Prejudice events
Much like research with African People in the us along with other ethnic minority teams (Kessler, Mickelson, & Williams, 1999), researchers have actually described antigay physical physical violence and discrimination as core stressors impacting homosexual and lesbian populations (Garnets et al., 1990; Herek & Berrill, 1992; Herek, Gillis, & Cogan, 1999; Kertzner, 1999). Antigay prejudice was perpetrated throughout history: Institutionalized kinds of prejudice, discrimination, and physical violence have actually ranged from Nazi extermination of homosexuals to enforcement of sodomy rules punishable by imprisonment, castration, torture, and death (Adam, 1987). Using the development of a homosexual community, as LGB people became more noticeable and much more easily recognizable by prospective perpetrators, they increasingly became goals of antigay physical violence and discrimination (Badgett, 1995; Herek & Berrill, 1992; Human Rights Watch, 2001; Safe Schools Coalition of Washington, 1999). Continue reading “Gay guys and lesbians may also be discriminated against at work.”