Farrah Freibert is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the School of Media Arts at Southern Illinois University. With research that spans media history and industry studies, global media circulations and LGBTQ+ history, she has published widely in peer-reviewed scholarly venues such as Film Criticism, JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, Monstrum, Porn Studies, the Journal of Homosexuality, Spectator, Synoptique, and Flow: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture. Dr. Freibert is coeditor with Alicia Kozma of Refocus: The Films of Doris Wishman (2021).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgements Introduction: Towards a Queer Media Industry Studies1. “Queer Doings in the Balcony”: the emergence and policing of Continental Theaters, 1961-19692. Producing “gay aesthetic red”: audience stakeholders and racial-sexual contracts in the production and exhibition of Song of the Loon3. Feminist Alchemy: Nancy Lindsey and the policing of distribution and exhibition in 1970s Southern California4. Documentary real estate: place and property politics in histories of Circus of BooksConclusion: Archival outrage: censoring history through archival destructionIndex

In Nothing Censored, Nothing Gained, Farrah Freibert offers a fresh perspective on how queer visibility and experience were shaped by infrastructures rather than content or identity. By foregrounding distribution and exhibition, the book introduces new critical frameworks for understanding how obscenity law, sexual politics, and media industries intersect. Its emphasis on the 1960s and 1970s - marked by legal flux and emerging queer publics - challenges dominant narratives around deviance, visibility, and the regulation of sexual culture. It’s a timely and necessary intervention that will be valuable to scholars across film and media studies, queer history, and cultural studies more broadly.