"[New-Conventional] Modern Family''

The interesting part of television in American is how it evolves with the times.  Right now gay is hot! Although gay was only just hot in the 90’s and 2000’s, we need more. More Gay! Although in contrast to the gay we see on scripted American Television, what have wee seen for the gays in life? I’ve seen rights emerge in the gay community, which spawned a national movement for gay rights. This movement being too great to go unnoticed, writers of scripted television caught eye and have done their part to allow their form of media to influence the masses.  The most noticeable example of gay television characters evolving in greater character development is seen in “Modern family.” “Modern Family,” depicts branches of a clashing upper middle-class family tree going about the 1^st world struggles of suburbia life. Hilarious! One branch of this family follows a gay couple, Cam and Mitchel and we see how the ‘Wife’ and ‘Husband’ rules can also pertain to the daily homosexual couple. The most prominent higher power this couple gets in character development, in comparison to past gay characters we see Cam and Mitchel making pioneering gay landmarks in scripted television by means of being accepted to raise an adopted child together. The stigma of gay culture was of course quickly depicted in the initial introduction of baby Lilly. The babies being theatrically presented like Simba in ‘The Lion King’, viewed, as only an episodic introduction a gay person would do.

Although homosexuality is becoming more accessible to accept through the means of gay rights, heterosexuality is surely leading the means for sexual riskiness and provocativeness for American culture. Whether it’s ‘Toddlers in Tiaras” displaying provocative dances or watching a married couple risking unprotected sex in “Desperate Housewives” sexual activity is becoming more liberal to see openness in sexuality in television. In American culture I can see more often as well. 

The amount of acceptability in society on sexual and gay rights has made great strides in recent decades. The edgier more daring side of this depiction in the media is tested at times to be going ‘past the line’. Although there are more than one ideas of what morally acceptable, there is surely a link between ‘American Society’ and ‘American Television’.