#3475. Reporting on sexual violence ‘inside the closet’: Masculinity, homosexuality and #MeToo

October 2026publication date
Proposal available till 25-05-2025
4 total number of authors per manuscript0 $

The title of the journal is available only for the authors who have already paid for
Journal’s subject area:
Cultural Studies;
Law;
Communication;
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous);
Places in the authors’ list:
place 1place 2place 3place 4
FreeFreeFreeFree
2350 $1200 $1050 $900 $
Contract №3475.1 Contract №3475.2 Contract №3475.3 Contract №3475.4
1 place - free (for sale)
2 place - free (for sale)
3 place - free (for sale)
4 place - free (for sale)

Abstract:
Media representation of sexual violence and sexual consent communication in cases involving queer people is an area that has been overwhelmingly overlooked by research thus far. Research looking at heterosexual instances of sexual violence has given us valuable insights into how normative gender roles are constructed in news media. This research examined three celebrity cases of alleged sexual violence from the #MeToo movement where the communication of sexual consent played a primary role in media reporting. Our research found that with an absence of cultural intelligibility around queer sex and queer negotiations of consent, problematic and damaging stereotypes about homosexual ‘deviancy’ were instead used by news media in attempts to make sense of these cases. In both the heterosexual and homosexual cases that news media reporting was overwhelmingly protecting and perpetuating norms of hegemonic masculinity.
Keywords:
#MeToo; consent; homophobia; masculinities; sexual violence

Contacts :
0