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The frame relating homosexual acts to criminal activity was very much evidenced in the film.

The reporter noted the connection in state law between homosexuality and mental illness, which reflected the conclusions of much of the community of mental health profession of the period: “Prosecutor Rex Larson said today that the law requires persons charged with sodomy be given a psychiatric examination” (2).

But the construction of gay men as mentally ill also was supported by the reputed self-reports of the accused, who perhaps had internalized that shared cultural understanding: “Some of the suspects reportedly seemed “relieved” at being caught…Officials said one man said he was glad it was over.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s invalidation of the remaining sodomy laws dramatically altered the legal status of queer people in 2003 (Lawrence v. In Reese, Stephen D., Gandy, Jr., Oscar H., & Grant, August E. (eds.) Framing Public Life. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. Scholars consider these cases pivotal in laying the groundwork for a national gay press (Watson, 2006).

Gay media, particularly internet-based gay media, have appropriated the long-forgotten original film, promulgating the construction of new frames by which it may be interpreted.

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Pan, Zhongdang & Kosicki, Gerald M. (2001). Tropiano (2002) attributes the phenomenon to straight Hollywood liberals who had come to dominate television production practices in the 1970s. Olesen, 355 U.S. 371 (1958).

Painter, George. Proposal shelved: Central Park rest rooms ‘down drain.’ News Journal, p.

133 S.Ct. Framing activates conventions and tacit rules concerning interpretation and text construction shared by participants.

News Journal, pp. Rich, poor, college graduate, the illiterate.” Finally, homosexuals replaced homosexuality as the disease: “These people become a point of social contagion, seeking continually to recruit others, particularly the youth, into their own deviant cult. The chief made clear that the intended audience for the film was other police departments, and related homosexuality and criminal activity, particularly child molestation and murder.

Homosexual sodomy was a crime in most of the United States well into the 1960s and officially viewed even by the medical community as a mental illness into the 1970s. The practice of framing involves personalities, characters, scripts, conflicts, dramas, emotions, symbols, and expressive activities consisting of both real and staged events (Pan & Kosicki, 2001) and, as such, bears a striking resemblance to the reception analysis and oppositional readings of cultural studies (Reese, 2001).

According to Hertog & McLeod (2001), frames help determine the relevance of content to a discussion of a social concern; define roles actors play; outline ways beliefs, values, and actions are related; influence symbolic representation of a topic, including language use, sentence structure, and “code” words and privilege certain goals and ethics over others.

The 1960s were a period of rapid transition in the situation of lesbians and gay men in dominant culture.

Both instances of the word “homosexual” are as adjectives, modifying “depravity” and “behavior.” Thus, the only distinguishing subcommunity to which the men belonged appears to be “deviates” (Gaynor, 1962).

A second frame for which evidence can be found in the article effectively renders gay men as sub-human.

Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003).

Mansfield Ohio Tearoom Busts. Perhaps more importantly, lesbians and gays are now more active in the discursive construction of their identities, thanks to the proliferation of both media technologies and content choices that have disrupted the roles of dominant media organizations and political elites in framing issues surrounding them.

According to a federal complaint, investigators linked Porter to the East Coast case through internet, phone, online payment, and other records.

When agents searched Porter’s home, they “observed an office with an overabundance of unorganized personal items” that included an array of videotapes, discs, and cassettes, the complaint said.

Some of the recordings “contain what appeared to be surreptitiously recorded videos of a locker room, focusing on what appeared to be underage boys, some of which were nude,” an FBI agent wrote.

“In one of these videos, the individual physically resembling Porter is seen washing a prepubescent male child, lowering his shorts, and washing his” private areas, according to the 2020 complaint.

Agents also allegedly found receipts in Porter’s home from a “spy store” for a keychain DVR and miniature camera DVR.

Porter tried to get the federal charges thrown out, arguing that the locker room videos were not pornographic.

These “others,” the viewer was told, must be known, “The quick solution to a crime such as this is possible only when the police department knows their sex deviants,” and monitored, “We must know the sex deviants in our community. (1976, July 2). Lance Loud. Entman (1993) has noted that to frame “is to select some aspects of a perceived reality and make them more salient in a communicating text, in such a way as to promote a particular problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or treatment recommendation” (52).