Up From Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in

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 unwillingâ€•and perhaps unableâ€•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 Bookstoreâ€•the first gay bookstore in the countryâ€•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.
Country USA
Brand Columbia University Press
Manufacturer Columbia University Press
Binding Paperback
Color Purple
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780231119535
ReleaseDate 2002-03-08

Country	USA
Brand	Columbia University Press
Manufacturer	Columbia University Press
Binding	Paperback
Color	Purple
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780231119535
ReleaseDate	2002-03-08

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

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