Visible: Out on Television

Excellent tour through LGBTQ history and how television is a US cultural staple. Not only is this a celebration of the LGBTQ community, it explains the inequalities faced in the past, present, and the future. It is hosted by members of the LGBTQ community. Finally, it does not sweep anything under the rug, it fully explores the frightening and terrible events that have happened in the LGBTQ community since the invention of television.

I think everyone should watch this mini series. It shows that growth sometimes takes time but thankfully, through the sacrifices and determination of so many, growth is possible. Thank you for sharing your stories.

I just finished this mini series and during each episode, at some point, I had tears in my eyes. Either of joy or sorrow. I am not a member of the LGBTQ community, I am not an American, so I didn't know most of it. But I am so so glad that I live in these times when everybody can be whomever they want to be, where everybody is free to love whom they want to love. It deeply saddened me to see and hear how difficult it was for them, how hard it still is, how easy society breaks individuals and how we don't care about the pain we cause. I really hope Visible gets to be seen by a lot of people, it's easier to accept when one understands. <3

Was wonderful to see an account looking back to the early days of television, and how representation has changed across the LGBTQ+ spectrum - and how much further it has yet to go. Got emotional more than once seeing the battles fought and won. As impressed and happy I am that they included trans and nonbinary representation, I do wish they had included a wider breadth of the queer experience. We have shows out there now with even more invisible identities, who are fighting today to bring that representation to people's homes. Including a segment about pansexual characters, or asexual characters, or intersex characters, or polyamory, would have been great. I hope to see more of that if they do another season.

The journey from a homophobic world to a tolerant society, though sadly only in parts of it so far, is told by those who lived through it and people who are now enjoying its fruits. Expect hours of head-shaking, eye-rolling and eyebrow-raising at the totally berserk bigotry, hysteria and inanity of our very recent ancestors.