Celluloid Closet

The queer stereotypes in classic hollywood present themselves in the forms of "the sissy" and the "spinster" or women that is older and clearly a representation of corruption, especially in other younger women. Over time I would argue that they have come to become either gays have either become almost a-sexual making them to be linked with other stereotypes of being either fashionable or the side-kick to women in a crisis, or have been able to jump from the contrasting hyper-sexual into potentially still side characters but progressively in some films as the "homonormative" couple in a family. In films like Sweet Home Alabama or Family Stone in for instance are good representatives
I agree that visibility should be a focus. I don't believe at any cost however. If given the power to choose how people perceive us, I think it is the best to not reaffirm stereotypes and better choose to portray the character as it was meant in the script and who that character really is. If it happens to be forms of a certain way, in which may or may not be beneficial to promoting awareness should be irrelevant.