LGBT Book Wins The Roy F. Aarons Award

The Roy F. Aarons Award honors individuals who have made significant contributions to the promotion and inclusion of GLBT materials in education and research. The award is named after Roy F. Aarons, an accomplished journalist who shocked the news industry in 1990 when he acknowledged that he was gay at a conference for the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

This year, the award will be presented to SOC professor Rodger Streitmatter during AEJMC's national conference in Denver in early August for his book From -Perverts- to -Fab Five-: The Media-s Changing Depiction of Gay Men and Lesbians.

From -Perverts- to -Fab Five- tracks the dramatic change in how the American media has depicted gay people. The media, Streitmatter argues, has not merely reflected the American public-s shift to a more enlightened view of gay people, but they have been instrumental in propelling that change.

About the Author

Rodger Streitmatter is a Professor and Senior Associate Dean in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. He is author of six previous books, including Mightier than the Sword: How the News Media Have Shaped American History, Voices of Revolution: The Dissident Press in America, and Sex Sells! The Media's Journey from Repression to Obsession. He holds a Ph.D. in American History.

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