[Commlist] Encyclopedia of Queer Media - Call for Entries/Topics

We are currently editing a first-ever /Encyclopedia of Queer Media/ to 
be published next year by Elgar and we’re looking to fill a number of 
remaining topics.

There are few resources that provide encyclopedic knowledge in the 
fields of queer media, screen representation and digital culture, and 
we’re sure most people would agree that this is a timely and important 
resource as we approach the 2030s.

Like most encyclopedias, these entries will be scholarly (with 8-12 
references) but pitched to a general readership; entries range from 
1,000 words to 3,000 words.

The editorial team will provide as much support as we can, including 
editorial advice in one round of revisions, but we are open to authors 
framing the topic themselves.

You may be interested, or you may have a colleague or graduate student 
who would like to author a piece, or you may wish to co-author with a 
colleague—please feel free to share.

If one or more of the below topics interests you or falls in your area 
of study, please message us at (encyclo.queer.media /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(encyclo.queer.media /at/ gmail.com)>with a short bio and the topic 
title, and we’ll confirm and send guidelines (usually within 3-4 days).

*On behalf of the editorial team: Dr Whitney Monaghan (Monash 
University), Dr Damien O’Meara (RMIT University), Professor Rob Cover 
(RMIT University). *

*KEY DATES (with some flexibility)*

First drafts – c. 31 August

Drafts returned – 30 September

Final versions – 15 October.

Publication – anticipated 2027.

*TOPICS STILL AVAILABLE (/nb. 2,500 – 3,000 words except where noted/)*

/Examples are our framing suggestions as a guideline for ‘ideas’ only. /

Advertising (e.g., queer representation in advertising, advertising to 
queer audiences)

Advocacy (e.g., for queer media representation, especially non-USA.)

AI Bias (i.e., anti-queer biases in large-language models and AI chatbots)

Alternative, underground and experimental queer film

Asexualities on Screens

Athletes in the media (e.g., Openly LGBTQ+ athlete coverage, media framing)

Authorship: Television (e.g., queer scriptwriting, queer television 
authorship)

B. Ruby Rich – 1,000 word entry (e.g., their work and contribution to 
queer media scholarship)

Bad representation (e.g., scholarship on problematic queer depictions)

/Beautiful People/  (UK TV series) – 1,000w entry

Bisexuals on-screen (e.g., openly bisexual representations onscreen)

Blogs (e.g., key LGBTIQ+ bloggers past and/or present)

/Brokeback Mountain/– 1,000 word entry

Bromance

Cable networks (e.g., role in setting conditions for queer TV series)

Camp in Film (e.g., historical and/or current)

Cartoons (e.g., with queer representation)

Censorship (e.g., of queer subjects, themes and narratives)

Comedy (e.g., queer-identified comedians with an on-screen presence)

Consumer Activism (e.g., Queer boycotts/conservative boycotts in 
response to queer support)

/Doctor Who/

Drag on Screen

Entertainment

Fan fiction

Gay men on-screen

Gay Pretence on-screen

Gus van Sant – 1000 word entry (e.g., contribution to queer cinema)

Homonormativity in screen and/or digital settings

/Heartstopper /– 1,000 word entry

Identity (e.g., queer identities in film, television and digital/social 
media)

/In and Out /- 1,000 word entry

It Gets Better Project - 1,000 word entry

Larry Gross (e.g., their work and contribution to queer media scholarship)

Legal drama (e.g., queer representation/issues in legal drama on TV)

Lesbians on-screen

/Modern Family/– 1,000 word entry

Online camming (e.g., queer representation in the history of webcamming)

Online hate speech (homophobia, biphobia, transphobia)

/Paris is Burning/– 1,000 word entry

Podcasts (queer and trans-oriented podcasts or podcasters)

Queer Film and Television – Africa

Queer Film and Television – Hindi and Bollywood

Queer Film and Television – North America

Queer Film and Television – UK

Queer film remakes

Queer reading practices

Queerbaiting

Reality TV (e.g., queer participants, role of Reality-TV in changing 
queer authentic representation, etc.)

Reddit (e.g., as site for queer representation/debate and/or hate)

Richard Dyer (e.g., their work and contribution to queer media scholarship)

/RuPaul’s Drag Race/

Rural towns on-screen

Science Fiction (excluding Dr Who, Star Trek)

Screen cultural pedagogies (e.g., role of or studies of queer/trans 
screen representation in creating social change)

Sex work in film and television

Sexual health online  (e.g., role of digital platforms in providing 
sexual health resources for queer and trans people)

Slash (e.g., in fan fiction)

/Star Trek/  (e.g., queer and trans representations in Star Trek)

The Wachowskis (e.g., bio and contribution to media)

/There’s something about Jamie /– 1,000 word entry

Trans children (e.g., digital or screen representation)

Trans online representation

Transmen on screen

Vito Russo (e.g., their work and contribution to queer media scholarship)

/Will and Grace/– 1,000 word entry

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