Gay TV and Straight America by Hollis Griffin

Gay TV and Straight America By Ron Becker (Rutgers University Press,2006), 283 pages.

"In the wake of the AIDS crisis, the tenuous successes of muticulturalist discourses, the laborious efforts of gay rights advocates, and the booming niche-orientated economy of the post-Fordist United States."

"Eve Sedgwick has used the idea of 'homosexual panic' to underscore the wildly indeterminate yet violently defended line of demarcation between homosociality and homosexuality in western society."

"Gay people and gay issues were rendered via affluent, whitewashed notions of 'progress' and queer sexual practises were obscured in favor of images of gay 'Normality'."

"Frequently gay couples appear for an episode or an narrative arc and then disappear, framed as things for the main, heterosexual characters to 'deal with'."

"Programs often narrate single gay people without ever showing them in relationships, sexual or otherwise."

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