A Perfect Union Television and the Winning of Same-Sex Marriage

Free Download Cory Albertson, "A Perfect Union?: Television and the Winning of Same-Sex Marriage "
English | ISBN: 0367248360 | 2019 | 130 pages | EPUB | 1353 KB
On June 26, 2015, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy declared same-sex marriage "is so ordered" across the United States. The day will no doubt be remembered as a landmark shift in how U.S. society views and validates marriage and romantic relationships. But the shift would not have happened without an arguably more important, but already forgotten, shift four years earlier that saw unprecedented movement in public attitudes alongside record amounts of television representation of LGBQ relationships. Situated at this intersection of legislative, attitudinal and representational change,