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Contents:
- “THE WHOLE WORLD’S GONE GAY!”: GAY INTY, QUEER CULTURE, AND THE SIMPSONS
- NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS HOMER
- GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS HOMER
- HOMER GAY FOUND 28 PEOPLE ILLOIS, TEXAS AND 18 OTHER STAT
“THE WHOLE WORLD’S GONE GAY!”: GAY INTY, QUEER CULTURE, AND THE SIMPSONS
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NotLarry Gross, Up om Invisibily: Lbians, Gay Men, and the Media Ameri (New York: Columbia Universy Prs, 2001), 16. For more on news media, see Edward Alwood, Straight News: Gays, Lbians and the News Media (New York: Columbia Universy Prs, 1996). Benshoff and Sean Griff, eds., Queer Imag: A History of Gay and Lbian Film Ameri (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Ltlefield, 2006).
Ron Becker, Gay TV and Straight Ameri (New Bnswick, NJ: Rutgers Universy Prs, 2006), 3.
NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
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The Simpsons, as I argue this chapter, also ntributed signifintly to the reprentatn of gay inty on televisn durg the 1990s and beyond. Jefey Esffier, Amerin Homo: Communy and Perversy (Berkeley: Universy of California Prs, 1998).
On niche marketg, see Alexandra Chas, Sellg Out: The Gay and Lbian Movement Go to Market (New York: Palgrave Maclan, 2000). Tera Lretis is creded wh g the term queer theory a special issue of the femist journal differenc that she eded; see “Queer Theory: Lbian and Gay Sexuali, ” differenc 3, no.
The provenance of the term is not as important, however, as the dramatic shifts created wh the amy by queer theory, which offered a more tensified foc on issu of sex, genr, and sexualy than had been evint both femist and gay and lbian studi up to that pot. For a brief (and unsympathetic) history of the stutnalizatn of queer theory, see David Halper, “The Normalizatn of Queer Theory, ” Journal of Homosexualy 45, nos.
EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS HOMER
Karen Kopelson, “Dis/Integratg the Gay/Queer Bary: ‘Renstcted Inty Polics’ for a Performative Pedagogy, ” College English 65, no. Pneerg texts clu Vo Rso, The Celluloid Closet: Homosexualy the Movi, rev. Three texts that have been particularly eful for their foc on televisn and mass media and have th rmed much of what follows this chapter are Suzanna Danuta Walters, All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibily Ameri (Chigo: Universy of Chigo Prs, 2001); Gross, Up om Invisibily; and Becker, Gay TV.
Other eful llectns clu Alexanr Doty and Corey Creekmur, eds., Out Culture: Gay, Lbian, and Queer Essays on Popular Culture (Durham, NC: De Universy Prs, 1995). Martha Gever, John Greyson, and Pratibha Parmar, eds., Queer Looks: Perspectiv on Lbian and Gay Film and Vio (New York: Routledge, 1993). For a more tailed discsn of the shows, see Steven Capsuto, Alternate Channels: The Uncensored Story of Gay and Lbian Imag on Rad and Televisn, 1930s to the Prent (New York: Ballante, 2000), 106–18.
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Clifton, “The Future of Gay Ameri, ” Newsweek, March 12, 1990, 21, 25.
Andrew Kopkd, “The Gay Moment, ” Natn, May 3, 1993, 577. Js Cagle, “Ameri Se Shas of Gay, ” Entertament Weekly, September 8, 1995, 20. Fred Fej, “Invisibily, Homophobia, and Heterosexism, ” Cril Studi Mass Communitns 10, no.
Dow provis a eful overview of the rise and mise of the show “Ellen, Televisn, and the Polics of Gay and Lbian Visibily, ” Cril Studi Media Communitn 18, no.
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Didi Herman, “‘I’m Gay’: Declaratns, Dire, and Comg Out on Prime-Time Televisn, ” Sexuali 8, no.