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

Larry Gross

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Paper, 320 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11953-5
$27.50 / £19.00

December, 2001
Cloth, 320 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11952-8
$85.00 / £58.50

"This scholarly study is engaging and readable." — Library Journal

"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

"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, Journal of Mass Communication QuarterlyAmerican University

"This book makes the best case yet to illustrate how intrinsically the mass media and the gay and lesbian civil rights movement are intertwined—and no one can do that with the eloquence and credibility of Larry Gross. The insight he offers about media and our growing visibility within it solidifies his place as a thought leader in the academy, the media, and in our civil rights movement." — Joan M. Garry, Executive Director, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)

"In Up from Invisibility Larry Gross provides both an empirical overview and an acute analysis of lesbians and gay men in the media. He looks at the ways we have been represented and at how we have intervened in production, and is enviably at home with all forms of media. As one has come to expect of the author, it is a wonderful combination of historical breadth, sociological rigor, artistic responsiveness, political passion, nuance, humor, and good sense." — Richard Dyer, University of Warwick

Related Subjects

• Gay and Lesbian Studies

Series

• Between Men~Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies

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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