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This paper have tried to understand and explore how the Gay relationships or kinship is portrayed and represented in the multimedia. For my study, I have taken Four American Television Series which constitute of protagonists who identify as homosexuals. I have tried to understand through the depiction of their characters that whether these portrayals are just a mere replication of the existing hetero-normative order or are an attempt to challenging the same .I have adopted content analysis as my method of research and have done a detailed in depth analysis of the mentioned shows. This paper have inferred from the analysis that almost all the shows in some manner or the other conforms to the social hetero-normative structure and instead of challenging it, ends up adopting it in different forms. It shows how the portrayal of characters intended to question the social structure ultimately falls back to the trap of heterosexual matrix.