"Satan's Representative" and the "Filthy Queer": College Student Government and the (S)election of Gay Men to Representative Leadership

Autor/in	Goodman, Michael Anthony
Titel	"Satan's Representative" and the "Filthy Queer": College Student Government and the (S)election of Gay Men to Representative Leadership
Quelle	In: About Campus, 28 (2023) 3, S.9-13 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Goodman, Michael Anthony)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1086-4822
DOI	10.1177/10864822231194990
Schlagwörter	LGBTQ People; Males; Student Government; College Students; Student Leadership; Elections + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Schülerparlament; Collegestudent; Studentenwerk; Election; Wahl
Abstract	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. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01