Bekjennelser og kompromisser - Homofile/lesbiske/skeive medieerfaringer

Abstract This article discusses Norwegian media coverage of sexual minorities – mainly lesbians and gays – using in-depth interviews of media actors ‘belonging’ to these minorities as a point of departure. The study reveals interviewee resistance to victim narratives as well as out-of-the closet narratives as privatization/intimization, where rights (and abuses) should be more focused. However, they demonstrate more ambiguity when it comes to essentialism. The interviewees emphasize the need for a pedagogical approach through which journalistic coverage of sexual minorities can improve, and in which recognition of different sexual preferences and practices may take place on an equal level