"I'm not proud, I'm just gay": lesbian and gay youths' discursive negotiation of otherness

Jones, Lucy (2018) "I'm not proud, I'm just gay": lesbian and gay youths' discursive negotiation of otherness. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 22 (1). pp. 55-76. ISSN 1467-9841

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Abstract

This article outlines the shared identity construction of five gay and lesbian members of an LGBT youth group, situated in a conservative, working-class, Northern English town. It is shown that the young people’s identity work emerges in response to the homophobia and ‘othering’ they have experienced from those in their local community. Through ethnography and discourse analysis, and using theoretical frameworks from interactional sociolinguistics, the strategies that the young people employ to negotiate this othering are explored; they reject certain stereotypes of queer culture (such as Gay Pride or being ‘camp’), and aim to minimise the relevance of their sexuality to their social identity. It is argued this reflects both the influence of neoliberal, ‘homonormative’ ideology, which casts sexuality in the private rather than public domain, and the stigma their sexuality holds in their local community. These findings point to the need to understand identity construction intersectionally.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/962780
Additional Information: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Jones, L. (2018), ‘I'm not proud, I'm just gay’: Lesbian and gay youths' discursive negotiation of otherness. J Sociolinguistics. doi:10.1111/josl.12271, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josl.12271/full. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
Keywords: Othering; Identity; LGBT youth; Homonormativity; Homophobia; Intersectionality
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Arts > School of English
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12271
Depositing User: Eprints, Support
Date Deposited: 14 Nov 2017 09:25
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 19:52
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/48118

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