“…Besides working in newsrooms, they persuaded media executives to present more frequent and honest gay and lesbian images (Alwood, 1996;Gross, 2001;Streitmatter, 1995). This became particularly important in the face of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s when news outlets, slow to respond to the disease, relied on dehumanizing images and provided little information to both community and non-community members (Alwood, 1996;Gross, 2001;Streitmatter, 1995Streitmatter, , 2008. And by the 1990s, media had become a critical site for community activism centered on military and marriage rights (Chasin, 2000;Gross, 2001;Moscowitz, 2013;Streitmatter, 2008).…”