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- Title
Drag Queens, Drama Queens, and Friends: Drama and Performance as a Solidarity-Building Function in a Gay Male Friendship Circle.
- Authors
Jones Jr., Richard G.
- Abstract
To date, there has been scholarly research conducted on gay communities, language and performance within certain communities, and gay male friendships. However, scholarly synthesis of these concepts is uncommon. The following essay asks: How are performance and communication used to build and maintain solidarity in the gay male friendship circle? To answer this question, I used a multi-faceted conceptual framework which includes the shared repertoire dimension of a community of practice, friendship as method, and criteria for determining performance and solidarity building strategies as communicative actions. Using friendship as method, data gathered through participant observation of a small gay male friendship circle are analyzed and discussed in terms of the guiding research question. Conclusions are drawn to show that dramatic and performative communication is an important solidarity building function in the gay male friendship community that I studied.
- Subjects
GAY community; GAY neighborhoods; FRIENDSHIP; INTERPERSONAL relations; CULTURE; LANGUAGE of LGBTQ+ people; GAY people; PERFORMANCE; GAY male relationships; SOLIDARITY
- Publication
Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research, 2007, Vol 6, p61
- ISSN
1552-700X
- Publication type
Article