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This chapter sets out to examine how gays and lesbians have been socially represented in one of the most important quality daily newspapers published in Portugal, Diário de Notícias, in a particular set of texts that was released over a week, under the general title ‘Gay Power’ (‘Poder Gay’). The texts appeared from Sunday, 22 April to Saturday, 28 April 2001 and were announced in a previous edition of the newspaper, on Friday, 20 April, as ‘The Gay Power: an in-depth report starting Sunday in DN’ (‘O Poder Gay: Uma grande reportagem a partir de Domingo no DN [Diário de Notícias]’).
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Gouveia, C.A.M. (2005). Assumptions about Gender, Power and Opportunity: Gays and Lesbians as Discursive Subjects in a Portuguese Newspaper. In: Lazar, M.M. (eds) Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599901_10
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