Suchergebnisse

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.

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.

"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)

New anti-gay laws in Nigeria and Uganda are part of an emergent trend of scapegoating sexual minorities as a distraction from governance failures. But sanctions are not the answer.

Gay men's stories about homophobic violence will, at times, disguise reference to the persons who initiate harassment and injury. Instead, these stories emphasize the details of location or allow the victim of narrated violence to confirm the status of narrative hero. Each approach to story-telling has noticeable effects on the connections between sexual sameness and violence as displayed within the narrative. This paper examines these approaches to story-telling and their effects on homophobic formation (Leap, introduction, this volume), and traces the broader implications of these narrative styles within contemporary politics of gay visibility, assimilation and whiteness.

Homophobia is present in contemporary Serbian society as a rather widespread treatment of non-heterosexuality. It is manifested through various forms of public hate speech, through the forms and cases of discrimination and violence that are caused by homophobia, and through the homophobia-caused deprivation of members of the LGBT population of their various rights, particularly the right to the freedom of peaceful public assembly. Such homophobia is mostly shown by research data recently obtained by the Serbian LGBT rights groups (such as Gay Straight Alliance and Labris) and by media reporting on the recent public events (mostly on three recent attempts to organise Pride Parades in Belgrade, in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012). The research data showed that homophobia originates mostly from a lack of knowledge and a stereotyped comprehension of the people and relations among them, while its main protagonists in Serbia are nationalists, traditionalists, conformists and those who believe that hating others is the proper and even only way to defend their national and territorial integrity, as well as a reflection of their genuine patriotism. The spheres in which it is active include all social relations, from private and family, through professional, to public, media and political relations. Research data obtained in recent years by LGBT organisations provide evidence that homophobia is still very prevalent in Serbia, in some respects somewhat more so than in 2008, when the first research of that type was conducted.