Dr Victoria Clarke Victoria.Clarke@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Qualitative & Critical Psychology
“Some university lecturers wear gay pride t-shirts. Get over it!”: Denials of homophobia and the reproduction of heteronormativity in responses to a gay-themed t-shirt
Clarke, Victoria
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Abstract
© 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This article explores an incident involving a gay pride T-shirt, printed with the slogan “Some people are gay. Get over it!,” that I wore during a university lecture, and students’ predominantly negative responses to it. I use the lens of modern prejudice research, particularly discursive psychological approaches to modern prejudice, to interpret the students’ responses to a qualitative survey about their views on the T-shirt. They related strong feelings of upset and anger, particularly because I had—in their view—implicitly accused them of being homophobic. They passionately refused this supposed accusation on the grounds that “everything’s equal now” and “gay people are no different from us.” I argue that the ideological themes of cultural heterosexism and compulsory heterosexuality provide a productive framework for making sense of the students’ responses, as they sanction a rational neoliberal subject who is both non-homophobic and inculcated into heteronormativity.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Dec 23, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 1, 2018 |
Publication Date | Apr 16, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Jan 12, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 16, 2019 |
Journal | Journal of Homosexuality |
Print ISSN | 0091-8369 |
Electronic ISSN | 1540-3602 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 66 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 690-714 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2017.1423217 |
Keywords | compulsory heterosexuality, discourse analysis, heteronormativity, homosexuality, neoliberalism, neo-liberalism, modern prejudice, psychology students, qualitative surveys, thematic analysis |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/854602 |
Publisher URL | https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2017.1423217 |
Additional Information | Additional Information : This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Homosexuality on 16th January 2018, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2017.1423217. |
Contract Date | Jan 12, 2018 |
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