted with their two daughters and son. They are showing the world that two men can raise three happy, normal children. These all show that homosexual couples are all around us and becoming more of a traditional family than what our culture ever expected.
In designing my website, I chose some pretty specific stylistic techniques. First, I chose to use a black and white photo of a homosexual couple with their three children for my first page and header pages throughout. I chose black and white because I wanted my other pictures to stand out on my source pages and because black and white as a starter page seemed very clean cut. I also chose to show pictures of all of my sources so my readers could get a visual aspect and be more interested in my topic.