No Homo: Gendered Dimensions of Homophobic Epithets Online.

We examine a case of homophobic language online, specifically the deployment of the phrase "no homo," shorthand for "I'm not a homosexual." An analysis of 396 instances (comprising 1061 individual tweets) of the use of the phrase "no homo" on the social media platform Twitter suggests that the phras...

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Published in:	Sex Roles Vol. 80; no. 3/4; pp. 123 - 137
Main Authors:	Pascoe, C. J., Diefendorf, Sarah
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Feb2019
Subjects:	Twitter (Web resource) Homophobia in language Homosexuality in the press Microblogs Social media Masculinity
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost