title: "He's a big old girl!" Negotiation by gender inversion in gay men's speech.
abstract: On the basis of participant observation in the gay communities of San Francisco, Paris and Oslo, this article charts a pattern of gender inversion in the negotiation of identities and social relations that can be related to an international gay culture. The use of gender inversion in gay men's speech is seen as evidence of the discursive construction of specific generic identities whose capacity to carry meaning is dependent on conventional categories of gender.
authors.affiliation: University of Bergen, Norway. ole.johsen@roman.uib.no
authors.forename: Ole Ringdal
authors.initials: OR
authors.lastname: Johnsen
mesh_terms: D018451:Homosexuality, Male; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012933:Social Identification; D013060:Speech; D013240:Stereotyping; D014825:Vocabulary