It’s Pedro Pascal’s birthday – here are the internet daddy’s top 5 best moments
The lexis ‘daddy’ refers to an older hegemonically attractive man. This term is specific to the queer community. Here the lexis and selection of images queer code this heterosexual actor in order to other him for the queer target audience. By constructing Pascal as a gay ally, a reality is constructed where straight people also believe in gay rights, and are comfortable with being lightly sexualised
Taliban arrest LGBTQs – one a teenager – amid fears they’ll be ‘tortured’ to reveal others and executed
Here, straight people are constructed as dangerous and oppressive, and a force which continually victimise and other queer people. This article reinforces a reality where queer people are vulnerable
International Transgender Day of Visibility: 13 inspiring trans people share their stories as part of groundbreaking photo series
Visibility refers to forcibly bringing awareness to a certain marginalised groups. Examples of constructing visibility include parades, marches, wearing a flag and so on. The purpose of this article is simply to remind the target audience that trans people exist. Manuel Alvarado argued that certain groups are completely left out of representation, and that this process is called symbolic annihilation.