Neda Ulaby looks at the current landspe of gay characters on televisn, om the hight brows of Downton Abbey to the surprisgly welg world of realy shows.
Contents:
- WHEN GAY JOURNALISTS WERE CLOSETED: A HISTORY OF AIDS COVERAGE AT 'THE TIM'
- HIGHLIGHT THE ONGOG RELATNSHIP BETWEEN ABC'S GAY JOURNALIST DAVID MUIR & G BENEZ
- WHO'S GAY ON TV? DADS, JOURNALISTS, INVTIGATORS AND FOOTMEN
WHEN GAY JOURNALISTS WERE CLOSETED: A HISTORY OF AIDS COVERAGE AT 'THE TIM'
Highlight the ongog relatnship between ABC's gay journalist David Muir & G Benez. The uple was mored to be together but as per the sourc, G is already Married. Also, fd out about their personal and profsnal tails the very news. * gay journalists *
Frank BniColumnist, The New York Tim@FrankBniFormerly the chief rtrant cric for The New York Tim, Bni ma history 2011 by beg the Grey Lady's first out gay lumnist. The Emerson College assistant profsor is also a producer of the upg film Michael, based on his Tim Magaze piece about his "ex-gay" iend. Kate FaganWrer, ESPN@KateFagan3ESPN ntributor and lumnist Kate Fagan wr about basketball (and genr and sexism and homophobia) om a place of knowledge and ep, personal appreciatn.
Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer televisn newssters have a proment profile many untri around the world. Amerin Charl Perez of ABC News is one to particularly note - he published his book 'Confsns of a Gay News Anchorman' (2011) after his oral of beg fired om a posn Florida when he was intified as beg gay. For example, France, there is L'associatn s journalist LGBT, and Ameri there is the Natnal Lbian & Gay Journalists Associatn.
HIGHLIGHT THE ONGOG RELATNSHIP BETWEEN ABC'S GAY JOURNALIST DAVID MUIR & G BENEZ
@AnrsonCooperCNN's Anrson Cooper beme the first out gay man ever to host a printial bate bee Amerins tst him. Roxane Gay — Author, and Contributg Op-ed Wrer, The New York Tim.
@rgayA ntributg edor at Blutem Prs and the founr of Ty Hardre Prs, Gay is a renowned profsor and mentator and New York Tim ntributor wh several fictn and nonfictn books to her name. @Locs_n_LghsGranrson is equally astute at polics and sports, and he's perhaps the most proment openly gay sports journalist the U. When Gay Journalists Were Closeted: A History of AIDS Coverage at 'The Tim'.
Now an enthiastic proponent of gay marriage, The Tim was then a place where gay reporters feared beg exiled to obscure beats and watchg their reers wher.
WHO'S GAY ON TV? DADS, JOURNALISTS, INVTIGATORS AND FOOTMEN
Produced as an oral history of dozens of Schmalz’s lleagu and iends, the book and an acpanyg rad documentary foc on how journalism rpond to the AIDS crisis the 1980s and early ’90s, when many gay and lbian journalists felt tremendo profsnal prsure to rema closeted, and discrimatn agast them was wispread. It also reunts the moment AIDS beme a full-fledged health crisis, breakg out of the gay and IV-dg muni to the larger populatn. “Jeff’s reportg played a real role startg to turn opn, certaly wh The Tim, but also wh the broar public, om fear, spicn, fger-potg and blamg gays, to empathy and acceptance, ” said Freedman.
“Abe Rosenthal hired me and promoted me, and I owe him a lot, but dog this rearch I beme very aware of his antipathy toward gay staffers at The Tim, ” said Freedman.
“And also beme apparent that, a ls visible way, Punch Sulzberger also had a bld spot about gays. By then, the paper had a new edor and publisher and, Freedman said, was more acceptg of s gay and lbian employe. Over the next 15 months, Schmalz ptured the many fac of AIDS, gay and straight, some three dozen articl.