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The twenty-first century has seen LGBTQ+ rights emerge at the forefront of public discourse and national politics in ways that would once have been hard to imagine. Lesbians on Television maps the contemporary shifts in lesbian visibility within popular media in Europe and North America and, from this, extracts a figure of the new 'lesbian normal' that both helps and hinders those it represents.This book offers a unique and layered account of the complex dynamics in the modern moment of social change, drawing together social and cultural theory as well as empirical research, including interviews and multi-platform media analyses. Structured around five central case studies of popular British and American television shows featuring lesbian, bisexual and queer women characters - The L Word, Skins, Glee, Coronation Street and The Fosters - the book develops a detailed analysis of the shaping of a new 'lesbian normal' through representations of lesbian teenagers, cheerleaders, wives and mothers amongst other LGBTQ+ figures. With a focus on television, Kate McNicholas Smith also maps the lesbian figure through publicity materials, news reports, political speeches, legislative changes, social media, fandoms and audiences. Appearing in highly accessible media forms, such as the soap opera, and extending into the digital media platforms in which they are repeated and remade, new lesbian figures exist at a site of struggle over the possibilities of queer women's intelligibility, intimacy and futurity.

Lesbianism on television. --- Lesbians on television --- Television --- Lesbians in popular culture. --- Lesbians in mass media.

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Cities and towns --- Homophobia --- Rural lesbians --- Lesbians --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Rural women --- Blum, Louise A., --- #BIBC:ruil

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The subject of bisexuality continues to divide the lesbian and gay community. At pride marches, in films such as Go Fish, at academic conferences, the role and status of bisexuals is hotly contested. Within lesbian communities, formed to support lesbians in a patriarchal and heterosexist society, bisexual women are often perceived as a threat or as a political weakness. Bisexual women feel that they are regarded with suspicion and distrust, if not openly scorned. Drawing on her research with over 400 bisexual and lesbian women, surveying the treatment of bisexuality in the lesbian and gay press, and examining the recent growth of a self-consciously political bisexual movement, Paula Rust addresses a range of questions pertaining to the political and social relationships between lesbians and bisexual women. By tracing the roots of the controversy over bisexuality among lesbians back to the early lesbian feminist debates of the 1970s, Rust argues that those debates created the circumstances in which bisexuality became an inevitable challenge to lesbian politics. She also traces it forward, predicting the future of sexual politics.

Bisexual women -- United States -- Attitudes. --- Bisexual women -- United States -- Psychology. --- Bisexuality -- Political aspects -- United States. --- Lesbianism -- Political aspects -- United States. --- Lesbians -- United States -- Attitudes. --- Lesbians -- United States -- Identity. --- Lesbians -- United States -- Psychology. --- Sexual behavior surveys -- United States. --- Bisexual women --- Gay & Lesbian Studies --- Female homosexuality --- Lesbian love --- Sapphism --- Bi-sexuality --- Female bisexuals --- Women bisexuals --- Female gays --- Female homosexuals --- Gay females --- Gay women --- Gayelles --- Gays, Female --- Homosexuals, Female --- Lesbian women --- Sapphists --- Women, Gay --- Women homosexuals --- Sexual behavior surveys --- Lesbianism --- Bisexuality --- Lesbians --- Political aspects --- Psychology. --- Attitudes. --- Identity. --- Homosexuality --- Women --- Sexual orientation --- Gays --- Sexual behavior --- United States --- Attitudes --- Psychology --- Identity

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Many of us have grown up with the language of civil rights, yet rarely consider how the construction of civil rights claims affects those who are trying to attain them. Diane Miller examines arguments lesbians and gay men make for civil rights, revealing the ways these arguments are both progressive--in terms of helping to win court cases seeking basic human rights--and limiting--in terms of framing representations of gay men and lesbians. Miller incorporates case studies of lesbians in the military and in politics into her argument. She discusses in detail the experiences of Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, who was dishonorably discharged from the National Guard after 27 years of service when she revealed that she was a lesbian, and Roberta Achtenberg, who was nominated by Clinton for the job of Assistant Director of Housing and Urban Development and became the first gay or lesbian to face the confirmation process. Drawing on these cases and their outcomes, Miller evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of privileging civil rights strategies in the struggle for gay and lesbian rights.

Achtenberg, Roberta. --- Cammermeyer, Margarethe, 1942-. --- Gay rights -- United States -- History. --- Lesbian feminism -- United States. --- Lesbians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States. --- Women’s rights -- United States -- History. --- Gay rights --- Lesbians --- Women's rights --- Lesbian feminism --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Gay & Lesbian Studies --- History --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Female gays --- Female homosexuals --- Gay females --- Gay women --- Gayelles --- Gays, Female --- Homosexuals, Female --- Lesbian women --- Sapphists --- Women, Gay --- Women homosexuals --- Gay and lesbian rights --- Gay men --- Gays --- Lesbian rights --- Rights of gays --- Rights of lesbians --- Civil rights --- Women --- Feminism --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Women's rights -- United States -- History.

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In Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German, James P. Wilper examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analyzing four novels by German, British, and American writers. Wilper studies how the texts are influenced by and respond and react to four schools of thought regarding male homosexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first is legal codes criminalizing sex acts between men and the religious doctrine that informs them. The second is the ancient Greek erotic philosophy, in which a revival of interest took place in the late nineteenth century. The third is sexual science (or sexology), which offered various medical and psychological explanations for same-sex desire and was employed variously to defend, as well as to attempt to cure, this "perversion." And fourth, in the wake of the scandal caused by his trials and conviction for "gross indecency," Oscar Wilde became associated with a homosexual stereotype based on "unmanly" behavior. Wilper analyzes the four novels: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, E.M. Forster's Maurice, Edward Prime-Stevenson's Imre: A Memorandum, and John Henry Mackay's The Hustler, in relation to these schools of thought, and focuses on the exchange and cross-cultural influence between linguistic and cultural contexts on the subject of love and desire between men.

Gay people's writings --- English fiction --- German fiction --- Homosexuality and literature. --- Gay men in literature. --- Lesbians in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Literature --- Effeminacy --- Greek love --- Homosexuality --- Oscar Wilde --- Sexology