ABSTRACT
Joshua Gamson is a Professor of Sociology at the University of San Francisco. He is the
author of Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America (California, 1994), Freaks Talk
Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity (Chicago, 1998), and The Fabulous Sylvester:
The Legend, The Music, The Seventies in San Francisco (Henry Holt, 2005).
