Queer Words, Queer Images: Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Logic of Folly in the Political Campaigns of Harvey Milk -- 2. On the Owning of Words: Reflections on San Francisco Arts and Athletics vs. United States Olympic Committee -- 3. Die Non: Gay Liberation and the Rhetoric of Pure Tolerance -- 4. Reflections on Gay and Lesbian Rhetoric -- 5. Guilt by Association: Homosexuality and AIDS on Prime-Time Television -- 6. Whose Desire? Lesbian (Non)Sexuality and Television's Perpetuation of Hetero/Sexism -- 7. Old Strategies for New Texts: How American Television Is Creating and Treating Lesbian Characters -- 8. What Is Wrong with This Picture? Lesbian Women and Gay Men on Television -- 9. A Portrait of the Adolescent as a Young Gay: The Politics of Male Homosexuality in Young Adult Fiction -- 10. Self as Other: The Politics of Identity in the Works of Edmund White -- 11. Female Athlete = Lesbian: A Myth Constructed from Gendex Role Expectations and Lesbiphobia -- 12. The Politics of Self and Other -- 13. Self-Disclosure Behaviors of the Stigmatized: Strategies and Outcomes for the Revelation of Sexual Orientation -- 14. Gender and Relationship Crises: Contrasting Reasons, Responses, and Relational Orientations -- 15. Gay and Lesbian Couple Relationships -- 16. Reflections on Interpersonal Communication in Gay and Lesbian Relationships -- 17. Performing the (Lesbian) Self: Teacher as Text -- 18. Coming Out to Students: Notes from the College Classroom -- 19. Coming Out in the Classroom: Faculty Disclosures of Sexuality -- 20. Ways of Coming Out in the Classroom -- Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index