Gay and Queer Coming Out into Europe (Part 1)

Abstract

When South Pacific opened in 1949 racial segregation was the law in the US southern states. Lawmakers in the south tried to ban the following song … but failed. It was a monumental act of courage by the writers and producers of South Pacific to refuse to back down. In this chapter we will present our ideas around how research practice can helps to query the boundaries between what is considered “professional” and legitimate knowledge and behaviour and what is not as four ‘queers’ in academe. Academic culture when thought of as primarily being about the transmission of knowledge situates the roles of gay men who are researchers in specific ways of being, belonging, acting and speaking.