Must Identity Movements Self-Destruct? A Queer Dilemma

Gamson, Joshua

doi:10.1525/sp.1995.42.3.03x0104z

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“…Gamson (1995) notes that "the presence of visibly transgendered people, people who do not quite fit, potentially subverts the notion of two naturally fixed genders; the presence of people with ambiguous sexual desires potentially subverts the notion of naturally fixed sexual orientations" (p. 399). In this kind of truly queered environment, what happens to those invested in set definitions, set understandings of sexuality (whether heteroor homo-normative)?…”

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Transgender as Ingroup or Outgroup? Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Viewers Respond to a Transgender Character in Daytime Television

Morrison

2010

Journal of Homosexuality

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From November 2006 to April 2007, the daytime drama All My Children featured Zoe, the first transitioning transgender character on broadcast television. Acknowledging historical tension within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community over transgender acceptance, this study examines how lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) viewers of All My Children reacted to this character. LGB viewers were more likely to dislike the character than non-LGB viewers, yet were also more trans-supportive than non-LGB viewers. Further evaluation suggests LGB viewers' negative response to Zoe was tied not to the transgender status of the character but specifically to unhappiness with a plot development seen to threaten the identity of the lesbian character, Bianca. Applications of social identity theory and implications for community politics are discussed.

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Section: Results Of the Research Surveys Indicate A Conflictedmentioning

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Transgender as Ingroup or Outgroup? Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Viewers Respond to a Transgender Character in Daytime Television

Morrison

2010

Journal of Homosexuality

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“…Frames motivate agency (Benford, 1993). They pattern subsequent action (Gamson, 1995). And they provide adherents and opponents with compelling accounts that both motivate and justify their beliefs and actions.…”

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Value Frame Fusion in Cross Sector Interactions

2010

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“…This tension between normalization and anti-normalization approaches has a long history (Epstein, 1998;Gamson, 1995). As Elizabeth Armstrong (2002) A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 10 largely adopted an interest group political approach which assumed that society was fundamentally functional and that issues could be addressed through existing democratic channels.…”

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Welcoming Diversity? Symbolic Boundaries and the Politics of Normativity in Kansas City’s LGBTQ Communities

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2015

Journal of Homosexuality

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Using document analysis and ethnographic field work, this article examines the debate within the LGBTQ community of Kansas City over the decision to hold its Pride festival in the Power and Light District (P&L), a renewed downtown area with a controversial dress code. Despite the developers' and city's goals of creating a cosmopolitan urban space that welcomed diverse populations, the P&L acquired a reputation as an anti-Black, anti-queer space due to its dress code and redevelopment history. I argue that the debate surrounding this controversy reveals limits to notions of diversity and diverging approaches to sexual politics within the LGBTQ community that are normally obscured by political actors within the movement but that work to create symbolic boundaries that exclude "non-respectable" members of the LGBTQ population. Recovering queer perspectives allows us to imagine a more capacious definition of diversity and inclusion, both within the LGBTQ movement and in urban space.

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Must Identity Movements Self-Destruct? A Queer Dilemma

Cited by 174 publications

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Transgender as Ingroup or Outgroup? Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Viewers Respond to a Transgender Character in Daytime Television

Transgender as Ingroup or Outgroup? Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Viewers Respond to a Transgender Character in Daytime Television

Value Frame Fusion in Cross Sector Interactions

Welcoming Diversity? Symbolic Boundaries and the Politics of Normativity in Kansas City’s LGBTQ Communities

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