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From perverts to fab five : the media's changing depiction of gay people and lesbians / Rodger Streitmatter

1. publ.

New York [u.a.] : Routledge, 2009

VI, 222 S : Ill

Englisch

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

Includes bibliographical references and index

0-7890-3670-3 ((hbk.) : No price); 0-7890-3671-1 ((pbk) : No price hbk.); 978-0-7890-3670-4 ; 978-0-7890-3671-1

2008024917

b8A3332

OCoLC: 837380944     

OCoLC: 231680285 (aus SWB)     

AP 16850      Ähnliche Literatur

HQ76.2.U5

306.76/60973 ; 306.7660973 ; 306.76/6/0973

Basisklassifikation: 05.39 (Massenkommunikation; Massenmedien: Sonstiges)

SSG-Nummer(n): 3,5

*USA ; Massenmedien ; Homosexueller ; Lesbe ; Darstellung ; Wandel ; Geschichte 1980-2008     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Gay men -- United States -- Social conditions ; Lesbians -- United States -- Social conditions ; Gay men in mass media ; Lesbians in mass media ; Gays in popular culture -- United States ; Mass media -- United States ; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-

Mass media and gays / United States ; Gays in popular culture / United States ; Gays / United States / Public opinion ; Public opinion / United States ; Gay men in mass media ; Lesbians in mass media ; Gays / United States / Social conditions

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