The Associatn Between AIDS-Related Stigma and Aggrsn Toward Gay Men and Lbians - PMC

Contents:

• RSIAN ANTI-GAY GANG VLENCE SEEN FOR THE FIRST TIME ON MERA
• PSYCHOLOGIL AGGRSN LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL DIVIDUALS' TIMATE RELATNSHIPS: A REVIEW OF PREVALENCE, RRELAT, AND MEASUREMENT ISSU
• THE ASSOCIATN BETWEEN AIDS-RELATED STIGMA AND AGGRSN TOWARD GAY MEN AND LBIANS
• RELATNAL AGGRSN AND VICTIMIZATN GAY MALE RELATNSHIPS: THE ROLE OF TERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA
• PREDICTORS OF SEXUAL AGGRSN AMONG GAY MEN AND LBIAN WOMEN: AN APPLITN OF MALAMUTH'S NFLUENCE MOL

RSIAN ANTI-GAY GANG VLENCE SEEN FOR THE FIRST TIME ON MERA

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PSYCHOLOGIL AGGRSN LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL DIVIDUALS' TIMATE RELATNSHIPS: A REVIEW OF PREVALENCE, RRELAT, AND MEASUREMENT ISSU

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THE ASSOCIATN BETWEEN AIDS-RELATED STIGMA AND AGGRSN TOWARD GAY MEN AND LBIANS

Reports the early 1990’s dited that over one third of gay men and lbians were victims of terpersonal vlence and up to 94% experienced some type of victimizatn related to their sexual orientatn (Fassger, 1991; Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, 1990). It is possible that the perpetrators, who accs antigay aggrsive scripts wh such ease, will be driven to antigay aggrsn by the slightt suatnal cue or whim, will engage the acts wh the most recurrence, and will be least rponsive to terventn. Published fal eded form as:PMCID: PMC9080452NIHMSID: NIHMS1803051AbstractThis study examed whether self-intified race and prr ntact wh a gay man or lbian morate the associatn between AIDS-related stigma and aggrsn toward gay men and lbians when ntrollg for sexual prejudice.

Regrsn analys showed that AIDS-related stigma was posively associated wh aggrsn toward gay men and lbians among Whe men who reported no prr ntact, but not among Whe men who endorsed prr ntact and Black men regardls of prr ntact. Th, the lks between perpetrators’ AIDS-related stigma and their aggrsn toward gay men and lbians mer further Stigma and Aggrsn Toward Gay Men and LbiansStigma may be broadly unrstood as the extent to which the public harbors negative beliefs about a particular group, such as people livg wh HIV (PLWH), and the negative attus may affect how members of the valued group are treated (Goffman, 1963; Herek, Saha, & Burack, 2013; Parker & Aggleton, 2003).

RELATNAL AGGRSN AND VICTIMIZATN GAY MALE RELATNSHIPS: THE ROLE OF TERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA

G., beliefs that gay people are immoral vectors of disease who serve fectn wh HIV) the 1980s, the general public has associated HIV/AIDS wh gay people, cludg lbians (Herek & Capan, 1999; Herek, Capan, & Widaman, 2002; Herek & Glunt, 1988; Herek, Mnick, Burris, Chney, Fullilove, Gunther et al., 1998; Wright, Mulick, & Kid, 2007).

G., non-heterosexual; gay and lbian), (2) ascribe posive or negative attribut to their own -group and members of out-groups, and (3) may have views and motivatns that jtify existg social hierarchi and the enactment of stigma toward potential out-groups like gay men and lbians (e. Although heterosexual men may hold differential attus toward lbians vers gay men or may have sexualized views of genr-nformg lbians (Worthen, 2013), sexually nservative opns about, and perceived threats to, sexual moraly and genr- and sexual orientatn-based social hierarchi adhered to by some heterosexual men may be more cril when lbians are llectively tegorized wh gay men as a homosexual out-group (Collier, Bos, & Sandfort, 2012; Crawford, Inbar, & Maloney, 2014).

PREDICTORS OF SEXUAL AGGRSN AMONG GAY MEN AND LBIAN WOMEN: AN APPLITN OF MALAMUTH'S NFLUENCE MOL

Taken together, the stigma lerature suggts that a patriarchal view of potentially genr-nformg lbians who may be perceived as posg ltle or no threat to existg genr- and sexual orientatn-based social hierarchi is a separate issue om the ia of “gay men and lbians” or “gay people” tegorized together as threats to existg social hierarchi (e. Aggregatg attus toward gay men and lbians may be as rmative about the role and robtns of AIDS-related stigma or other stigmas as disaggregatg the attus, and rearch is need to exame this prejudice, a form of sexual stigma, has been fed as “a negative attu toward an dividual based on her or his membership a group fed by s members’ sexual attractns, behavrs, or orientatn” (Herek & McLemore, 2013, p. Whereas AIDS-related stigma is associated wh prejudice toward gay men and lbians, sexual prejudice is, turn, associated wh aggrsn toward gay men and lbians acrdg to survey- and laboratory-based rearch (Bernat, Calhoun, Adams, & Zeichner, 2001; Frankl, 2000; Parrott, Peterson, & Bakeman, 2011; Parrott & Zeichner, 2005; Parrott, Zeichner, & Hoover, 2006; Patel, Long, McCammon, & Wuensch, 1995; Rorick, McCammon, Long, & Allred, 1998; Vcent, Parrott, & Peterson, 2011).