Up from Invisibility

Larry Gross is Sol Worth Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Contested Closets: The Politics and Ethics of Outing, editor of Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film, and Television and On the Margins of Art Worlds, and coeditor (with the late James Woods) of The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics.

• Preface: Up from Invisibility Sources 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 Grey 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've Ever Told 13: Old Stories and New Technologies The Good Parts 14: A Niche of Our Own Movement to Market Are We Being Served? 15: Facing the Future Visibility and Its Discontents Looking Backward Somewhere There's a Place for Us

A readable account of the gradual emergence of a gay-lesbian presence in news, entertainment, and advertising over the last fifty years. -- James Boylan Columbia Journalism Review This scholarly study is engaging and readable. Library Journal Not only adds to our understanding of the culture but also encompasses material from an impressive number of venues that should be, but often are not, included in a book about the media. -- Roger Streitmatter, American University Journal of Mass Communication Quarterly