Outrageous: The Queer History of Australian TV - Paperback
Outrageous: The Queer History of Australian TV - Paperback
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by Andrew Mercado (Author)
Outrageous is a history of queer Australian TV from its earliest days to the late 1990s. This was a time that saw the dominance of just four broadcast channels dictating what the public watched and when. It was a time of scheduled viewing that led to the introduction of home VHS, but which was yet to see the explosion of cable television, the internet, and streaming services. As Andrew Mercado recounts this history - from some significant early programs to Number 96, The Box and beyond - he explores how the queer and broader communities responded, and some of the reasons why Australia went from being the first country in the world to show queer people on TV, to then having none, and pretending it never happened.
Acclaimed TV Historian Andrew Mercado explores this forgotten history as seen on classic shows like Prisoner, Fast Forward, A Country Practice, The Flying Doctors, The Box, Homicide and Four Corners.
