Gay TV and straight America - Becker, Ron, 1969-; American Council of Learned Societies (New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2006)
Introduction: the importance of gay-themed tv -- Straight panic and American culture in the 1990s -- Thinking about gay people : civil righ ts and the confusion over sexual identity -- Network narrowcasting and the slumpy demographic -- The affordable, multicultural politics of gay chic -- Gay material and prime-time network television in the 1990s -- "We're not gay!" : heterosexuality and gay-themed programming -- Strai ght panic in the 2000s.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-270) and index.
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Keywords: Homosexuality on television; Homosexuality -- United States -- Public opinion; Public opinion -- United States