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This chapter will explore how the research found resonance with Duggan’s comments on homonormativity as ‘a politics that does not contest dominant heteronormative assumptions and institutions, but upholds and sustains them, while promising the possibility of a demobilized gay constituency and a privatized, depoliticized gay culture anchored in domesticity and consumption’ (Duggan, The Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy. Beacon, 2003). In this context, LGBT cultures in general, and some performances of lesbian and gay identities in particular, are referred to. The research was conducted during the debates and policy changes around gay marriages and this was a common fulcrum for discussion. The research found nuanced performances of gayness, with concurrent wishes to fit in, challenge, and survive higher education, while also using pedagogic spaces to articulate and rearticulate, explore, and challenge their own sexual politics.
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Seal, M. (2019). The Present Minority: Homonormativity Within Educational Settings. In: The Interruption of Heteronormativity in Higher Education. Queer Studies and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19089-7_8
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