Show:
Networks and Demographics
Politics & Programming
Straight Panic & Backlash
100
What are the Big 3 networks?
What is ABC, NBC, and CBS
100
Who was the major political candidate who appealed to the gay vote?
Who is Bill Clinton
100
The Supreme Court case that overturned antisodomy laws and led to panic that the current American social order would be entirely overturned
What is Lawrence v. Texas
200
What network was created in 1986 by Rupert Murdock?
FOX
200
What character on "Friends" was supposed to be gay?
Who is Chandler Bing
200
The characterization created for straight males who adopted consumer habits and cultural tastes of their gay counterparts
What is metrosexuality
300
What age group is targeted the most aggressively by networks and advertisers?
What is 18-to-49, the core adult demographic
300
What is the phrase made famous by "Seinfeld's" episode, "The Outing"
What is "not that there's anything wrong with that."
300
The two factors/movements that fueled Straight panic in America in the 1990s
What are the gay and lesbian civil rights movement and the increasing visibility of gayness in popular culture
400
What helped the success of kid-oriented cable networks like Nickelodeon?
What is multiple-set ownership.
400
What was the major draw for advertisers to pursuing the gay market?
What is their perceived disposable income
400
Three ways straight America reinforces long-standing social hierarchies governing sexual identity and gender
What are the institution of marriage, DOMA, and mainstream popular culture
500
Who introduced the People Meter, which provided overnight demographic date?
Who is A.C. Nielsen.
500
What are 2 of the many anti-gay pieces of legislation that came about in the early 1990s?
What are DOMA, DADT, Colorado Amendment 2, Oregon Measure 9
500
The sole representation of gay masculinity that exists in popular culture, thus exerting Straight control over "acceptable" forms of homosexuality
What is upscale, middle-class representation