Up from Invisibility

Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America

By: Larry Gross

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Hardcover | 26 December 2001 | Edition Number 1

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A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media's stage. And yet even as the mass media have been shifting the terms of our public conversation toward a greater acknowledgment of diversity, does the emerging "visibility" of gay men and women do justice to the complexity and variety of their experience? Or is gay identity manipulated and contrived by media that are unwilling -- and perhaps unable -- to fully comprehend and honor it?

While positive representations of gays and lesbians are a cautious step in the right direction, media expert Larry Gross argues that the entertainment and news media betray a lingering inability to break free from proscribed limitations in order to embrace the complex reality of gay identity. While noting major advances, like the opening of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookstore -- the first gay bookstore in the country -- or the rise of The Advocate from small newsletter to influential national paper, Gross takes the measure of somewhat more ambiguous milestones, like the first lesbian kiss on television or the first gay character in a newspaper comic strip.

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A readable account of the gradual emergence of a gay-lesbian presence in news, entertainment, and advertising over the last fifty years. -- James Boylan Columbia Journalism Review This scholarly study is engaging and readable. Library Journal Not only adds to our understanding of the culture but also encompasses material from an impressive number of venues that should be, but often are not, included in a book about the media. -- Roger Streitmatter, American University Journal of Mass Communication Quarterly

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Preface	p. xiii
The Mediated Society	p. 1
Mass Media and American Society	p. 1
Television as the Mainstream	p. 6
Sexual Minorities and the Media	p. 12
Subversion and Resistance	p. 17
Coming out and Coming Together	p. 21
The Homosexual in Midcentury America	p. 21
Giving Voice to the Voiceless	p. 24
Provoking Concern	p. 29
The Voice Gets Louder	p. 32
Coming Out in the Nation's Living Rooms	p. 37
Stonewall and Beyond	p. 40
"Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees Stinging Mad"	p. 40
"Turning Their Condition into Politics"	p. 43
Expressing Outrage	p. 46
Talking Back to the Media	p. 50
At the Movies	p. 56
"A Queer Feeling Every Time I Look at You"	p. 56
"Show Me a Happy Homosexual and I'll Show You a Gay Corpse"	p. 60
Friedkin Delivers Gay Corpses	p. 64
Getting the Word Out	p. 67
Gay Films for Straight Audiences	p. 71
Universal or Particular?	p. 75
Television Takes Over	p. 81
New Medium, Old Message	p. 81
No Sex, Please, We're Queer	p. 85
Aids and the Media	p. 94
Rumors of a "Gay Cancer"	p. 94
Circling the Wagons	p. 96
Natural Squeamishness	p. 99
Media Activism in a Crisis	p. 104
Journalism's Closet Opens	p. 110
Burying and Marrying	p. 110
All the News Not Fit to Print	p. 113
The Gray Lady Goes Gay	p. 118
Coming Out in the Newsroom	p. 125
Breaking the Code of Silence	p. 131
Naming Names	p. 131
Outing the Pentagon	p. 135
Kinda Ask, Sorta Tell	p. 139
Hollywood Under Pressure	p. 143
AIDS Victims and Villains	p. 143
A Kinder, Gentler Hollywood	p. 147
Queering the "Straight" Text	p. 150
Hollywood's Gay Nineties	p. 156
"I feel pretty and witty and ... Hey!"	p. 156
Still Villainous After All These Years	p. 164
Sad Young Men	p. 169
Some of My Best Friends Are Celibate	p. 177
Beyond Prime Time	p. 184
Adam and Steve and Phil and Oprah	p. 184
The Tongue-Tied Public Square	p. 188
Getting Over the Rainbow	p. 195
Locker-room Closets	p. 201
Morning Papers, Afternoon Soaps	p. 208
Coming Out in the Comics	p. 208
You're the First Person I Have Ever Told	p. 216
Old Stories and New Technologies	p. 221
The Good Parts	p. 221
Somewhere There's a Place for Us	p. 227
A Niche of Our Own	p. 233
Movement to Market	p. 233
Are We Being Served?	p. 244
Facing the Future	p. 252
Visibility and Its Discontents	p. 252
Looking Backward	p. 258
Sources	p. 265
Bibliography	p. 273
Index	p. 289
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