News media coverage of LGBT identities over 10 years in a 400-million-word corpus
by Reuben Ng, Ting Yu Joanne Chow, Wenshu Yang
BackgroundThis study is the first to analyze LGBT portrayals in a news media dataset over a decade (2010–2020). We selected Singapore as a country of interest, emblematic of a nation grappling with state-encouraged heteronormativity and a remnant colonial law against homosexuality (377A), fraught with calls for its repeal that was only enacted in 2022. Our study is interested in this period bookended by challenge and change, particularly in newspaper portrayals of LGBT narratives. Читать дальше...