The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics

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Larry P. Gross, James D. Woods
Columbia University Press, 1999 - Education - 665 pages

Here at last is a comprehensive and highly approachable introduction to lesbian and gay studies for students and general readers. More than one hundred articles, essays, and primary documents cover the formation of gay identity, religious, scientific, medical, and legal perspectives, the mainstream media, lesbian and gay media, and community prospects and tactics. From Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's essay, "How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay," to Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's "Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons," to a 1947 Newsweek article, "Homosexuals in Uniform," The Columbia Reader explores experiences and representations of lesbian and gay people in an engaging and accessible format.

The Columbia Reader features:

- concise introductions to each section, as well as a substantial general introduction

- viewpoints--ranging from radical to conservative--of lesbian and gay scholars and community writers, as well as nongay intellectuals and public figures

- essays, articles, and primary documents from both mainstream and lesbian/gay sources

- detailed exploration of mainstream media representations of gays and lesbians in films, television, and print as well as the rise of lesbian/gay media outlets

- broad coverage of history and identity, social, cultural, legal, medical, and religious regulation, AIDS, and lesbian and gay political agendas and strategies

- current topics, such as the recent development of a cybercommunity, as well as questions of censorship and pornography, same-sex marriage, the ethics of "outing," gay and lesbian activism, and the conservative backlash

Grounded in key social and political topics rather than wholly theoretical approaches, The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics will be a valuable resource for years to come.

From inside the book

Contents

Being Gay in American Media and Society
3
A Other Times Other Customs
25
A Matter of Difference
31
Capitalism and Gay Identity
48
The Homosexual in America
53
The Early Sexologists and Love Between Women
56
The Bowery as Haven and Spectacle
67
B Whos a Queer? Identities in Question
75
More Than Friends
335
Lesbian Filmmaking in the 1980s and 1990s
341
B Fit to Print? Journalism
349
Perverts Called Government Peril
355
U S Homosexuals Gain in Trying to Persuade Society
361
The Lesbian Issue and Womens
367
Out at the New York Times
376
AIDS and the Media
387

An Essay in Response to John Stoltenbergs Refus
77
Identity Work and the Performance of Sexuality
81
Doing It Together
92
Bisexuals in the Queer Movement
105
To Be or Not to
112
Religion and the Church
119
The Spanish Campaign Against Sodomy and Its Results
125
Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care
135
Coming to Terms with Leviticus
147
The Medical and Psychological Establishment
153
Homosexuals in Uniform
163
The PsychologistDr Evelyn Hooker
169
Should Homosexuality
175
The Etiology Debate
185
Sexology and Homosexuality
191
The
201
Studying the Biology of Sexual Orientation Has Political Fallout
207
Government and the Legal System
219
Education and Culture
235
Parting Notes on a Friend
251
Notes on Homophobia
270
Gay Teachers Make Their Lives Whole Again
285
Film and Television
291
Stereotyping
297
Where Is the Life That Late He Led? Hollywoods Construction of Sexuality
306
How American Television Is Creating and Treating
316
Culture Stays ScreenShy of Showing the Gay Kiss
327
The Response of the Press to AIDS
393
The Second Wave
402
A Test of Who We Are As a People
408
Outing
417
How I Brought Out Malcom Forbes and the Media Flinched
429
The Lesbian and Gay Press
437
Gay GalLisa
443
Setting the Standard for the Gay Liberation Press
450
Representation Liberation and the Queer Press
460
Pornography
475
Pornography and Its Means of Production
497
My Mother Liked to Fuck
505
The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn
517
Queers in Cyberspace
527
Were Teen Were Queer and Weve Got Email
537
A Queer Positions and Perspectives
545
Aspects of Homosexual SelfOppression
551
The WomanIdentified Woman
562
An Act of Resistance
565
Chasing the Crossover Audience and Other SelfDefeating Strategies
583
The Boys on the Beach
601
In Gods Country
616
A Conservative Case for Gay Marriage
631
The Naked Truth
643
In an Afternoon Light
658
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