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Violence against Queer People - Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination (Paperback)
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Violence against Queer People - Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination (Paperback)
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Violence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured
media and scholarly attention. But these reports tend to focus on
one segment of the LGBT community - white, middle class men - and
largely ignore that part of the community that arguably suffers a
larger share of the violence - racial minorities, the poor, and
women. In Violence against Queer People, sociologist Doug Meyer
offers the first investigation of anti-queer violence that focuses
on the role played by race, class, and gender. Drawing on
interviews with forty-seven victims of violence, Meyer shows that
LGBT people encounter significantly different forms of violence -
and perceive that violence quite differently - based on their race,
class, and gender. His research highlights the extent to which
other forms of discrimination - including racism and sexism - shape
LGBT people's experience of abuse. He reports, for instance, that
lesbian and transgender women often described violent incidents in
which a sexual or a misogynistic component was introduced, and that
LGBT people of color sometimes weren't sure if anti-queer violence
was based solely on their sexuality or whether racism or sexism had
also played a role. Meyer observes that given the many differences
in how anti-queer violence is experienced, the present media focus
on white, middle-class victims greatly oversimplifies and distorts
the nature of anti-queer violence. In fact, attempts to reduce
anti-queer violence that ignore race, class, and gender run the
risk of helping only the most privileged gay subjects. Many feel
that the struggle for gay rights has largely been accomplished and
the tide of history has swung in favor of LGBT equality. Violence
against Queer People, on the contrary, argues that the lives of
many LGBT people - particularly the most vulnerable - have improved
very little, if at all, over the past thirty years.
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