- Title
- Rural homophobia : Not really gay
- Creator
- Gottschalk, Lorene; Newton, Janice
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/40547
- Identifier
- vital:3477
- Identifier
- https://groups.psychology.org.au/Assets/Files/GLIP-Review-Vol-5-No-3.pdf
- Identifier
- ISSN:1833-4512
- Abstract
- This study, conducted for the Department of Human Services (Grampians Region) in Victoria, found that gay men and lesbians experience similar types of stigma and discrimination in rural areas as those in urban centres, but that this was exacerbated by the lack of anonymity in the smaller communities. The hatred of homosexuality can, in some relatively supportive family, community, school and work contexts, transform into a homophobia that embodies a fear of homosexuality which can, and not infrequently does, result in homophobic abuse and violence. Although the majority of research participants in this study were accepting of their sexuality and happy to be lesbian or gay, they nevertheless lived curtailed lives with a blanket around a central dimension of their lives. Furthermore it was found that the experience of gay men is not a mirror image of that for lesbians.
- Publisher
- The Australian Psychological Society
- Relation
- Gay & Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review Vol. 5, no. 3 (2009), p. 153-159
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- Copyright The Australian Psychological Society
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 2002 Cultural Studies; 1699 Other Studies In Human Society; 1701 Psychology; Homophobia,; Gay; Lesbian; Rural
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