View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Ghent University Academic Bibliography SEXUAL DIVERSITY ON THE SMALL SCREEN: MAPPING LGBT+ CHARACTERS IN FLEMISH TELEVISION FICTION (2001 – 2016) Florian Vanlee, Frederik Dhaenens & Sofie Van Bauwel WORKING PAPERS FILM & TV STUDIES WP 2018/1 Florian Vanlee (
[email protected]) is a researcher at the Department of Communication Studies, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Ghent University. His PhD research focuses on sexual and gender diversity in Flemish television fiction. Copyright, Florian Vanlee © 2018 Working Papers Film & TV Studies WP 2018/1 Sexual Diversity on the Small Screen: mapping LGBT+ characters in Flemish television fiction (2001 – 2016) Published by Working Papers Film & TV Studies, CIMS-Centre for Cinema and Media Studies, Department of Communication Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent – Belgium. ISBN 9789082743913 Address CIMS – Centre for Cinema and Media Studies Campus Aula – Ghent University Korte Meer 7-11 9000 Ghent – Belgium Web www.cims.ugent.be Visit our website for more working papers. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by an electronic or mechanical means (including photocopy, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher or the author. ABSTRACT Apart from figures on LGBT+ characters in television fiction produced by the American television industry, such as the ‘Where We Are On TV’ – reports by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), quantitative data on LGBT+ representation television fiction series remains scarce internationally. With this working paper, we aim to address this lack in the context of Flemish television fiction.