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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
BEFORE "WILL AND GRACE": EXPERT LARRY GROSS EXPLORES THE
PORTRAYAL OF THE GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY IN FILM AND
TELEVISION
March 26, 2004 -- Loyola Marymount
University's Forum on Media Ethics and Social Responsibility
presents a special program on "Up From Invisibility: The Ethics of
Gay and Lesbian Representation in Media," on Monday, March 29, at
7:15 p.m. in Ahmanson Auditorium (University Hall 1000). The Forum
will feature a keynote lecture by Dr. Larry Gross of the University
of Southern California.
Gross' presentation will examine how minority and mainstream media
were instrumental in bringing together a community that was able to
organize a movement and demand change. In his analysis, Gross
focuses on the powerful role that media plays in portraying gay
people to the majority and to gay people themselves, in ways that
have perpetuated harmful stereotypes and, eventually, also in ways
that have begun to reverse some of that harm.
Currently, Gross is Professor and Director of the School of
Communication at USC's Annenberg School for Communication. Prior to
his tenure at USC, Gross was the Sol Worth Professor of
Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as
Deputy Dean of their Annenberg School for Communication.
For a twenty-year period at Penn, Gross co-directed the $1.5
million Cultural lndicators Project, which focused on television
content and its influence on viewer attitudes and behavior. He is
the author several groundbreaking books including Up From
Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America (Columbia
University Press) and Contested Closets: The Politics and Ethics of
Outing (University of Minnesota Press), among others.
This program is one in a series of LMU's Forum on Media Ethics and
Social Responsibility, and is co-sponsored by the School of Film
and Television and the College of Communications. The program is
hosted by Dr. Lawrence Wenner, LMU's Von der Ahe Professor of
Communication and Ethics, who will direct an audience question and
answer session following the presentation. The event is free for
all members of the LMU community and the public. For more
information, contact 310.338.2992.
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