QueerTube: Online Use of Video and
Audio as Social Commentary by LGBTQ Youth

Keith Dorwick, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
P.O. Box 44691
Lafayette, LA 70504-4691
kdorwick@yahoo.com

This site is associated with my manuscript in process, QueerTube: Online Use of Video and Audio as Social Commentary by LGBTQ Youth.  As I work, I will continue to seek out videos from across the world for dissemination but especially analysis in order to show the ways in which LGBTQ youth from many cultures are using the Internet. This site will include excerpts from the videos I discuss in the main (print)  text. I archive them here in order to prevent webrot,  the disappearance of materials once located on the web but then removed for any number of reasons, in order that readers of the print text can then refer to these primary sources without difficulty.

I began this project on June 28, 2009, the fortieth anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, and I dedicate this book and website to those first early LGBTQ activists who were beat up and arrested by cops rather than live a lie any more. They made modern queer liberation possible and LGBTQ folks, including myself, living today have greatly benefited from their courage.

Introduction

Queer Theory and Youth: An Introduction

In what ways does current queer theory help describe the lives of LGBTQ youth as they make videos that document and comment on their concerns?

Part I: Queer? Or Just Friends?

I Love You, Man: Roughhousing and Other Homosocial Play among Male Youth on MySpace and YouTube

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Love Song: Queer Video Use of One Pop Tune by Homosocial Boys and Young Men

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Part II: Queer as Can Be

Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: GLTBQ Self-Identity and Coming Out Videos

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As Long as We Both Shall Live: Love, Marriage and Relationships among LGBTQ Youth

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Getting Sick, Staying Well: Health Concerns of LGBTQ Youth

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The Narrow Gate: Churches, Synagogues, Mosques and LGBTQ Youth

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Gotta Make a Buck: Work, the Economy and LGBTQ Youth

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Getting It On: Sex and Intimacy among LGBTQ Youth

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Dance, Drugs and Other Play: Recreation among LGBTQ Youth

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Taking to the Streets: Political Actions and Concerns of LGBTQ Youth

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Conclusion

Making a Difference

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Last Modified: October 5, 2009