Un/fit for young viewers : LGBT+ representation in Flemish and Irish children’s television

Focusing on domestic youth TV programming in Ireland and Flanders, this chapter discusses how public service broadcasters structure the (in)visibility of queer sexualities in children’s television. First addressing institutional similarities, it subsequently shows how early instances of queer televisibility in youth content were facilitated by information and current affairs programming – sporadically offering spaces to address non-normative sexualities as legitimate topics. With its youth schedule comprising predominantly non-fiction content, Ireland witnessed comparatively more instances of... Mehr ...