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  title info:
    title: Queer in America
    sub title: sex, the media, and the closets of power
  name:
    name part: Signorile, Michelangelo
    name part: 1960-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1993
    copyright date: 1993
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 378 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: What's it like to be queer in America? Ask Michelangelo Signorile. Called a "sissy" and a "faggot" while growing up in the working-class Italian-Catholic neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Staten Island, he is one of the new breed of lesbians and gay men who decided to bash back. Signorile's signature upper-case invective expressed the anger of a generation in his columns in OutWeek magazine. Queer in America is his story - and the story of a new gay generation that is taking on the American institution known as the "closet." Signorile first came to the media's attention in March 1990, when Time magazine coined the term outing - revealing the homosexuality of public figures. Queer in America is about the enormous controversy that ensued when Signorile reported on the life of deceased multi-millionaire Malcolm Forbes. It is about how, as the author sees it, the media has covered up, and continues to cover up, the truth about lesbian and gay public figures. It is about what Signorile contends is an unconscious conspiracy to keep all homosexuals locked in the closet. Here too is the story behind the expose Signorile wrote for The Advocate in 1991 in which he revealed that then-Assistant Secretary of Defense Pete Williams is gay. The story was the Fort Sumter of the gays-in-the-military debate: It drew the battle lines, defining the issue from then on as one of governmental hypocrisy. The story also forever changed the way outing was viewed by straights and gays alike. But Queer in America is not so much about outing as it is about the closet - the men and women who are forced into it and those who are forced out of it, those who hide within it and those who escape from its destructive clutches. Here are the actors, the casting agents, the studio moguls, the legislators, the editors, the columnists, the government officials, the lobbyists, the congressional staffers, and their painful, often anger-provoking, and occasionally triumphant stories. Through hundreds of interviews…
  table of contents: I: Queer in New York -- Lights, camera, act up -- A queer's own story -- Hype anxiety -- Out of the closets and into the streets -- Outing, part I -- II: Queer in Washington -- Operation out-the-pentagon -- Inning the outing -- Outing, part II -- All the presidents' queer -- III: Queer in Hollywood -- The crucifixion of Zelda Gilroy -- From McCarthy to Medved -- Smashing the celluloid closet -- Outing, part III -- The Resurrection of Sheila Kuehl -- Queer in America -- The Oregon nightmare -- The silicon solution -- A queer manifesto.
  note: Michelangelo Signorile.
  note: Includes index.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Gay liberation movement
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Outing (Sexual orientation)
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Coming out (Sexual orientation)
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Homosexuality
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Coming out (Sexual orientation)
  subject:
    topic: Gay liberation movement
  subject:
    topic: Homosexuality
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Outing (Sexual orientation)
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Coming out (Sexual orientation)
    topic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Gay liberation movement
    topic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Homosexuality
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Outing (Sexual orientation)
    topic: United States
  classification: HQ76.8.U5 S57 1993
  classification: 305.9/0664
  classification: 305/.906/S578q
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Queer in America
    name:
      name part: Signorile, Michelangelo, 1960-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Random House, ©1993
      edition: 1st ed.
    identifier: (OCoLC)622332351
  identifier: 067941309X
  identifier: 9780679413097
  identifier: 92056847
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 921102
    record change date: 20190208121325.0
    record identifier: in00001150084
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng