Explore the crucial issues facing the GLBT population in their
struggle for acceptance in contemporary America! Sexual Minorities:
Discrimination, Challenges, and Development in America examines the
stumbling blocks that prevent gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and
trangenders from living wholesome, healthy lives. This book
concentrates on the effects of outside influences on the homosexual
psyche from adolescence to mid-life and programs and services that
need to be developed to improve quality of life. While some outside
influences can make positive changessuch as Internet-based outreach
to educate men in chat rooms about HIVsexual minority groups face
negativity from society in the forms of homophobia and
heterosexism. Sexual Minorities uses statistics, charts, graphs,
and surveys to reveal a remarkable trend correlating how
contemporary American society treats sexual minorities and how it
affects their psychological and psychosocial health. This book also
reveals howwhen internalized this hurtful discrimination can cause
self-hatred and depression. Each chapter focuses on a different
aspect of the GLBT population, including: the history of homophobia
and intolerance toward homosexuals with its basis in cultural,
religious, and sociological views an in-depth survey utilizing
Erikson's psychosocial model to determine the lifespan development
of seven out gay males who discuss their coming-out period, their
roles in society, their legacies, and later-life issues the lack of
federal legislation protecting GLBT employees in the workplace and
recommendations for creating a sense of security for these
employees a case study revealing the high incidence rate of
heterosexism amongst social workers and the repercussions this
could have among homosexual clientele surveys and statistics
investigating the rate of abusive behavior in lesbian relationships
three chapters involving specific issues of gay, lesbian, and
bisexual adolescents, such as coming out, risk and protective
factors, and being homosexual in a rural environment as opposed to
a city Sexual Minorities is an important tool for everyone in
today's societyfrom students and practitioners of social work,
health care, human sexuality, psychology, and sociology, to
legislators, lawyers, activists, and business owners. This book is
also vital for every parent, relative, or friend of a man or woman
labeled as a sexual minority.
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