by Gross, Larry P
Book / 2001

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TitleUp from invisibility : lesbians, gay men, and the media in America
Item typeBook
Author(s)Gross, Larry P
ImprintNew York Columbia University Press, 2001
SeriesBetween men--between women
ISBN
  • 0231119526
  • 9780231119528
  • 0231119534
  • 9780231119535
LanguageEnglish
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Notes
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-288) and index.
  • The mediated society. Mass media and American society ; Television as the mainstream ; Sexual minorities and the media ; Subversion and resistance. -- Coming out and coming together. The homosexual in midcentury America ; Giving voice to the voiceless ; Provoking concern ; The voice gets louder ; Coming out in the nation's living rooms. -- Stonewall and beyond. "Homo nest raided, queen bees stinging mad" ; "Turning their condition into politics" ; Expressing outrage ; Talking back to the media. -- At the movies. "A queer feeling every time I look at you" ; "Show me a happy homosexual and I'll show you a gay corpse" ; Friedkin delivers gay corpses ; Getting the word out ; Gay films for straight audiences ; Universal or particular? -- Television takes over. New medium, old message ; No sex, please, we're queer. -- AIDS and the media. Rumors of a "gay cancer" ; Circling the wagons ; Natural squeamishness ; Media activism in a crisis. --
  • Journalism's closet opens. Burying and marrying ; All the news not fit to print ; The gray lady goes gay ; Coming out in the newsroom. -- Breaking the code of silence. Naming names ; Outing the Pentagon ; Kinda ask, sorta tell. -- Hollywood under pressure. AIDS victims and villains ; A kinder, gentler Hollywood ; Queering the "straight" text. -- Hollywood's gay nineties. "I feel pretty and witty and... Hey!" ; Still villainous after all these years ; Sad young men ; Some of my best friends are celibate. -- Beyond prime time. Adam and Steve and Phil and Oprah ; The tongue-tied public square ; Getting over the rainbow ; Locker-room closets. -- Morning papers, afternoons soaps. Coming out in the comics ; You're the first person I have told. -- Old stories and new technologies. The good parts ; Somewhere there's a place for us. -- A niche of our own. Movement to market ; Are we being served? -- Facing the future. Visibility and its discontents ; Looking backward.
  • Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CUY.
Physical descriptionxviii, 295 p. ; 24 cm.

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2001
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Gross, Larry P
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Columbia University Press
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