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Title
Banning Homosexual Propaganda: Belonging and Visibility in Contemporary Russian
Media
Journal
Sexuality & Culture
Volume 19, Issue 2 , pp 256-274
Cover Date
2015-06
DOI
10.1007/s12119-014-9254-1
Print ISSN
1095-5143
Online ISSN
1936-4822
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Springer US
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Topics

Social Sciences, general

Interdisciplinary Studies

Personality and Social Psychology

Psychology, general

Regional and Cultural Studies

Homosexuality

Russia

Media

Belonging

Visibility

LGBT

Emil Persson

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Author Affiliations

1. Lund University, Lund, Sweden

2. Culture and Society, Malm University, 20506, Malm, Sweden

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Original Paper
Sexuality & Culture
June 2015, Volume 19, Issue 2, pp 256-274
First online: 26 October 2014

Banning Homosexual Propaganda:

Belonging and Visibility in Contemporary
Russian Media

Emil Persson

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Abstract
This article investigates Russian mainstream medias coverage of the 2013 legislation banning
propaganda for non-traditional sexuality. Inspired by theories on belonging, media and
visibility, it reconstructs a dominant narrative representing non-heterosexuals as threatening the
future survival of the nation, as imposing the sex-radical norms of a minority onto the majority,
or as connected to an imperialistic West which aims to destroy Russia. This story, it is argued,
functions as a hegemonic grammar regulating how non-heterosexuality is seen and heard in the
public sphere. However, it is argued that sometimes the linearity and cohesiveness of the
narrative breaks down, when things appear that do not fit this model of interpretation. The
analysis illustrates how contestations of belonging in contemporary media are increasingly
structured according to the logic of visibility: dominant actors attempt to regulate what can be
seen and heard in the public sphere whereas oppositional actors attempt to establish their own
visibility in the mediated space of appearance, putting forward alternative constructions of the
nation and who belongs to it.

Keywords
Homosexuality Russia Media Belonging Visibility LGBT

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