Broom Closet or Fish Bowl? An Ethnographic Exploration of a University Queer Center and Oneself

Autor/inn/en	Teman, Eric D.; Lahman, Maria K. E.
Titel	Broom Closet or Fish Bowl? An Ethnographic Exploration of a University Queer Center and Oneself
Quelle	In: Qualitative Inquiry, 18 (2012) 4, S.341-354 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1077-8004
DOI	10.1177/1077800411433548
Schlagwörter	Participant Observation; Ethnography; Research Reports; Tales; Homosexuality; Poetry; Higher Education; Barriers; Student Organizations; Student Unions; Undergraduate Students; Organizational Culture; Semi Structured Interviews; Suicide; Social Bias; Student Attitudes; Peer Relationship; Qualitative Research; Self Concept; Colorado + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teilnehmende Beobachtung; Ethnografie; Research report; Forschungsbericht; Erzählung; Homosexualität; Lyrik; Poesie; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Student organisations; Schülerorganisation; Studentenorganisation; Studentenvereinigung; Studentenvertretung; Unternehmenskultur; Selbstmord; Schülerverhalten; Peer-Beziehungen; Qualitative Forschung; Selbstkonzept
Abstract	The authors detail an educational ethnography of a university queer cultural center's role on campus and in the surrounding community. The data include participant observation, in-depth interviews, and artifacts. The authors review lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, ally, and questioning (LGBTAQ) issues in higher education, heterosexual attitudes, and queer theory. The findings of barriers to the Center's mission plus the suicide of a Center student prompted the authors to explore research poetry as a means to express the inexpressible. Furthermore, they illustrate tensions between contemporary queer and gay theories through the telling of a "straight tale" (traditional research report) and a "gay tale" (experiential research report), interrupted with "queer tales" (poetic interludes) and "queer asides". At the heart of the tale is the transformation of the first author, a gay male, to a researcher and scholar of gay issues. This tale is therefore at all times queer, gay, and straight. (Contains 15 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10