Cycles of Sameness and Difference in LGBT Social Movements

Ghaziani, Amin; Taylor, Verta; Stone, Amy L.

doi:10.1146/annurev-soc-073014-112352

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“…Scholars have documented the existence of a distinct culture shared by lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) people that, at times, embraces difference and diversity, including race and ethnicity (Armstrong ; D'Emilio ; Ghaziani, Taylor, and Stone ). Indeed, “gay culture, [gay activists] say, is better because it is less sexist, less classist, and less racist than heterosexual culture” (Savin‐Williams :17).…”

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Sexual Orientation Differences in Whites’ Racial Attitudes

Grollman

2017

Sociological Forum

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Historical and anecdotal accounts present a contradictory image of predominantly white lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) communities in the United States: a unique celebration of racial and other forms of diversity, yet pervasive racial discrimination and exclusion that mirrors racism of the broader society. However, no study to date has compared the racial attitudes of white heterosexual and white LGB Americans. Using nationally representative data from the American National Election Survey 2012 Times Series Study, I investigate the effect of sexual orientation on whites' racial attitudes in the domains of symbolic, color-blind, and old-fashioned racism. Compared to white heterosexuals, white LGB people hold more favorable attitudes toward black people, most notably in the domain of symbolic racism. On average, over 40% of sexual orientation gaps in whites' racial attitudes is explained by white LGB respondents' more liberal political ideology; their greater awareness of homophobic discrimination explains, on average, one-fifth of these sexual orientation gaps. These findings suggest that white LGB racial attitudes must be examined at the intersection of their privileged racial and disadvantaged sexual identities.

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Sexual Orientation Differences in Whites’ Racial Attitudes

Grollman

2017

Sociological Forum

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“…Historically, the idea of an LGBTQQ community in the United States has been used to refer to populations who share a sense of group membership based on their sexual and/or gender minority status. Based on these shared experiences, the term LGBTQQ community has often been associated with social activism and advocacy by its members (Ghaziani et al., ; Simon Rosser, West, & Weinmeyer, ). The term is also commonly used to denote a physical location (e.g., Castro District in San Francisco, Gayborhood in Philadelphia) or space (e.g., bar or club) where sexual and gender minorities congregate.…”

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“…individuals have gained broader social acceptance in recent years (Fredriksen-Goldsen, Kim, Barkan, Balsam, & Mincer, 2010;Ghaziani, Taylor, & Stone, 2016).…”

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Young sexual minority women's definition of community: Toward addressing health disparities in the LGBTQQ community

Sexton

Flores

Bauermeister

2017

Journal Community Psychology

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In accord with Healthy People 2020 goals, the elimination of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ) health disparities will require community-level strategies to address stigma, discrimination, and prejudice linked to poor health. We explored how young sexual minority women (YSMW) define LGBTQQ community, community connection, community engagement, and community tensions because these concepts have implications for development and evaluation of health disparities interventions. A total of 30 YSMW (aged 18-24 years) from Michigan participated in semistructured, in-depth interviews. Participants varied by sexual identity, residency, and race/ethnicity. We analyzed transcribed interviews using thematic analysis and compared emergent themes across sexual identity, residency, and race/ethnicity. Women described community connection in terms of organizational involvement, participation in LGBTQQ spaces, and collective social identity. Participants noted how community connections were linked to stigma towards the LGBTQQ community. YSMW highlighted how divisive tensions exist within subgroups constituting the LGBTQQ community, hindering opportunities for social advocacy, unified policy priorities, and community-level interventions. The heterogeneity of YSMW's experiences identifying with the LGBTQQ community and engaging within LGBTQQ spaces suggest that researchers should attend to the role of community dynamics when developing health disparities interventions and policies. Efforts to reconcile tensions within the LGBTQQ community may strengthen and advance policymakers' ability to address sexuality-related disparities.

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“…Postgay is the tension between the assimilation of gay people into the mainstream and antiassimilation focus on the diversity of identity and experience encompassed in LGBT, which has led activists in the twenty-first century to change the way they relate to the straight majority (Ghaziani 2011). Scholarship has focused on efforts to form collective identities that oscillate between highlighting sameness to or differences from a heteronormative mainstream (Bernstein 1997;Gamson 1995;Ghaziani, Taylor, and Stone 2016). The sameness strategy stresses that sexual and gender minorities are just like everyone else, and the difference strategy stresses that sexual and gender minorities are not fundamentally like everyone else.…”

Section: Lgbtq: From Perverse Proclivity To Collective Identity To Pomentioning

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Queer Integrative Marginalization: LGBTQ Student Integration Strategies at an Elite University

Chica

2019

Socius

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The author draws on the oral histories of 44 LGBTQ Princeton alumni who graduated from 1960 to 2011 to examine student strategies for negotiating marginal identities when integrating into an elite university. Even with greater LGBTQ visibility and resources at the institutional level, LGBTQ students’ experiences and strategies suggest that we question the larger social narrative of linear progress. Across time, students navigate space by highlighting difference to belong as queer students in explicitly LGBTQ circles or muting difference to belong as token queer students in heteronormative circles. Integration of an LGBTQ person does not necessarily mean incorporation of an LGBTQ identity and vice versa. These strategies are largely contingent upon students’ social positions: intersectional identities, structural location, and available models. Student strategies are structurally tempered by queer integrative marginalization: the process of select predominantly elite LGBTQ people’s achieving special status among the heteronormative mainstream.

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Cycles of Sameness and Difference in LGBT Social Movements

Cited by 83 publications

References 86 publications

Sexual Orientation Differences in Whites’ Racial Attitudes

Sexual Orientation Differences in Whites’ Racial Attitudes

Young sexual minority women's definition of community: Toward addressing health disparities in the LGBTQQ community

Queer Integrative Marginalization: LGBTQ Student Integration Strategies at an Elite University

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