TY - BOOK AU - Becker,Ron TI - Gay TV and straight America SN - 9780813536897 U1 - 791.45653 BEC PY - 2006/// CY - New Brunswick, London PB - Rutgers University Press KW - Homosexuality on television KW - Homosexuality KW - United States KW - Public opinion KW - Public opinion N1 - Introduction: the importance of gay-themed tv -- Straight panic and American culture in the 1990s -- Thinking about gay people : civil rights and the confusion over sexual identity -- Network narrowcasting and the slumpy demographic -- The affordable, multicultural politics of gay chic -- Gay material and prime-time network television in the 1990s -- "We're not gay!" : heterosexuality and gay-themed programming -- Straight panic in the 2000s ER -