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In Service of Camp or the Campiness of Service: \The Court\ as Queer Civic and Fraternal Organization
Whatever the cause, coincident with the overall decline of these groups has been the birth and noteworthy growth of the \"Court\" system in the LGBT communities. Since its founding as the Imperial Court in San Francisco by drag performer and activist Jose Sarria in 1965, the International Court System (ICS) has spread across the United States and to the rest of North America, and now exists as sixty-five chapters in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. [...]if socially inclusive groups truly are better at fostering the formation of nascent identities, it seems likely that chapters of The Court, which comprise men and women of varied ages, races and ethnicities, economic strata, and affectional orientations, clearly have a valuable role to play locally.
Journal Article
The Meaning is in the Messenger
Rather, such characters were subjects of spectacle and ostracism and never the moral equivalents of their straight counterparts. [...]when openly-gay writer Armistead Maupin launched his \"Tales of the City\" stories in the 1970s and 1980s, first in a San Francisco newspaper and later in a bestselling book series, the collection of personalities that comprised transwoman Anna Madrigal's apartment building on Barbary Lane was groundbreaking. [...]there is New Queer Cinema, the body of film critic B. Ruby Rich first described in 1992, that upended traditional Hollywood stereotypes of LGBTQ characters, allowing them to transgressively redefine not just sexuality and gender identity, but philosophies of love and life as well.
Journal Article
Locating Queerness in the Media
Locating Queerness in the Media: A New Look examines how media images of the LGBTQ community create a universal consciousness about the existence of queer people, ranging from tragic and villainous to upbeat and courageous.In this book, contributors explore how our media world invites a tension that marginalizes the LGBTQ community.
eBook
Queer identities, political realities
Queer Identities/Political Realities examines the intersection of political leadership, media coverage, and sexual identity with particular emphasis on the negotiation of meaning between public behavior and private behavior in the United States. Centering on cases that illuminate key issues, each chapter questions assumptions about media coverage and extends current theoretical understanding. Each chapter focuses on a specific case within the broader conceptual fabric of queer theory, media.
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Critical articulations of race, gender, and sexual orientation
Critical Articulations of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation engages scholarly essays, poems, and creative writings that examine the meanings of race, gender, and sexual orientation as interlocking systems of oppression. Each chapter in this volume critically, yet creatively, interrogates the notion of identity as socially constructed, yet interconnected and shaped by cultural associations, expanding on the idea that we as individuals live in an identity matrix—our self-concept, experiences, and interpretations originate or are developed from the culture in which we are embedded. The shaping of an individual’s identity, communication, and worldview can be read, shaped, and understood through life, art, popular culture, mass media, and cross-cultural interactions, among other things. The aptness of this work lies in its ability to provide a meaningful and creative space to analyze identity and identity politics, highlighting the complexities of identity formation in the twenty-first century.
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Pandora's Box in Cyberspace: The Online Alternative Fan Sites of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
HERCULES ON-LINE This more pro-social rendering of the Hercules legend is the one that fills not just the prime time television screen, but also video stores (in the form of a \"direct-to- video\" animated featured based on the Hercules and Xena characters), movie screens (thanks to a Disney studios ani- mated musical production), and daytime and weekend television aimed at children with the launches of both an animated Disney-produced se- ries based on the movie and a live-action series, Young Hercules.
Journal Article
Rupert Murdoch's empire was built on a shrewd understanding of how media and power work
[...]Fox would have to limit its hours of broadcast in order to avoid meeting the official definition of a network and in so doing break FCC rules that at the time stated that a single company could not be both a network and a syndicator of programs. [...]he would have to sell the New York Post, since another rule prohibited common ownership of a daily newspaper and television station in the same city. [...]News Corp. settled a lawsuit brought by the parents of the late Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer, after Fox News repeated right-wing conspiracy claims about the murdered man.
Newspaper Article
Ask & Tell: Gay & Lesbian Veterans Speak Out
At a time when many are questioning the ability of the US military to sustain a large troop force for a prolonged period in Iraq without draftees or less-qualified volunteers, Steve Estes's Ask & Tell is a reminder that top-quality men and women are not always at home in the service-at least not if the Pentagon thinks they are lesbian or gay. Readers who have seen the film documentary Before Stonewall and its interviews with lesbian and gay World War II vets will recognize the odd commingling of earnestness, sadness, and anger in their tones, even if the stories are new.
Book Review