The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics

Larry P. Gross, James D. Woods

Columbia University Press, 1999 - Gay men - 665 pages

Here at last is a comprehensive and highly approachable introduction to lesbian and gay studies for students and general readers. More than one hundred articles, essays, and primary documents cover the formation of gay identity, religious, scientific, medical, and legal perspectives, the mainstream media, lesbian and gay media, and community prospects and tactics. From Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's essay, "How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay," to Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's "Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons," to a 1947 Newsweek article, "Homosexuals in Uniform," The Columbia Reader explores experiences and representations of lesbian and gay people in an engaging and accessible format.

The Columbia Reader features:

- concise introductions to each section, as well as a substantial general introduction

- viewpoints--ranging from radical to conservative--of lesbian and gay scholars and community writers, as well as nongay intellectuals and public figures

- essays, articles, and primary documents from both mainstream and lesbian/gay sources

- detailed exploration of mainstream media representations of gays and lesbians in films, television, and print as well as the rise of lesbian/gay media outlets

- broad coverage of history and identity, social, cultural, legal, medical, and religious regulation, AIDS, and lesbian and gay political agendas and strategies

- current topics, such as the recent development of a cybercommunity, as well as questions of censorship and pornography, same-sex marriage, the ethics of "outing," gay and lesbian activism, and the conservative backlash

Grounded in key social and political topics rather than wholly theoretical approaches, The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics will be a valuable resource for years to come.

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Contents

• Being Gay in American Media and Society: 3
• A Other Times Other Customs: 25
• A Matter of Difference: 31
• Capitalism and Gay Identity: 48
• The Homosexual in America: 53
• The Early Sexologists and Love Between Women: 56
• The Bowery as Haven and Spectacle: 67
• B Whos a Queer? Identities in Question: 75
• An Essay in Response to John Stoltenbergs Refus: 77
• Identity Work and the Performance of Sexuality: 81
• Doing It Together: 92
• Bisexuals in the Queer Movement: 105
• To Be or Not to: 112
• Religion and the Church: 119
• The Spanish Campaign Against Sodomy and Its Results: 125
• Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care: 135
• Coming to Terms with Leviticus: 147
• The Medical and Psychological Establishment: 153
• Homosexuals in Uniform: 163
• The PsychologistDr Evelyn Hooker: 169
• Should Homosexuality: 175
• The Etiology Debate: 185
• Sexology and Homosexuality: 191
• The: 201
• Studying the Biology of Sexual Orientation Has Political Fallout: 207
• Government and the Legal System: 219
• Education and Culture: 235
• Parting Notes on a Friend: 251
• Notes on Homophobia: 270
• Gay Teachers Make Their Lives Whole Again: 285
• Film and Television: 291
• Stereotyping: 297
• Where Is the Life That Late He Led? Hollywoods Construction of Sexuality: 306
• How American Television Is Creating and Treating: 316
• Culture Stays ScreenShy of Showing the Gay Kiss: 327
• More Than Friends: 335
• Lesbian Filmmaking in the 1980s and 1990s: 341
• B Fit to Print? Journalism: 349
• Perverts Called Government Peril: 355
• U S Homosexuals Gain in Trying to Persuade Society: 361
• The Lesbian Issue and Womens: 367
• Out at the New York Times: 376
• AIDS and the Media: 387
• The Response of the Press to AIDS: 393
• The Second Wave: 402
• A Test of Who We Are As a People: 408
• Outing: 417
• How I Brought Out Malcom Forbes and the Media Flinched: 429
• The Lesbian and Gay Press: 437
• News Hound Jim Kepner: 446
• Representation Liberation and the Queer Press: 460
• Pornography: 475
• Pornography and Its Means of Production: 497
• My Mother Liked to Fuck: 505
• The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn: 517
• Queers in Cyberspace: 527
• Were Teen Were Queer and Weve Got Email: 537
• A Queer Positions and Perspectives: 545
• Aspects of Homosexual SelfOppression: 551
• The WomanIdentified Woman: 562
• An Act of Resistance: 565
• Chasing the Crossover Audience and Other SelfDefeating Strategies: 583
• Midge Decter: 601
• In Gods Country: 616
• The Naked Truth: 627
• A Conservative Case for Gay Marriage: 631
• Candace Chellew: 643
• In an Afternoon Light: 658

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 and editor of Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film and Television, and On the Margins of Art Worlds.James D. Woods was assistant professor of communications at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, and author of The Corporate Closet: The Professional Lives of Gay Men in America.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics; Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies; Between men--between women
• Editors: Larry P. Gross, James D. Woods
• Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0231104472, 9780231104470
• Length: 665 pages