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Between LGBTTIQ-support and heteronormativity: Constructions of nor-mality inside a school LGBTTIQ-support project in Germany

  • How does heteronormativity become visible within the discourse of LGBTTIQ-support activists at the school? Using data from non-moderated group discussions among schoolchildren aged between 14 and 18, who were involved in LGBTTIQ support projects in different schools within the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the article reconstructs how concepts of norms and normality, heteronormativity, difference and otherness are being articulated by the students. A sequential analysis of the group discussions is used to detect the meaning of norms and normality with respect to LGBTTIQ identities, to highlight the way in which LGBTTIQ-supporters are constantly being subjected to this discourse. Simul-taneously it detects a concealed conflict between the goal setting of LGBTTIQ support and heteronormative discourse. The paper underlines the mechanisms of problematizing LGBTTIQ-identities by students and framing them as non-normality, thus showing the power of heteronormative discourse, the very discourse young LGBTTIQ-supporters are trapped in and trying to cope with.

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Author:Tatiana Zimenkova, Verena Molitor, Katrin Alida Müller, Jasmin Kronsbein
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:1383-opus4-7417
Document Type:Preprint
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2021/03/26
Year of first Publication:2021
Publishing Institution:Hochschule Rhein-Waal
Release Date:2021/03/26
Tag:Heteronormativity; Norms and normalization; School support for LGBTTIQ; Schooling
Volume:2021
Number of Pages:26
Faculties and Institutes:Fakultät Gesellschaft und Ökonomie
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 301 Soziologie, Anthropologie
Licence (German):License LogoCC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitungen