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Using the 1977 crusade opposed to the Dade County Florida homosexual rights ordinance as a focus, this publication presents an exam of the emergence of the trendy lesbian and homosexual American move, the demanding situations it posed to the authorised American notions of sexuality, and the way American society reacted in turn.
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In the 1940s and 1950s typical media news accounts of homosexuality, when not describing it as criminal perversion, depicted it as an individual psychological problem. In the 1960s, however, with the increasing growth and visibility of the urban gay culture in New York, San Francisco, and other cities, homosexuals were no longer considered isolated sick or criminal individuals but members of a growing underground community. This new depiction was conflated with the growing sense of anxiety about the condition of America’s major cities.
However, by mid-1971 the media discourse about the decade and its “legacies” itself was beginning to shift, with the optimism and media enthusiasm about social change being replaced with an attitude of weariness and alarm. The youthful exuberance and “radical chic” of the Sixties culture was now regarded with derision, if not suspicion. In 1970 Thomas Wolfe, in his best-selling satirical book Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, effectively skewed the fascination The Strange Media Career of the Homosexual 41 of wealthy liberals with the culture of radical politics.
That year American troops were withdrawn from Vietnam, removing the war as a major focus of American political debate and activism. The landslide reelection victory of Richard Nixon over George McGovern, who ran as the candidate The Strange Media Career of the Homosexual 43 of the nation’s progressive forces, was viewed as a strong national rebuke to what was now depicted as the political extremism of the Sixties. Many of the radical and progressive political groups and movements began to disintegrate.