News and Sexuality: Media Portraits of Diversity [Hardcover]

News and Sexuality: Media Portraits of Diversity is a practical teaching tool that addresses complex and often controversial issues in an engaging and accessible manner for journalism students. Edited by Laura Casta?eda and Shannon B. Campbell, this volume contains original material written for this text that equips students with the general knowledge of sexual diversity needed by today's journalists. This comprehensive text includes the history of media coverage of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex issues and covers important contemporary topics in the news that range from cross-dressing to AIDS to same-sex marriage.

News and Sexuality: Media Portraits of Diversity is a practical teaching tool that addresses complex and often controversial issues in an engaging and accessible manner for journalism students. Edited by Laura Casta?eda and Shannon B. Campbell, this volume contains original material written for this text that equips students with the general knowledge of sexual diversity needed by today's journalists. This comprehensive text includes the history of media coverage of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex issues and covers important contemporary topics in the news that range from cross-dressing to AIDS to same-sex marriage.

A helpful text to supplement additonal resources on the topic.Preface
Chapter 1: A Tremendous Sensation: Cross-Dressing in the Nineteenth Century San Francisco Press - Clare Sears
Chapter 2: Life as a Drag Ball: Gay Men and Lesbians in the Media: 1920-1942 - Kevin Menken
Chapter 3: From Invisibility to Subversion: Lesbian and Gay Representation in the News Media During the 1950's - Marc J. W. de Jong
Chapter 4: The Oliver Sipple Story: A Case Study in Homophobia - Rodger Streitmatter
Chapter 5: Publications of a Dangerous Tendency - John Watson
Chapter 6: Framing the lµ