Beyond the Straight and Narrow

"Long-fought cultural struggles persist over who gets to exist in our national imagination."

How did the rise of LGBTQ visibility, political progress, and digital technologies in the 2000s come together to offer the abundance of complex queer and transgender representations we see today? Media scholar Katherine Sender shows how LGBTQ visibility and political progress have combined with new digital media technologies and television platforms to produce an increasingly complex range of queer and transgender representations.

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Gender Me: Homosexuality and Islam

Gender Me: Homosexuality and Islam

2008

The Circle

The Circle

2014

Private Diary

Private Diary

2003

Radical Brownies

Radical Brownies

2017

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

2004

Hollande, DSK, etc ...

Hollande, DSK, etc ...

2012

There are things in this world that are yet to be named

There are things in this world that are yet to be named

2020

Rebellion for Love

Rebellion for Love

2019

History on the Run: The Media and the '79 Election

History on the Run: The Media and the '79 Election

1979

a small island

Into My Name

Into My Name

2022

Christopher Isherwood: A Born Foreigner

Christopher Isherwood: A Born Foreigner

1969

Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution

Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution

2023

Otherland

Otherland

2018

State of Pride

State of Pride

2019

The World's Worst Place to Be Gay?

The World's Worst Place to Be Gay?

2011

The Weight of Sight

The Weight of Sight

2024

Kamasutra for Gay Men

Kamasutra for Gay Men

2009

Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse

Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse

2018

Tomatoes

Tomatoes

2020