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The battle over marriage : gay rights activism through the media / Leigh Moscowitz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 163 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252095382
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HQ1034 .B388 2013
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Contents:
Fighting the "battle to be boring": marriage as a portal into the mainstream -- "The marrying kind": the face of gay marriage in the news -- Gay marriage goes prime-time: journalistic norms frame the debate -- Speaking out: representing gay perspectives in news discourse -- The trouble with marriage.
Subject: Over the past decade, the controversial issue of gay marriage has emerged as a primary battle in the culture wars and a definitive social issue of our time. The subject moved to the forefront of mainstream public debate in 2004, when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom began authorizing same-sex marriage licenses, and it has remained in the center stage through three presidential campaigns and numerous state ballot initiatives. In this thorough analysis, Leigh Moscowitz examines how prominent news outlets covered this issue from 2003 to 2012, a time when intense news coverage focused unprecedented attention on gay and lesbian life.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Gay marriage in an era of media visibility -- Fighting the "battle to be boring": marriage as a portal into the mainstream -- "The marrying kind": the face of gay marriage in the news -- Gay marriage goes prime-time: journalistic norms frame the debate -- Speaking out: representing gay perspectives in news discourse -- The trouble with marriage.

Over the past decade, the controversial issue of gay marriage has emerged as a primary battle in the culture wars and a definitive social issue of our time. The subject moved to the forefront of mainstream public debate in 2004, when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom began authorizing same-sex marriage licenses, and it has remained in the center stage through three presidential campaigns and numerous state ballot initiatives. In this thorough analysis, Leigh Moscowitz examines how prominent news outlets covered this issue from 2003 to 2012, a time when intense news coverage focused unprecedented attention on gay and lesbian life.

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