Racist and Homophobic Bullying in Adulthood: Narratives from Gay Men of Color in Higher Education

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitsunori Misawa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Men Of Color ◽  
Homophobic Bullying

scholarly journals Stay away or stay together? Social contagion, common identity, and bystanders’ interventions in homophobic bullying episodes

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel António ◽  
Rita Guerra ◽  
Carla Moleiro
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Social Contagion ◽  
Group Representations ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Dual Identity ◽  
Homophobic Bullying ◽  
Common Identity ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
Victims Of Bullying

Two studies explored the link between social contagion concerns and assertive bystanders’ behavioral intentions in homophobic bullying episodes. Study 1 ( N = 216) examined if adolescents’ social contagion concerns (i.e., fear of being misclassified as gay/lesbian) relate to decreased behavioral intentions to help victims of bullying, by increasing negative attitudes towards lesbians and gay men. Study 2 ( N = 230) further explored if inclusive identity representations (i.e., one-group or dual-identity) were related to decreased concerns of social contagion, thereby increasing adolescents’ assertive behavioral intentions. Results (partially) confirmed both expected mediations: social contagion concerns were associated with decreased assertive behavioral intentions via increased negative attitudes towards lesbians and gay men (Study 1); one-group representations, but not dual-identity representations, were associated with more assertive behavioral intentions via decreased social contagion concerns (Study 2). These findings extended previous studies illustrating the underlying mechanisms through which social contagion concerns and common identity affect assertive bystanders’ behavioral intentions.

Cheryl Clarke’s Clit Agency

2019 ◽  
pp. 216-234
Author(s):  
David B. Green
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Black Middle Class ◽  
Cable Channel ◽  
Men Of Color ◽  
Queer Of Color ◽  
Race And Sexuality

This chapter focuses on Noah’s Arc (Logo, 2005-2006) a television show featuring four gay men of color that aired for two seasons on the gay lifestyle-oriented cable channel Logo. It argues that Noah's Arc works within the popular cultural genre of the dramedy to engage with—while also contradicting and disrupting—new normativities of race, sexuality and its intersections. First it contextualizes the anxieties around black middle class heteronormativity and outlines some of the ways in which these anxieties have been negotiated through black televisuality. Then it provides an interpretation of Noah’s Arc from a queer of color perspective to understand its problematic framing of race, sexuality and its intersections as mostly an intra-racial problem of gay black masculinities and femininities. Given that the program has been criticized for foregrounding its characters’ negotiation of gender and sexuality at the expense of their race, it theorizes the program’s use of media self-reflexivity—in other words, its own representations of the television and film industry—to complicate its message about the roles of race and sexuality in the culture industry. Finally, it examines digital reception of the program to understand the way differently positioned audiences—primarily queer men of color—derived pleasure from the program’s campy aesthetics and melodramatic excess.

scholarly journals West Hollywood Is Not That Big on Anything but White People: Constructing “Gay Men of Color”

2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 721-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chong-suk Han ◽  
George Ayala ◽  
Jay P. Paul ◽  
Kyung-Hee Choi
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
White People ◽  
Men Of Color ◽  
West Hollywood

White Property Interests in College Athletic Admissions

2021 ◽  
pp. 019372352110153
Author(s):  
Kirsten Hextrum
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Low Income ◽  
College Sports ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Privileged Access ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Men Of Color ◽  
Whiteness As Property

Dominant cultural narratives position college sports as engines of racial integration and upward mobility. Previous studies examined the chances for low-income men of color becoming athletes in two sports: men’s football and basketball. While highly visible, these athletes represent the minority of participants. The majority of college athletes are White and middle class. In this conceptual article, I apply Cheryl Harris’ whiteness as property framework to identify the institutional conditions that prevent college sports from functioning as integrative and mobility engines and instead protect Whites’ privileged access to higher education via sport.

scholarly journals “A Question Everybody Danced Around”: Gay Men Making Sense of their Identities in Christian Colleges

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Bailey ◽  
Kamden K Strunk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Christian Colleges ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
Gay Students ◽  
Making Sense

Despite broader social changes in attitudes and policies regarding LGBTQ people, the space available for gay students to develop and express their identities in Christian colleges provides only limited and fleeting relief because of the culture of heteronormativity central to their history and identity. Yet, in an era of enrollment competition in higher education, Christian colleges must navigate their traditional mission to preserve and advance the faith, changing cultural attitudes regarding LBGTQ people, and the financial realities facing contemporary institutions. This paper draws from interviews with men who attended Christian colleges. First, we present their narratives to render the presence of LGBTQ people visible in these sites. Secondly, we seek to understand how these men made sense of their sexualities within educational cultures saturated with retention imperatives, institutional surveillance, and denominational ambivalence or hostility about LGBTQ persons. The men’s narratives highlight the challenges they faced as “unfit subjects” (Pillow, 2004), their absorption of normative constructions of gender and sexuality governing their educational context, and the need for Christian colleges to better serve their gay students of faith.

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