Abstracts
Abstract
My Fabulous Gay Wedding was intended from its conception to be “a hot topic, a controversial topic, a topic filled with lots of opportunity for emotional moments.” This article traces a number of contemporary discourses around same-sex marriage that are illuminated, albeit not clarified, by responses to the show, including a boycott of Canadian Tire, a purported sponsor, by a number of right-wing, anti-gay groups. However, the questions the show raises exceed the media’s simplistic binary of “lesbian and gay rights” v. “religious rights” and involve interrogating what, exactly, is being represented on screen, and whether or not same-sex weddings interpellate lesbian and gay couples into a form of heteronormativity.
Résumé
My Fabulous Gay Wedding [Mon merveilleux mariage gai] était conçu dès le départ pour être « un sujet chaud, un sujet de controverse, un sujet rempli de possibilités d’instants d’émotion ». Cet article esquisse un certain nombre de discours contemporains portant sur les mariages entre gens du même sexe qui se trouvent illuminés, quoique pas totalement clarifiés, par les réactions à cette émission, incluant un boycott de Canadian Tire, commanditaire présumé, par un certain nombre de groupes conservateurs anti-gais. Cependant, les questions que soulève cette émission dépassent la scission binaire simpliste des médias entre les « droits des gais et des lesbiennes » versus les « droits religieux » et implique que l’on s’interroge sur ce qui est représenté à l’écran exactement et si, oui ou non, les mariages entre gens du même sexe interpellent les couples de gais et de lesbiennes pour qu’ils entrent dans une forme d’hétéronormativité.
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