Racism in the LGBT community

Racism is a concern for many in the Western lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTQ) communities, with members of racial, ethnic, and national minorities reporting having faced discrimination from other LGBT people.[1][2][3]

In the United States, ethnic minority LGBT individuals may find themselves in a double minority, in which they are neither entirely accepted nor understood by mainly white LGBT communities, nor are they fully accepted by their own ethnic group.[4][5] Many people experience racism in the dominant LGBT community in which racial stereotypes merge with gender stereotypes; for example, Asian-American LGBT people are often stereotyped by Westerners as more passive and feminine, while African-American LGBT people are stereotyped as more aggressive. A number of culturally specific support networks for LGBT people are active in the United States, such as "Ô-Môi", a support network for Vietnamese-American queer females.[5]

  1. ^ Buttoo, Sanjiv (2010-03-08). "Gay Asians reveal racism problems". BBC News. Retrieved 2012-10-15.
  2. ^ "Study of Asian Pacific American LGBT People Reveals High Rates of Discrimination". New America Media. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
  3. ^ Puar, Jasbir (2010-06-02). "To be gay and racist is no anomaly". Guardian. London. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
  4. ^ Cheng, Patrick S. (2011). "Gay Asian Masculinities and Christian Theologies" (PDF). CrossCurrents. 61 (4): 540–548. ISSN 0011-1953. JSTOR 24461910.
  5. ^ a b Masequesmay, G (2003). "Emergence of queer Vietnamese America". Amerasia Journal. 29 (1): 117–134. doi:10.17953/amer.29.1.l15512728mj65738. S2CID 146235953.