Table of Contents

Foreword

Richard Dyer

Introduction

Alexander Dhoest, Lukasz Szulc and Bart Eeckhout

Part I. Histories of Representation in Mass Media and Beyond

1. Respectably Gay: Homodomesticity in Ireland’s First Public Broadcast of a Homosexual Couple

Páraic Kerrigan

2. Breaking the Silence: The Early Portuguese Lesbian Press

Ana Maria Brandão, Tânia Cristina Machado and Joana Afonso

3. ‘I Am My Own Special Creation’: Sexual and Gender Differences in the Music Performances of an Antwerp Drag Show Company

Robbe Herreman and Alexander Dhoest

Part II. Media Consumption, Identification and Role Models

4. Coming Out in the Digital Age: The Opportunities and Limitations of Internet Use in Queer-Lesbian Coming-Out Experiences in Germany

Ulrike Roth

5. ‘I Think I’m Quite Fluid with Those Kinds of Things’: Exploring Music and Non-Heterosexual Women’s Identities

Marion Wasserbauer

6. ‘I Worry That They’ll Pick on Someone I Care about’: Trans People’s Perceptions of the British Mass Media and Its Impact on Their Mental Health and Well-Being

Louis Bailey, Jay McNeil and Sonja J. Ellis

Part III. LGBTQs as Producers in the Digital Age: Blogging

7. Safe Space, Dangerous Space: Counterpublic Discourses in the Russian LGBT Blogging Community

Evgeniya Boklage

8. Is the Pope Judging You? Digital Narratives on Religion and Homosexuality in Italy

Giulia Evolvi

9. Contesting Hegemonic Gender and Sexuality Discourses on the Web: A Semiotic Analysis of Latvian and Polish LGBTQ and Feminist Blogs

Joanna Chojnicka

About the Author

Alexander Dhoest is associate professor in Communication Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His research explores the significance of popular media culture in relation to social identities, focusing in particular on media and diversity.

Lukasz Szulc is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and the Marie Curie Fellow in the Media and Communication Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Bart Eeckhout is professor of English and American Literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He studied at Columbia University and Ghent University and has been a visiting professor at Fordham University and New York University, USA. He is a NIAS Fellow-in-Residence for the academic year 2016-17.

Reviews

"This collection addresses the Anglo-American bias in much LGBTQ media research and offers the reader a series of snapshots, both past and present, that detail how European LGBTQ people have used, and continue to engage with, media technologies, texts and practices. A must-read for anyone who is interested in work in this area." --Sharif Mowlabocus, University of Sussex