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Introduction / Jane Campbell and Theresa Carilli

QUEER IMAGES. Focus on the SpongeBob: The Representational Politics of James Dobson / Jason Zingsheim

The Complex Relationship Between (and within) the Suppressed and the Empowered: Contradiction and LGBT Portrayals on The L Word / Jennifer Guthrie, Adrianne Kunkel and K. Nicole Hladky

Comic Corrections towards a Family Perfection: (Re)Reading Queer as Folk and Will and Grace / Rachel E. Silverman

Revisiting The Celluloid Closet / Jane Campbell and Theresa Carilli

To Glee or not to Glee: Exploring the Empowering Voice of the Glee Movement / Lori Montalbano

PERFORMANCES OF SEXUALITY AND GENDER. A Pregnant Pause, a Transgender Look: Thomas Beatie in the Maternity Pose / Kristin Norwood

The Rhetoric of Sexual Experimentation: A Critical Examination of Katy Perry's I Kissed a Girl / Brittani Hidahl and Richard D. Besel

Queer Male TV Commentators: Kinjo-no-Obasan in Advanced Capitalism / Kimiko Akita

LIVING IN THE MARGINS. The Construction of Queer and the Conferring of Voice: Empowering and Disempowering Portrayals of Transgenderism on Transgeneration / K. Nicole Hladky

"Born This Way": Biology and Sexuality in Lady Gaga's Pro-LGBT Media / Shannon Weber

First But (Nearly) Forgotten: Why You Know Milk but not Kozachenko / Bruce Drushel

QUEER ISSUES. "Is she a man? Is she a transvestite?": Critiquing the Coverage of Intersex Athletes / Rick Kenney and Kimiko Akita

The Commercial Closet: How Gay-Specific Media and the Images of "the Closet" Erases the LGBT Community from the Mainstream Gaze / Kristin Comeforo

"Should We Stop Believin"?: Glee and The Culture of Essentialist Identity Discourse / John Wolf and Valarie Schweisberger

"The Play's the Thing": Representations of Heteronormative Sexuality in a Popular Children's TV Sitcom / Zoe Kenney.