6/20/2023 0 Comments Herald of shalia 4![]() ![]() He argues that the growing visibility of gay material both reflected and deepened Straight America's anxieties about social fragmentation and the politics of sexuality. In Gay TV and Straight America, Ron Becker draws on a wide range of political and cultural indicators to explain this sudden upsurge of gay material on prime-time network television. Sitcoms like Friends, Seinfeld, Ellen, and Will & Grace, and dramas like Party of Five, Beverly Hills 90210, Homicide: Life on the Street, and The Commish added numerous gay and lesbian characters, aired special gay-themed episodes, and included references to homosexuality nearly every week. ![]() ![]() Gay TV and Straight America is a rare find." -Sasha Torres, author of Black, White and In Color: Television and Black Civil Rights After years of relative silence on the subject of homosexuality, television in the 1990s saw a striking increase in gay material. an example of the best kind of television scholarship. "A highly engaging and impeccably researched study of the cultural anxieties produced in the destabilization of straight and gay identity." -Michael DeAngelis, DePaul University "Original and compelling. ![]()
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