Links on Sexuality, Media and Popular Culture

• The Larkhall Insider
  The fan-based website for Bad Girls. This UK television drama series about women in prison has definite lesbian interest

• Media and Communications Studies site
  British-based gateway to web resources useful in the academic study of media and communications, maintained by Daniel Chandler

• Commercial Closet Association
  Advocates for advertising that expands understanding and awareness of LGBT communities and issues, for a more accepting society and better business results

• Anxieties of affluence: movements, market sectors and lesbian feminist generation(s)
  Article by Dana Heller, originally published in Surfaces Vol. VII.111 (v.1.0A - 27/06/1997)

• The Australian Ellen Degeneres Homepage
  Fan site for the American comedian/actor who came out as a lesbian in 1997, designed and maintained by Linda Hillier

• "Give her a baseball mitt". Defining lesbianism: popular advice to parents of the Baby Boom generation
  Study by Annis H. Hopkins, undertaking a media analysis of a selection of popular family-oriented magazines that were in the homes of middle-American Baby Boomers during their formative years, 1930-1970

• Opengender
  open access to articles, research and other resources relating to the cultural politics of gender and sexuality in new forms of capitalism, media, cyberspace, free/libre software and free cultures

• Passion & Perfection
  Home to a wide variety of f/f fan fiction, portraying love and friendship between women

• AfterEllen.com
  Reviews and commentary on the representation of lesbians and bisexual women in entertainment and the media, edited by Sarah Warn

• Film Reviews
  Reviews of films from a woman's perspective, collected by the Women's Studies Database, University of Maryland

• Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Television Characters
  Compiled by David Wyatt, a list of television programmes that have included gay/lesbian/bisexual characters as a part of their regular (or semi-regular) casts

And now ... a collection of Xena: Warrior Princess articles focusing on the viewer (or reader) response This TV show has powerful resonances for many lesbians. (Although I own some quite fanciable action model figures of Xena and Gabriele, I have to admit that I didn't become a regular viewer of the TV series.)

• The zeal for Xena: appropriation, discursive elaboration and identity production in lesbian fan fiction
  Essay by Leila Armstrong in the Whoosh Xena fanzine.

• Heroic deeds and moral dilemmas: reading about women before and after Xena
  Essay by Christine Pattee in the Whoosh Xena fanzine.

• The shock of recognition: a lesbian appreciation of Xena: Warrior Princess
  Essay by Diane Silver in the Whoosh Xena fanzine.

• Xena: Warrior Princess, the lesbian gaze and the construction of a feminist heroine
  Essay by Atara Stein in the Whoosh Xena fanzine.

• Romancing the fan: romance and Xena fan fiction
  Essay by J. C. Wilder in the Whoosh Xena fanzine.

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