- Title
- "'Roll a fag' and go free": competing discourses of sexuality
- Creator
- George, Allen
- Relation
- Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies: JIGS Vol. 1, Issue 1, p. 49-56
- Relation
- http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/publications/jigs/volume-1-1-dec-1995.html
- Publisher
- University of Newcastle, Faculty of Education and Arts
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 1995
- Description
- Fresh concern has arisen in the past few years over the killing of men who are, or thought to be, homosexual. It is not unusual for the assailant to claim a homosexual advance was made toward him, an advance which caused or called for a violent response. The trials of these cases have seen outcomes where defendants have been found guilty of manslaughter rather than murder, or acquitted altogether. Numerous competing discourses of sexuality and sexual identity were tactically employed in the McKinnon trial where an acquittal was achieved The outcome of the McKinnon trial raises a number of issues on sexuality in Australian society.
- Subject
- homosexual men; McKinnon trial; manslaughter; sexuality; Australia
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1046368
- Identifier
- uon:14624
- Identifier
- ISSN:1325-1848
- Language
- eng
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