Gay TV and straight America
Drawing on political and cultural indicators to explain the sudden upsurge of gay material on prime-time network television in the 1990s, this book brings together analysis of relevant Supreme Court rulings, media coverage of gay rights battles, debates about multiculturalism, concerns over political correctness, and more
Print Book, English, ©2006
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., ©2006
x, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780813536880, 9780813536897, 081353688X, 0813536898
59279740
Introduction: the importance of gay-themed TV
Straight panic and American culture in the 1990s
Thinking about gay people : civil rights and the confusion over sexual identity
Network narrowcasting and the slumpy demographic
The affordable, multicultural politics of gay chic
Gay material and prime-time network television in the 1990s
"We're not gay!" : heterosexuality and gay-themed programming
Straight panic in the 2000s
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