new research by academics at London South Bank University (LSBU).The research, ‘Changing Contexts: from criminal to citizen’, is authored by Dr Aidan McKearney, Senior Lecturer, Human Resource Management in LSBU’s Business School.Dr Aiden McKearneyForty-four men – 22 in rural east of England (Suffolk and Norfolk) and 22 in the rural west and north west of Ireland – were interviewed for Changing Contexts, which highlights the stigma and exclusion tendencies gay men have had to overcome while living in the countryside, and asks whether sexual citizenship (defined as the ‘tag’ given to the concept of gay people becoming equal to heterosexual people) has changed for gay men living in rural areas.The research shows:The men overcame these.