From "perverts" to "fab five" : the media's changing depiction of gay men and lesbians /
"From "Perverts" to "Fab Five" tracks the dramatic change in how the American media have depicted gay people over the last half-century. Each chapter illuminates a particular media product that served as a milestone on the media's journey from demonizing homosexuals som...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Routledge,
2009.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://recursos.uloyola.es/login?url=https://accedys.uloyola.es:8443/accedix0/sitios/ebook.php?id=157086 |
Table of Contents:
- "Perverts" on the Potomac : homosexuals enter the news arena
- Stonewall rebellion : reporting on an epic event
- The boys in the band : homosexuality comes to the big screen
- Soap : a gay man comes to TV land
- Aids enters the news : reporting on the "gay plague"
- AIDS becomes major news : "now no one is safe"
- Gays in the military : the debate over lifting the ban
- Fleeting images of lesbians : killing, kissing, being chic
- Philadelphia : "a quantum leap for gays on film"
- A new gay man in town : Hollywood shifts to positive stereotypes
- Ellen : coming out, on screen and off
- Will & Grace : the biggest gay hit in TV history
- Queer as folk : "an unvarnished treatment of gay life"
- Queer eye for the straight guy : the "fab five" as gay reality TV
- Notes on gay visibility vs. lesbian visibility
- The L word : lesbians move into the spotlight
- Same-sex marriage : a journalistic love fest
- Brokeback Mountain : "a breakthrough gay romance"
- Conclusion: From "perverts" to "fab five" : progress in three stages
- and waiting for a fourth.
- FU
- FBoU
- FJUNF
- FOFT
- FMFIU