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In Russia, the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community continues to exist under the pressure of stigmatizing invisibility in the general public discourse, particularly in the mainstream media, which ignore issues related to the advancement of human rights for sexual minorities. In 2013 a nationwide ban on "the propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexualism, and transgenderness among minors" was passed. Designed to broadly cover any non-heterosexual relationships, it prohibits their positive representation. In effect, the ban seriously impedes any public campaigns, in media and otherwise, which aim at the support of the LGBT community. In this situation, the internet, still relatively unrestricted when compared to Russia's traditional media outlets, remains a privileged space for LGBT people to form communities to participate in a meaningful public conversation about their political and social status as well as to discuss a variety of everyday concerns in a fairly non-hostile environment. The present study focuses on a specific case, which is a LiveJournal-based Russian-language blogging community called AntiDogma. A loosely organized grassroots gathering of internet users, AntiDogma is conceived of as an issue public centered on LGBT- related topics and as a counterpublic sphere which positions itself against the dominant public sphere and the hostile discourses it hosts. This dissertation is primarily informed by the theory of the public sphere and considerations about the social functions of the mass media. It set out to analyze a versatile functionality of the AntiDogma blogging community including information and news producing function, function of deliberative community building, and mobilization and coordination function. A case-study approach allowed the examination of AntiDogma in its context, together with the accompanying political and social processes. Textual analysis along the lines of social constructivism captured discourses, themes, and messages communicated in AntiDogma. The ...

Este artículo analiza los contenidos producidos por la campaña ciberactivista #Votelgbt, surgida durante el período electoral brasileño de 2014, en redes de comunicación digital distribuida, y centrada en el aumento de la participación y representación política lgbt. El corpus se compone de publicaciones realizadas en página de la red social Facebook, durante los dos primeros momentos de actuación de la campaña (2014 y 2016). A partir del análisis de contenido bardiniano, se concluye que las principales intenciones de comunicación empleadas se volvieron a la sensibilización y convocatoria (llamada a la acción) de los electores, reflejando la legitimidad de las pautas y la importancia del compromiso en los procesos institucionales de participación. ; This paper analyzes the content produced by the #Votelgbt cyberactivist campaign, that emerged throughout the Brazilian election of 2014, in the digital communication networks distributed, aiming at increasing participation and political representation lgbt. The corpus is composed of publications carried out on the social network page Facebook, throughout the first two moments of the campaign (2014 and 2016). From the bardinian content analysis, we conclude that the main intentions of communication used were to raise awareness and convocation (call to action) of voters, reflecting the legitimacy of the agenda and the importance of involvement with the institutional processes of participation. ; Este artigo analisa os conteúdos produzidos pela campanha ciberativista #Votelgbt, surgida durante o pleito eleitoral brasileiro de 2014, em redes de comunicação digital distribuída, e centrada no aumento da participação e representação política lgbt. O corpus é composto por publicações realizadas em página da rede social Facebook, durante os dois primeiros momentos de atuação da campanha (2014 e 2016). A partir da análise de conteúdo bardiniana, conclui-se que as principais intenções de comunicação empregadas voltaram-se para a sensibilização e convocação (chamada à ação) dos eleitores, refletindo a legitimidade das pautas e a importància do envolvimento com os processos institucionais de participação.

Este artigo analisa os conteúdos produzidos pela campanha ciberativista #Votelgbt, surgida durante o pleito eleitoral brasileiro de 2014, em redes de comunicação digital distribuída, e centrada no aumento da participação e representação política lgbt. O corpus é composto por publicações realizadas em página da rede social Facebook, durante os dois primeiros momentos de atuação da campanha (2014 e 2016). A partir da análise de conteúdo bardiniana, conclui-se que as principais intenções de comunicação empregadas voltaram-se para a sensibilização e convocação (chamada à ação) dos eleitores, refletindo a legitimidade das pautas e a importância do envolvimento com os processos institucionais de participação. ; This paper analyzes the content produced by the #Votelgbt cyberactivist campaign, that emerged throughout the Brazilian election of 2014, in the digital communication networks distributed, aiming at increasing participation and political representation lgbt. The corpus is composed of publications carried out on the social network page Facebook, throughout the first two moments of the campaign (2014 and 2016). From the bardinian content analysis, we conclude that the main intentions of communication used were to raise awareness and convocation (call to action) of voters, reflecting the legitimacy of the agenda and the importance of involvement with the institutional processes of participation. ; Este artículo analiza los contenidos producidos por la campaña ciberactivista #Votelgbt, surgida durante el período electoral brasileño de 2014, en redes de comunicación digital distribuida, y centrada en el aumento de la participación y representación política lgbt. El corpus se compone de publicaciones realizadas en página de la red social Facebook, durante los dos primeros momentos de actuación de la campaña (2014 y 2016). A partir del análisis de contenido bardiniano, se concluye que las principales intenciones de comunicación empleadas se volvieron a la sensibilización y convocatoria (llamada a la acción) de los electores, reflejando la legitimidad de las pautas y la importancia del compromiso en los procesos institucionales de participación.

This study is aimed at investigating the representation of LGBT in the Jakarta Post and Jakarta Globe and revealing hidden ideologies embedded in the representations. This study more specifically focuses on identifying how the two media deploy transitivity choices in reporting LGBT and gaining representational meanings from the transitivity choices. This study employs the qualitative method and transitivity analysis under the framework of Fairclough's three-dimensional approach (1989). The study reveals that the Jakarta post tends to represent LGBT as a more passive participant in a way that certain circumstances shape them as a discriminated and intimidated group by several religious groups, society and government officials, therefore this position has caused Human Rights activists and several government officials to defend them. The media also depict LGBT as an acceptable identity and acknowledged phenomenon in Indonesia. On the other hand, Jakarta Globe tends to represent LGBT as a more active participant that they are given more space to express their sufferings and struggles that trigger them to claim their own rights through their active involvement in anti-LGBT discussions and the support provided by Human Rights activists. The findings suggest that the two media are struggling to promote democratic values in attempts to contribute to establishing LGBT acceptance in Indonesia (the Jakarta Post) and critiquing the discrimination as a means of ending intimidation against LGBT (Jakarta Globe). AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendapatkan makna representasi dari pilihan transitivitas yang digunakan oleh laporan berita The Jakarta Post dan Jakarta Globe dalam mewartakan kasus LGBT dan mengungkapkanideologi yang mendasari representasi tersebut. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dan analisis transitivitas di bawah kerangka pendekatan tiga dimensi Fairclough (1989). Penelitian ini mengungkapkan bahwa The Jakarta Post cenderung merepresentasikan LGBT sebagai partisipan yang lebih pasif sehingga keadaan tertentu membentuk mereka sebagai kelompok yang terdiskriminasi dan terintimidasi oleh beberapa kelompok agama, masyarakat, dan pejabat pemerintah; dengan demikian, posisi ini menyebabkan aktivis HAM dan beberapa pejabat pemerintah membela mereka. Media juga menggambarkan LGBT sebagai identitas berterima dan fenomena yang diakui di Indonesia. Di sisi lain, Jakarta Globe cenderung merepresentasikan LGBT sebagai partisipan yang lebih aktif sehingga mereka diberikan ruang lebih untuk mengekspresikan penderitaan dan pergulatan mereka yang memicu mereka untuk mengklaim hak mereka melalui keterlibatan aktif dalam diskusi anti-LGBT dan dukungan yang diberikan oleh aktivis HAM. Hasil penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa kedua media berupaya mendorong nilai-nilai demokratis sebagai usaha untuk berkontribusi dalam menumbuhkan penerimaan terhadap LGBT di Indonesia (The Jakarta Post) dan mengkritik diskriminasi untuk menghentikan intimidasi terhadap LGBT (Jakarta Globe).

Introduction -- Ideologies of parenting and schooling: visibility, invisibility and alternative family forms -- Media representations of lgbtqi+ parented families -- Lgbtqi+ parented families and their visibility/invisibility in school policies -- Lgbtqi+ parents' perspectives on their children's schools -- Experiences of children of lgbtqi+ parents at school -- Usualising¿ lgbtqi+ people and issues in schools: the educate & celebrate approach to creating school change -- Conclusion: ways forward for lgbtqi+ parented families and schools

The politics of gay and transgender visibility and representation at the Eurovision Song Contest, an annual televised popular music festival presented to viewers as a contest between European nations, show that processes of interest to Queer International Relations do not just involve states or even international institutions; national and transnational popular geopolitics over 'LGBT rights' and 'Europeanness' equally constitute the understandings of 'the international' with which Queer IR is concerned. Building on Cynthia Weber's reading the persona of the 2014 Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst with 'queer intellectual curiosity', this paper demonstrates that Eurovision shifted from, in the late 1990s, an emerging site of gay and trans visibility to, by 2008–14, part of a larger discursive circuit taking in international mega-events like the Olympics, international human-rights advocacy, Europe/Russia relations, and the politics of state homophobia and transphobia. Contest organisers thus had to take positions – ranging from detachment to celebration – about 'LGBT' politics in host states and the Eurovision region. The construction of spatio-temporal hierarchies around attitudes to LGBT rights, however, revealed exclusions that corroborate other critical arguments on the reconfiguration of national and European identities around 'LGBT equality'.

I discuss the concept of queerbaiting as emergent from viewer readings of both textual and paratextual content at a particular juncture of LGBT media representation. While fan works as paratexts have attracted attention for their queered readings and narratives, there has been little scholarly consideration of how official paratexts that suggest or address queer readings, particularly promotional material and public commentary from producers, inform viewer engagement with media texts, and how they interact with contemporary conditions of media production and LGBT content. Examining F/F pairings from two television shows, Rizzoli & Isles (TNT, 2010–16) and The 100 (CW, 2014–), I propose a model that incorporates text, paratext, and the context of LGBT representation to account for how both noncanonical and canonically queer narratives can exemplify queerbaiting discourses, as well as where queer subtextual readings are positioned in this interpretative space. In addition, I highlight the historical contingency of queerbaiting in terms of shifts in producer/viewer interactions and the character of LGBT narratives in reshaping the contestation of media meaning making.

The notion of 'gay' has been interpreted by popular culture in Portugal to stem from a liberalization of individual practices and beliefs in the realm of sexual culture in general. As such, sexual orientation is commonly conflated with a cultural trend linked to modernity, in opposition to recognizing it as a constitutive element of sexual citizenship and the related set of rights it entails. This often unnoticed conflation obliterates significant socio-historical changes and the role played by an array of institutions and agents that contributed to those changes. In this article, the political and social history of homosexuality throughout the twentieth century will be the departure point to examine issues of impact and change in relation to the cultural representation of lesbians and gay men in the public sphere. Media reports of LGBT events throughout the 1990s and early 2000s will be considered a key indicator of cultural representation of sexual diversity. From criminalization to same-sex marriage, the article critically interrogates the extent to which formal change has translated into more inclusive notions of sexual justice regardless of sexual orientation.

The politics of gay and transgender visibility and representation at the Eurovision Song Contest, an annual televised popular music festival presented to viewers as a contest between European nations, show that processes of interest to Queer International Relations do not just involve states or even international institutions; national and transnational popular geopolitics over 'lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights' and 'Europeanness' equally constitute the understandings of 'the international' with which Queer International Relations is concerned. Building on Cynthia Weber's reading the persona of the 2014 Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst with 'queer intellectual curiosity', this article demonstrates that Eurovision shifted from, in the late 1990s, an emerging site of gay and trans visibility to, by 2008–2014, part of a larger discursive circuit taking in international mega-events like the Olympics, international human-rights advocacy, Europe–Russia relations and the politics of state homophobia and transphobia. Contest organisers thus had to take positions — ranging from detachment to celebration — about 'lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender' politics in host states and the Eurovision region. The construction of spatio-temporal hierarchies around attitudes to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights, however, revealed exclusions that corroborate other critical arguments on the reconfiguration of national and European identities around 'lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality'.

"This book examines the proliferation of gay, lesbian, and queer representations in mainstream American media over the past forty years. Kohnen argues that queer media visibility has become a narrowly defined category that upholds normative ideas about sexuality, race, and the American nation. She examines how and why this limited and limiting concept of queer visibility has become the embodiment of progressive and liberatory LGBT media representations and traces the uneven history of queer media visibility through crucial turning points including the early gay liberation movement of the late 1960s/70s, the AIDS crisis of the 80s, the so-called explosion of gay visibility of the 90s and the reimagination of queer citizenship after the events of 9/11. Further, Kohnen reveals how queer visibility shapes and reflects not only media representations, but the real and imagined geographies, histories, and peoples of the American nation"--

Introduction / Vicki Callahan and Virginia Kuhn -- The New "Material Girls": Madonna, "Millenial" Pop Divas, and the Politics of Race and Gender / Shelleen Greene -- A Window Seat to History: Erykah Badu's Dealey Plaza Remix / Vicki Callahan -- The Possibilities of Liminality: Black Women's Future Texts as Productive Chaos / Nina Cartier -- Re-Creating Niobe: The Construction and Re-Construction of Black Femininity through Games and the Social Psychology of the Avatar / Nettrice R. Gaskins -- "Ghana Meets the World": Remixing Popular Culture on OMG! Ghana / Lorien R. Hunter -- Adapting Lisbeth for Hollywood: The Politics and Franchising Practices behind Sony's GWTDT Re-boot / Courtney Brannon Donoghue -- Recasting The Best Years of Our Lives: Gender, Revision, and Military Women in the Veteran's Home-coming Film / Anna Froula -- Television's Queer Future? The Possibilities and Limitations of Web Series, Digital Distribution, and LGBT Representation in Husbands / Melanie E. S. Kohnen -- Sucker Punch and the Aesthetics of Denial: Future Perfect Tense / Virginia Kuhn

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The notion of 'gay' has been interpreted by popular culture in Portugal to stem from a liberalization of individual practices and beliefs in the realm of sexual culture in general. As such, sexual orientation is commonly conflated with a cultural trend linked to modernity, in opposition to recognizing it as a constitutive element of sexual citizenship and the related set of rights it entails. This often unnoticed conflation obliterates significant socio-historical changes and the role played by an array of institutions and agents that contributed to those changes. In this article, the political and social history of homosexuality throughout the twentieth century will be the departure point to examine issues of impact and change in relation to the cultural representation of lesbians and gay men in the public sphere. Media reports of LGBT events throughout the 1990s and early 2000s will be considered a key indicator of cultural representation of sexual diversity. From criminalization to same-sex marriage, the article critically interrogates the extent to which formal change has translated into more inclusive notions of sexual justice regardless of sexual orientation.

This book explores representations of intersex - intersex persons, intersex communities, and intersex as a cultural concept and knowledge category - in contemporary North American literature and popular culture. The study turns its attention to the significant paradigm shift in the narratives on intersex that occurred within early 1990s intersex activism in response to biopolitical regulations of intersex bodies. Focusing on the emergence of recent autobiographical stories and cultural productions like novels and TV series centering around intersex, Viola Amato provides a first systematic analysis of an activism-triggered resignification of intersex.