[ecrea] New Book: LGBTQs, Media and Culture in Europe

*New Book: LGBTQs, Media and Culture in Europe*

It’s a pleasure for us to announce the publication of our edited volume 
on ‘LGBTQs, Media and Culture in Europe’, published by Routledge 
Research in Cultural and Media Studies. The book includes a foreword by 
Richard Dyer and an afterword by Sharif Mowlabocus, and is available at: 
https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138649477. Below, you can find a 
brief summary of the book and its table of contents.

Dhoest, A., Szulc, L. & Eeckhout, B., eds. (2017) /LGBTQs, Media and 
Culture in Europe/. New York: Routledge.

Media matter, particularly to social minorities like lesbian, gay, 
bisexual, transgender and queer people. Rather than one homogenised idea 
of the ‘global gay’, what we find today is a range of historically and 
culturally specific expressions of gender and sexuality, which are 
reflected and explored across an ever increasing range of media outlets. 
This collection zooms in on a number of facets of this kaleidoscope, 
each chapter discussing the intersection of a particular European 
context and a particular medium with its affordances and limitations. 
While traditional mass media form the starting point of this book, the 
primary focus is on digital media such as SNS (Social Networking Sites), 
blogs and online dating sites. All contributions are based on recent, 
original empirical research, using a plethora of qualitative methods to 
offer a holistic view on the ways media matter to particular LGBTQ 
individuals and communities. Together the chapters cover the diversity 
of European countries and regions, of LGBTQ communities, and of the 
contemporary media ecology. Resisting the urge to extrapolate, they 
argue for specificity, contextualisation and a provincialized 
understanding of the connections between media, culture, gender and 
sexuality.

*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

*Part IV. Discourses on and by LGBTQs on Social Media*

10. Homosexuality on Dutch and Flemish Facebook Pages: Situational 
Meanings, Situational Attitudes? - Tim Savenije

11. Gay the Correct Way: Mundane Queer Flaming Practices in Online 
Discussions of Politics - Jakob Svensson

12. ‘I Sort of Knew What I Was, So I Wanted to See What Awaited Me’: 
Portuguese LGB Youngsters and Their Situated Experiences with New Media 
- Daniel Cardoso

*Part V. Self-presentation and Intimacy on Online Dating Sites*

13. Exploring Networked Interactions through the Lens of Location-Based 
Dating Services: The Case of Italian Grindr Users - Lorenza Parisi and 
Francesca Comunello

14. New in Town: Gay Immigrants and Geosocial Media - Andrew DJ Shield

15. Strategic (In)visibilities and Bareback Subcultures: The 
Implications of Online Communication for HIV Transmission among Gay Men 
in Serbia - Zoran Milosavljevic

*Afterword: Writing at the Precipice - *Sharif Mowlabocus

With regards,

Alexander, Lukasz & Bart





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