Publications

Publication details [#42649]

Kitzinger, Celia and Elizabeth Peel. 2005. The de-gaying and re-gaying of AIDS: contested homophobias in lesbian and gay awareness training. Discourse & Society 16 (2) : 173–192.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | education | gay | health

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This analysis of HIV/AIDS talk in lesbian and gay awareness training sessions, reveals that trainees tend to continue discussions to claim the ‘de-gaying’ of AIDS, whilst trainers just seem to ‘re-gaying’ AIDS, which points to an efficiency problem in training pedagogy.