ABSTRACT
Bridget Kies examines how television’s historically set murder mysteries reinterpret and recontextualize the queer past. While many of these programs foreground the mistreatment and ostracism of queer people in different historical moments, they often do so by erasing important realities in favor of flattened depictions of diversity, tolerance, and acceptance. At the same time, historically set programs can offer a way to understand how LGBTQ + identities were understood in prior eras.
