Media Queered

The Editor: Kevin G. Barnhurst received his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam. He is Professor and Head of the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where he teaches media theory, political and visual studies, and qualitative research methods. He is an essayist who has written on the homoerotic images of Lewis Hine, as well as a social scientist who has studied queer representations on U.S. National Public Radio. He has served on the board of the Glaad Center for the Study of Media & Society and on campus diversity committees at Syracuse University and UIC.

Contents: Kevin G. Barnhurst: Visibility as Paradox: Representation and Simultaneous Contrast – John D’Emilio: Introduction. Progress and Representation – Edward Alwood: A Gift of Gab: How Independent Broadcasters Gave Gay Rights Pioneers a Chance to Be Heard – Bruce Henderson: The Man without a Face: Homosexuality, Homophobia, and Homoerasure – James Allan: And Baby Makes Three…: Gay Men, Straight Women, and the Parental Imperative in Film and Televison – Studs Terkel: Interlude A. The Brass Check and Thomas Paine – Deidre McCloskey: Introduction. Queer Markets – Katherine Sender: Professional Homosexuals: The Politics of Sexual Identification in Gay and Lesbian Media and Marketing – Vincent Doyle: Insiders - Outsiders: Dr. Laura and the Contest for Cultural Authority in LGBT Media Activism – Amit Kama: Israeli Gay Men’s Consumption of Lesbigay Media: «I’m Not Alone… in This Business» – Tracy Baim/Jason DeRose/Deborah Kadin/Ellen Meyers/Laura Kipnis: Interlude B. Commentaries and Reactions – Jaime Hovey: Introduction. Queer Change Agents – Gavin Jack: A Case of Whorephobia? – Marguerite Moritz: Say I Do: Gay Weddings in Mainstream Media – Lisa Henderson: Queer Visibility and Social Class – Todd Mundt: Interlude C. Talking Gay – Steve Jones: Introduction. Queer on Line – David J. Phillips: Privacy, Surveillance, or Visibility: New Information Environments in the Light of Queer Theory – Han N. Lee: Queering Race in Cyberspace – Larry Gross: Gideon, Who Will Be Twenty-five in the Year 2012: Growing Up Gay Today.