Queer tercultural munitn offers the great promise to advance munitn-amilly, culturally, and polilly-not only for sexual and genr mory muni across the globe but for all muni as they grapple wh qutns of inty and difference an creasgly neoliberal and global social world (Yep et al., 2019, p. 2) the troductn to a special issue, "Out of Bounds? Queer Intercultural Communitn," published one of the journals of the Natnal Communitn Associatn 2013, Karma Chávez, the edor, acknowledged that there had been a arth of munitn studi explorg "the tersectns and terplays between the queer and the tercultural" (Chávez, 2013, p. 84). What domated the knowledge productn munitn is the prence of heteronormative studi that exame the liv and experienc of cisgenr people, margalizg other genr inti, lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr people, queer, tersex, asexual (LGBTQIA+) (Eguchi & Asante, 2016). Although there have been studi on queer theory and other queer them and outsi the munitn field, the studi may have overlooked the tersectnaly of culture, sexualy, race, and class necsary for unrstandg munitn. Moreover, the studi may have maly been nducted the Global North, where Whe/Wtern iologi of homonormativy remaed the source and standard for queerns (Chávez, 2013;Eguchi & Asante, 201...
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- GAY STRAIGHT COMMUNITNGAY STRAIGHT COMMUNITN
- ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
- NONVERBAL BEHAVR AND LBIAN/GAY ORIENTATN
GAY STRAIGHT COMMUNITNGAY STRAIGHT COMMUNITN
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IntroductnPerceivg and Communitg Sexual OrientatnGaydarFacial CuGa, Gtur, and Body CuVol CuMultiple CuCurrent Debate About AccuracySexual Orientatn and Interpersonal InteractnsNon-Verbal BehavrVerbal BehavrHomophobic LanguageSelf-DisclosureConclnOpen Qutns and Future DirectnsFurther ReadgReferenc. The specific lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) topics studied by terpersonal munitn scholars or by scholars who tegrate terpersonal munitn perspectiv reflect social and polil dynamics.
Earlier studi foced on stereotypg, discrimatn, stigma, g out procs of gay men and then lbians, and same-sex romantic and sexual relatnships; the visibily of bisexual and trans people was highlighted thereafter. This page provis accurate rmatn for those who want to better unrstand sexual orientatn and the impact of prejudice and discrimatn on those who intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual. In the Uned Stat the most equent labels are lbians (women attracted to women), gay men (men attracted to men), and bisexual people (men or women attracted to both sex).
Public opn studi over the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s routely showed that, among large segments of the public, lbian, gay, and bisexual people were the target of strongly held negative attus. The associatn of HIV/AIDS wh gay and bisexual men and the accurate belief that some people held that all gay and bisexual men were fected served to further stigmatize lbian, gay, and bisexual people.
ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
LGBTQIA+ is an abbreviatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer or qutng, tersex, asexual, and more. The terms are ed to scribe a person’s sexual orientatn or genr inty. * gay communication *
On an dividual level, such prejudice and discrimatn may also have negative nsequenc, pecially if lbian, gay, and bisexual people attempt to nceal or ny their sexual orientatn. Dpe the persistence of stereotyp that portray lbian, gay, and bisexual people as disturbed, several s of rearch and clil experience have led all mastream medil and mental health anizatns this untry to nclu that the orientatns reprent normal forms of human experience. Helpful rpons of a therapist treatg an dividual who is troubled about her or his same sex attractns clu helpg that person actively pe wh social prejudic agast homosexualy, succsfully rolve issu associated wh and rultg om ternal nflicts, and actively lead a happy and satisfyg life.
The phrase “g out” is ed to refer to several aspects of lbian, gay, and bisexual persons’ experienc: self-awarens of same-sex attractns; the tellg of one or a few people about the attractns; wispread disclosure of same-sex attractns; and intifitn wh the lbian, gay, and bisexual muny. Th, is not surprisg that lbians and gay men who feel they mt nceal their sexual orientatn report more equent mental health ncerns than do lbians and gay men who are more open; they may even have more physil health problems. Lbian, gay, and bisexual youth who do well spe strs—like all adolcents who do well spe strs—tend to be those who are socially petent, who have good problem-solvg skills, who have a sense of tonomy and purpose, and who look forward to the future.
Whether the youths intify as heterosexual or as lbian, gay, or bisexual, they enunter prejudice and discrimatn based on the prumptn that they are lbian, gay, or bisexual.
NONVERBAL BEHAVR AND LBIAN/GAY ORIENTATN
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If they are a heterosexual relatnship, their experienc may be que siar to those of people who intify as heterosexual unls they choose to e out as bisexual; that se, they will likely face some of the same prejudice and discrimatn that lbian and gay dividuals enunter. Although parable data are not available, many sgle lbians and gay men are also parents, and many same-sex upl are part-time parents to children whose primary rince is elsewhere.
For example, are the children of lbian or gay parents more vulnerable to mental breakdown, do they have more behavr problems, or are they ls psychologilly healthy than other children? The picture that emerg om this rearch shows that children of gay and lbian parents enjoy a social life that is typil of their age group terms of volvement wh peers, parents, fay members, and iends. There is no scientific support for fears about children of lbian or gay parents beg sexually abed by their parents or their parents’ gay, lbian, or bisexual iends or acquatanc.
In summary, social science has shown that the ncerns often raised about children of lbian and gay parents, ncerns that are generally ground prejudice agast and stereotyp about gay people, are unfound. Overall, the rearch dit that the children of lbian and gay parents do not differ markedly om the children of heterosexual parents their velopment, adjtment, or overall well-beg. Lbian, gay, and bisexual people who want to help rce prejudice and discrimatn n be open about their sexual orientatn, even as they take necsary preutns to be as safe as possible.
In societi like ours, where heterosexualy is enforced by a plethora of enomic and cultural stutns, lbians and gay men1 appear to nstute a mory. However, unlike other mori that have easily intifiable featur (e.g., sk lor) to... * gay communication *
When lbians, gay men, and bisexual people feel ee to make public their sexual orientatn, heterosexuals are given an opportuny to have personal ntact wh openly gay people and to perceive them as dividuals. Antigay attus are far ls mon among members of the populatn who have a close iend or fay member who is lbian or gay, pecially if the gay person has directly e out to the heterosexual person.
LGBTQIA is an acronym for Lbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgenr, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual people, reprentg a spectm of lived experienc that some scholars refer to as the “queer inty matrix” (Howard, 2014).
The lived experience of a gay teenager ral Oklahoma is different om the experience of a transgenr adult livg Chigo, and th their munitive strategi and paradigms differ. In this “groundbreakg volume” (Yep, Lovaas, & Elia, 2003), Chebro (1981) argued for a munitive perspective the study of “the language, nonverbal acts, and symbols of gay mal and lbians...
"As a gay man, I suffered spirual abe. . . . Dpe the pa, I'm grateful. I survived when so many have not." * gay communication *
How gay men and lbians are reprented the media has been one of the most prolific areas of rearch and analysis wh gay and lbian studi as well as queer theory sce the 1970s. Although a relatively recent area of scholarship, this work is nsired val for a better unrstandg of how a morn gay and lbian inty was shaped, reflected, and at tim ignored by mastream media.
For gay men and lbians who prise a type of visible mory group that is rarely born to gay or lbian fai, muni, or support works, the importance of mastream media reprentatns is nsired paramount. Bee oftentim an dividual’s knowledge of gay life is formed almost exclively through lsons om the media, how gay men and lbians are portrayed has been an area of tense scty and cricism. Whereas early studi foced on the plete erasure of gay and lbian inty and the simple ritur and stereotyp that populated Hollywood films and to a lser extent televisn and other media, more recently rearch has expand.
This Amerin Psychologist reprt prents suggtns for avoidg heterosexual bias language ncerng lbians, gay men and bisexual persons. * gay communication *
New work nsirs how gay and lbian dienc are able to reappropriate media imag and how new genr and digal technologi are changg the relatnships among producers, media texts, and dienc while creatg more varied, if not necsarily more posive, reprentatns of sexual mori. Amic work on gays and lbians the media is herently terdisciplary, wh studi g om film historians, media theorists, munitn scholars, soclogists, psychologists, and a host of other disciplary and methodologil tradns.
Part of this has to do wh the lack of imag available to crique not to mentn the general hatn to do rearch on a topic like homosexualy, which was still nsired very ntroversial to the 1980s. Some of the earlit work the field, cludg Chebro 1981, me out of discsns the Cc on Gay and Lbian Concerns (now the Cc on Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Concerns), which officially formed wh the Natnal Communitn Associatn 1978 as a means of lobbyg for the visibily of gay and lbian studi (and s practners) wh the munitn disciple.
NNNOne of the earlit texts to move beyond a foc on homosexual behavr or scientific studi of homosexualy, this eded volume foc on maniftatns of homosexual inty and muny.