scholarly journals "You all are sisters! We are all family!" The construction of parenthood in 'RuPaul's Drag Race'

Linguaculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-144
Author(s):  
Davide Passa
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Financial Problems ◽  
Gender Fluidity ◽  
Language Data ◽  
Young Gay Men ◽  
Heterosexual Marriage ◽  
Drag Queens

Drag queens epitomise gender fluidity, where the heteronormative binarism male/female is blurred and parodied. Their unconventional nature is reflected in the structure of their community, where they have created alternatives to the heteronormative family, which is historically based on heterosexual marriage and parenthood. Drag families are to be seen as places of personal and financial support, a refuge for young gay men who have been rejected by their “real” families and have financial problems. This study seeks to give prominence to the construction of parenthood in RuPaul’s Drag Race (2009-2021) by analysing the discourse – i. e. the system of statements – around drag family, parenthood and sisterhood in a corpus of 174 episodes. The research is carried out in the light of Corpus Linguistics, with the use of #Lancsbox, a software for the analysis of language data and corpora.

New Arrivals to New York City: Vulnerability to HIV among Urban Migrant Young Gay Men

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (7) ◽  
pp. 2041-2053 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Kobrak ◽  
Rafael Ponce ◽  
Robert Zielony
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
York City ◽  
Urban Migrant ◽  
Young Gay Men

A diachronic corpus-driven study of the expression of possibility in Luganda (Bantu, JE15)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deo Kawalya ◽  
Koen Bostoen ◽  
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Keyword(s):  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Epistemic Possibility ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Language Data

Abstract This article employs a 4-million-word diachronic corpus to examine how the expression of possibility has evolved in Luganda since the 1890s to the present, by focusing on the language’s three main potential markers -yînz-, -sóból- and -andi-, and their historical interaction. It is shown that while the auxiliary -yînz- originally covered the whole modal subdomain of possibility, the auxiliary -sóból- has steadily taken over the more objective categories of dynamic possibility. Currently, -yînz- first and foremost conveys deontic and epistemic possibility. It still prevails in these more subjective modal categories even though the prefix -andi-, a conditional marker in origin, has started to express epistemic possibility since the 1940s, and -sóból- deontic possibility since the 1970s. More generally, this article demonstrates the potential of corpus linguistics for the study of diachronic semantics beyond language comparison. This is an important achievement in Bantu linguistics, where written language data tend to be young.

Singing Your Way out of the Closet: Young Gay Men in the Operatic World

Young ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-403
Author(s):  
Liora Gvion
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Safe Zone ◽  
Cultural Setting ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Professional Achievement ◽  
Young Gay Men

Little has been written about the reasons gay men choose opera as a venue for professional achievement and social acceptance. Espousing an ethnographic approach, the current article sets out to question their motives. Applying Bourdieu’s concepts of field, cultural capital and habitus, I suggest looking at the opera as a cultural setting, which provides young gay men with a venue for coming out of the closet and, should they be talented and meticulous, achieving professional and social positions. In constituting a safe zone for expressing closeted emotions, engagement in operatic activities enables the development and application of gay capital, as well as cultural capital, such that gayness is interpreted as an invaluable resource, granting them professional and social acceptance.

Tailoring safer sex messages to lower-educated young gay men: the impact on cognitions and intention

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Janssen ◽  
J de Wit ◽  
H Hospers ◽  
W Stroebe ◽  
G Kok
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Safer Sex ◽  
Young Gay Men ◽  
The Impact

Cost-Effectiveness of the Mpowerment Project, a Community-Level Intervention for Young Gay Men

2001 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 482-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
James G. Kahn ◽  
Susan M. Kegeles ◽  
Robert Hays ◽  
Nathalie Beltzer
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Young Gay Men
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