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Gay men in the performing arts: Performing sexualities within ‘gay-friendly’ work contexts
Type de ressource
Auteurs/contributeurs
- Rumens, Nick (Auteur)
- Broomfield, John (Auteur)
Titre
Gay men in the performing arts: Performing sexualities within ‘gay-friendly’ work contexts
Résumé
Building on emerging research on ‘gay-friendly’ organizations, this article examines if and how work contexts understood and experienced as ‘gay-friendly’ can be characterized as exhibiting a serious breakdown in heteronormativity. Taking the performing arts as a research setting, one that is often stereotyped as ‘gay-friendly’, and drawing on in-depth interview data with 20 gay male performers in the UK, this article examines how everyday activities and encounters involving drama school educators, casters and peers are shaped by heteronormative standards of gay male sexuality. Adopting a queer theory perspective and connecting with an emergent queer theory literature in organization studies, one concern articulated in this article is that heteronormative constructions of gay male sexualities constrain participants’ access to work; suggesting limits to the abilities and roles gay men possess and are able to play. Another concern is that when gay male sexualities become normalized in performing work contexts, they reinforce organizational heteronormativity and the heterosexual/homosexual binary upon which it relies. This study contributes towards theorizing the heteronormative dynamics of ‘gay-friendly’ places of work, arguing that gay male sexualities are performatively instituted according to localized heteronormativities which reinforce contextually contingent, restrictive heteronormative standards of gay male sexuality which performers are encouraged to embody and perform both professionally and personally.
Publication
Organization
Volume
21
Numéro
3
Pages
365-382
Date
2014-05-01
Langue
en
ISSN
1350-5084
Titre abrégé
Gay men in the performing arts
Consulté le
03/07/2023 20:07
Catalogue de bibl.
SAGE Journals
Référence
Rumens, N., & Broomfield, J. (2014). Gay men in the performing arts: Performing sexualities within ‘gay-friendly’ work contexts. Organization, 21(3), 365–382. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508413519766
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