Reproducing and Subverting the Coming Out Storyline: A Case of the It Gets Better Project

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dc.contributor.authorRost-Banik, Margaret
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-18T21:01:09Z
dc.date.available2017-12-18T21:01:09Z
dc.date.issued2015-05
dc.description.abstractThe It Gets Better Project is a website that anyone in the general public can use to upload or view videos about experiences of living as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) individual. Using theories of discursive practice, socio-cultural learning, and cyberspace, I employ qualitative content analysis to examine the videos in the It Gets Better Project associated with colleges and universities to determine the common elements of participants’ coming out stories: adversity, declaring, affirmation, and encouragement. Many of the narrators follow this prototypical storyline, strongly connecting LGBT identity with adversity and emphasizing the possibility of overcoming the adversity. Other participants disrupt the dominant narrative by significantly altering or excluding one or two of the themes. As they tell their coming out stories to support viewers who are struggling with their own experiences of sexual or gender identity, participants both reinforce and subvert dominant discourses of sexuality and gender.
dc.description.degreeM.A.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/50907
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa
dc.relationTheses for the degree of Master of Arts (University of Hawaii at Manoa). Sociology
dc.subjectComing out (Sexual orientation)
dc.subjectSexual minority youth
dc.subjectSexual minorities--Identity
dc.titleReproducing and Subverting the Coming Out Storyline: A Case of the It Gets Better Project
dc.typeThesis
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