Research publications and media by Damien O’Meara, Melbourne-based Lecturer and Researcher
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Publications
2025
O’Meara, D. (2025, February 13). Stan’s Invisible Boys carries the tradition of real, gritty Aussie teen drama, while smashing it into something new. The Conversation.
2024
O’Meara, D.J. & Monaghan, W. (2024, March 12). We studied two decades of queer representation in Australian television and found some interesting trends. The Conversation.
O’Meara, D.J. & Monaghan, W. (2024). Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and nonbinary representation on Australian scripted television in the 2000s and 2010s. Media International Australia, Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X241236990
[Book Review] O’Meara, D. (2024). Mainstreaming Gays: Critical Convergences of Queer Media, Fan Cultures, and Commercial Television, Eve NG (2023). Journal of Digital Media & Policy., 15(1), 134–135. https://doi.org/10.1386/jdmp_00144_5
2023
O’Meara, D 2023, ‘‘Gay guys can do missionary?’ – how Red, White & Royal Blue brings queer intimacy to mainstream audiences‘, The Conversation, 17 August.
O’Meara, D 2023, ‘Meet Cute in the Margins: Establishing Gay Community Contexts in the Gay Romcom Genre‘, Senses of Cinema, Issue 106 (August, Online). [Republished on DJOMeara.com]
2022
O’Meara D 2022, ‘Queer romcom Bros struggled at the box-office. Are mainstream audiences still not ready?’, The Conversation, 21 October.
O’Meara, D and Burke, L 2022, ‘Peppa Pig has introduced a pair of lesbian polar bears, but Aussie kids’ TV has been leading the way in queer representation’, The Conversation, 22 September.
McIntyre, J and O’Meara, D 2022, ‘Would Carlotta, Australia’s most celebrated drag queen, have made it on Rupaul’s Drage Race?’, The Conversation, 4 August.
O’Meara, D, Balanzategui, J and McIntyre, J 2022, ‘The loss of Neighbours is a loss of career pathways for Australia’s emerging screen professionals’, The Conversation, 26 July.
Media coverage
2024
Disalvo, T. (2024, March 25). New study finds boom in queer representation on Australian television. StarObserver.
O’Meara, D. [Interview] (2024). Monday Breakfast. 3CR, 18 March.
2022
O’Meara, D [Interview] 2022, ‘The Daily’, 2SER Sydney, 6 October
O’Meara, D [Interview] 2022, ‘Mornings with Adam Steer’, ABC Radio Darwin, 25 August.
O’Meara, D [Interview] 2022, ‘Canberra Live with Leon Delaney’, 2CCC, 28 July.
O’Meara, D [Interview] 2022, ‘Drive’, Joy 94.9, 28 July.
O’Meara, D [Interview] 2022, ‘Mornings with Adam Steer’, ABC Radio Darwin, 28 July.
O’Meara, D [Interview] 2022, ‘Drive with Richard Glover’, ABC Radio Sydney, 26 July.
O’Meara, D [Interview] 2022, ‘Tuesday Drive’, Triple U FM, 26 July.
O’Meara, D [Interview] 2022, ‘Neighbours launched careers and trained screen industry professionals’, Afternoons ABC Radio Melbourne, 26 July.
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