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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Editors' introduction -- PART I: Young people, sexuality and gender performance: Texts and audiences -- 1. Feminist YouTubers in Spain: A public space for building resistance -- 2. Un/fit for young viewers: LGBT+ representation in Flemish and Irish children's television -- 3. Breaking the silence: Young people, sex information and the internet in Italy and Portugal -- 4. COVID-19 pandemic and discourses of anxiety about childhood sexuality in digital spaces -- PART II: Adults, sexuality, gender and the media in research perspective -- 5. HIV-related stigma in the European cinema: Conflictive representations of a cultural trauma -- 6. Build it and they will come: Sex toys, heteronormativity and age -- 7. Fuelling hate: Hate speech towards women in online news websites in Albania -- 8. 'Tell me how old I am': Cinema, pedagogy, adults and underage trans folks -- PART III: Elderly have a voice(?): Sexuality, gender and the media across texts and audiences -- 9. Invisible aged femininities in popular culture: Representational strategies deconstructed -- 10. 'Old dirty pops and young hot chicks': Age differences in pornographic fantasies -- 11. Hustling and ageism in the films Eastern Boys and Brüder der Nacht -- 12. Ageing women on screen: Disgust, disdain and the Time's Up pushback -- 13. No Country for Old Men?: Representations of the ageing body in contemporary pornography -- Index.

"Women's rights" and "gender equality" are not straightforward or neutral terms. Competing political projects define them in different ways. The articles in this Special Section show how the struggle to define gender equality and women's rights has played out in different moments and in different types of media during the past hundred years in Turkey. The articles cover a range of historical and contemporary issues about women's rights and gender equality. This Special Section contributes to our understanding of institutional structures, actors and relationships, and media texts that shape the landscape of women's rights and gender equality in Turkey. In this introduction, I present the contributions and provide a summary of debates on gender and media in Turkey today.

In this article we bring a critical social-psychological approach to the study of sexual citizenship. This approach seeks to understand how citizenship is constructed through ideological resources and negotiated in local contexts. We do so by studying newspaper representations of the Civil Union (CU) law in the Cypriot context. This law represented a major legal development for a largely heteronormative, patriarchic social context and sparked debate around sexual rights in general. We analysed 82 opinion articles that appeared in four newspapers of different political orientations between 2011 and 2015, through thematic and critical discourse analysis. The analysis revealed that CU was debated in terms of two oppositional themes. The first theme debated whether CU protects universal rights or introduces special rights, which are either not deserved or create inequality. The second theme approached the CU law as a sign of a much-needed societal progress or as a sign of decline and national degeneration. We show how these themes draw upon two broader ideological dilemmas, that of universalism versus particularism and that of Occidentalism versus Orientalism, and discuss the implications of these ideological streams in constructing the boundaries of citizenship for LGBT+ in this context.

Construccio?n de rutinas espaciales y sus efectos en las dina?micas de inclusio?n-exclusio?n del activismo LGBT de Córdoba, ArgentinaEl presente arti?culo explora la relacio?n entre espacialidad y accio?n poli?tica al inte- rior del movimiento LGTB de Co?rdoba, Argentina. Se focaliza en la construccio?n de rutinas espaciales como determinante de la estratificacio?n social en el activismo LGTB. Considerando la trayectoria de los diversos grupos en la militancia –activistas histo?ricos vs. recientes– se indagan usos diferenciales del espacio y sus representaciones, asi? como sus efectos sobre las dina?micas de inclusio?n-exclusio?n en una accio?n poli?tica concreta: la primera marcha local del Orgullo y la Diversidad realizada en noviembre de 2009. Los datos generados mediante registro de observaciones de campo y entrevistas revelan que la emergencia de nuevos grupos de activistas a finales de la presente de?cada implico? un desplazamiento de las rutinas espaciales desde la periferia al centro de la ciudad. Este proceso conlleva dina?micas de inclusio?n-exclusio?n que determinan la estructura social del activismo, condicionando el objetivo de lograr una convocatoria integrada por un amplio espectro social de participantes.Palabras claves: activismo LGTB; Marcha del Orgullo y la Diversidad; usos sociales del espacio; movimientos sociales; ciudadani?a sexual.Construc?a?o de rotinas espaciais e seus efeitos nas dina?micas de inclusa?o-exclusa?o do ativismo LGTB de Córdoba, ArgentinaO presente artigo explora a relac?a?o entre espacialidade e ac?a?o poli?tica no interior do movimento LGTB de Co?rdoba, Argentina. Focaliza-se na construc?a?o de rotinas espaciais como determinante da estratificac?a?o social no ativismo LGTB. Considerando a trajeto?ria dos diversos grupos na milita?ncia – ativistas histo?ricos vs. recentes – indagam-se usos diferenciais do espac?o e suas representac?o?es, assim como seus efeitos sobre as dina?micas de inclusa?o-exclusa?o em uma ac?a?o poli?tica concreta: a primeira marcha local do Orgulho e da Diversidade realizada em novembro de 2009. Os dados gerados mediante registro de observac?o?es de campo e entrevistas revelam que a emerge?ncia de novos grupos de ativistas, nos finais da presente de?cada, implicou um deslocamento das rotinas espaciais da periferia para o centro da cidade. Esse processo acarreta dina?micas de inclusa?o-exclusa?o que determinam a estrutura social do ativismo, condicionando o objetivo de se conseguir uma convocato?ria integrada por um amplo espectro social de participantes.Palavras-chave: ativismo LGTB; Marcha do Orgulho e da Diversidade; usos sociais do espac?o; movimentos sociais; cidadania sexualSpatial routines and inclusion/exclusion dynamics among LGBT activists in Co?rdoba, ArgentinaIn this paper we explore the relations between social space and political action, as present in the case of the LGTB movement in the province capital of Co?rdoba, Argentina. We focus on the construction of spatial routines as a determinant of social stratification among LGTB activists. By looking at the activist track of different groups, characterized as 'historical vs. recent', we analyze different uses and representations of space, and their effects on the inclusion-exclusion dynamics at play in a concrete instance political action: the first local "Pride and Sexual Diversity March", in November, 2009. Field observation records and interviews with activists show how the emergence of new activist groups in the late 1990's produced a displacement of spatial routines from the periphery to the downtown area. This process generated a dynamics of inclusion/exclusion which reproduces a social stratification of activism, compromising the goal of broadening the social spectrum of participants.Keywords: LGBT activism; LGBT Pride Parade; social uses of space; social movements; sexual citizenship

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This paper aims to demonstrate how the various declinations of public and private dissent represented in a contemporary work of African literature, The Death of Vivek Oji (2020) by Akwaeke Emezi, can be read as an instance of literature's world-making capacity. As the novel's title anticipates, The Death of Vivek Oji reconstructs the life of its eponymous protagonist and the events that led to their death (Vivek is a non-binary, transgender person and both male and female pronouns are used to refer to them). Emezi's novel is set in Nigeria during the late 1990s and the narrative actively engages in a representation of the socio-political situation of the country back then, covering the impact that the sudden death of the head of state, Sani Abacha, had on the population. Throughout the novel, dissent is depicted on two levels: on the one hand, it appears as an expression of democratic desire through the public protests against the country's politics, as well as acts of violence against and among ethno-religious groups; on the other hand, there is also a parallel representation of private dissent in terms of the affirmation of one's own identity. Vivek's decision to not cut their long hair becomes, therefore, a form of personal opposition against society's pre-imposed gendered constructs. In this sense, if the social stigma attached to members of the LGBT community is personified by the incapacity of Vivek's parents to accept and understand their non-binary child, Vivek's friends represent a communal act of resistance against such an oppressive social system. Ultimately, the opposition between public and private dissent finds its climax in Vivek's death, in its causes and consequences. Building the critical analysis of the novel upon recent conceptualisations of literature as an active force that provokes dissent (Cheah 2016, Burns 2019), this paper demonstrates how Emezi's narrative uses representations of public and private dissent to contest the current world in order to engage in the construction of a more equal one.

An ever-expanding and panicked Wonder Woman lurches through a city skyline begging Steve to stop her. A twisted queen of sorority row crashes her convertible trying to escape her queer shame. A suave butch emcee introduces the sequined and feathered stars of the era's most celebrated drag revue. For an unsettled and retrenching postwar America, these startling figures betrayed the failure of promised consensus and appeasing conformity. They could also be cruel, painful, and disciplinary jokes. It turns out that an obsession with managing gender and female sexuality after the war would hardly contain them. On the contrary, it spread their campy manifestations throughout mainstream culture. Offering the first major consideration of lesbian camp in American popular culture, Suffering Sappho! traces a larger-than-life lesbian menace across midcentury media forms to propose five prototypical queer icons-the sicko, the monster, the spinster, the Amazon, and the rebel. On the pages of comics and sensational pulp fiction and the dramas of television and drive-in movies, Barbara Jane Brickman discovers evidence not just of campy sexual deviants but of troubling female performers, whose failures could be epic but whose subversive potential could inspire. Supplemental images of interest related to this title: George and Lomas; Connie Minerva; Cat On Hot Tin; and Beulah and Oriole

This article examines how New Zealand activists in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community of the 1960s and 1970s worked to co-create their own media representation and production. Through the memories of 29 activists who were involved in the LGBT political movement of the time, this article explores how LGBT communities used potentially harmful media stereotypes to their own advantage and how they worked to purposefully manage their representation as well as media production. Activists depended on diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational framing to amplify, extend, bridge, and transform what it meant to be LGBTQ in New Zealand. At the time, the media represented a very mainstream, and conservative, vision of the LGBT community. The media frames and media representations used at the time were systematic processes to reaffirm intended realities of social, economic and political power. The early work of these activists managed to change their intended reality through dogged determination.

En la última década, la producción cultural muestra la eclosión de nuevos fenómenos sociales, desde enunciación de la crisis del sujeto, la familia y el Estado, hasta la arenga de un mundo sin ideologías o grandes discursos que den cuenta del panorama social. Un caso de ello son los grupos queer en Bogotá y los procesos de construcción conceptual y política que su presencia indiscutible planea. El artículo está dividido en tres partes: la primera es una caracterización y contextualización teórico de lo queer y su relación con lo LGBT, la segunda, es el análisis desde las tensiones y paradojas presentes en la representación social de estos actores como forma de compresión epistemológica de sus dinámicas y, por último, las conclusiones, que, en este territorio antiesencialista, de nociones líquidas, busca ser un punto de reflexión y no de exégesis. ; Cultural production in the last decade shows the emergence of new social phenomena, the enunciation of the crisis of the individual, the family and the Government, and others from the discourse of a world without ideologies or big speeches that portray the social panorama. A case is that of queer groups in Bogota and the conceptual and political construction processes planned by their undeniable presence. The article is divided in three parts: the first is a characterization and contextualization of the 'queer' and its relationship to the LGBT on a theoretical level. The second is an analysis based on the tensions and paradoxes in the social representations of these actors as a way to understand their dynamics in an epistemological way. The third and final part presents the conclusions that aim to be a point of reflection and not of exegesis in this anti-essentialist territory.

Ghassan Moussawi's Disruptive Situations challenges the exceptionalist representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) experiences in Beirut through a focus on the everyday queer strategies and tactics. Moussawi analyzes the everyday practices of LGBT interlocutors navigating al-wad' (the situation), a term that refers to the normative order of disruptions, precarity, and instability that permeate daily life across contemporary Beirut. Al-wad' simultaneously features as a historical condition of perpetual instability bearing on daily life in Beirut, as well as a lens to analyze the practices of everyday life for Moussawi's LGBT interlocutors. Moussawi's inductive ethnographic approach charts the strategic use of identities, visibility, and "bubbles" or sources of solace in order to challenge exceptionalist representations of Beirut and LGBT experiences in the city. Moussawi critiques these reductive representations as "fractal orientalism", a reductive representation that embeds hierarchies and exclusion through geographic associations, such as in fashioning Beirut as the "Paris of the Middle East". Beirut becomes charming and "cosmopolitan" in a way that is similar to, but not quite, the same as Paris. Moussawi's focus on queer daily practices against the backdrop of al-wad' shows the limitations of these reductive representations in an effort to reimagine queerness, subjectivity, and politics.

Based on conversations with and publications of Samir Amin, the article explores connections between his ideas on global political strategy and sexual self-determination. One of the questions is about struggles related to homosexuality in Africa. To what extent did he believe that some of the demands for sexual self-determination, including certain forms of feminism and LGBT rights, were so overly embedded in Eurocentrism that they were not fully suitable for popular struggles in many parts of the Global South? The question is framed in the context of state-centric conceptions of the political. Even if some of the analysis includes a critical tone toward his strategical options, it also highlights the continuing importance of Samir Amin as a point of reference for future struggles to create transnational and global instruments for democratic transformations. ; Peer reviewed

In this article we provide an overview of international lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) psychology. We first highlight some international milestones of LGBT issues, followed by a discussion of the impact of LGBT psychology globally, including topics of the nature of sexual orientation and gender identity, sexual and gender identity development, depathologisation and decriminalisation of LGBT persons, discrimination and oppression, work discrimination and career issues, military service, HIV/AIDS prevention and intervention, same-sex relationships and marriages, parenting rights, LGBT children and youth, cultural diversity and intersectionality of identities, media representation issues, training of mental health service providers, conversion therapy, and policy statements and social justice advocacy of professional organisations. We conclude the article with a proposed future agenda for education and training, research, practise, and advocacy.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have been largely absent from dominant social debates in Cyprus. In a socially conservative country, with prevailing heteronormative and patriarchic norms, discussion around issues of sexuality in general and sexual orientation in particular, has been taboo. This has resulted in a lack of visibility and meaningful social and media debate around LGBT people and issues that concern them (Tryfonidou, 2017). From 2010 onward issues of discrimination and harassment towards LGBT started becoming increasingly discussed in the public arena. Relevant legal developments, accelerated by the 2004 Republic of Cyprus's (RoC) accession into the European Union (henceforth EU) and by the pioneering of the LGBT NGO called ACCEPT, led to more visibility of LGBT issues in the public sphere (Phellas, Kapsou, Epameinonda, 2014), reflected also in increasing media attention (Kapsou, Christophi & Epaminonda, 2011). Events such as the Pride Festivals from 2014 onwards, contributed significantly in promoting public attention around LGBT issues. Despite these important developments, the social debate remains limited and polarized and is frequently driven by statements of important public figures, and predominantly by Church representatives. These figures often promote a representation of same-sex relationships as highly deviant, abnormal and problematic and thus contribute to an ongoing marginalization and discrimination of LGBT people. The social climate around LGBT issues also reflects that there is room for improving social acceptance and respect of LGBT rights (European Commission, 2015) while there are still pressing legal issues to be addressed (Tryfonidou, 2017). Although academic attention around these issues has increased significantly during the last few years (i.e. Kamenou, 2012; Onoufriou, 2009; Phellas, 2005), there is still need for scientific, empirically grounded research. Our aim in this report is to provide an empirically-grounded examination of the ways that media ...

Cultural production in the last decade shows the emergence of new social phenomena, the enunciation of the crisis of the individual, the family and the Government, and others from the discourse of a world without ideologies or big speeches that portray the social panorama. A case is that of queer groups in Bogota and the conceptual and political construction processes planned by their undeniable presence. The article is divided in three parts: the first is a characterization and contextualization of the 'queer' and its relationship to the LGBT on a theoretical level. The second is an analysis based on the tensions and paradoxes in the social representations of these actors as a way to understand their dynamics in an epistemological way. The third and final part presents the conclusions that aim to be a point of reflection and not of exegesis in this anti-essentialist territory. ; En la última década, la producción cultural muestra la eclosión de nuevos fenómenos sociales, desde enunciación de la crisis del sujeto, la familia y el Estado, hasta la arenga de un mundo sin ideologías o grandes discursos que den cuenta del panorama social. Un caso de ello son los grupos queer en Bogotá y los procesos de construcción conceptual y política que su presencia indiscutible planea. El artículo está dividido en tres partes: la primera es una caracterización y contextualización teórico de lo queer y su relación con lo LGBT, la segunda, es el análisis desde las tensiones y paradojas presentes en la representación social de estos actores como forma de compresión epistemológica de sus dinámicas y, por último, las conclusiones, que, en este territorio antiesencialista, de nociones líquidas, busca ser un punto de reflexión y no de exégesis.