Queering the Interview

Plummer, Kenneth; Kong, Travis S. K.; Mahoney, Dan

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“…Kong et al (2002) advocate for a "queer methodology", going beyond traditional "homosexual research" where the subject is perceived as the "other," which reinforces its exclusion and subordination to a hetero-centered regime of power. For this research, we attempted to "queer the interview" in order to avoid the trope of a "coming-out" story as the focal point of research.…”

Section: Methods: Reaching Participant Subjectivitymentioning

confidence: 98%

Coming out and coming back: Rural gay migration and the city

Annes¹,

Redlin²

2012

Journal of Rural Studies

117

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International audienceKeywords: Gay migration Rural/urban binary Gay male identity Grounded theory Life narrative a b s t r a c t This research focuses on the complex meaning and role of the city in American and French rural gay men's imaginary and life experience. It explores how gay men who grew up in the country build their sense of self through back-and-forth movement from rural to urban spaces. Therefore, it questions traditional gay migration studies, which have often equated gay migration and ruraleurban migration, positing a unidirectional pattern. After contextualizing rural male homosexuality, this paper presents four life itineraries which highlight the central role the city has for rural gay men when exploring their same-sex desires and attractions. Based on the analysis of their life narratives, we show that for most of them, their coming out, their first same-sex experience, and coming to terms with their sexuality happens " far from home " in a city or a college town. However, this research suggests that the city has a more ambivalent role for rural gay men. While the city exists as a space of social practices where alternative sexualities can be experienced and explored, at the same time for many rural gay men the city remains substantially unattractive. In their view, the perceived " effeminizing power " of the city questions and challenges their attraction for this space. Therefore, the experience of the city becomes both liberating and disciplinary e liberating because it allows the exploration of their same-sex desires and attractions, disciplinary because it (re)presents a gay identity in which they find no resonance. Thus this research indicates that rural gay migration to the urban spaces, which is key to identity formation, includes not only departure to the city but also a necessary return to the country to maintain rural gay men's understanding of themselves

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Section: Methods: Reaching Participant Subjectivitymentioning

confidence: 98%

Coming out and coming back: Rural gay migration and the city

Annes¹,

Redlin²

2012

Journal of Rural Studies

117

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“…As mentioned above, with reference to Kong et al (2001), we recognise that interview data is co-constructed and situated. In other words, this study does not make any claim to uncover 'true' versions of participants' work realities.…”

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“…Loosely structuring the interview exchange meant that the agency of the interviewee was given primacy. From a queer theory perspective, we recognise that while interview data is co-constructed and situated, it can also be marred by heteronormativity with the effect of silencing LGBT voices (Kong et al, 2001). To overcome this, the interviews were carried out by the second author, himself a gay man, and it was felt that a shared sexual identity helped to engender participation, encouraging many participants to talk openly about their experiences.…”

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Gay men in the performing arts: Performing sexualities within ‘gay-friendly’ work contexts

Rumens

Broomfield

2014

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An open access repository of Middlesex University research http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk Rumens, Nick and Broomfield, John (2014) Gay men in the performing arts: performing sexualities within 'gay-friendly' work contexts. Organization, 21 (3). pp. 365-382. ISSN 1350-5084 Final accepted version (with author's formatting)This version is available at: http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/15539/ Copyright:Middlesex University Research Repository makes the University's research available electronically.Copyright and moral rights to this work are retained by the author and/or other copyright owners unless otherwise stated. The work is supplied on the understanding that any use for commercial gain is strictly forbidden. A copy may be downloaded for personal, non-commercial, research or study without prior permission and without charge.Works, including theses and research projects, may not be reproduced in any format or medium, or extensive quotations taken from them, or their content changed in any way, without first obtaining permission in writing from the copyright holder(s). They may not be sold or exploited commercially in any format or medium without the prior written permission of the copyright holder(s).Full bibliographic details must be given when referring to, or quoting from full items including the author's name, the title of the work, publication details where relevant (place, publisher, date), pagination, and for theses or dissertations the awarding institution, the degree type awarded, and the date of the award.If you believe that any material held in the repository infringes copyright law, please contact the Repository Team at Middlesex University via the following email address:eprints@mdx.ac.ukThe item will be removed from the repository while any claim is being investigated.See also repository copyright: re-use policy: http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/policies.html#copy Gay men in the performing arts: performing sexualities within 'gay-friendly' work contexts AbstractBuilding on emerging research on 'gay-friendly' organisations, this article examines if and how work contexts understood and experienced as 'gay-friendly' can be characterised as exhibiting a serious breakdown in heteronormativity. Taking the performing arts as a research setting, one that is often stereotyped as 'gay-friendly', and drawing on in-depth interview data with 20 gay male performers in the UK, this article examines how everyday activities and encounters involving drama school educators, casters and peers are shaped by heteronormative standards of gay male sexuality. Adopting a queer theory perspective and connecting with an emergent queer theory literature in organisation studies, one concern articulated in this article is that heteronormative constructions of gay male sexualities constrain participants' access to work; suggesting limits to the abilities and roles gay men possess and are able to play. Another concern is that when gay male sexualities become normalised in performing work contexts, they reinforce organisational heteronormativity an...

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“…The research project that I am currently involved in is about understanding the poor prognostic outcomes for prostate cancer in the African Caribbean and African community. In order to overcome problems of my outsider status with this 'hard to reach' population, I have followed guidelines for good practice (Kong et al, 2003;Wheeler, 2003), which include: familiarising myself with the issues around the marginalisation of the participants in this context; carefully outlining the motivations behind the study and stipulating how the findings will be used; including public participation in the grant application; and consultations about the design of the research with key black and ethnic minority community members such as doctors, and others leading the field at a grass roots level. It is hoped that conducting the research in this way will aid recruitment and result in meaningful outcomes for the members.…”

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The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender

Richards¹,

Barker²

2015

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Queering the Interview

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Coming out and coming back: Rural gay migration and the city

Coming out and coming back: Rural gay migration and the city

Gay men in the performing arts: Performing sexualities within ‘gay-friendly’ work contexts

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