Jane Campbell is professor of English at Purdue University Calumet.Theresa Carilli is professor of Communication at Purdue University Calumet.

Campbell and Carilli (both, Purdue University Calumet) have assembled a collection of accessible essays that interrogate contemporary LGBTQ texts, politics, and experiences. Contributions include reflections on and controversial responses to programs such as SpongeBob SquarePants, The L Word, Will and Grace, Queer as Folk, Glee, and TransGeneration; a modern application of Vito Russo's arguments from The Celluloid Closet (CH, Mar'82); critiques of songs such as 'I Kissed a Girl' (Katy Perry) and 'Born This Way' (Lady Gaga); the subversive potential of effeminate/queer Japanese male television commentators; the dissident maternity photos of Thomas Beatie; the often-forgotten legacy of Kathy Kozachenko, the first voter-elected openly lesbian city councilor in the US; the sex/gender policing of intersex athletes; (in)conspicuous advertising to/within the LGBTQ community; and sexualized/hetero-normative assumptions of children's television programs. Many of the essays also offer recommendations about the ways in which a queer representation could be fashioned into a more nuanced and socially just representation. The breadth and depth of this collection is impressive; it is a must read for anyone interested in media criticism, popular culture, and LGBTQ studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, professional/practitioners.

• IntroductionJane Campbell and Theresa Carilli QUEER IMAGESChapter 1: Focus on the SpongeBob: The Representational Politics of James DobsonJason ZingsheimChapter 2: The Complex Relationship Between (and within) the Suppressed and the Empowered: Contradiction and LGBT Portrayals on The L WordJennifer Guthrie, Adrianne Kunkel and K. Nicole HladkyChapter 3: Comic Corrections towards a Family Perfection: (Re)Reading Queer as Folk and Will and GraceRachel E. Silverman Chapter 4: Revisiting The Celluloid ClosetJane Campbell and Theresa CarilliChapter 5: To Glee or not to Glee: Exploring the Empowering Voice of the Glee Movement.Lori MontalbanoPERFORMANCES OF SEXUALITY AND GENDERChapter 6: A Pregnant Pause, a Transgender Look: Thomas Beatie in the Maternity Pose Kristin NorwoodChapter 7: The Rhetoric of Sexual Experimentation: A Critical Examination of Katy Perry’s I Kissed a GirlBrittani Hidahl and Richard D. BeselChapter 8: Queer Male TV Commentators: Kinjo-no-Obasan in Advan

Jane Campbell is professor of English at Purdue University Calumet.Theresa Carilli is professor of Communication at Purdue University Calumet.

Campbell and Carilli (both, Purdue University Calumet) have assembled a collection of accessible essays that interrogate contemporary LGBTQ texts, politics, and experiences. Contributions include reflections on and controversial responses to programs such as SpongeBob SquarePants, The L Word, Will and Grace, Queer as Folk, Glee, and TransGeneration; a modern application of Vito Russo's arguments from The Celluloid Closet (CH, Mar'82); critiques of songs such as 'I Kissed a Girl' (Katy Perry) and 'Born This Way' (Lady Gaga); the subversive potential of effeminate/queer Japanese male television commentators; the dissident maternity photos of Thomas Beatie; the often-forgotten legacy of Kathy Kozachenko, the first voter-elected openly lesbian city councilor in the US; the sex/gender policing of intersex athletes; (in)conspicuous advertising to/within the LGBTQ community; and sexualized/hetero-normative assumptions of children's television programs. Many of the essays also offer recommendations about the ways in which a queer representation could be fashioned into a more nuanced and socially just representation. The breadth and depth of this collection is impressive; it is a must read for anyone interested in media criticism, popular culture, and LGBTQ studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, professional/practitioners.

• IntroductionJane Campbell and Theresa Carilli QUEER IMAGESChapter 1: Focus on the SpongeBob: The Representational Politics of James DobsonJason ZingsheimChapter 2: The Complex Relationship Between (and within) the Suppressed and the Empowered: Contradiction and LGBT Portrayals on The L WordJennifer Guthrie, Adrianne Kunkel and K. Nicole HladkyChapter 3: Comic Corrections towards a Family Perfection: (Re)Reading Queer as Folk and Will and GraceRachel E. Silverman Chapter 4: Revisiting The Celluloid ClosetJane Campbell and Theresa CarilliChapter 5: To Glee or not to Glee: Exploring the Empowering Voice of the Glee Movement.Lori MontalbanoPERFORMANCES OF SEXUALITY AND GENDERChapter 6: A Pregnant Pause, a Transgender Look: Thomas Beatie in the Maternity Pose Kristin NorwoodChapter 7: The Rhetoric of Sexual Experimentation: A Critical Examination of Katy Perry’s I Kissed a GirlBrittani Hidahl and Richard D. BeselChapter 8: Queer Male TV Commentators: Kinjo-no-Obasan in Advan

Jane Campbell is professor of English at Purdue University Calumet.Theresa Carilli is professor of Communication at Purdue University Calumet.

Campbell and Carilli (both, Purdue University Calumet) have assembled a collection of accessible essays that interrogate contemporary LGBTQ texts, politics, and experiences. Contributions include reflections on and controversial responses to programs such as SpongeBob SquarePants, The L Word, Will and Grace, Queer as Folk, Glee, and TransGeneration; a modern application of Vito Russo's arguments from The Celluloid Closet (CH, Mar'82); critiques of songs such as 'I Kissed a Girl' (Katy Perry) and 'Born This Way' (Lady Gaga); the subversive potential of effeminate/queer Japanese male television commentators; the dissident maternity photos of Thomas Beatie; the often-forgotten legacy of Kathy Kozachenko, the first voter-elected openly lesbian city councilor in the US; the sex/gender policing of intersex athletes; (in)conspicuous advertising to/within the LGBTQ community; and sexualized/hetero-normative assumptions of children's television programs. Many of the essays also offer recommendations about the ways in which a queer representation could be fashioned into a more nuanced and socially just representation. The breadth and depth of this collection is impressive; it is a must read for anyone interested in media criticism, popular culture, and LGBTQ studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, professional/practitioners.

• IntroductionJane Campbell and Theresa Carilli QUEER IMAGESChapter 1: Focus on the SpongeBob: The Representational Politics of James DobsonJason ZingsheimChapter 2: The Complex Relationship Between (and within) the Suppressed and the Empowered: Contradiction and LGBT Portrayals on The L WordJennifer Guthrie, Adrianne Kunkel and K. Nicole HladkyChapter 3: Comic Corrections towards a Family Perfection: (Re)Reading Queer as Folk and Will and GraceRachel E. Silverman Chapter 4: Revisiting The Celluloid ClosetJane Campbell and Theresa CarilliChapter 5: To Glee or not to Glee: Exploring the Empowering Voice of the Glee Movement.Lori MontalbanoPERFORMANCES OF SEXUALITY AND GENDERChapter 6: A Pregnant Pause, a Transgender Look: Thomas Beatie in the Maternity Pose Kristin NorwoodChapter 7: The Rhetoric of Sexual Experimentation: A Critical Examination of Katy Perry’s I Kissed a GirlBrittani Hidahl and Richard D. BeselChapter 8: Queer Male TV Commentators: Kinjo-no-Obasan in Advan