Black Queer TV and Me: Putting the “I” in Media Studies Research
Building: Online
Room Number: Zoom
Event Category: Career & Counseling Center Events
Division Host: Jason Stansberry & Al Martin
Author and Professor of Communications, Al Martin discusses his initial engagement with Black queers in media and how that shaped the research that ultimately became his first book The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom. This talk takes up the feminist mantra that the personal is political and explores how one Black gay man’s journey to “be seen” on television launched a career as an academic.