A study of the effects of discourses on Gay magazines to gay movements

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26883009
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Gender
• Research Institution: Meiji Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: ISHIDA Hitoshi 明治学院大学, 社会学部, 研究員 (40601810)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-08-29 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 同性愛 / セクシュアリティ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

That the effects of discourses on Gay magazines has on the gay liberation was limited. The main reasons are two following points. The first, as the focus of discourses about a significant litigation's related with homosexual varied from criminal action to state compensation lawsuit, magazines' readers made themselves be less interested, so that could not inherit issues and experiences on gay movement. The second, because magazine readers often said were interpreted the "difficulty in living" in the discourses as a sort of loneliness feeling of adult man particularly ("dandy-ism"), the feeling based on the feeling which "matured" man may be felt and the elimination of women could not connected with social movement and solidarity others (e.g. gay women).

Free Research Field

セクシュアリティ