Up From Invisibility by Gross, Larry P. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Preface 1. The Mediated Society

Mass Media and American Society Television as the Mainstream Sexual Minorities and the Media Subversion and Resistance

2. Coming Out and Coming Together

The Homosexual in Midcentury America Giving Voice to the Voiceless Provoking Concern The Voice Gets Louder Coming Out in the Nation’s Living Rooms

3. Stonewall and Beyond

“Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees Stinging Mad” “Turning Their Condition into Politics” Expressing Outrage Talking Back to the Media

4. At the Movies

“A Queer Feeling Every Time I Look at You” “Show Me a Happy Homosexual and I’ll Show You a Gay Corpse” Friedkin Delivers Gay Corpses Getting the Word Out Gay Films for Straight Audiences Universal or Particular?

5. Television Takes Over

New Medium, Old Message No Sex, Please, We’re Queer

6. AIDS and the Media

Rumors of a “Gay Cancer” Circling the Wagons Natural Squeamishness Media Activism in a Crisis

7. Journalism’s Closet Opens

Burying and Marrying All the News Not Fit to Print The Gray Lady Goes Gay Coming Out in the Newsroom

8. Breaking the Code of Silence

Naming Names Outing the Pentagon Kinda Ask, Sorta Tell

9. Hollywood under Pressure

AIDS Victims and Villains A Kinder, Gentler Hollywood Queering the “Straight” Text

10. Hollywood’s Gay Nineties

“I feel pretty and witty and … Hey!” Still Villainous After All These Years Sad Young Men Some of My Best Friends Are Celibate

11. Beyond Prime Time

Adam and Steve and Phil and Oprah The Tongue-Tied Public Square Getting Over the Rainbow Locker-room Closets

12. Morning Papers, Afternoon Soaps

Coming Out in the Comics You’re the First Person I Have Ever Told

13. Old Stories and New Technologies

The Good Parts Somewhere There’s a Place for Us

14. A Niche of Our Own

Movement to Market Are We Being Served?

15. Facing the Future

Visibility and Its Discontents Looking Backward

Sources Bibliography Index