News & Sexuality

The Accrediting Council of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC) has added sexual orientation to its revised diversity standards. This volume is designed to satisfy the requirement by the ACEJMC that all journalism departments teach sexual diversity. It includes the history of media coverage of gay, lesbian, bisexual issues.

Preface Chapter 1: A Tremendous Sensation: Cross-Dressing in the Nineteenth Century San Francisco Press - Clare Sears Chapter 2: Life as a Drag Ball: Gay Men and Lesbians in the Media: 1920-1942 - Kevin Menken Chapter 3: From Invisibility to Subversion: Lesbian and Gay Representation in the News Media During the 1950's - Marc J. W. de Jong Chapter 4: The Oliver Sipple Story: A Case Study in Homophobia - Rodger Streitmatter Chapter 5: Publications of a Dangerous Tendency - John Watson Chapter 6: Framing the AIDS Epidemic: From "Homo" genous Deviance to Widespread Panic - Jamel Bell Chapter 7: Transgender Images in the Media - Willow Arune Chapter 8: The "Moral" Right vs. the "Queer" Left: Claims-Making by Religious Conservative and Gay Activists at the 1992 Republican Convention and Beyond - Thomas M. Conroy Chapter 9: Small Murders: Rethinking News Coverage of Hate Crimes Against GLBT People - Kim Pearson Chapter 10: Media Coverage of the U.S. Ban on Gays in the Military - Rhonda Gibson Chapter 11: Same-Sex Marriage in Cultural and Historical Context: A Guide for Beginning Journalists - Sine Anahita Chapter 12: Proving the Case: Psychology, Subjectivity, and Representations of Gay and Lesbian Parents in the Media - Damien W. Riggs Chapter 13: From Zero to 24/7: Images of Sexual Minorities on Television - Rhonda Gibson NLGJA Stylebook / Glossary Index About the Authors