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Steven Capsuto earned a B.A. in Spanish from Rutgers University in 1986, with a double minor in U.S. History and Mass Media & Journalism. Since 1989, he has been presenting video-illustrated lectures about how television portrays lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lives.
He began
researching the media's LGBT images in the late 1980s, while
volunteering at a crisis hotline. Many of the callers were suicidal
gay teens who had built their self-image on the grim depictions seen on television at that time.
His book, Alternate Channels, traces the radical changes in queer imagery on radio and TV from 1930 to 2000. It has a five-star rating on Amazon.com and was a semifinalist for a 2001 ALA Book Award. Alternate Channels has
been used in college courses and is widely cited by other researchers and authors.
Steven
has contributed related articles to periodicals and reference books, has presented LGBT-history papers at academic conferences in several countries, and served on the research teams for documentaries seen on PBS and Bravo cable (including The Question of Equality and TV Revolution).
He was the
head archivist of the GLBT Archives of Philadelphia from 1997 to
2003, and has been involved in LGBT equality causes since the 1980s.
By day, he is a
full-time professional translator, mainly translating texts into
English from Catalan, French, Portuguese and
Spanish.
The images of TV shows are the property of their respective production or distribution companies, and are used here for illustrative purposes in a context of education and commentary.Site layout and all original text © 2009 by Steven Capsuto. Visual style designed by Thomas McGrath.
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