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It's old. It's about adult gays. It doesn't talk about the Internet (which didn't even exist back then.) Almost everything mentioned would have to be modified to function in today's world. But -- do you have a better book? No? TALK BACK! The Gay Person's Guide to Media Action by Lesbian and Gay Media Advocates Boston: Alyson Publications First printing: September, 1982. EXCERPT FROM INTRODUCTION: "Lesbian and Gay Media Advocates — a fancy name for a small group of people who got fed up. Fed up with media that too often either distort our lives, and thus add fuel to the fires of discrimination, or ignore us, and thus do nothing to counteract the prevailing misconceptions of what it means to be a gay man or lesbian. Some of us had been activists for years; for others, attending a first LAGMA meeting was itself an act of courage. At our meetings, we could share the sense of outrage, analyze clippings, relate things we saw and heard on TV and radio, plan strategies. We started writing letters, we approached major media outlets (newspapers, local television and radio stations) to set up meetings. In the process we learned a lot. We learned that there are many people in the media who will listen, who did grow in their understanding of discrimination against lesbians and gay men, and who want to do something about the media's role in this. We also learned that it is painful to do this sort of work. Raising other people’s consciousness takes a lot out of you. (And some people’s misconceptions do not budge — we discovered that too.) One of the first things we had to learn was to expect more. It was that long-internalized self-hatred that had accounted for our passive acceptance of unacceptable media coverage — that and a belief that “they'll never change, why should we try to do anything about it?” But we did try. And they did change. Now we want you, too, to expect more. We want you to become a media activist, to do something about media coverage of our lives. We guarantee that putting your outrage into a letter will do more for your health than squashing, denying or internalizing that outrage. Although this book is specifically concerned with media coverage of lesbians and gay men, many of our points and our strategies could easily be translated to the coverage afforded women, people of color, elders, and the physically and mentally disabled — in short, to any group of people whose lives are often trivialized, sensationalized, maligned or ignored by the media. While we have tried to give enough information to make various facets of the media understandable, we have written this book mainly from our own experiences. Your experiences might differ; if so, we’d like to hear from you. Even if such differences exist, we hope they will not interfere with our major goal: to encourage lesbians and gay men to expect, to demand and to get fairer coverage of our lives in the media." Contents 1. The History of Media Work, 13 2. Introduction to the Media, 18 3. Getting Started, 25 4. Analyzing the Media, 29 5. Response, 37 6. Meeting with the Media, 47 7. Continuing Media Work, 58 8. A Publicity Primer, 66 9. Now Go Buy a Hundred Postcards, 87 Appendices: 1. Sample Letters, 91 2. Sample Story Ideas, 98 3. Style Guidelines, 102 4. Questions You'll Hear at a Meeting with the Media, 105 5. A Press Advisory, 108 6. Addresses, 114 Well, since we don't have a better book, maybe we should take a look at this one. M. It worked for the gays, didn't it? DOWNLOAD HERE: https://annas-archive.org/md5/d379faa79a76aae8484d7d1aa109c8f2 [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonymisierungsdienst] |