Ron Becker is an assistant professor of communications at Miami University in Ohio.

• Introduction : the importance of gay-themed TVStraight panic and American culture in the 1990sThinking about gay people : civil rights and the confusion over sexual identityNetwork narrowcasting and the slumpy demographicThe affordable, multicultural politics of gay chicGay material and prime-time network television in the 1990s"We're not gay!" : heterosexuality and gay-themed programmingStraight panic in the 2000s

"From beginning to end, this book is a highly engaging and impeccably researched study of the cultural anxieties produced in the destabilization of straight and gay identity." - Michael DeAngelis (DePaul University) "An insightful, well-written, and well-argued book." - Michael Kimmel (professor of sociology, SUNY at Stony Brook) "Becker's analysis of the connections between sexual representation and industrial strategy is original and compelling. An example of the best kind of television scholarship, Gay TV and Straight America is a rare find." - Sasha Torres (author of Black, White and In Color: Television and Black Civil Rights) "From beginning to end, this book is a highly engaging and impeccably researched study of the cultural anxieties produced in the destabilization of straight and gay identity." - Michael DeAngelis (DePaul University) "An insightful, well-written, and well-argued book." - Michael Kimmel (professor of sociology, SUNY at Stony Brook) "Becker's analysis of the connections between sexual representation and industrial strategy is original and compelling. An example of the best kind of television scholarship, Gay TV and Straight America is a rare find." - Sasha Torres (author of Black, White and In Color: Television and Black Civil Rights)

Ron Becker is an assistant professor of communications at Miami University in Ohio.

• Introduction : the importance of gay-themed TVStraight panic and American culture in the 1990sThinking about gay people : civil rights and the confusion over sexual identityNetwork narrowcasting and the slumpy demographicThe affordable, multicultural politics of gay chicGay material and prime-time network television in the 1990s"We're not gay!" : heterosexuality and gay-themed programmingStraight panic in the 2000s

"From beginning to end, this book is a highly engaging and impeccably researched study of the cultural anxieties produced in the destabilization of straight and gay identity." - Michael DeAngelis (DePaul University) "An insightful, well-written, and well-argued book." - Michael Kimmel (professor of sociology, SUNY at Stony Brook) "Becker's analysis of the connections between sexual representation and industrial strategy is original and compelling. An example of the best kind of television scholarship, Gay TV and Straight America is a rare find." - Sasha Torres (author of Black, White and In Color: Television and Black Civil Rights) "From beginning to end, this book is a highly engaging and impeccably researched study of the cultural anxieties produced in the destabilization of straight and gay identity." - Michael DeAngelis (DePaul University) "An insightful, well-written, and well-argued book." - Michael Kimmel (professor of sociology, SUNY at Stony Brook) "Becker's analysis of the connections between sexual representation and industrial strategy is original and compelling. An example of the best kind of television scholarship, Gay TV and Straight America is a rare find." - Sasha Torres (author of Black, White and In Color: Television and Black Civil Rights)

Ron Becker is an assistant professor of communications at Miami University in Ohio.

• Introduction : the importance of gay-themed TVStraight panic and American culture in the 1990sThinking about gay people : civil rights and the confusion over sexual identityNetwork narrowcasting and the slumpy demographicThe affordable, multicultural politics of gay chicGay material and prime-time network television in the 1990s"We're not gay!" : heterosexuality and gay-themed programmingStraight panic in the 2000s

"From beginning to end, this book is a highly engaging and impeccably researched study of the cultural anxieties produced in the destabilization of straight and gay identity." - Michael DeAngelis (DePaul University) "An insightful, well-written, and well-argued book." - Michael Kimmel (professor of sociology, SUNY at Stony Brook) "Becker's analysis of the connections between sexual representation and industrial strategy is original and compelling. An example of the best kind of television scholarship, Gay TV and Straight America is a rare find." - Sasha Torres (author of Black, White and In Color: Television and Black Civil Rights) "From beginning to end, this book is a highly engaging and impeccably researched study of the cultural anxieties produced in the destabilization of straight and gay identity." - Michael DeAngelis (DePaul University) "An insightful, well-written, and well-argued book." - Michael Kimmel (professor of sociology, SUNY at Stony Brook) "Becker's analysis of the connections between sexual representation and industrial strategy is original and compelling. An example of the best kind of television scholarship, Gay TV and Straight America is a rare find." - Sasha Torres (author of Black, White and In Color: Television and Black Civil Rights)