“You can be gay and straight at the same time:” Contextually contingent negotiations of gay and bisexual identifications among same-gender-loving men in Ghana
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ABSTRACT In this essay, I draw on interview discourses with 22 Sassoi – same-gender-loving men in Ghana – to examine how they discursively deploy “straight,” “gay,” and “bisexual” identifications in specific contexts. Drawing on the work of postcolonial studies and queer intercultural communication scholarship, I show how Sassoi infuse gay, bisexual and straight identifications with alternative meanings to resist the exclusionary discourses of Ghanaian sexual citizenship and Western understandings of same-sex sexuality. In the end, I argue that in contrast to narratives of reconciliation where queer subjects resolve multiple aspects of themselves, such as being gay and religious, queer African subjects draw on a politics of complementarity – where polar identities such as gay and straight are not always perceived as oppositional..
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Communication Monographs, published in March, June, September & December, reports original, theoretically grounded research dealing with human symbolic exchange across the broad spectrum of interpersonal, group, organizational, cultural and mediated contexts in which such activities occur. The scholarship reflects diverse modes of inquiry and methodologies that bear on the ways in which communication is shaped and functions in human interaction. The journal endeavours to publish the highest quality communication social science manuscripts that are grounded theoretically. The manuscripts aim to expand, qualify or integrate existing theory or additionally advance new theory. The journal is not restricted to particular theoretical or methodological perspectives.