Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics
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...
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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". Gregory Herek A source book destined to be widely cited by activists and academics alike. . . . a lively and unique anthology of articles analyzing, illustrating, and challenging the sexual prejudice that pervades American society. Students of mass media and those simply trying to understand Ellen´s coming out episode in historical context will find it tremendously useful.
PrefaceIntroduction: Being Gay in American Media and Society31A Matter of Difference312"Intimate Friendships"333Categories, Experience, and Sexuality364Capitalism and Gay Identity485A Worm in the Bud: The Early Sexologists and Love Between Women566The Bowery as Haven and Spectacle677Making Ourselves from Scratch798Becoming Lesbian: Identity Work and the Performance of Sexuality819Gay Men, Lesbians, and Sex: Doing It Together9210Maiden Voyage: Excursion Into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America9611Strangers at Home: Bisexuals in the Queer Movement10512Just Add Water: Searching for the Bisexual Politic10813To Be or Not to Be11214The Abominable Sin: The Spanish Campaign Against "Sodomy," and Its Results in Modern Latin America12515Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons13516Homophobic? Re-Read Your Bible13817Biblical Verse: Is It a Reason or an Excuse?14018The Homosexual Movement: A Response by the Ramsey Colloquium14119In God's Image: Coming to Terms with Leviticus14720The Product Conversion - From Heresy to Illness15721Homosexuals in Uniform Newsweek16322I Was Raising a Homosexual Child16423The Psychologist - Dr. Evelyn Hooker16924A Symposium: Should Homosexuality Be in the APA Nomenclature?17525If Freud Had Been a Neurotic Colored Woman: Reading Dr. Frances Cress Welsing18026Boys Will Be Girls: Sexology and Homosexuality19127How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay: The War on Effeminate Boys20128Studying the Biology of Sexual Orientation Has Political Fallout20729Are Gay Men Born That Way?21130Crime Story22331Public Policy and Private Prejudice: Psychology and Law on Gay Rights22532Crimes of Lesbian Sex22833Who Hid Lesbian History?24134Stolen Goods24535Remembering Lenny: Parting Notes on a Friend Who Never Quite Came Out25136Willa Cather25337Closets in the Museum: Homophobia and Art History25638Imagine a Lesbian, a Black Lesbian26239Too Queer for College: Notes on Homophobia27040The Gay and Lesbian Publishing Boom27341A Lesson in Tolerance27842Gay Teachers Make Their Lives Whole Again28543Pop Tune Can Comfort Teens Unsure of Their Sexuality28644Stereotyping29745Lesbians and Film: Some Thoughts30146Where Is the Life That Late He Led? Hollywood's Construction of Sexuality in the Life of Cole Porter30647Old Strategies for New Texts: How American Television Is Creating and Treating Lesbian Characters31648Culture Stays Screen-Shy of Showing the Gay Kiss32749Do Ask, Do Tell: Freak Talk on TV32950More Than Friends33551Anything But Idyllic: Lesbian Filmmaking in the 1980s and 1990s34152Perverts Called Government Peril New York Times35453The Homosexual in America Time35554A Rebuke for TIME's Permicious Prejudice35855A Minority's Plea: U.S. Homosexuals Gain in Trying to Persuade Society to Accept Them36056Homo Nest Raided! Queen Bees Are Stinging Mad36357The "Gay" People Demand Their Rights36558The Lesbian Issue and Women's Lib36659Uptight on Gay News: Can the Straight Press Get the Gay Story Straight?36860Out at the New York Times37561Illness and Deviance: The Response of the Press to AIDS39362The Second Wave40263A Test of Who We Are As a People40864More to the Shilts Story41065Big Science: What Ever Happened to Safer Sex?41266Contested Closets: The Politics and Ethics of Outing42167How I Brought Out Malcom Forbes and the Media Flinched42968Why Outing Must Stop43169The Inning of Outing43370"Gay Gal" - Lisa Ben44371"News Hound" - Jim Kepner44672The Advocate: Setting the Standard for the Gay Liberation Press45073Representation, Liberation, and the Queer Press46074Flaunting It! A Decade of Gay Journalism from The Body Politic46175I Want My Gay TV46676Coming to Terms: Gay Pornography47977Gender, Fucking, and Utopia: An Essay in Response to John Stoltenberg's Refusing to Be a Man48678Free Speech or Hate Speech: Pornography and Its Means of Production49779My History with Censorship50280My Mother Liked to Fuck50581Lesbian Pornography: Cultural Transgression and Sexual Demystification50682Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn51783Notes on Queer 'N Asian Virtual Sex53184We're Teen, We're Queer, and We've Got E-mail53785Logging On, Coming Out54086With Downcast Gays: Aspects of Homosexual Self-Oppression55187The Woman-Identified Woman56288Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance56589I Paid Very Hard for My Immigrant Ignorance57190Our Right to the World: Beyond the Right to Privacy57591Chasing the Crossover Audience and Other Self-Defeating Strategies58392Queers Read This: I Hate Straights58893The Boys on the Beach60194Straight Talk About Gays61195In God's Country61696Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage63197Why Gay People Should Seek the Right to Marry63398Since When Is Marriage a Path to Liberation?63799Homocons640100The Naked Truth643101Out of Asia644102Backlash?647103Blacks and Gays: Healing the Great Divide649104Why I'm Not a Revolutionary655105In an Afternoon Light658Credits661
\ Carol LeMastersA unique and lively anthology.\ \ \ \ \ Esther NewtonThe most up-to-date, media-savvy conception of how to organize and teach an introductory course on lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies to undergraduates. I can´t wait to use it.\ \ \ Gregory HerekA source book destined to be widely cited by activists and academics alike. . . . a lively and unique anthology of articles analyzing, illustrating, and challenging the sexual prejudice that pervades American society. Students of mass media and those simply trying to understand Ellen´s coming out episode in historical context will find it tremendously useful.\ \ \ \ \ Leroy AaronsA lively, irreverent one-stop-shopping reader on lesbian and gay male sensibility. Its impact is cumulative and subtly subversive: these are protean journalists, authors and activists giving voice to the depth and variety of gay experiencea voice that will no longer tolerate being squelched.\ \ \ \ \ Margaret CruikshankCasts a much wider net than previous anthologies. It is unique in its combination of historical documents and current work. A major contribution to lesbian and gay studies.\ \ \ \ \ Publishers WeeklyGross, a University of Pennsylvania media professor, and the late Woods, a CUNY-Staten Island professor of media studies, have compiled a formidable and mostly somber collection of book excerpts and articles that address many aspects of gay life. Even though all of these articles have appeared elsewhere, it is useful to have them united in the present book. Topics addressed include religion, medicine, politics (conservative and liberal), education, media, same-sex marriage, AIDS and gay minorities. The writers range from outspoken outing advocate Michelangelo Signorile to Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, who reaffirms Catholic doctrine on homosexuality. In a book as vast as this, the quality of writing is bound to be spotty. There are some boilerplate exercises, such as John D'Emilio's Marxist positing that "two aspects of capitalism--wage labor and commodity production--created the social conditions that made possible the emergence of a distinctive gay and lesbian identity." The best contributions are those that break free of simplistic ideological categories. Flora Rheta Schreiber's moving "I Was Raising a Homosexual Child" and David Ehrenstein's "More than Friends" combine good thinking with understanding. (Mar.)\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsThis reader compiles articles that address legal issues, religion, AIDS, and education, with much attention to mass media as it reflects and shapes the images of lesbians and gay men. After the introduction, the book is divided into five parts (each section opening with a short essay by the editors) dealing with identity, institutions and opinion makers, mainstream and gay and lesbian media, and community prospects. There is no index, but credits are listed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)\ \
