The role of the gay/lbian person the af culture and munitn problems which ntribute to or terfere wh self acceptance as well as fay or muny acceptance are the fol pots for this article. Chang that have been ma the af culture and the culture at large rpect to sexual inty issu and the parison of muni (af to gay/lbian) are also outled. Although not addrsg very aspect of the issu surroundg the af, gay/lbian client, this article provis suggtns for unselors and others who may be nonted wh the issu.
Contents:
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR SECTN
- WAG TO BE HEARD: ON BEG DEAF AND GAY
- WH 'THIS CLOSE,' JOSH FELDMAN PUTS DEAF, GAY LIV IN THE SPOTLIGHT
- GAY AND DEAF SERT RINTS: IT'S NOT A DISABILY
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR SECTN
* gay deaf culture *
Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Sectn. Deaf Queer Rource Center The Deaf Queer Rource Center (DQRC) is a natnal nonprof rource and rmatn center for, by and about the Deaf Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Transsexual, Intersex and Qutng muni (hereafter referred to as the “Deaf Queer muny”).
The purpose of this Alliance is to tablish and mata a society of Deaf Gays and Lbians to enurage and promote the tnal, enomil, and social welfare; to foster fellowship; to fend our rights; and advance our terts as Deaf Gay and Lbian cizens ncerng social jtice; to build up an anizatn which all worthy members may participate the discsn of practil problems and solutns related to their social welfare. Assembly Required: Not om a Deaf Gay Life. Ey of Dire: A Deaf Gay & Lbian Rear.
WAG TO BE HEARD: ON BEG DEAF AND GAY
This is surprisg, nsirg what my sister, an terpreter for the af, has told me: “You’d be surprised how many af people are gay. Usg the qutnable Ksey timate that ten percent of the populatn is gay or lbian and the fact that there are 28 ln af or hard of hearg people the US, they nclu that 2. 8 ln of them – or ten percent – are gay or lbian.
Season four of The Janice Dickson Molg Agency featured Mart Rchie, a handsome gay af man who ma the cut to the top 12 and got to live wh the other nttants and Janice herself (don’t the man have enough to al wh whout subjectg him to that? Two years earlier, the murr of Gallt Universy hman Eric Plunkett ma headl and put the af school’s gay muny on high alert.
WH 'THIS CLOSE,' JOSH FELDMAN PUTS DEAF, GAY LIV IN THE SPOTLIGHT
A 1987 article by Jean Phanf, “Consiratns on Deafns and Homosexualy”, me to the ncln “The arth of lerature and rearch data on afns and sexualy only pots to the need for rearch. As recently as 2007, Alison Beth Klger noted that there was still a lack of rearch this area her dissertatn, The Social Development of an Invisible Mory: The Deaf Gay and Lbian Populatn.
Swartz, his report “Perceptns & Attus of Male Homosexuals om Differg Soc-Cultural & Audlogil Backgrounds”, stat that af gay men are very likely to jo anizatns and gay rights groups.
Further, af gay men are happier their relatnships and have more posive self-imag than hearg gay men.
GAY AND DEAF SERT RINTS: IT'S NOT A DISABILY
Gay af dividuals are also more likely to ntract HIV. Klger nclud that the more fortable an LGBT person is wh his or her inty and feels a nnectn to the muny, the more likely he or she is to have acquired sexual knowledge, although this is more likely among af gay men than af lbians.
Of urse, those who are af and gay aren’t the only on facg challeng — anyone who als wh both disabily and sexual orientatn issu mt navigate a different path. While there is a arth of lerature on beg gay and af, ’s an abundance pared to the amount of lerature available ncerng LGBT dividuals who are bld. Regardls of how much attentn or rearch has been voted to them, those wh disabili who are gay or lbian mt al wh an extra burn of both societal judgment and misnceptns.
Recently, I spoke wh “Robert”, a gay man his 30s whose leg was amputated six years ago after an accint.