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"I'm not proud, I'm just gay": lesbian and gay youths' discursive negotiation of otherness (2018)
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Jones, L. (2018). "I'm not proud, I'm just gay": lesbian and gay youths' discursive negotiation of otherness. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 22(1), 55-76. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12271

This article outlines the shared identity construction of five gay and lesbian members of an LGBT youth group, situated in a conservative, working-class, Northern English town. It is shown that the young people’s identity work emerges in response to... Read More about "I'm not proud, I'm just gay": lesbian and gay youths' discursive negotiation of otherness.