- Title
- Media framing of recent LGBT rights debates: the contrasting cases of South Africa, Uganda and the USA
- Creator
- Dugmore, Harry
- Date Issued
- 2015
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143849
- Identifier
- vital:38288
- Identifier
- https://ischp.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/ischp_2015_abstract_booklet.pdf
- Description
- This paper compares key moments in the debates about LGBT rights, and the media coverage related to these key moments, in South Africa, Uganda and the USA. No country permitted same-sex marriage by the turn of millennium in 2000. Today, 15 countries do, as do two-thirds of states in the USA. By contrast, in some African countries, legislative regimes and social attitudes are shifting retrogressively, with the introduction of punitive laws against both ‘homosexual acts’ and the ‘promotion’ of same-sex relationships. While the drivers of progressive shifts in liberal democracies - such as LGBT activism, the impact of AIDS, and changes in the stances of professional health organisations - have also been at least partially present in many African countries, it is puzzling why these factors have not prevented an increase in repression in many African countries. As this paper outlines, the new laws have had immediate and dire impacts on the health of LGBT communities in the affected countries.
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP)
- Relation
- Dugmore, H., 2015. Media framing of recent LGBT rights debates: The contrasting cases of South Africa, Uganda and the USA. International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP). 9th Biennial Conference, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Relation
- International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) volume 2015 number 0 2015
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- Publisher
- Rights
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Dugmore, Harry (Prof)
SDG 05. Gender Equality
RU School of Journalism and Media Studies
SDG 03. Good Health and Well-Being
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