In Pursuit of The Emerald City

This article works to unpack the sociocultural significance of The Emerald City , the world's first regularly scheduled gay television show (airing on Manhattan Cable's Channel J from late 1976 to 1978). Focusing primarily on the show's magazine format—its construction as a series of tenuously related segments spanning the humorous, the informative, the political, and the mundane—the article considers the relationship between this particular mode of televisual address and the cultures of gay liberation flourishing concurrently. Ultimately, it proposes that the show's digressive format enabled the communication of an expanded idea of what it meant to be gay in the late 1970s, establishing a queer political agenda both multiplicitous and coalitional

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