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‘Changing Marriage? Messing with Mr. In-Between?: Reflections upon Media Debates on Same-Sex Marriage in Ireland’

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This article explores some aspects of the emergence of local debates around same-sex marriage in the Republic of Ireland. Taking up this issue through an analysis of Irish (local) mediatized reactions to the introduction of German gay marriage in 2001, I point to how we can see some evidence of a shift away from Irish traditional relationships between the social, politics and religion, which served to police and silence much public discussion about sexuality. While prudery about sexual issues still remains, my paper points to the emergence of prudent-yet-tolerant sharing of stories about the social exclusion of same-sex couples. In spite of recent setbacks for a legal case seeking the recognition of a foreign same-sex marriage in Ireland, we may point to a growing political and legal consciousness for the extension of rights for lesbian and gay couples but it is still unclear as to what model will be adopted in the Irish context. While in the Irish case, there is only intermittent media interest in ‘gay marriage’, we can locate this struggle within the framework of the sociology of intimate citizenship. Not only do claims for same-sex marriage illustrate pointed inequalities experienced by lesbians and gay men, the stories also problematize the naturalness of heterosexuality. The Irish case may, of course, be explored within the context of a global challenge to gender identity where the imagined same-sex couple enjoy some element of certainty in an uncertain world.

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  • Sean Reynolds, 2007. "‘Changing Marriage? Messing with Mr. In-Between?: Reflections upon Media Debates on Same-Sex Marriage in Ireland’," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 12(1), pages 152-168, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:12:y:2007:i:1:p:152-168
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.1516
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