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Straight News: Gays, Lesbians, and the News Media » (1st Edition)
Authors: Edward Alwood
ISBN-13: 9780231084376, ISBN-10: 0231084374
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: March 1998
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Edward Alwood
Edward Alwood, a former CNN correspondent, writes for a variety of publications, including The Christian Science Monitor.
Book Synopsis
How far have the American media come in providing fair, responsible coverage of lesbian and gay issues? Former CNN reporter Edward Alwood presents an insider's view of the changing fortunes of lesbian and gays in American print and broadcast media.
New York Times Book Review
Alwood examines how the relationship between gay men, lesbians and the American news media has evolved since World War II. Mr. Alwood´s useful history follows a trail of derision and dismissal . . . Straight News is an important book.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. I | The News Media Discover Homosexuality: World War II to Stonewall, 1943-1969 | 17 |
| 1 | A Community Discovers Itself | 19 |
| 2 | Out of the Shadows | 37 |
| 3 | Becoming Front-Page News | 56 |
| 4 | Covering Stonewall | 80 |
| Pt. 2 | Progress and Backlash, 1970-1980 | 99 |
| 5 | Gay News, Straight Media | 101 |
| 6 | Becoming Visible | 118 |
| 7 | TV Becomes a Battleground | 138 |
| 8 | Working in Newspapers | 156 |
| 9 | Gay Power, Gay Politics | 181 |
| 10 | Lessons from the Ramrod | 197 |
| Pt. 3 | Requiem for the Media, 1981-1994 | 209 |
| 11 | Responding to AIDS | 211 |
| 12 | THe Experience of AIDS | 239 |
| 13 | The Consequences of Outing | 265 |
| 14 | The '90s and Beyond | 286 |
| Epilogue | 315 | |
| Notes | 329 | |
| Index | 369 |
Subjects
Gay & Lesbian
General & Miscellaneous Mass media and gays
Social Sciences Gay & Lesbian Studies General & Miscellaneous Gay & Lesbian Studies
General & Miscellaneous Mass media and gaysSocial Sciences
Gay & Lesbian Studies General & Miscellaneous Gay & Lesbian Studies