ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the strong relationship between homophobia and the masculinity. Identity is a prominent organising feature of our social world, and the relationship between language, discourse and identity is a major field of investigation. In a study of discourse and identity, Moita-Lopes analyses narratives-in-interaction in a focus-group interview between three researchers and seven young adolescents in Brazil in order to focus on the construction of multiple positionings: on being white, heterosexual and male. Signorile argues that the bigotry of the religious conservative backlash against LGBT rights and challenges the complacency and hypocrisy of those who supposedly support the LGBT movement. King discusses the issues a researcher faces when building and analysing the corpora of Computer-mediated communication (CMC), which he relates to his own experiences when investigating how language is employed to construct sexual identities in a chat-room used by gay men.
