His conception of the dialogic explicates the relationship between researcher and informants, as well as the dialogues internal to informants' narratives. Mikhail Bakhtin's work is used to devise ways of 'seeing' social organization in the speech and graffiti in which the ideology of 'fag' is realized in schools. The ideology of 'fag' is key to the organization of the heterosexist/homophobic dimensions of the school regime.
It does not study the informants themselves. As an institutional ethnography, the article explores that regime from the standpoint of the informants. Interviews with gay students examined the heterosexism/homophobia of the current educational regime in schools. This article reports on research into the experience of gay teenagers in school.
