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This Issue Brief focuses on the intersection of the LGBT community and discrimination in America. Discrimination against individuals who identify as gay, lesbian, transgender, or bi sexual continues to take place within the America's labor market. Throughout the course of this issue brief legislative norms and decisions will be explored and identified as enablers of such discrimination against this cross cutting cleavage of individuals.

Intro -- Foreword -- 1 What's So Scary About Difference? -- A Tragic Symbol of Homophobia -- Anti-gay Hate Crimes -- Close-up: The Matthew Shepard Foundation -- Fear of the Other -- Close-up: Prejudiced People Aren't Picky -- Prejudice -- 2 Homophobia and Its Victims -- How Common Is Homosexuality? -- The History of Homophobia -- Homophobia in the Modern Era -- Close-up: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals -- 3 An Ongoing Struggle for Rights and Respect -- Close-up: The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act -- An Era of Change -- The Stonewall Riots -- Gay Liberation and Gay Pride -- The AIDS Crisis -- The New Millennium -- 4 What Can You Do About Homophobia? -- Close-up: "That's so GAY!" -- Are You Homophobic? -- Series Glossary -- Further Resources -- Index.

"Homophobia has been defined as "an irrationally negative attitude toward [homosexuals]" that can manifest itself in harassment, verbal abuse, and even outright violence. Despite recent changes, like the legal recognition of same-sex marriage in Canada and Massachusetts, homophobic attitudes still pervade both legislative and judicial decisions, denying rights on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. This book undertakes in-depth analysis of judicial reasoning to show how courts can, by stripping gay men and lesbians of choices, reward invisibility. The book, however, is not intended to be just a bleak critique. To the contrary, it seeks to foster change and offer alternatives for those interested in avoiding stereotypes and helping the oppressed achieve a more fulfilling life"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

Suzanne Pharr's Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism may be an effective tool for women committed to overcoming their own homophobia who want practical advice on recognizing and eradicating it, although as an essay in theory it does not advance the issues. The author seems unaware that Celia Kitzinger has argued recently that "homophobia" is not a helpful concept because it individualizes problems better seen as political and begs the question of the rationality of the fear. I argue that "homophobia" has been misused but that freed of the medical model and understood in connection with issues of pride and shame, it can be a helpful concept.

This article is an autoethnographic account of one person's struggle with homophobia. It chronicles the experiences and internal battle of the author as she struggles to understand and be accepting of homosexuality. The author identifies and discusses messages received, in early childhood and adulthood, as it relates to homosexuality and gender. These messages encompass religious ideology, as well as family and community beliefs toward gay/lesbian individuals.

"This book takes an in-depth look at the ancient roots of homophobia, including its Pythagorean origins and its eventual spread throughout the Roman Empire and, consequently, the rest of the world"--Provided by publisher

Psychoanalysis is at once a system of thought, a toolkit for cultural diagnosis and criticism, and a therapeutic practice. In Dagmar Herzog's exciting new book Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes, psychoanalysis is among the most transformative intellectual events of the twentieth century and is itself transformed by that century's roiling forces, shaping and profoundly shaped by politics and culture. Foregrounding the historicity of psychoanalysis requires Herzog to wrest psychoanalysis from its own claims to historical transcendence. "While psychoanalysis is often taken to be ahistorical in its view of human nature," Herzog writes, "the opposite is the case" (2). After Freud's death, during the heyday of psychoanalysis in the 1940s and 1950s, through challenges to its authority in the 1960s and 1970s, to what Herzog calls its "second golden age" in the 1980s, the analytic frame offered by psychoanalysis (and the debates it generated) helped people grapple with the aftermath of the horrors of the Second World War and offered novel ways of thinking about the most important questions of the postwar decades: about aggression, guilt, trauma, the capacity for violence, indeed about "the very nature of the human self and its motivations" (1).

Homophobia among certain men could be understood as a reactionary form of social resilience, insofar as such resilience can work against adaptation and social transformation. Resilience is again closely related to the concept of ' sus- tainability ' . Many fans position the expression of negativity towards gays as a heroic struggle against ' political correctness ' and in defence of freedom of thought and speech. But it should also be seen as a strategic action to manipulate the feelings of opponents in order to win. In a time of global hyper commodi fi - cation, the paramount goal of winning stimulates strategic actions that contribute to shaping norms and values. ; This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Krøvel, R. (2015). Fighting strategic homophobia in football. Soccer & Society, 1-15. [copyright Taylor & Francis], available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14660970.2015.1100437