News media framing of cases of anti-LGBTQ violence by erasing aspects of victims' identities

What is it about?

This paper is about understanding how and why the news highlighted some parts of the perpetrators' identities in the Pulse Orlando shooting and the Bruce McArthur serial killer case while also downplaying or erasing aspects of the victims' identities (like race and sexuality) in order to frame each case according to what was going on in the US and Toronto politically.

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Why is it important?

This study is important because it sheds light on the ways that news media reports are a narrow, often biased representation of events that frequently erases the identities of marginalized groups in order to be more palatable and more relevant to political context.