期刊
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES
卷 25, 期 1, 页码 183-200出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1367549420935893
关键词
LGBT plus representation; public service broadcasting; queer media; queer television studies; queer visibility
This article aims to explore the emergence of LGBT+ identities in public service broadcasting during the 1950s-1990s, particularly in Ireland and Flanders. Through a case study analysis, the article argues that this emergence is linked to the production culture of public service broadcasting and its response to external expertise and competition.
Public Service Broadcasting in Europe and its centrality to cultural diversity has been established in relation to race, multiculturalism and gender, but LGBT+ sexual identity remains relatively absent from research. This article aims to address this gap by fostering a historical approach to examine the ways in which LGBT+ identities emerged on Public Service Broadcasting within Western Europe, specifically in Ireland and Flanders during the 1950s-1990s. Through a small-scale comparative case study analysis between these two regions, this article contends that the emergence of LGBT+ visibility is intrinsically linked to Public Service Broadcasting in both landscapes. Specifically, the article argues that this emergence shares two distinct structural qualities in the emergence of this LGBT+ visibility. First, the comparison points to the ways in which Public Service Broadcasting production cultures incorporated external expertise regarding LGBT+ diversity, presenting itself as a practical operationalisation of the social responsibility of publicly funded media in both regions. Second, later parallels in the introduction of LGBT+ characters to television fiction series illustrate how Public Service Broadcasting responded to various forms of competition from international and commercial broadcasters, engendering particular implications for the visibility of same-sex desire. While contributing to historical treatments of LGBT+ visibility familiar within Queer Media Studies, this article goes against the Anglo-American dominance of the field by examining more local contexts outside the US/UK centric paradigm, diversifying the contexts in which Queer Media Studies research takes place.
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