Ebook: Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America

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 unwilli.;Preface; 1. The Mediated Society; 2. Coming Out and Coming Together; 3. Stonewall and Beyond; 4. At the Movies; 5. Television Takes Over; 6. AIDS and the Media; 7. Journalism's Closet Opens; 8. Breaking the Code of Silence; 9. Hollywood Under Pressure; 10. Hollywood's Gay Nineties; 11. Beyond Prime Time; 12. Morning Papers, Afternoon Soaps; 13. Old Stories and New Technologies; 14. A Niche of Our Own; 15. Facing the Future; Sources; Bibliography; Index.