Spaghetti Sissies Queering Italian American Media

Preface, Split Tomato Sauce
by Tommi Avicolli Mecca, writer, singer/songwriter, activist, and editor of
Smash the Church, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation. - Introduction by Sole Anatrone and Julia Heim. - Coming Out and Leaving Home: Cultural Friction in the Italian American Kitchen
by Eilis Kierans, PhD candidate in Italian Studies at Rutgers University, USA. -
Passion and Pulp: Impossible Families
by Clarissa Clò, PhD, Professor and Chair, and Director of the Italian Studies Program, in the Department of European Studies at San Diego State University, USA. -
Queer Categorical Miscegenation: Sexuality, Race, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Victor Bumbalo s Niagara Falls and Questa
by John Champagne, PhD, Professor of English at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, USA. -
I would like to be a spoiled rich white girl
by Nick Boston, PhD,

associate professor of media sociology at Lehman College, USA. -
Lifestyles of the Gay and Mobster
by Julia Heim, PhD, Lecturer in Italian at University of Pennsylvania, USA. -
Queering the Guido or Guidoing the Queer? Performing Gender and Identity on Comedy Television
by Carmelo Galati, PhD, Associate Professor of Instruction and Co-Director of the Italian Studies Program at Temple University, USA. -

Time to come out, girl! : Queering Italian American Sexuality on TV Land s
Younger
by Aria Cabot, PhD,

Director of the World Languages and Literatures Teaching and Technology Center at Southern Methodist University, USA. -
Spotlights:
These spotlights are short, autobiographical pieces that appear throughout the book, interspersed between the chapters, serving as both a break from the more scholarly work, and a look at what it means to live as a queer Italian American media-maker. The authors whoare all involved in media in a variety of ways reflect on how their identities as Italian Americans, and as LGBTQIA+ identified peoples influence each other and their work. Contributors:. -
Rita Houston & Laura Fedele (radio personality and producer). - Annie Lanzilotto (author, playwright). - Dana Piccoli (entertainment writer and pop culture critic). - Katelynn Cusanelli (reality TV star). - Norman Korpi (reality TV star). - Mitch del Monico (director). - Julio Gambuto (director and author).