"It's about time you came out" : sexualities, mobility and home

Gordon Waitt, Andrew Gorman-Murray

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    Abstract

    Helping redress the dominance of metropolitan narratives upon which much literature on sexuality is framed, this article interprets the narrative told by a "white" 16-year-old man living in regional Australia. Our aim is to investigate the intersections of migration and homemaking in sexual subject formation. Finding a place to call "home" can be a complex process for young men born in regional Australia and not conforming to the social formations of a "normal guy". This young man's narrative expressively reveals the fluidity and spatiality inherent in processes of negotiating sexual subjectivities. His story provides telling insights into how migration and mobility change his understandings of home and of self by making possible a third-space configured by neither the gender norms of his hometown nor the "gay scene" in Sydney.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1380-1403
    Number of pages24
    JournalAntipode
    Volume43
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2011

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