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Volume 9, No. 2, Art. 49 &#; May

Narrative Acts: Telling Tales of Life and Devote with the Wrong Gender

James Valentine

Abstract: This presentation provides an illustration of performative social science through the world's first project to focus on multi-media storytelling with a nationwide LGBT community for public representation and museum archiving. Where voices are unheard, disguised or suppressed, the images and representations of a community may be stereotyped and discriminatory, assembled about the community by those on the outside. LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people have experienced social exclusion and marginalisation, and their stories acquire been neglected or distorted. Their lives and loves have been characterised as wrong: mistaken in medical or moral terms. OurStory Scotland was established to investigate, record and celebrate the history and experiences of the LGBT community through their own words. Our approach combines action explore and performative social science: it is participatory and emancipatory, developing the knowledge of a group th