The gay-friendly closet

Williams, Christine L.; Giuffre, Patti; Dellinger, Kirsten

doi:10.1525/srsp.2009.6.1.29

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“…For instance, a scholarly approach that aims to illuminate and enumerate the distinctive qualities, experiences, and behaviors of sexual minorities in the workplace necessarily draws critical attention to the more elusive sexual majority. Scholars from across the disciplines have recently observed that heterosexuality is as constructed as a marked counterpart to homosexuality (Valocchi, 2005;Williams et al, 2009). But majority sexualities in organizations have received even less sustained, focused attention than their minority counterparts.…”

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“…Others document a new "homonormativity" that tolerates disclosure of a minority sexual identity but punishes those who chose to more fully enact their sexual identity at work (Williams, Giuffre, & Dellinger, 2009). …”

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“…One exception exists in research that has mobilised critical theories to interrogate the 'gayfriendly organisation' (Giuffre et al, 2008;Williams et al, 2009;Williams and Giuffre, 2011 LGB employees could actually be at work, not least in terms of how they should dress and behave.…”

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“…As Williams et al (2009) argue, even in workplaces LGB employees described as gay-friendly, heteronormative power relations continue to exert a harmful influence, reproducing normative standards about what is 'normal' and what is 'abnormal' manifestations of homosexuality.…”

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“…In light of this and the argument that sexuality is central to organisational power relations in all their numerous forms (Burrell, 1984;Hearn et al, 1989;Brewis and Linstead, 2000), which itself turns on the idea that sexuality and organisation exist in a mutually influencing dynamic, it is of considerable interest that some contemporary organisational forms have been labelled 'gay-friendly'. Such organisations are, so the argument seductively goes, more hospitable and welcoming environments for LGBT sexualities (Correia and Kleiner, 2001), and some research does appear to support this assertion but, crucially, only up to a point (Williams et al, 2009;Giuffre et al, 2008;Williams and Giuffre, 2011).…”

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

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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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Desexualization

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Caviness

2016

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies

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Desexualization is the process by which sexuality is extracted from an identity (or presentation of self), interaction, setting, or discourse. Application of the term is contextual, and its meaning varies based on several factors, including who does the desexualizing, who (or what behavior) is desexualized, and why the desexualization occurs. Individuals can desexualize themselves through how they dress or behave. Cultures, governments, and workplaces can desexualize via laws, policies, and norms. This entry describes the varied meanings and consequences of desexualization in three areas of research: workplaces, rape, and sex education.

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The gay-friendly closet

Cited by 76 publications

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The shifting landscape of LGBT organizational research

The shifting landscape of LGBT organizational research

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

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