Abstract
In 2010, a professor in India was forcibly outed as gay and catapulted into a nationwide debate about LGBTQ rights in India. A textual analysis of prominent Indian English-language newspapers revealed the framing devices journalists used to report the case, unpacking how coverage essentialized gay identity, signified civil rights and citizenship, problematized notions of consent, complicated public/private demarcations of sexuality, and negotiated competing claims of morality. Journalistic discourse inevitably privileged dominant western neoliberal conceptions of sexuality, reducing sexual citizenship to a particular classed and gendered subject at the expense of a more expansive range of alternative sexualities in India.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 951-970 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Sexualities |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 5-6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 1 2020 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Indian newspapers
- LGBTQ issues in India
- news framing
- Ramchandra Siras
- sexual citizenship
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Gender Studies
- Anthropology