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This indispensable book debunks common myths and misconceptions
about the LGBTQ community while providing accurate information
about LGBTQ people, their successes and shared history, and the
current challenges they face in American society. This book
provides readers with a clear and unbiased understanding of what it
means to be LGBTQ in the United States in the 2020s. Beginning with
the origins of LGBTQ identity and history, the book addresses the
current status of the LGBTQ community; gender expectations and
performance in American culture; transgender and non-binary
identity; behaviors and outcomes associated with LGBTQ people; and,
finally, diversity within the LGBTQ community. Utilizing
authoritative sources and lay-friendly definitions and
explanations, this work punctures myths, misconceptions, and
incorrect assumptions about sexual orientation, gender identity,
and gender expectations and norms. In addition, it provides an
illuminating record of the history of discrimination and
mistreatment to which LGBTQ people have historically been subjected
in the U.S. At a time when information itself is increasingly
fraught in American political discourse, this book provides facts
and context for the most important questions facing LGBTQ
Americans, past, present, and future. Provides readers with
factual, easy-to-understand information about sexuality, sexual
orientation, and gender identity Confronts falsehoods, half-truths,
and misconceptions about LGBTQ identity and life in the U.S.
Bridges the divide between disparate sources of information about
LGBTQ identity and rights in the U.S. Paints a broad narrative
about sociopolitical change surrounding LGBTQ people and rights
over time
Get your head out of your @*&. Snowflake. Stupid liberal.
Ignorant conservative. There is much discussion today about the
decline in civility in American politics. Couple this phenomenon
with the fracturing and hardening of political attitudes, and one
might wonder how deliberative democracy, much less political
civility, can survive if we can't even talk to people with whom we
disagree. Insults are thrown, feelings are hurt, and family and
friends, at best, decide to avoid political discussions altogether.
At worst, arguments cause social groups to break apart. How can
deliberative democracy survive if we can't even speak to people
with whom we disagree? As this book argues, we need a new way to
discuss politics, one that encourages engagement and room for
dissent. One way to approach this challenge is to consider how
public opinion changes. By and large, public opinion is sticky and
change occurs very slowly; one exception to this is the more recent
and significant change in public opinion toward LGBTQ rights and
marriage equality. The marriage equality movement is considered one
of the great success stories of political advocacy, but why was it
so successful? Brian F. Harrison argues that one of the most
powerful reasons is that a broad range of marriage equality
advocates were willing to engage in contentious and sometimes
uncomfortable discussion about their opinions on the matter. They
started everyday conversations that got people out of their echo
chambers and encouraged them to start listening and thinking. But
the question remains, if simple conversation can work in one arena,
can it work in others? And how and where does one approach such
conversation? Drawing from social psychology, communication
studies, and political science, as well as personal narratives and
examples, A Change is Gonna Come reflects on the last fifteen years
of LGBTQ advocacy to propose practical ways to approach informal
political conversation on a variety of contentious issues. This
book seeks to answer the seemingly simple question: how can we be
politically civil to each other again?
Since the mid-1990s, there has been a seismic shift in attitudes
toward gay and lesbian people, with a majority of Americans now
supporting same-sex marriage and relations between same-sex,
consenting adults. However, support for transgender individuals
lags far behind; a significant majority of Americans do not support
the right of transgender people to be free from discrimination in
housing, employment, public spaces, health care, legal documents,
and other areas. Much of this is due to deeply entrenched ideas
about the definition of gender, perceptions that transgender people
are not "real" or are suffering from mental illness, and fears that
extending rights to transgender people will come at the expense of
the rights of others. So how do you get people to rethink their
prejudices? In this book, Melissa R. Michelson and Brian F.
Harrison examine what tactics are effective in changing public
opinion regarding transgender people. The result is a new approach
that they call Identity Reassurance Theory. The idea is that
individuals need to feel confident in their own identity before
they can embrace a stigmatized group like transgender people, and
that support of members of an outgroup can be encouraged by
affirming the self-esteem of those targeted for attitude change.
Michelson and Harrison, through their experiments, show that the
most effective messaging on transgender issues meets people where
they are, acknowledges their discomfort without judgment or
criticism, and helps them to think about transgender people and
rights in a way that aligns with their view of themselves as moral
human beings.
American public opinion tends to be sticky. Although the news cycle
might temporarily affect the public zeitgeist about abortion, the
death penalty, or gun control, public support or opposition on
these issues has remained remarkably constant over decades. But
there are notable exceptions, particularly with regard to
polarizing issues that highlight identity politics. Over the past
three decades, public support for same-sex marriage has risen from
scarcely more than a tenth to a majority of the population. Why
have people's minds changed so dramatically on this issue, and why
so quickly? Listen, We Need to Talk tests a theory that when
prominent people representing particular interest groups voice
support for a culturally contentious issue, they sway the opinions
of others who identify with the same group, even if the interest
group and the issue at hand have no obvious connection. In fact
this book shows that the more the message counters prevailing
beliefs or attitudes of a particular identity group, the more
persuasive it is. While previous studies of political attitude
change have looked at the effects of message priming (who delivers
a message) on issues directly related to particular identity
groups, this study is unique in that it looks at how identity
priming affects attitudes and behaviors toward an issue that is not
central or directly related to the targeted group. The authors
prove their theory through a series of random experiments testing
the positive effects of identity-based messaging regarding same-sex
marriage among fans of professional sports, religious groups, and
ethnoracial (Black and Latino) groups.
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