Up from Invisibility
A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media''s stage. And yet even as the mass media have been shifting the terms of our public conversation toward a greater acknowledgment of d...
A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media''s stage. And yet even as the mass media have been shifting the terms of our public conversation toward a greater acknowledgment of d...
