Post-lesbian? Gendering Queer Performance Research

Online maternity information seeking among lesbian, bisexual, and queer women.

OBJECTIVE recent research has concluded that barriers to maternity health care exist for lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. This mixed methods study aims to understand patterns in seeking and sharing online health information for LBQ women attempting conception. DESIGN researchers performed a qualitative content analysis of 400 discussions in lesbian-oriented Facebook groups, containing 1764...

"Second generation" voices: queer youth with lesbian/bisexual mothers.

Research on the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth with LGBTQ parents is absent in the social science literature. The present qualitative, exploratory study utilized a social constructionist and queer theoretical lens through which to explore the sexual/gender identity formation and disclosure experiences of 18 LGBTQ young adults with lesbian/bisexual mo...

Affect, Performance and Queer Subjectivities

(Post-)queer citizenship in contemporary republican France

The latter half of the 1990s saw much of French political debate focusing on a series of issues arising from the development and implementation of the PACS (Pacte civil de solidarité) legislation. Opponents and proponents clashed over questions related to the potential impact the PACS was perceived as having on family structures, filiation, and citizenship of the contemporary métropole. It is t...

Queer theory and change. Towards a pragmatic approach to resistance and subversion in media research on gay and lesbian identities

This paper wants to challenge the tendency in media studies on gay and lesbian identities to remain within two dominant paradigms: the essentialist or the post-structuralist traditions. Consequently, we will elaborate on the question: if media research emphasizes social change, should it mainly adopt a political and strategic identity claim which refers to essentialism, or, should it acknowledg...