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| Preface | |
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| The Mediated Society | |
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| Mass Media and American Society | |
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| Television as the Mainstream | |
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| Sexual Minorities and the Media | |
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| Subversion and Resistance | |
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| Coming out and Coming Together | |
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| The Homosexual in Midcentury America | |
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| Giving Voice to the Voiceless | |
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| Provoking Concern | |
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| The Voice Gets Louder | |
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| Coming Out in the Nation's Living Rooms | |
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| Stonewall and Beyond | |
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| "Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees Stinging Mad" | |
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| "Turning Their Condition into Politics" | |
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| Expressing Outrage | |
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| Talking Back to the Media | |
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| At the Movies | |
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| "A Queer Feeling Every Time I Look at You" | |
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| "Show Me a Happy Homosexual and I'll Show You a Gay Corpse" | |
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| Friedkin Delivers Gay Corpses | |
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| Getting the Word Out | |
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| Gay Films for Straight Audiences | |
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| Universal or Particular? | |
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| Television Takes Over | |
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| New Medium, Old Message | |
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| No Sex, Please, We're Queer | |
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| Aids and the Media | |
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| Rumors of a "Gay Cancer" | |
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| Circling the Wagons | |
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| Natural Squeamishness | |
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| Media Activism in a Crisis | |
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| Journalism's Closet Opens | |
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| Burying and Marrying | |
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| All the News Not Fit to Print | |
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| The Gray Lady Goes Gay | |
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| Coming Out in the Newsroom | |
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| Breaking the Code of Silence | |
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| Naming Names | |
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| Outing the Pentagon | |
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| Kinda Ask, Sorta Tell | |
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| Hollywood Under Pressure | |
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| AIDS Victims and Villains | |
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| A Kinder, Gentler Hollywood | |
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| Queering the "Straight" Text | |
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| Hollywood's Gay Nineties | |
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| "I feel pretty and witty and ... Hey!" | |
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| Still Villainous After All These Years | |
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| Sad Young Men | |
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| Some of My Best Friends Are Celibate | |
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| Beyond Prime Time | |
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| Adam and Steve and Phil and Oprah | |
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| The Tongue-Tied Public Square | |
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| Getting Over the Rainbow | |
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| Locker-room Closets | |
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| Morning Papers, Afternoon Soaps | |
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| Coming Out in the Comics | |
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| You're the First Person I Have Ever Told | |
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| Old Stories and New Technologies | |
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| The Good Parts | |
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| Somewhere There's a Place for Us | |
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| A Niche of Our Own | |
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| Movement to Market | |
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| Are We Being Served? | |
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| Facing the Future | |
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| Visibility and Its Discontents | |
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| Looking Backward | |
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| Sources | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |