Hector Bellerin represents himself as challenging the stereotypical ideas of football players for example a stereotype about football players is that they are somehow less intelligent than a lot of people he shows his audience that this is untrue through his interviews and his fashion brand.
This allows him to be taken seriously by audience's when he speaks about LGBT rights within football. this is also shown with his clothing which regularly features feminine items of clothing such as earnings and dresses. Attitude itself also tries to defeat stereotypes about celebrities in society for example when Alan Karr received homophobic abuse after his interview with Radio 2 attitude denounced the abuse he received or when Imagine Dragons singer Dan Reynolds donated his childhood home to an LGBT organisation for their ‘$8 Million, 8 Houses’ campaign. Attitude praised him for doing what he did when other online media outlets would have just shrugged it off as they may not see it as important or current news.
Attitude uses some positive stereotypes such as every person in the LGBT community are somehow much more open minded or smarter than others for example the article about Elton John auditioning for a Covid-19 vaccine campaign but the article barely even mentions the vaccine campaign and the article may have only been made because Elton John happens to be gay and not because he has any insightful views on the subject.
Attitude for the most part does not stereotype gay celebrities within the magazine for example it tries to defeat the stereotype this is seen in the article where Steven Fry criticizes James Corden's portrayal of a gay man in the film the prom as too camp and not a proper representation and that he should "Dial it down a bit" as most people who are gay in real life are just normal people and they don't need to be overly flamboyant to show that someone is gay
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