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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#333333;background:white">Dear CSAA colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#333333;background:white">You may be interested in this new open access article in
<i>Continuum</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#333333;background:white">‘Australian audience reactions to the ABC’s broadcast of Tales of the City, as seen in the Green Guide letters’:
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2025.2522120">https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2025.2522120</a></span><span style="background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;background:white">Abstract</span><span style="background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#333333;background:white">When Tales of the City (1993) was broadcast to Australian audiences on the public service broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in 1994, it brought a story that substantially
featured representations of gay men to our small screen. That broadcast was followed by a series of eight letters to the Green Guide – a weekly television guide circulated with The Age newspaper based in Victoria, Australia – that debated the value of these
stories appearing onscreen. This article examines the Green Guide letters published as reactions to Tales, providing insight into public attitudes towards gay representations at the time. It analyses how the mediated debate that took place was a curated version
of public opinions about sexually diverse representations. It argues how this public debate through letters published in the media highlights the significance of such stories appearing onscreen for both gay men and broader communities alike. Further, it argues
the role of the ABC as a public service broadcaster in bringing such complex gay stories to Australian viewers, that other commercial networks may have resisted at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#333333;background:white">Best regards,<br>
Damien<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://academics.rmit.edu.au/damien-omeara"><span style="color:#467886">Dr Damien O'Meara</span></a>
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">[pronounced Oh-Mah-Rah] (he/him)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Lecturer, Public Relations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">School of Media and Communication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">RMIT University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">CRICOS Provider Code: 00122A<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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