Visible celebrity claimsmakers can shift public frames and weaken opposition to a marginalized group

Evidence

Depending on who they are, the claimsmaker or agent can contribute to shifting public opinion and attitudes. For example, entertainment media portrayals of sexual minorities and the emergence of popular lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) actors and celebrities as claimsmakers helped set positive frames of the LGB community and gradually weakened political and public opposition to homosexuality (Andersen and Fetner, 2008a; Garreston, 2009. — Emily Greene-Colozzi, Amy Adamczyk, and Senahan Kiyal Keles, Differences in Religious Framing of…, 23

Categorization

• XREF: Parallel case study to any work on how in-group representation or visible spokespeople move public opinion on stigmatized identities. — connects to: Public figures can reverse their critique and embrace a stigmatized label in defiance — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 138
• SEED: Angle: when did Muslim public figures become the ‘claimsmakers’ in US media, and did it move coverage the way LGB celebrity visibility did?