This dissertation examines the queer visibility and discourses surrounding that visibility as they have unfolded on Irish television, film and alternative activist media between 1974 and 2008. The thesis argues that LGBT activists originally deployed media visibility for the liberatory potential of advancing LGBT rights. However, mainstream media institutions exploited queer identities for economic purposes; that, coupled with the eruption of the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s, disrupted the mainstreaming goals of queer visibility. This resulted in queer visibility becoming caught up in a shifting power dynamic, or as this thesis terms it, a tug-of-war, between Ireland’s LGBT community and media institutions. As this thesis will argue,...
The success of the 2015 marriage equality referendum made Ireland the first country in the world to ...
Focusing on domestic youth TV programming in Ireland and Flanders, this chapter discusses how public...
Ireland in the 1970s and 80s was an extremely hostile place for the LGBT community: male homosexuali...
This dissertation examines the queer visibility and discourses surrounding that visibility as they ...
This thematically-arranged study traces the emergence of visible gay/lesbian communities across Irel...
Public Service Broadcasting in Europe and its centrality to cultural diversity has been established ...
This thesis maps out and analyses images of queer masculinities in recent Irish cinema to investigat...
This essay explores two key interventions in the twentieth-century urban history of Irish LGBTQ+ pro...
The surge of queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger...
This article explores how gay and lesbian identities are incorporated, or not, into the roles and ro...
peer-reviewedThis essay explores two key interventions in the twentieth-century urban history of Iri...
This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND...
By its make-up, Irish screen production is heteronormative. This can be seen in terms of output, rep...
This article explores how the leaders of the Irish Gay Rights Movement and National Gay Federation a...
The current historiography on the early gay and lesbian liberation movement in Ireland 1970s-1990s h...
The success of the 2015 marriage equality referendum made Ireland the first country in the world to ...
Focusing on domestic youth TV programming in Ireland and Flanders, this chapter discusses how public...
Ireland in the 1970s and 80s was an extremely hostile place for the LGBT community: male homosexuali...
This dissertation examines the queer visibility and discourses surrounding that visibility as they ...
This thematically-arranged study traces the emergence of visible gay/lesbian communities across Irel...
Public Service Broadcasting in Europe and its centrality to cultural diversity has been established ...
This thesis maps out and analyses images of queer masculinities in recent Irish cinema to investigat...
This essay explores two key interventions in the twentieth-century urban history of Irish LGBTQ+ pro...
The surge of queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger...
This article explores how gay and lesbian identities are incorporated, or not, into the roles and ro...
peer-reviewedThis essay explores two key interventions in the twentieth-century urban history of Iri...
This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND...
By its make-up, Irish screen production is heteronormative. This can be seen in terms of output, rep...
This article explores how the leaders of the Irish Gay Rights Movement and National Gay Federation a...
The current historiography on the early gay and lesbian liberation movement in Ireland 1970s-1990s h...
The success of the 2015 marriage equality referendum made Ireland the first country in the world to ...
Focusing on domestic youth TV programming in Ireland and Flanders, this chapter discusses how public...
Ireland in the 1970s and 80s was an extremely hostile place for the LGBT community: male homosexuali...