Rhodes Claire D, Stewart Craig O
a Department of Converged Communications , Florida State College of Jacksonville , Jacksonville , Florida , USA.
b Department of Communication , University of Memphis , Memphis , Tennessee , USA.
J Homosex. 2016 Jul;63(7):904-24. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2015.1116341. Epub 2015 Nov 7.
This article reports a case study of the legislative and media discourse surrounding the addition of sexual orientation and gender identity language to the employment nondiscrimination ordinance of a city in the heart of the Bible Belt. The purpose of the study is to uncover how different identities were constructed and contested at city council meetings and in the news media on the way to passing legal protection for LGBT city employees in a region that is often characterized by anti-gay prejudice. This debate over the nondiscrimination ordinance centered on the question of whether LGBT identities are equivalent to identity categories based on race, gender, or religious belief, and it was shaped by various intergroup communication dynamics, specifically between members of the LGBT minority and the straight majority, between LGBT and Christian identities, and between "true" and "false" Christian identities.
本文报道了一项关于立法和媒体话语的案例研究，该研究围绕在《圣经地带》中心的一个城市的就业非歧视条例中加入性取向和性别认同相关表述展开。该研究的目的是揭示在一个常以反同性恋偏见为特征的地区，在市议会会议和新闻媒体中，不同身份是如何在为同性恋、双性恋和跨性别者（LGBT）城市雇员通过法律保护的过程中被建构和争论的。这场关于非歧视条例的辩论集中在LGBT身份是否等同于基于种族、性别或宗教信仰的身份类别这一问题上，并且它受到各种群体间沟通动态的影响，特别是LGBT少数群体与异性恋多数群体之间、LGBT身份与基督教身份之间，以及“真正的”和“虚假的”基督教身份之间的动态。
