Making out in the mainstream : GLAAD and the politics of respectability / Vincent Doyle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doyle, Vincent A., 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and gay people.

Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

Gay rights--Press coverage.

Gay rights.

Gay liberation movement--Press coverage.

Gay liberation movement.

Gay people in mass media.

Gay people in popular culture.

Sexual minorities in mass media.

Gay activists.

Press coverage.

LGBTQ+ people.

Physical Description:

pages cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Making Out in the Mainstream is the first full-length study of LGRT media activism, revealing the daily struggle to reconcile economic and professional pressures with conflicting personal, organizational, and political priorities. Documenting the rise and evolution of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), Vincent Doyle presents a nuanced perspective on the complexity, contradictions, and ambivalences of advancing social causes through popular media. Based on eighteen months of participant observation, in-depth interviews, and archival research carried out at GLAAD's New York and Los Angeles offices from 2000 to 2001, Making Out in the Mainstream analyzes the GLAAD Media Awards and the organization's responses to contsoversial public figures such as Dr Laura Schlessinger and Eminem, and programs including Queer as Folk. Doyle argues that earlier dinning out strategies, intended to dismantle closeted life and create a mass movement, have been supplanted by the market-oriented "making out." which privileges respectable images of homosexuality in the pursuit of political and economic gain. He shows how this emphasis on respectability clashes with the development of a diverse movement that campaigns for greater inclusion and he offers a sophisticated, appeal for more complicated understandings of assimilation and anti-normalization. Painting a complex portrait of a prominent gay and lesbian organization during a period of rapid social change, Making Out in the Mainstream reveals not only the limitations of "mainstreaming." but also its political possibilities. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Rags to Riches: GLAAD'S Rise to the National Stage 30

2 "We Want In": The Politics of Access and Inclusion 77

3 Insiders - Outsiders: The Dr Laura Campaign 124

4 Sex, Race, and Representation 176.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Doyle, Vincent A., 1970-, author. Making out in the mainstream.

ISBN:

9780773546783

0773546782

OCLC:

920018210