LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland

Name: LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in IrelandAuthor(s): Praic Kerrigan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367694609, 978-0367694609\nSynopsis\nThis book traces the turbulent history of queer visibility in the Irish media to explore the processes by which a regionally based media system shaped queer identities within a highly conservative and religious population. The book details the emergence of an LGBTQ rights movement in Ireland and charts how this burgeoning movement utilised the media for the liberatory potential of advancing LGBTQ rights. However, mainstream media institutions also exploited queer identities for economic purposes, which, coupled with the eruption of the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s, disrupted the mainstreaming goals of queer visibility.\n\nDrawing on industrial, societal and production culture determinants, the author identifies the shifting contours of queer visibility in the Irish media, .