Presenting new and exciting data from lesbian and gay conversations, narratives, representations of lesbians in film and erotic fiction, and representations of prominent gay men in newspapers, this book looks at some of the ways lesbians and gay men construct identity from among the symbolic resources available within lesbian and gay communities.
Acknowledgements Introduction Examining Lesbian Conversations as Discourses of Identity and Resistance Analysing Evaluation in Coming Out Narratives The Language of Shame, Risk and Concealment Discourse and Identity in a Corpus of Lesbian Erotica Sexual identity and Gender: Discursive Constructions of 'Butch' and 'Femme' in Film Camp Codes and Subtle Outing: How the British Broadsheet Press Learned Gay Slang Conclusion References Index
