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Anderson, E., & McCormack, M. (2010). Intersectionality, critical race theory, and American sporting oppression: Examining Black and gay male athletes. Journal of Homosexuality, 57(8), 949–967. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2010.503502

• Using CRT and intersectionality, this article examines the influence of the racial categories of White and Black and the sexual categories of gay and straight on sporting American men. It also addresses the oppression experienced by these discrete identity groups.

 

Brennan, D. J., Asakura, K., George, C., Newman, P. A., Giwa, S., Hart, T. A., Souleymanov, R., & Betancourt, G. (2013). “Never reflected anywhere”: Body image among ethnoracialized gay and bisexual men. Body Image, 10(3), 389–398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2013.03.006

• Using an intersectionality lens and qualitative inductive analysis, data were collected through focus groups and interviews with gay and bisexual men (N = 61) who identify with one of four ethnoracial groups (Black, East/Southeast Asian, South Asian, Latino/Brazilian). Three main themes emerged: “(1) body image idealization in gay/bisexual male culture, (2) negotiating a racialized body image, and (3) negotiating the impact of body image on relationship with self and others.”

 

Caraves, J. (2018). Straddling the school-to-prison pipeline and gender non-conforming microaggressions as a Latina lesbian. Journal of LGBT Youth, 15(1), 52–69. https://doi.org/10.1080/19361653.2017.1395308

• Using CRT and Latina/o Critical Race Theory framework, this case study shows how the intersectional identities of Gabriela, a Latina lesbian, have impacted her experience of going into and coming out of the prison pipeline. Caraves discusses how gender non-conforming microaggression explains how her “gender performance and transgressions coupled with her sexuality and race create situations wherein she was insulted and criminalized.”

 

Chan, C. D., & Erby, A. N. (2018). A critical analysis and applied intersectionality framework with intercultural queer couples. Journal of Homosexuality, 65(9), 1249–1274. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2017.1411691

• This article addresses the following aims: “(1) an overview of the gaps eliciting unilateral approaches to intercultural queer couples; (2) an illustration of intersectionality’s theoretical underpinnings as a critical approach; and (3) applications for insights in practices and research with intercultural queer couples.”

 

Furman, E., Singh, A. K., Darko, N. A., & Wilson, C. L. (2018). Activism, intersectionality, and community psychology: The way in which Black Lives Matter Toronto helps us to examine White supremacy in Canada’s LGBTQ community. Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 4(2), 34–54. https://doi.org/10.1285/i24212113v4i2p34

• The protest led by the Black Lives Matter’s Toronto chapter at the city’s 2016 LGBTQ Pride parade shed light on the White supremacy that occurs within the LGBTQ community. This paper explores points of tension and intersection between the BLM movement and the LGBTQ movement. Using intersectionality as a framework, the authors also examine the field of community psychology.

 

George, C., Adam, B. A., Read, S. E., Husbands, W. C., Remis, R. S., Makoroka, L., & Rourke, S. B. (2012). The MaBwana Black men’s study: Community and belonging in the lives of African, Caribbean and other Black gay men in Toronto. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 14(5), 549–562. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2012.674158

• The study utilizes a community-based research and CRT approach. In-depth interviews were done with 24 Black gay men in Canada. Black gay men expressed a sense of abjuration from both gay and Black communities because of homophobia and racism. However, these men use their resilience to navigate gay social networks.

 

Han, C.-S. (2006). Being an oriental, I could never be completely a man: Gay Asian men and the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and class. Race, Gender & Class, 13(3-4), 82–97. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41675174

• The author discusses “how contemporary narratives continue to feminize Asian men and the consequences that this feminization has, specifically, on gay Asian men.”

 

Harris, V. T. (2016). Fathers know best: The intersections of Black feminist thought, quare theory, & critical race theory. Race, Gender & Class, 23(1-2), 118–131. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26529193

• Through the lives of two Black Gay American fathers raising their family in the South, the author aims to “trouble traditional definitions of fatherhood/patriarchy and hegemonic masculinity.”

 

Lange, A. C., & Moore, C. M. (2017). Kaleidoscope views: Using the theoretical borderlands to understand the experiences of gay cis-men. Journal of College Student Development, 58(6), 818–832. https://doi.org/10.1353/csd.2017.0066

• The authors explore the experience of gay cisgender men in college at the borderlands of social constructionism, CRT, and queer theory. Findings included 3 major themes: “(a) the salience, tokenization, and centrality of being an “other” in a given space, (b) how performativity varied in different contexts, and (c) navigating competing counterspaces.”

 

Revilla, A. T. (2010). Raza Womyn—Making it safe to be queer: Student organizations as retention tools in higher education. Black Women, Gender Families, 4(1), 37–61. https://doi.org/10.5406/blacwomegendfami.4.1.0037

• This article “presents the experiences of Chicana/Latina student activists engaged in multidimensional struggle against homophobia, racism, classism, and sexism.” It discusses how Raza Womyn, a Chicana/Latina student organization at UCLA, “serves as a social and academic counterspace within the institution that provides a safe and supportive space for its members while also educating them and providing the skills they need to fight for social justice.”

 

Swann, G., Minshew, R., Newcomb, M. E., & Mustanski, B. (2016). Validation of the sexual orientation microaggression inventory in two diverse samples of LGBTQ youth. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 45(6), 1289–1298. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-016-0718-2

• This study investigates the three-factor taxonomy as it relates to a diverse sample of LGBTQ youth, using the newly developed Sexual Orientation Microaggression Inventory (SOMI). Exploratory factor analysis was used to determine the number of factors that exist in SOMI in a sample of 206 LGBTQ-identifying youth. Follow up confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to compare single-factor, unrestricted four-factor, second-order, and bi-factor models in a separate sample of 363 young men who have sex with men. Reliability analyses found that “the majority of reliable variance was accounted for by the general factor. The general factor was a significant predictor of victimization and depressive symptoms, as well as unrelated to social desirability, suggesting convergent, criterion-related, and discriminant validity.”

 

Weiss, M. (2020). Intimate encounters: Queer entanglements in ethnographic fieldwork. Anthropological Quarterly, 93(1), 1355–1386. https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2020.0015

• This article “explores ethnographic intimacy beyond an identitarian focus on sex, sexual identity, and sex-desire” by reflecting on three of Weiss’ own fieldwork projects in queer anthropology. Bringing queer, decolonizing, postcolonial, and CRT into conversation with reflexive work on sex in/and ethnographic fieldwork, Weiss argues that “broadening our conceptions of intimacy enables us to think less about sex in the field and more about sex as a field—a field of encounters, relationalities, and entanglements that connects us queerly to others.”