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Violence Against Queer People : Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination by Meyer, Doug is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 ob

Who reads Violence Against Queer People : Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination?

Author

Meyer, Doug

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813573168

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, True Crime, Political Science