The active involvement of the LGBT community in the media can be traced back to the 1970s (). Then, a group of lesbian writers and activists started a gay liberation movement that represented both lesbians and gay men. However, other lesbian activists believed that the movement should focus more on lesbians because they believed that gay men had their own agenda. So the lesbian community decided to create its own identity by immersing itself in its own culture. This culture included good and creative writing, art and music (). They even created their own news periodical, called Lesbian Connection, which “in the early 1970s in East Lansing, Michigan, this periodical had a circulation of five to ten thousand copies bimonthly, making it the lesbian periodical with perhaps the largest number of readers." it's time” (). Basically, because they were not equally represented by the media itself, they decided to create their own media “by lesbians, for lesbians” (). However, funding for their media projects has been difficult; whether they asked for small or large sums of money, they always had difficulty raising them. If they asked for or earned too much money, they were seen as exploiters of the cause rather than supporters. Conversely, when they asked for small sums of money to finance their products, they continued to “see the world as tied to the rejection of a vision of creativity that emphasized technical skill and competence as well as the mystique and exclusivity of the professional artist ”. (). At the same time lesbian activists were creating their own media movement, films depicting them, as well as the rest of the LGBT community, were also being created. The first breakthrough film, The Boys in the Band, with… half the paper… admits in its article, however, that more research is needed. Cartoons tend to misrepresent or underrepresent groups of people. people too. Mainly, the misrepresentation and underrepresentation of the LGBT community. According to (), “between 4% and 9% of all adults are gay or lesbian (McWhirter, Sanders, & Reinisch, 1990; Sell, Wells, & Wypij, 1995), and recent evidence suggests that the bisexual population is likely to be comparable in size to the homosexual population (Mosher, Chandra, & Jones, 2005); but in the cartoon universe only 0.3% of the characters studied were anything but heterosexual” (). This is an extremely low percentage of representation compared to the LGBT population. Not only that, but in the search (), they found no lesbian or bisexual cartoon characters; and this covered more than 4,300 cartoon characters.