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A Language of (In)Visibility:
Latina and Latino LGBT Images in Spanish-Language Television and Print Media
By Horacio N. Roque Ramírez
In the first study to analyze coverage of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, groups and events in Spanish-language news media, Horacio N. Roque Ramírez provides quantitative and qualitative analysis of Univision's Channel 34 and the daily newspaper La Opinión. In addition, Ramírez offers a cultural studies analysis of the ways in which heteronormativity is typically implicated in news reports, and he provides recommendations that media professionals might consider in giving full consideration to more diverse LGBT representations. Some of the topics addressed in the report include: transgender representation in the special TV news report Varones en Tacones; use of recurring images from the film Frida during news broadcasts; and heterocentrist humor and the ways in which it operated in news broadcasts to preserve male masculinity. The report covers La Opinión for February 2002-February 2003 and Channel 34 for September 2002 through February 2003.
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The September 2002 Campaign To Repeal The Miami-Dade Human Rights Ordinance
By Fred Fejes
On September 10, 2002 voters in Miami-Dade County, Florida voted by a margin of 53-47% to retain the county's Human Rights Ordinance, which includes a ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation. The closeness and distribution of the vote reflected the highly complex nature of Miami-Dade and its politics. Fifty-seven percent of its population is Latina/o, 20% black (both African-American and Caribbean) and 20% Anglo. Fifty percent of the population is foreign born and a language other than English is used in 67% of households. In the study, Fred Fejes specifically examines how race, ethnicity and sexual orientation affected the media environment of the 2002 referendum campaign. In turn, Fejes analyzes the reasons for the voter outcome of the ballot measure and offers hands-on methods that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media activists, policy researchers and scholars may use as a reference as a result of this campaign.
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An Analysis of Ex-Gays and Reparative Therapy in the News
By Raquel Bournhonesque and Liana Winett
In "An Analysis of Ex-Gays and Reparative Therapy in the News," Raquel Bournhonesque and Liana Winett provide a systematic assessment of the ways that reparative therapy has been covered in national print news during the past 16 years. Unlike traditional content analyses that only include basic counts, the study assesses the dominant arguments that typically shape coverage of reparative therapy. In doing so, the study provides the following information: the newspapers that gave the most coverage to this issue on a per-year basis, the most likely placement of stories (editorial page, letters to the editor, feature articles, etc.) within the papers, and information on the types of sources cited in constructing arguments.
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When in Rome: Homophobia, Heterosexism, and Sports Talk Radio
By David Nylund
"When In Rome" represents the first critical research conducted on sports talk radio. In the study David Nylund examines the construction of traditional masculinity in the most popular sports talk radio program: The Jim Rome Show. Topics covered in the paper include: What are the textual themes on The Jim Rome Show? How do these themes reinforce homophobia and heterosexism? Does the program simply provide a homosocial space for straight men that excludes and tramples on lesbians, gays, people of color and women? Or is there potential opportunity in the forum of sports talk radio to substantively discuss issues of racism, sexism and heterosexism?
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Research Initiative on Will & Grace
By Van Cagle
The major purpose of the Will & Grace project was (and is) to further establish a broader academic presence in the area of LGBT-oriented television studies while also providing activists with pertinent scholarly insights into interrelated issues regarding visibility, representation and contemporary television.
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