Stephen Tropiano, associate professor of screen studies and director of the Ithaca College Los Angeles Program, has published an essay in the recently published anthology, Screen Lessons: What We Have Learned from Teachers on Television and in the Movies.
His essay, "Out (and Proud) in America's Classrooms: Gay and Lesbian Teachers on 1970s Television," examines prime time television's response to the blacklash against the Gay Right Movements, including the 1978 Briggs Initiative, which, if it had passed, would have banned gays and lesbians and their supporters from teaching in California public schools.
Screen Lessons is edited by Mary M. Dalton and Laura R. Linder and published by Peter Lang.
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