Whose gay community? Social class, sexual self-expression, and gay community involvement
Whose gay community? Social class, sexual self-expression, and gay community involvement
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1533-8525.2005.00021.x
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发表时间：
2005-06-01
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Pollack, LM
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作者：
Barrett, DC;Pollack, LM
可见的和政治性的同性恋社区已经被描述为一个越来越中产阶级的白色机构。据推测，这种中产阶级的性质需要经济和心理社会资源，而这些资源是工人阶级无法获得的，因此可能会限制工人阶级表达性取向。对多城市男性健康研究数据的分析支持了这一假设。14个假设的影响中有9个具有统计学意义，表明同性恋活跃的工人阶级男性不太可能将自己描述为同性恋，更有可能有异性恋经历，并且不太可能参与同性恋社区。因此，在处理性取向的社会和政治动态时，必须考虑到阶级差异。
The visible and political gay community has been characterized as an increasingly middle-class, white institution. It is hypothesized that this middle-class nature requires economic and psychosocial resources that are not available to the working class and, thus, may limit the expression of sexual orientation for the working class. An analysis of data from the multicity Urban Men's Health Study supports this hypothesis. Nine of 14 hypothesized effects are statistically significant and indicate that working-class men who are homosexually active are less likely to describe themselves as gay, are more likely to have heterosexual experience, and are less likely to be involved in the gay community. Thus, it is important to incorporate class differences when addressing the social and the political dynamics of sexual orientation.