TY - JOUR
T1 - Respectable outness: Examining the coming-out narratives of Latin American Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual YouTube celebrity vloggers
AU - Garcia-Rabines, Diego
AU - Fernandez-Fernandez, Emilia
AU - Rozas-Urrunaga, Lucila
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2022/4/23
Y1 - 2022/4/23
N2 - Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual YouTube celebrities have come to the limelight of popular media culture. This article explores how 10 of the most popular and influential YouTubers from three Latin American countries (Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico) have come to occupy lesbian, gay, and bisexual subject positions in their coming out vlogs. We argue that through the entwinement of YouTube’s political economy of celebrity and performances of respectability, these vloggers were able to turn their coming-outs into a form of emotional labor that positions them as exemplary models of queer success within the neoliberal economy and cultural regime.
AB - Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual YouTube celebrities have come to the limelight of popular media culture. This article explores how 10 of the most popular and influential YouTubers from three Latin American countries (Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico) have come to occupy lesbian, gay, and bisexual subject positions in their coming out vlogs. We argue that through the entwinement of YouTube’s political economy of celebrity and performances of respectability, these vloggers were able to turn their coming-outs into a form of emotional labor that positions them as exemplary models of queer success within the neoliberal economy and cultural regime.
KW - Coming out
KW - Latin America
KW - YouTube
KW - gay identity
KW - homonormativity
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12724/17742
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/06a89b1d-0e23-3d0a-9d6f-a4ae55a75806/
U2 - 10.1177/13634607221085254
DO - 10.1177/13634607221085254
M3 - Artículo (Contribución a Revista)
JO - Sexualities
JF - Sexualities
ER -