ERIC Number: EJ1394639
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 5
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-1086-4822
EISSN: EISSN-1536-0687
"Satan's Representative" and the "Filthy Queer": College Student Government and the (S)election of Gay Men to Representative Leadership
About Campus, v28 n3 p9-13 Jul-Aug 2023
In a hermeneutic phenomenological study on the lived experiences of openly gay undergraduate men in elected student government (see Goodman, 2021, 2022), one major theme emerged: the men were elected and selected. This study contained multiple conversations with eight openly gay undergraduate men who were elected to their institution's student government. As part of being "elected," the men were "selected" by their peers, as openly gay, and even as "fears and myths about them" existed on their respective campuses. To "dispel" such fears, as Harvey Milk suggested, gay men being (s) elected to undergraduate student government specifically not only adds greatly to society, but also contributes to the queering of student government as a system that was otherwise marginalizing and exclusive. To be active in this way--to be (s)elected--is a queering of the student government space. While gay men alone are not the queering of student government, or elected politics more broadly, they are certainly an ingredient to queering the governance space, on campus and beyond.
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Males, Student Government, College Students, Student Leadership, Elections
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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