Apple Inks Deal for 'Visible: Out on Television' Docuseries

[MacRumors]

Apple has signed a deal for a new docuseries called "Visible: Out on Television," which is executive produced by Wanda Sykes, reports Variety.

The series, created by filmmakers Ryan White and Jessica Hargrave, features five episodes that look into the "importance of TV as an intimate medium that has shaped the American conscience, and how the LGBTQ movement has shaped television."

The hour long episodes will explore themes that include invisibility, homophobia, the evolution of LGBTQ characters, and coming out in the TV industry.

It is said to combine archival footage with "key players from the movement," and it is narrated by Janet Mock, Margaret Cho, Asia Kate Dillon, Neil Patrick Harris, and Lena Waithe. Interviews with Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey, Anderson Cooper, and more will be included.

"Visible: Out on Television" is set to debut on Apple TV+ on February 14, 2020.

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Article Link: Apple Inks Deal for 'Visible: Out on Television' Docuseries

 

[Naraxus]

But yet promote anything straight and you're immediately branded a bigot & a homophobe...

 

[martyjmclean]

I’m thankful for all the casual representation we have now, when I was a teenager—the only role models I had were harmful caricatures and misinformed jokes.

However, with this now we get gross shoe-horns of characters where sexuality is a moot point but it’s added anyway. You win some, you lose some.

 

[Ar40]

Apple is being smart and trying to spread as wide a net as possible with their content. They are making content which appeals to many different demos.

 

[martyjmclean]

But yet promote anything straight and you're immediately branded a bigot & a homophobe...

Nobody has ever said there’s something wrong with being straight. Governments and religions have never persecuted or killed people because of heterosexuality.
Live and let live my dude.

 

[Rogifan]

Nobody has ever said there’s something wrong with being straight. Governments and religions have never persecuted or killed people because of heterosexuality.
Live and let live my dude.

What does this have to do with television? And when did the United States government kill people for being gay?

 

[adamjackson]

Why does Oprah inject herself into everything?

 

[shadowbird423]

What does this have to do with television? And when did the United States government kill people for being gay?

Stonewall. And basically Harvey Milk.

Maybe like, read a book or something.

 

[Unity451]

Nobody has ever said there’s something wrong with being straight. Governments and religions have never persecuted or killed people because of heterosexuality.
Live and let live my dude.

That's a red herring argument... I believe the point was that people who would prefer to celebrate traditional marriage and not having the LGBT agenda forced on them are not allowed to have a voice without without severe backlash.

 

[AppleFan91]

But yet promote anything straight and you're immediately branded a bigot & a homophobe...

its not, nor has it ever been illegal to be straight. Straight people have never been persecuted, murdered, beaten, etc for being straight. You’ve not been told your whole life that you’re wrong, broken, sinning, etc. for being straight. But go off.

also, you act like the Rambo series doesn’t exist
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That's a red herring argument... I believe the point was that people who would prefer to celebrate traditional marriage and not having the LGBT agenda forced on them are not allowed to have a voice without without severe backlash.

I believe the above commenter was saying “live and let live” as in don’t throw a pity party because we aren’t actively celebrating being straight or whatever.
If you don’t like something and ignore it, guess what? No “severe backlash”. Complain about others celebrating how far they have come in society? Can’t really complain when you get some backlash.

 

[lunarworks]

That's a red herring argument... I believe the point was that people who would prefer to celebrate traditional marriage and not having the LGBT agenda forced on them are not allowed to have a voice without without severe backlash.

Don't like gay marriage? Don't get gay married.

 

[brinary001]

That's a red herring argument... I believe the point was that people who would prefer to celebrate traditional marriage and not having the LGBT agenda forced on them are not allowed to have a voice without without severe backlash.

Oh ffs. "Forced on them"? Really? I have many LGBT friends and I've never ONCE felt forced to change my sexuality or gender, yet have felt much pressure from older friends, family, coworkers, etc that I should want my own kids and get married.

TL;DR you have that backwards...

 

[Naraxus]

Stonewall. And basically Harvey Milk.

Maybe like, read a book or something.

Maybe reread his post. Where did the government kill a lgbt person? Harvey Milk was murdered by a deranged idiot.

Dan White - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Stonewall riots - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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its not, nor has it ever been illegal to be straight. Straight people have never been persecuted, murdered, beaten, etc for being straight. You’ve not been told your whole life that you’re wrong, broken, sinning, etc. for being straight. But go off.

Nice red herring. I never said anything to the contrary did I? I said that if you say that you're proud to be straight, white or male these days you're immediately branded a bigot or a homophobe as *** did regardless if that is true or not.

 

[rjp1]

I see they are casting a very narrow net with their streaming service. Not in to all the SJW crap. I just want to be entertained when I watched TV.

I enjoy the good old days when Jobs was around. I never knew if he was gay or straight, and don’t f’ing care.

Tim pushes all this crap about gays, but turns a blind eye to what the Chinese do to their own citizens. If you care about human rights, then prove it. You don’t ignore what is happening to a large amount of people, because you really want to tap into their market. God, he makes me sick. So fake.

 

[GeoStructural]

What does this have to do with television? And when did the United States government kill people for being gay?

Man, several people up to 80s even where killed in the US for being gay. The FBI kept a database of people buying gay magazines and correlated gays with traitors. Medically there were also tons of unethical procedures, lobotomy and electroshock therapy as a state practice, for example.

Gay people were banned from the military, then they were allowed, but they could not “ask nor tell”. LGBT individuals could (still can) loose their job.

Sodomy was also illegal in many parts until recently. In Texas for example, anti-sodomy laws are still on the books even after the Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional, tho they are rarely enforced.

In the incipient colonies there was inquisition (Roman Catholic mostly), and although they deny it today, they would kill a man for being gay or a woman for dressing as a man.

 

[Rogifan]

Man, several people up to 80s even where killed in the US for being gay. The FBI kept a database of people buying gay magazines and correlated gays with traitors. Medically there were also tons of unethical procedures, lobotomy and electroshock therapy as a state practice, for example.

Gay people were banned from the military, then they were allowed, but they could not “ask nor tell”. LGBT individuals could (still can) loose their job.

Sodomy was also illegal in many parts until recently. In Texas for example, anti-sodomy laws are still on the books even after the Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional, tho they are rarely enforced.

In the incipient colonies there was inquisition (Roman Catholic mostly), and although they deny it today, they would kill a man for being gay or a woman for dressing as a man.

Killed by the US government just for being gay?

 

[slowpoke]

The heteros are upseteros

 

[Devyn89]

Yeah I love having my rights debated and put in the political section of macrumors that’s what I come here for. Are discussion of the Morning Show put in the political section because it talks about Me Too. Just because some bigots think my identity is up for political debate doesn’t make it true. Do better for your LGBTQ+ members macrumors.
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Also I love that this comes out on Valentines Day ? ?️‍?

 

[!!!]

Yeah I love having my rights debated and put in the political section of macrumors that’s what I come here for. Are discussion of the Morning Show put in the political section because it talks about Me Too. Just because some bigots think my identity is up for political debate doesn’t make it true. Do better for your LGBTQ+ members macrumors.
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Also I love that this comes out on Valentines Day ? ?️‍?

No one is debating your right, in fact no one gives a **** who you marry. It's just when every character is now suddenly gay for "representation" it gets annoying. It forces the show to be political (because it's done for political reasons) and there's no reason every character suddenly needs to be gay. When I was growing up, I never looked at people who were the same gender/race/sexuality and said "oh, that's who I have to be, because this person looks the same as me". Do you know why? Because I'm not racist/sexist/sexuality-ist. If the only people you can look up to is people who are exactly like you, then you're the one promoting racism, sexism, and sexuality-ism.

 

[slowpoke]

No one is debating your right, in fact no one gives a **** who you marry. It's just when every character is now suddenly gay for "representation" it gets annoying. It forces the show to be political (because it's done for political reasons) and there's no reason every character suddenly needs to be gay. When I was growing up, I never looked at people who were the same gender/race/sexuality and said "oh, that's who I have to be, because this person looks the same as me". Do you know why? Because I'm not racist/sexist/sexuality-ist. If the only people you can look up to is people who are exactly like you, then you're the one promoting racism, sexism, and sexuality-ism.

See it's ok to have absolutely no clue what it's like, and it's cool to admit it, but what I really don't get is people who feel the need to broadcast how completely uninformed they are. Like, ok, we get it, jeez, stop shoving it down our throats

 

[Devyn89]

You don’t think representation matters because you’ve always been represented. As a gay kid seeing an openly gay character is so important! It shows is that we can succeed and be gay. You literally just admitted you think a character being gay is political - it’s not people are just gay, you’re the one making it political.

 

[slowpoke]

You don’t think representation matters because you’ve always been represented. As a gay kid seeing an openly gay character is so important! It shows is that we can succeed and be gay. You literally just admitted you think a character being gay is political - it’s not people are just gay, you’re the one making it political.

No but see when you say that you should be able to be queer and exist in public without fear, that's Doing Politics (bad – there is never an appropriate time for politics! Don't do it!), but when straight people insist that you need to get back into the closet and stay there forever, that's just being normal, and regular. It's actually very simple.

 

[extrachrispy]

Good gravy, people! If this isn't your thing, don't watch it! It's not like almost everything else on television (including Apple TV) doesn't predominantly feature heterosexual characters!

That said, they lost me at Wanda Sykes, an utterly classless individual.