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AbstractIn this short essay, I offer some reflections on language and sexuality work over the past decade. My discussion is focused on the increasing influence of queer theory, in particular, and I comment on trends in research into language and queer identities. I take into account not only the work published in theJournal of Language and Sexualityand beyond, but also that presented over the past decade at the annual Lavender Languages and Linguistics conference.

Highlights

  • Since the publication of the first influential volumes taking a linguistic approach to the study of sexuality and queer identities (e.g. Leap 1995, Livia and Hall 1997), we have seen a huge increase in work in this area

  • The international conference most closely aligned with language and sexuality – Lavender Languages and Linguistics, established in 1993 by William Leap – has seen great change in recent years

  • I frame the following reflections on language and sexuality work over the past decade in terms of the trends shown in JLS and beyond, and in terms of what we have seen happening at Lavender

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Introduction

Since the publication of the first influential volumes taking a linguistic approach to the study of sexuality and queer identities (e.g. Leap 1995, Livia and Hall 1997), we have seen a huge increase in work in this area. Much of what has been presented at Lavender and published in JLS is not about sexuality: not all papers have sex and desire, sexual identity, or sexual orientation as their focus, with research focused on trans and genderqueer speakers increasing, for example. This is one reason why ‘Lavender’, a word associated with the gay community for much of the twentieth century and used in foundational work in the field I go on to consider what we have learnt about identity, in particular, through work taking an explicitly queer approach

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