LGBT+ media representation on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing: Same-sex dance pairings as a means to promote inclusive participation in ballroom dancing?

人们在电视、电影和新闻媒体上看到的东西会对他们在日常生活中如何理解世界、互动和同情他人产生重大影响。在体育和休闲娱乐中，媒体表现可以影响人们如何对待LGBT+个体以及他们相应获得休闲机会的方式。2021年，我们见证了英国LGBT+交际舞社区向前迈出的一大步，《舞动奇迹》（SCD）改变了其长达18年的传统形式，在2020年首次举办男女配对之后，将男女专业/业余舞蹈搭档纳入其阵容。SCD的转变伴随着越来越多的媒体通过同性恋舞者和英国LGBT+交际舞文化的描述来呈现LGBT+的生活和关系。我的主要目的是利用SCD激发的活跃的媒体话语，最大限度地影响和传播我对英国LGBT+交际舞文化的博士研究，从而提高LGBT+舞者在舞伴舞中的知名度和接受度。尽管同性舞蹈越来越多地出现在媒体上，比如《SCD》2021年的大结局，以及它对解构主流舞蹈中占主导地位的性别话语的可能性，但这一主题仍未得到充分研究。我的博士学位是一项开创性的工作，通过酷儿女权主义的视角，研究LGBT+舞者在竞争性同性交际舞中的生活经历。我的博士学位的新颖之处在于我的视觉方法，包括用视觉人工物品引发照片（Tillmann-Healy, 2001; Boylorn, 2008）和作为摄影师和舞蹈家的自动人种学，提出了一个社会学框架，用于研究舞蹈身体作为材料和话语，关系和抵抗。我认为，我们无法想象通过同样的异性恋规范模式来促进包容性舞蹈表达的新可能性，并提出了一个分析框架，该框架承认跨性别、性别和性行为类别的违法行为的多样性。在这个奖学金中，我的目标是通过在我的出版物和活动中发挥我的视觉方法的创造性潜力，利用摄影来激发学术界内外感知和表达性别和性身体的新方法，从而最大限度地传播。我的目标是通过扩大我的观众基础，使学术界以外的人对LGBT+舞者的态度发生明显的社会文化转变，从而达到最大的影响。我利用多种出版媒介和教学来接触不同的受众。我的期刊文章是针对学术界的，旨在为舞蹈研究激发新的研究思路，以庆祝多样性和差异。我将在秋季每周教2小时的课，以扩大我在学术界的影响力。在学术界之外，我将改编我博士的专著，出席两次会议，并创建一个网站，将性别和性问题带到交际舞教育的前沿，并引起人们对另类舞蹈实践的关注。我将通过在肯特大学举办一场名为“重新想象交际舞”的舞蹈工作坊摄影展来实现社区影响，在那里我将分享对英国LGBT+舞蹈文化的见解，并为伦敦以外的包容性参与交际舞创造机会。我的目标是通过将SCD的最新发展纳入我的博士工作，有效地利用SCD与非学术界人士进行交流。我将进行进一步的有限研究（占课程的16.7%），以探索SCD媒体对同性舞者的表现变化与我博士研究的LGBT+舞者的生活经历之间的关系。这项工作通过在英国电视真人秀节目如《与星共舞》和《冰上之舞》中宣传LGBT+媒体来扩大影响。我通过ESRC新研究员补助金来维持这个奖学金所取得的影响，以扩大我的关注范围，包括不同能力和性别不一致的舞者。

What people see on television, film and in the news media can have significant impact on how they understand the world, interact and empathise with others in their everyday lives. In sports and leisure entertainment, media representations can influence how people treat LGBT+ individuals and their corresponding access to leisure opportunities. In 2021, we witnessed a huge step forward for the UK's LGBT+ ballroom dance community when Strictly Come Dancing (SCD) changed its 18-year long traditional format to include a male-male professional/amateur dance partnership into its line-up, following its first female-female coupling in 2020. SCD's shift was accompanied by increased media representations of LGBT+ lives and relationships through gay-identifying dancers and portrayals of the UK's LGBT+ ballroom dance culture. My main aim in this Fellowship is to leverage this active media discourse inspired by SCD to maximise impact and dissemination of my PhD research on UK's LGBT+ ballroom dance culture, so as to increase the visibility and acceptance of LGBT+ dancers in partner dancing.Despite growing media visibility of same-sex dancing such as in SCD's 2021 finale, and the possibilities it holds for deconstructing dominant gender discourse in mainstream dancing, the subject remains understudied. My PhD is a pioneering work examining LGBT+ dancers' lived experiences of competitive same-sex ballroom dancing through a queer feminist lens. The novelty of my PhD lies in my visual methodology involving photo-elicitation with visual artefacts (Tillmann-Healy, 2001; Boylorn, 2008) and auto-ethnography as a photographer and dancer, to propose a sociological framework for the examination of dancing bodies as material and discursive, relational and resistive. I show that we cannot envision new possibilities for promoting inclusive dance expressions through the same heteronormative patterns, proposing an analytical framework which recognises diversity in transgressive practices across the categories of sex, gender and sexuality. In this Fellowship, I aim to maximise dissemination by leveraging the creative potentials of my visual methodology in my publications and activities, using photography to stimulate new ways of perceiving and articulating gendered and sexual bodies within and beyond academia.I aim to achieve maximum impact to bring about visible socio-cultural shifts in attitudes towards LGBT+ dancers by broadening my audience base beyond academia. I draw on multiple publication mediums and on teaching to reach out to diverse audience. My journal article is targeted at academics to inspire new lines of inquiry for dance studies which celebrates diversity and differences. I will teach 2 hours per week in the autumn to widen my outreach in academia. Beyond academia, I will adapt a monograph from my PhD, present at two conferences and create a website to bring issues of gender and sexuality to the forefront of ballroom dance education and draw attention to alternative dance practices. I will achieve community impact through hosting a photography exhibition with dance workshop in the University of Kent, titled "Reimagining Ballroom Dancing", where I share insights on the UK's LGBT+ dance culture and create opportunities beyond London for inclusive participation in ballroom dancing.I aim to effectively draw on SCD to engage with non-academics, by incorporating up-to-date developments of SCD into my PhD work. I will carry out further limited research (16.7% of the programme) to explore how shifts in SCD's media representation of same-sex dancers relates to the lived experiences of LGBT+ dancers examined in my PhD. This work extends impact by informing LGBT+ media representations in British reality TV programmes such as Dancing with the Stars and Dancing on Ice. I sustain impact achieved in this Fellowship through an ESRC New Investigator Grant to expand my focus to include differently-abled and gender non-conforming dancers.