Queer in America: Sex, the Media, and the Closets of PowerIn this tenth-anniversary edition, journalist Michelangelo Signorile updates his classic Queer in America, the bestseller that exposed the hypocrisy and prejudice that pervade mainstream American institutions. This third edition includes a new preface and a new chapter with an eye-opening critique of present-day America and its attitude toward gays and lesbians. |
Contents
Lights Camera ACT UP | 3 |
A Queers Own Story | 18 |
Hype Anxiety | 36 |
Out of the Closets and into the Streets | 53 |
Outing Part I | 69 |
QUEER IN WASHINGTON | 95 |
Operation OutthePentagon | 97 |
Inning the Outing | 123 |
Smashing the Celluloid Closet | 250 |
Outing Part III | 286 |
The Resurrection of Sheila Kuehl | 321 |
QUEER IN AMERICA | 329 |
The Oregon Nightmare | 331 |
The Silicon Solution | 342 |
A Queer Manifesto | 363 |
Acknowledgments | 369 |
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