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Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America
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Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America Hardback - 2002

by Larry Gross

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A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media's stage. And yet even as the mass media have been shifting the terms of our public conversation toward a greater acknowledgment of diversity, does the emerging "visibility" of gay men and women do justice to the complexity and variety of their experience? Or is gay identity manipulated and contrived by media that are unwilling--and perhaps unable--to fully comprehend and honor it?

While positive representations of gays and lesbians are a cautious step in the right direction, media expert Larry Gross argues that the entertainment and news media betray a lingering inability to break free from proscribed limitations in order to embrace the complex reality of gay identity. While noting major advances, like the opening of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookstore--the first gay bookstore in the country--or the rise of The Advocate from small newsletter to influential national paper, Gross takes the measure of somewhat more ambiguous milestones, like the first lesbian kiss on television or the first gay character in a newspaper comic strip.

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  • Title Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America
  • Author Larry Gross
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press
  • Publication date 2002-02
  • ISBN 9780231119528 / 0231119526
  • Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.36 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.77 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
  • Reading level 1510
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Lesbian
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Mass media and gays - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001042140
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.906

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 02/01/2002, Page 110
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/10/2001, Page 0
  • PW Notes and Reprints, 12/10/2001, Page 67

About the author

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.
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