Andrejevic, M. (2004). Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched. Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield.
Google Scholar
Baudrillard. (2006 [1983]). The Procession of Simulacra. In J. Storey (Ed.), Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (pp. 389–396). Harlow: Pearson.
Google Scholar
Beck, U., & Beck-Gernsheim, G. (2001). Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and Its Social and Political Consequences. London: Sage.
Google Scholar
Becker, R. (2009). Guy Love: A Queer Straight Masculinity for a Post-Closet Era? In G. Davis & G. Needham (Eds.), Queer TV: Theories, Histories, Politics (pp. 121–140). London/New York: Routledge.
Google Scholar
Berlant, L., & Warner, M. (1998). Sex in Public. Critical Inquiry, 24(2), 547–566.
CrossRef
Google Scholar
Carpentier, N. (2014). Reality Television’s Construction of Ordinary People: Class-Based Nonelitist Articulations of Ordinary People and Their Discursive Affordances. In L. Ouellette (Ed.), A Companion to Reality Television (pp. 345–366). Oxford: Wiley.
CrossRef
Google Scholar
Chambers, S. (2009). The Queer Politics of Television. London/New York: I.B. Tauris.
Google Scholar
Corner, J. (2002). Performing the Real: Documentary Diversions. Television and New Media, 3(3), 255–269.
CrossRef
Google Scholar
Davies, C. (2003, October 31). TV Suitors Shocked as Dream Girl Turns Out to Be a Man. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20060105135549/, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F10%2F31%2Fnsky31.xml&sSheet=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F10%2F31%2Fixhome.html
Deans, J. (2003, October 30). Contestants in Transsexual Show Sue Sky. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/oct/30/bskyb.broadcasting
Edwards, N. (2009). From Minority to Mainstream: Channel 4’s Queer Television. Mediaeval Studies, 2(1). https://journals.dartmouth.edu/cgibin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/xmlpage/4/article/325
Ellis, J. (1982). Visible Fictions. London: Routledge.
Google Scholar
Freeman, E. (2010). Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories. Durham/London: Duke University Press.
CrossRef
Google Scholar
Harnick, C. (2016a, January 19). The Prancing Elites Project Returns: Can the Group Master… Roller Skates? Retrieved from https://www.eonline.com/uk/news/731732/the-prancing-elites-project-returns-can-the-group-master-rollerskates
Harnick, C. (2016b, August 9). Oxygen’s Strut Is Coming to Break Down Barriers and Throw Shade. Retrieved from https://www.eonline.com/news/786151/oxygen-s-strut-is-coming-to-break-down-barriers-and-throw-shade
Hill, A. (2004). Reality TV: Audiences and Popular Factual Television. London: Routledge.
CrossRef
Google Scholar
Holmes, S. (2004). “All You’ve Got to Worry About Is the Task, Having a Cup of Tea, and Doing a Bit of Sunbathing”: Approaching Celebrity in Big Brother. In S. Holmes & D. Jermyn (Eds.), Understanding Reality Television (pp. 111–135). London: Routledge.
Google Scholar
Horton, H. (2017, October 31). Bake Off’s Nadiya Hussain Reveals Racist Abuse She Has Faced Since Winning the Show. Retrieved from https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/31/bake-offs-nadiya-hussain-reveals-racist-abuse-has-faced-since/
Jones, J. (2003). Show Your Real Face: A Fan Study of UK Big Brother Transmissions (2000, 2001, 2002). New Media & Society, 5(3), 400–421.
CrossRef
Google Scholar
Jones, A. (2013). A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
CrossRef
Google Scholar
Letts, Q. (2015, July 29). I Adore the Great British Bake Off. But Does It Have to Be So Right On? Retrieved from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3178064/I-adore-Great-British-Bake-does-right-Asks-QUENTIN-LETTS.html
Lovelock, M. (2017a). Call Me Caitlyn: Making and Making Over the ‘Authentic’ Transgender Body in Anglo-American Popular Culture. Journal of Gender Studies, 26(6), 675–687.
CrossRef
Google Scholar
Lovelock, M. (2017b). “I Am…”: Caitlyn Jenner, Jazz Jennings and the Cultural Politics of Transgender Celebrity. Feminist Media Studies, 17(5), 737–754.
CrossRef
Google Scholar
Mahoney, N., Newman, J., & Barnett, C. (2010). Rethinking the Public: Innovations in Research, Theory and Politics. Bristol: The Policy Press.
CrossRef
Google Scholar
McGrath, J. (2004). Loving Big Brother: Performance, Privacy and Surveillance Space. London/New York: Routledge.
CrossRef
Google Scholar
NatCen. (2017). Charting Changing Attitudes – Same-Sex Relationships. Retrieved from http://www.natcen.ac.uk/blog/charting-changing-attitudes-%E2%80%93-same-sex-relationships.
Needham, G. (2009). Scheduling Normativity: Television, the Family and Queer Temporality. In G. Davis & G. Needham (Eds.), Queer TV: Theories, Histories, Politics (pp. 143–158). London/New York: Routledge.
Google Scholar
Petski, D. (2015, July 31). Fuse Relaunches September 30 With New Logo, Brand, Programming. Retrieved from https://deadline.com/2015/07/fuse-relaunches-september-30-transcendent-transgender-docu-series-1201488475/
Pew Research Centre. (2017). Changing Attitudes on Gay Marriage. Retrieved from http://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/changing-attitudes-on-gay-marriage/
Rich, A. (1993). Adriene Rich’s Poetry and Prose. New York: W.W. Norton.
Google Scholar
Sedgwick, E. (1990). Epistemology of the Closet. London: University of California Press.
Google Scholar
Serano, J. (2007). Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on the Scapegoating of Femininity. Emeryville: Seal Press.
Google Scholar
Skeggs, B., & Wood, H. (2012). Reacting to Reality Television: Performance, Audience and Value. London/New York: Routledge.
CrossRef
Google Scholar
Tincknell, E., & Raghuram, P. (2002). Big Brother: Reconfiguring the ‘Active’ Audience of Cultural Studies? European Journal of Cultural Studies, 5(2), 199–215.
Google Scholar
Wagmeister, E. (2015, October 6). ABC Family to Rebrand Network ‘Freeform’ in January. Retrieved from https://variety.com/2015/tv/news/abc-family-freeform-rebranding-network-1201610697/
Weeks, J. (2016). Coming Out: The Emergence of LGBT Identities in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. London: Quartet Books.
Google Scholar