scholarly journals Constructing Victimhood: Storied Opposition to Legislation Protecting LGBTQ Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-43
Author(s):  
Daniel Lai ◽  
Lois Presser ◽  
Jennifer L. Schally
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Prevention And Intervention ◽  
Bullying Victims ◽  
Lgbtq Students

Contemporary initiatives against anti-LGBTQ bullying in the United States include enumeration policies, which name sexual orientation as an unacceptable basis for bullying. Conservative opposition to these and other initiatives has been swift, taking discursive and specifically narrative form. This article examines how opponents of prevention and intervention use narrative to resist efforts to curb anti-LGBTQ bullying, based on analysis of 22 public statements challenging anti-bullying legislation. They deny anti-LGBTQ bullying’s impact and reassign victimizer and victim positions. Achieving justice for anti-LGBTQ bullying victims requires recognition of the stories that uphold heteronormative power.

The Empire of Disgust

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Change Point ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Swimming Pools ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
Group Resistance

All known societies exclude and stigmatize one or more minority groups. Frequently these exclusions are underwritten with a rhetoric of disgust: people of a certain group, it is alleged, are filthy, hyper-animal, or not fit to share such facilities as drinking water, food, and public swimming pools with the ‘clean’ and ‘fully human’ majority. But exclusions vary in their scope and also in the specific disgust-ideologies underlying them. In this volume, interdisciplinary scholars from the United States and India present a detailed comparative study of the varieties of prejudice and stigma that pervade contemporary social and political life: prejudice along the axes of caste, race, gender, age, sexual orientation, transgender, disability, religion, and economic class. In examining these forms of stigma and their intersections, the authors present theoretically pluralistic and empirically sensitive accounts that both explain group-based stigma and suggest ways forward. These forward-looking remedies, including group resistance to subordination as well as institutional and legal change, point the way towards a public culture that is informed by our diverse histories of discrimination and therefore equipped to eliminate stigma in all of its multifaceted forms.

Brief Report

2021 ◽  
pp. 181-196
Author(s):  
Sean G Massey ◽  
Richard E. Mattson ◽  
Mei-Hsiu Chen ◽  
Melissa Hardesty ◽  
Ann Merriwether ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Emerging Adult ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Trend Study ◽  
Attraction Behavior ◽  
Survey Responses

This trend study analyzed 9 years (2011–2019) of cross-sectional survey responses to Klein’s Sexual Orientation Grid to explore changes in sexual orientation among emerging adult college students. Categorical regression models based on ordinal responses revealed that participants were moving away from exclusive heterosexuality on attraction, behavior, and identity subscales at a rate of approximately 6% per year. This trend augments for women after 2014, coinciding with increased advocacy efforts related to U.S. marriage equality, but attenuates for men. Participants’ race also related to variations in sexual orientation: Black participants were less likely than White participants to identify as exclusively heterosexual, whereas the pattern reversed for Asian participants relative to White participants. These findings suggest that changes in sexual orientation are occurring among emerging adults in the United States, potentially in response to changing social and political contexts, but these changes are more pronounced in women and Black emerging adults.

scholarly journals Association Between Sexual Orientation and Lifetime Prevalence of Skin Cancer in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 156 (4) ◽  
pp. 441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Singer ◽  
Elizabeth Tkachenko ◽  
Rebecca I. Hartman ◽  
Arash Mostaghimi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Skin Cancer ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lifetime Prevalence

scholarly journals Sexual orientation, substance use behaviors and substance dependence in the United States

Addiction ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 104 (8) ◽  
pp. 1333-1345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Esteban McCabe ◽  
Tonda L. Hughes ◽  
Wendy B. Bostwick ◽  
Brady T. West ◽  
Carol J. Boyd
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Substance Dependence ◽  
The United States
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