Homosexuality in the media

[vicmariethy]

Can anyone give me any information about successful, banned or stereotypical references to homosexuality in the media? This could include adverts, posters, articles, television coverages or corporate identities for homosexual groups. Also any information about the history of Homosexual magazines including Gay Times and Attitude would be helpful.

[Ouisch]

History of "The Advocate", the largest and oldest gay newsmagazine in the US: http://www.planetout.com/news/history/archive/advocate.html Today, The Advocate coexists comfortably with its neighbors on most newsstands. Politicians and celebrities anxious to be interviewed grace its cover, and its pages are loaded with the same advertising that supports mainstream magazines. But when it first appeared in 1967, The Advocate had a grittier look. That first edition was the brainchild of Dick Michaels and his lover Bill Rand, of the Los Angeles activist group PRIDE. In an attempt to improve the group's newsletter, the two created the Los Angeles Advocate, a 12-page paper laid out with a typewriter, with 500 copies printed on cheap 8-1/2 x 11-inch stock. The paper sold well, and in 1968 Michaels and Rand bought it from PRIDE. By the summer, advertising revenue produced enough income to allow Michaels and Rand to quit their day jobs. The quality of the paper's articles was as uneven as the printing, but the Los Angeles Advocate had a clear voice. The editorial style was brash and pro-sex, with nude or nearly-nude men on many early covers. Articles explaining how to avoid police entrapment ran side by side with lifestyle pieces about movie stars and male fashion, and Michaels covered the gay liberation movement faithfully. In 1969 Michaels and Rand renamed the paper The Advocate and began national distribution. By 1974 press runs routinely ran to 40,000 copies, enough to attract the attention of a wealthy suitor from San Francisco named David Goodstein, an investment banker who had been fired from his job because he was gay. When he approached Michaels and Rand with an attractive offer, they agreed to sell.

[nicola_red]

What about the Jason Donovan case in The Face magazine?