Alternate Channels:Ý A Screening and Discussion

Television has been satirized as "the boob tube," been hailed as one of the catalysts in the developing "global village," and been attacked as a purveyor of stereotypes and prejudices. In the second clips-talk of the Festival author and lecturer Steven Capsuto takes a very gay look at TV, from the dawn of the medium through the present day.Ý Using a wealth of images that includes network television comedy and drama along with news and documentary footage specific to South Florida (provided by the Wolfson Media Center), Capsuto takes us on a trip from real-life scenes of Miami gay bar raids in the 1950s to lesbian and gay innuendoes on television shows of the 1960s to excerpts from present day programs such as Will and Grace.Ý Peppered between the television segments, Capsuto provides insightful commentary and historical context that will make this a viewing experience unlike any other.Ý Watching TV has never been quite as intriguing - or as out and out gay.

Steven Capsuto is the author of a book by the same name, Alternate Channels, which traces the history of lesbian and gay images in broadcasting from the 1930s to the present, and has served as director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgendered Library/Archives of Philadelphia.

This panel is co-sponsored by the Louis Wolfson II Media History Center, South Florida's moving image archive.

5:00 PM Panel free and open to the public