A “Post-Gay” Era? Media Gaystreaming, Homonormativity, and the Politics of LGBT Integration

Ng, Eve

doi:10.1111/cccr.12013

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“…LGBTQ people but does not fundamentally disrupt queer group experience as linearly progressing; it just pushes postgay into the future (Kulick et al 2017;Meyer 2015;Ng 2013;Pfeffer 2014;Ueno and Gentile 2015). My findings lead me to reject postgay because my participants not only faced challenges in the past but also shared experiences that include joy, openness, sexual fulfillment, and gender transgression before the late 1990s.…”

Section: Scholarship Demonstrates Continuing Challenges Formentioning

confidence: 89%

Queer Integrative Marginalization: LGBTQ Student Integration Strategies at an Elite University

Chica

2019

Socius

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The author draws on the oral histories of 44 LGBTQ Princeton alumni who graduated from 1960 to 2011 to examine student strategies for negotiating marginal identities when integrating into an elite university. Even with greater LGBTQ visibility and resources at the institutional level, LGBTQ students’ experiences and strategies suggest that we question the larger social narrative of linear progress. Across time, students navigate space by highlighting difference to belong as queer students in explicitly LGBTQ circles or muting difference to belong as token queer students in heteronormative circles. Integration of an LGBTQ person does not necessarily mean incorporation of an LGBTQ identity and vice versa. These strategies are largely contingent upon students’ social positions: intersectional identities, structural location, and available models. Student strategies are structurally tempered by queer integrative marginalization: the process of select predominantly elite LGBTQ people’s achieving special status among the heteronormative mainstream.

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Section: Scholarship Demonstrates Continuing Challenges Formentioning

confidence: 89%

Queer Integrative Marginalization: LGBTQ Student Integration Strategies at an Elite University

Chica

2019

Socius

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“…Beyond questions of the veracity of the tenets of post‐gay, we take further issue with the concept itself. As Orne (, p. 4) argues, post‐gay is “a label that is laden with homophobia, as though gay identity is a stage to be transcended.” In this vein, we contend that there is often an implicit endorsement of homonormativity (Duggan, ) in many (though not all) instantiations of the concept (Ng, ). While the version of post‐gay that connotes sexual fluidity and a queerer, more diverse understanding of sexual politics may not be homonormative (e.g., Ghaziani, ), the more common use of post‐gay to reference assimilation and sameness certainly is.…”

Section: The Danger Of Post‐gay Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

The post‐gay debates: Competing visions of the future of homosexualities

Kampler

Connell

2018

Sociology Compass

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Sexualities scholars and cultural critics debate whether or not the United States is moving toward a “post‐gay” future in which sexual orientation will cease to be relevant to a person's social position, life experiences, and conception of self. While some have argued that a post‐gay revolution is underway, others are more skeptical of this claim, particularly for rural, non‐White, poor, and otherwise marginalized queers. Further, recent political shifts may indicate that a backlash to the mainstreaming of nonheterosexualities has begun, meaning any progress of the past that might be labeled post‐gay has stalled or even lost ground in recent years. In addition to the question of whether there has been a post‐gay turn, there is disagreement over whether such a turn should be the end goal of sexualities activism. Some champion a post‐gay ethos as a means to alleviate sexuality‐based discrimination while others critique this kind of assimilation and argue it actually intensifies inequality and stratification. This article explores the history of these post‐gay debates and discovers significant conceptual confusion inherent in the use of the term, which limits its utility as a social scientific concept. In addition, we argue that despite the better intentions of some scholars who take it, the post‐gay position ultimately buttresses homonormative strategies of social and political activism that actively exclude marginalized queer and trans people. We suggest that to the extent the concept of post‐gay remains academically relevant, it is as a descriptor of a particular politics or discourse rather than as a statement of fact about the contemporary era.

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“…Assimilative representations can reinforce stereotypes that silence and obscure difference instead of increasing acceptance of diversity (Barnhurst, 2007). Commercialized gaystreamed (Ng, 2013) content produces a form of LGBTQ visibility marked by the depoliticized activity of consuming products and building lifestyles branded as gay. Berlant and Warner (1998) assert that heteronormativity is not only supported through discourses communicated among people but is also materially embedded in everyday objects.…”

Section: Lgbtq Visibility Through Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer Visibility Through Selfies: Comparing Platform Mediators Across Ruby Rose’s Instagram and Vine Presence

Duguay

2016

Social Media + Society

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This article investigates the relationship between social media platforms and the production and dissemination of selfies in light of its implications for the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) people. Applying an Actor Network Theory lens, two popular visual media apps, Instagram and Vine, are examined through a comparative walkthrough method. This reveals platform elements, or mediators, that can influence the conversational capacity of selfies in terms of the following: range, the variety of discourses addressed within a selfie; reach, circulation within and across publics; and salience, the strength and clarity of discourses communicated through a selfie. These mediators are illustrated through LGBTQ celebrity Ruby Rose's Instagram selfies and Vine videos. Instagram's use expectations encourage selfies focused on mainstream discourses of normative beauty and conspicuous consumption with an emphasis on appearance, extending through features constraining selfies' reach and salience. In contrast, Vine's broader use expectations enable a variety of discourses to be communicated across publics with an emphasis on creative, first-person sharing. These findings are reflected in Rose's Instagram selfies, which mute alternative discourses of gender and sexuality through desexualized and aesthetically appealing self-representations, while Vines display her personal side, enabling both LGBTQ and heterosexual, cisgender people to identify with her without minimizing non-normative aspects of her gender and sexuality. These findings demonstrate the relevance of platforms in shaping selfies' conversational capacity, as mediators can influence whether selfies feature in conversations reinforcing dominant discourses or in counterpublic conversations, contributing to everyday activism that challenges normative gender and sexual discourses.

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A “Post-Gay” Era? Media Gaystreaming, Homonormativity, and the Politics of LGBT Integration

Cited by 184 publications

References 25 publications

Queer Integrative Marginalization: LGBTQ Student Integration Strategies at an Elite University

Queer Integrative Marginalization: LGBTQ Student Integration Strategies at an Elite University

The post‐gay debates: Competing visions of the future of homosexualities

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer Visibility Through Selfies: Comparing Platform Mediators Across Ruby Rose’s Instagram and Vine Presence

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