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In the present article we analyze the polymorphous prejudice against Lesbians and Gays using a sample of Portuguese heterosexual individuals. We tested the differential importance of demographic, ideological, and psychological-level variables predicting this phenomenon. Results show that male Catholic right-wing respondents with less LG friends are the ones exhibiting higher polymorphous prejudice. Nevertheless, the introduction of psychologicallevel variables in the regression models increased the explained variance of polymorphous prejudice, above and beyond the remaining predictors. Also, different patterns of results are obtained when regression analyses are deployed at the level of the sub-scales of polymorphous prejudice. Results are discussed within the light of contemporary sexual prejudice frameworks, and the utility of results to intervention with discriminated LG individuals is reviewed.

The aim of this study is to understand how men experience sexual behavior in relation to dominant masculine norms in heteronormative social organizations. After a systematic search and a careful study selection process, we analyzed 15 scientific qualitative studies on men's sexual practices that draw on hegemonic masculinity. We then carried out a thematic synthesis of the results that collectively covered 438 male narratives ranging in age from 11 to 71. The results include (hetero)sex as a signifier of manhood, male sexual collectivity; sexual hierarchies; sexual risk; and the invisibility of sexual diversity. This meta-synthesis emphasizes the complex relationship between male sexuality and the influence of hegemonic masculinity, revealing important health and well-being effects on men. Also, this highlights a dynamic relationship that affects not only men but also their partners in sexual relationships.

This article explores the concept of sexual fluidity and its applicability to men’s sexual experiences by approaching the surveillance and control of hegemonic masculinity. We carried out semi-structured interviews with 15 participants aged between 20 and 53 who state having experienced sexual fluidity. The analysis conveys how sexuality is a work in progress while highlighting the intersections of masculinities and sexualities in a heteronormative, mononormative, sexually rigid, and hegemonically masculine social context. The results indicate the potential flexibility, malleability, and changeability of all sexual identities, orientations, and experiences when disengaging from a heteronormative approach in sexual relations.

Hegemonic masculinity constitutes a relevant tool for understanding the genderization processes prevailing in men's sexualities. Hence, we deployed this concept as a resource to analyse how sexual fluidity might apply to the sexuality of nonheterosexual men and how they experienced this. We carried out semi-structured interviews with 15 participants, ranging from 20 to 53 years old, who all reported having experienced sexual fluidity. This article presents experiences of sexual fluidity as a shifting identity amidst flexible sexual activities and concerns over normativity through personal and social reactions taking place in a heterostable social world. These results exhibit the negotiations of sexual fluidity with hegemonic masculinities, both reproduced and questioned.

This study analyses the experiences of discrimination of Portuguese lesbian women in school during their youth. Thirty-one semi-structured interviews were carried out on Portuguese territory with women who self-identify as lesbians. The participant discourses were systematized according to the thematic analysis of qualitative data. The following three main topics emerged from the analysis: (1) (In)visibilities, (2) Homophobia and (3) Reactions. Carrying out this analysis also allowed for the demonstration of existing Discrimination in School Settings (the central organizing concept of this analysis). One of the main study conclusions concerns double discrimination, reflected in double victimization, in association with the participants belonging to a social category, in particular a feminine non-normative sexual orientation. Through omitting the existence of sexual diversity and the lack of information on that subject, the heteronormative school context promotes social exclusion and becomes a potentially unsafe place for young women who self-identify as lesbians. Based on a commitment to social transformation, this study contributes to deepening the critical reflection on the experiences of lesbian women and the processes of exclusion to which they are subjected to in the Portuguese school setting. Simultaneously, the study addresses the main needs and specificities of this social group and thus contributes to the implementation of public policies and the development of critical views fostering diversity and social justice.

ResumoCom o objetivo de compreender o modo como as pessoas com expressões de género não normativas vivem, sentem e experienciam os seus géneros, foram realizadas entrevistas a oito pessoas com expressões de género não normativas, recorrendo ao método narrativo interpretativo biográfico. Das principais conclusões, destaca-se a forma como a diversidade de experiências conflui com os processos de resistência queer, propondo a desconstrução do género. As desidentificações de género são as estratégias que permitem fazer os géneros diversos, em não conformidade com a norma, trabalhando em, com e contra a ideologia dominante no limbo da normatividade, isto é, o não lugar social pela inconformidade de género. Palavras-chave:Desidentificação, género, performatividade, queer. Abstract Gender Disidentifications: Subversive performancesIn order to understand how people with non-normative gender expressions live, feel and experience their genders, eight interviews were carried out with people who attempt non-normative gender expressions, using the biographic-narrative interpretive method. The main conclusions are the way the diversity of experiences converges with queer resistance processes, proposing the deconstruction of gender. Gender disidentifications are the strategies that make it possible to do the diversity of genders, in a non-compliance with the norm, working in, with and against the dominant ideology, in the limbo of normativity, that is, the social non-place due to gender nonconformity. Résumé Désidentifications de genre: performances subversivesAfin de comprendre comment les personnes ayant des expressions de genre non normatives vivent, sentent et expérimentent leurs genres, huit personnes qui ont des expressions de genre non normatives ont été interviewés, en utilisant la méthode d'interprétation narrative biographique. Les principales conclusions sont la manière dont la diversité des expériences converge avec les processus de résistance queer, proposant la déconstruction du genre. Les désidentifications de genre sont les stratégies qui permettent faire la diversité des genres, en non-respect de la norme, travaillant en, avec et contre l'idéologie dominante, dans les limbes de la normativité, c'est-à-dire, le non-lieu social de la non-conformité entre les genres.