Violence Against Queer People By Doug Meyer
Book Review In Violence against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender and the Persistence of Anti LGBT Discrimination, Doug Meyer, through 8 chapters describes his research of LGBT community members and the circumstances they are put in while living their daily lives. This book is written for readers hoping to learn about inequality based on race, class, gender, and sexuality. At the beginning of the book, Meyer introduces the idea that violent LGBT experiences are rooted in more than just homophobia, more specifically with African- American LGBT people. Homophobia plays a role in many forms of anti-queer violence as well as other factors of their identity, “Although most emphasis on anti-LGBT, or anti-queer, violence has focused on homophobia,
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His main focus, is on how women who were lesbian or transgender were more likely to be sexually assaulted then men. Do you want against states that the dominant strain of research on intake we are violence with has focused on homophobia, overlooking the role of sexism in the misogyny” (65)? He keeps going back to this idea that women are more easily targeted then men and met with this dislike of women and they are met with acts of assault and violence. This comes up in our culture even today after all of these laws that are being passed for LGBTQ people. For example, an associated researcher at Tufts University, Dyan Mazurana states “It is different for LGBT victims because everyone in the compound becomes a risk to you. Especially when you are posted in isolated situations, you have to be much more closeted than you would in your own country as you could be targeted for death,” (Edwards) further giving evidence towards Meyer’s research in that not only are they affected here in the United States and met with misogynistic prejudice but also around the world where they even have to protect their own identity or else be met with
His main focus, is on how women who were lesbian or transgender were more likely to be sexually assaulted then men. Do you want against states that the dominant strain of research on intake we are violence with has focused on homophobia, overlooking the role of sexism in the misogyny” (65)? He keeps going back to this idea that women are more easily targeted then men and met with this dislike of women and they are met with acts of assault and violence. This comes up in our culture even today after all of these laws that are being passed for LGBTQ people. For example, an associated researcher at Tufts University, Dyan Mazurana states “It is different for LGBT victims because everyone in the compound becomes a risk to you. Especially when you are posted in isolated situations, you have to be much more closeted than you would in your own country as you could be targeted for death,” (Edwards) further giving evidence towards Meyer’s research in that not only are they affected here in the United States and met with misogynistic prejudice but also around the world where they even have to protect their own identity or else be met with