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

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

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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