Abstract:
This paper also draws on research conducted as part of the ARC-funded Queer Generations study (DP150101292) where we spoke to two different social generations of LGBTQ people (people born in the 1970s and people born in the 1990s, in Australia). In this paper, we reflect on relationships between LGBTQ youth sexual citizenship and temporality. In particular, we reflect on the impact of public debates in Australia regarding marriage equality and LGBTQ inclusion in schools which coincided with our research. Looking back on people’s contributions we reflect on how “progress” is discussed, producing sexuality and gender as generational things, and we explore how people’s diverse accounts of coming of age as LGBTQ people trouble linear chronologies of growing up, so central to normative models of sexual citizenship.
(Authors: Marshall, Hegarty, Cover, Newman, Rasmussen & Aggleton)
(Authors: Marshall, Hegarty, Cover, Newman, Rasmussen & Aggleton)