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Communications History Reading List
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Straight news: Gays, lesbians and the news media, by Alwood, Edward (1996). New York: Columbia University Press. 
“‘God and a Woman’: Women Abolitionists, Biblical Authority, and Social Activism,” by Bacon, Jacqueline (1999). Journal of Communication & Religion 22(1):1 (March). 
Days of Hope: 70's Gay San Francisco, by Crawford Barton (1994). Heretic Books. 
Affectionate Men: A Photographic History of a Century of Male Couples (1850s to 1950s), by Russell Bush (2002). St. Martin's Press. 
Adonis: The Male Physique Pin-Up 1870-1940, by David Chapman (1997). Heretic Books. 
The Complete Reprint of Physique Pictorial: 1951-1990, by Taschen Publishing (1997).
Von Gloeden ieri e oggi, by Giovanni Dall’Orto (1993). Milan: Babilonia. 
“Signifying Same-Sex Desire in Television Cartoons,” by Dennis, Jeffrey P. (2003) Journal of Popular Film & Television 31(3):132 (Fall). 
Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918, by David Deitcher (2001). Harry N. Abrams. 
Who's a Pretty Boy Then?: One Hundred & Fifty Years of Gay Life in Pictures, by James Gardiner (1997). Serpent's Tail. 
Fotografie, by Gloeden, Wilhelm von (2000). Firenze: Alinari. 
Wilhelm Von Gloeden: Taormina, photographed by Wilhelm Von Gloeden; edited by Ulrich Pohlmann (1998). Te Neues Publishing Company. 
“Gay Culture, Studio Publicity, and the Management of Star Discourse: The Homosexualization of William Haines in Pre-Code Hollywood,” by Gregg, Ronald (2003). Quarterly Review of Film & Video 20(2):81 (Apr-June). 
The Columbia Reader on Lesbian & Gay Men in Media, Society & Politics, edited by Larry Gross and James D. Woods (1999). New York: Columbia University Press. 
Beefcake: The Muscle Magazines of America 1950-1970, by F. Valentine Hooven III (1996). Benedikt Taschen Verlag. 
Picturing Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography, by John Ibson (2002). Smithsonian Books. 
Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality, by Jonathan Ned Katz (2003). University Of Chicago Press. 
Rough news--daring views: 1950s pioneer gay press journalism, by Kepner, Jim (1998). New York: Harrington Park Press. 
Strongman: Vintage Photos of a Masculine Icon, edited by Robert Mainardi (2001) Council Oak Books.
The Male Ideal: Lon of New York and the Masculine Physique, by Reed Massengill (2004). Universe.
American Adonis: Tony Sansone, The First Male Physique Icon, by John Massey (2004). Universe. 
“Garbo and Phallic Motherhood: A ‘Homosexual’ Visual Economy,” by Matthews, Peter (1988). Screen 29(3): 14 (Summer).
“The Signifying Invert: Camp and the Performance of Nineteenth-Century Sexology,” by Meyer, Moe (1995). Text & Performance Quarterly 15(4): 265 (October).
“The office cat reports from London” (2003). Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television 23(4): 387 (October). 
The Wild Ones: The Erotic Photography of Mel Roberts, photographed by Mel Roberts (2003). FotoFactory Press. 
California Boys, Photographs from the 1960s and 1970s, photographed by Mel Roberts; edited by Stephen Patrick Foery, Mark Harvey & David Sprigle (2000). Fotofactory Press. 

“Constructing Sex as a Domain of Pleasure and Self-expression: Sexual Ideology in the Sixties,” by Seidman, Steven (1989). Theory, Culture & Society 6(2):293 (May). 

“Herman Lynn Womack: Pornographer as First Amendment Pioneer,” by Streitmatter, Rodger & Watson, John C. (2002). Journalism History 28(2): 56 (Summer). 
Voices of Revolution: The Dissident Press in America (see Chapter 13: “Creativing an Agenda for Gay and Lesbian Rights”), by Rodger Streitmatter (2001). New York: Columbia University Press. 

“Vice Versa: America's First Lesbian Magazine,” by Streitmatter, Rodger (1998). American Periodicals 8: 78. 

“Creating a venue for the ‘love that dare not speak its name’: Origins of the gay and lesbian press,” by Streitmatter, Rodger (1995). Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 72(2): 436 (Summer). 

Unspeakable: The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America, by Rodger Streitmatter (1995). Boston: Faber and Faber. 

“Lesbian and Gay Press: Raising a Militant Voice in the 1960s,” by Streitmatter, Rodger (1995). American Journalism 12(2), p142 (spring), 20p.
“The Advocate: Setting the standard for the gay liberation press,” by Streitmatter, Rodger (1993). Journalism History 19(3):93 (Autumn). 
Toulouse, Mark G. (2002). “The Muddled Middle: Protestantism’s Encounter with Homosexuality since the 1960s,” in Dane S. Claussen (ed.), Sex, Religion, Media (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield).
Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall, by Thomas Waugh (1996). New York: Columbia University Press. 
Wilhelm von Gloeden, edited by Peter Weiermair (1996). Cologne: Taschen verlag. 

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