LGBTQ visibility, media and sexuality in Ireland

Kerrigan, Páraic

doi:10.4324/9780429344558-1

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“…More recent studies, however, suggest that homophobia has resurged within the UK press (Lovelock, 2018). Although the mainstream Irish media sector has by and large offered affirmative depictions of LGBTQ identities, particularly in relation to the 2015 marriage equality referendum (Kerrigan, 2020;Kerrigan, 2021a;Kerrigan, 2021b;O'Brien and Kerrigan, 2020), we assert that homophobic news narratives emerged in relation to Varadkar during his tenure as Taoiseach. The subjection of openly LGBTQ political leaders in Ireland to such treatment can be traced back to gay rights pioneer David Norris, who was subjected to homophobic Irish press accounts during his 2011 presidential campaign (see Jackson, 2011).…”

Section: The Homoheroic: a Definitionmentioning

confidence: 66%

“…These leaders' profiles align with respectability politics, which is often critiqued for its assimilationist tendencies. Homonormative respectability has often been considered the price of political life, deemed necessary for electoral success (Kerrigan, 2020). In the case of these European leaders, along with Buttigieg and Lightfoot in the US, stable monogamous partnerships and traditional family contexts have become inseparable from their homoheroic narratives.…”

Section: The Implications Of Homoheroismmentioning

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Homoheroic or homophobic? Leo Varadkar, LGBTQ politics and contemporary news narratives

Kerrigan

Pramaggiore

2021

Critical Studies in Media Communication

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This article explores Irish and international news reporting on the gay Irish politician Leo Varadkar during his term as Irish Prime Minister (2017)(2018)(2019)(2020). Focusing on two media events occurring in 2019first, the outing of Varadkar as a Kylie Minogue fan in the KylieGate scandal and, second, his St. Patrick's Day meeting with then U.S. Vice President Mike Pencethe article argues that the Irish and international media differentially employed both homoheroic and homophobic narratives in their accounts. The article introduces the concept of homoheroism, which exists in tension with lingering homophobic scripts, as a structuring dynamic for understanding the contemporary media's affirmative rendering of the cultural capital associated with being an out LGBTQ politician. Whereas the international press hailed Varadkar as a homoheroic intersectional leader capable of challenging homophobia internationally and forging a progressive internationally respected identity for Ireland, the Irish press treated Varadkar's gay, Indian-Irish identities as evidence of political illegitimacy in coverage laced with anti-gay stereotypes. The Varadkar case speaks more broadly to the emergence of a generation of global political leaders whose LGBTQ status poses challenges for media representation, may raise expectations around homonationalism, and carries geopolitical implications for the branding of the politicians and their countries.

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Section: The Homoheroic: a Definitionmentioning

confidence: 66%

Section: The Implications Of Homoheroismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Homoheroic or homophobic? Leo Varadkar, LGBTQ politics and contemporary news narratives

Kerrigan

Pramaggiore

2021

Critical Studies in Media Communication

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“…Our literature review focused on how PIM/PDA has been used in nonwork contexts, information behavior research in nonwork context as well as for marginalized populations, the history of birth certificates and birth registration in Ireland and the UK, and how the birth certificate has been problematized in other contexts such as adoption and donor conception. The coauthors also brought their knowledge of previous research on sexual minorities in the Irish context (Kerrigan, 2021; Kerrigan & O'Brien, 2018, 2020) and information seeking of donor conceived individuals (Clemens & Cushing, 2010; Cushing, 2010a, 2010b). Both authors developed the interview schedule, which included questions designed to probe the experience of the participant in obtaining a birth certificate or citizenship for their child from Ireland, as well as the participant's understanding of the purpose the birth certificate and the information it should contain.…”

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Personal information management burden: A framework for describing nonwork personal information management in the context of inequality

Cushing

Kerrigan

2022

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This research reports on qualitative interviews with 31 participants who are Irish parents, identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer (LGBQ), and who expressed difficulty in the process of obtaining birth certificates for their children. Our aim was to use personal information management (PIM) and personal digital archiving (PDA) as a lens to explore the invisible work that the Irish government requires of a sexual minority parent group to obtain "equal" treatment in the birth registration and birth certificate process. Our findings suggest overlap with existing information behavior research (IB) that explore invisible information work, IB as a burden, information marginalization, information vulnerability, and information overload, and the everyday in IB. We propose a new framework: personal information burden (PIM-B) which is characterized by additional PIM activities, negative affect, lack of identity self extension to the personal information, and additional information seeking. We propose that a PIM-B may be used as an indicator of inequality in future research.

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“…Similar efforts were made in some cities by the media to 'expose' homosexual activities. To add to this, mainstream media is often used to exploit queer gender identities for economic gains such as increasing television ratings and advertising revenue (Kerrigan, 2020). There are many journalists that are sensitive and sympathetic to the cause of LGBTQ empowerment.…”

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Role Of The Media In An Unequal World: LGBTQ Gender Identity And Portrayal

Randev

2022

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The LGBTQ community has for long been stigmatised in various countries of the world, including India. While the community found acceptance in ancient times, the present society has been less inclusive. The far-reaching influence of the traditional and new media can be utilised to spread awareness about the issues of the minority LGBTQ community. Various efforts such as online campaigns, support groups, cinematic productions as well as coverage of offline initiatives by the media have helped raised awareness in recent times. This paper explores the trends related to gender portrayal of the LGBTQ community in the media and the role of the media in gender identity formation and acceptance.

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LGBTQ visibility, media and sexuality in Ireland

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Homoheroic or homophobic? Leo Varadkar, LGBTQ politics and contemporary news narratives

Homoheroic or homophobic? Leo Varadkar, LGBTQ politics and contemporary news narratives

Personal information management burden: A framework for describing nonwork personal information management in the context of inequality

Role Of The Media In An Unequal World: LGBTQ Gender Identity And Portrayal

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