“A Tremendous Outpouring of Love and Affection”: A Template Analysis of Positive Experiences During a Major LGBTQ Rights Campaign

Introduction Previous research has found that political discourse over proposed legislation that impacts lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning (LGBTQ +) people serves as a distal stressor which is associated with poorer mental and physical health. This study sought to document responses to the 2020 US Presidential election among LGBTQ + people living in the USA. Methods Nineteen LGBTQ + people ages 20 to 76 (M = 47.20; SD = 17.66) living across the USA were interviewed via Zoom video conferencing software between October and early December 2020. The modal participant was female (36.8%), identified as gay or lesbian (47.3%), and White (84.2%). Interviews were coded using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith & Osborn, 2003). Results Seventeen codes emerged, which were grouped into three themes. Participants viewed specific political figures, namely then-President Trump and Supreme Court nominee Coney-Barrett, as symbolic of the potential loss of rights and disenfranchisement of LGBTQ + people. Participants exhibited uncertainty about the future; however, a Biden presidential win was viewed as potentially instilling complacency and leading to fracturing of the LGBTQ + community. While some participants avoided news, most were engaged with the political process as a means of coping with election uncertainty. Conclusions The findings have implications for better understanding the concerns of LGBTQ + folks as it relates to how they view political discourse and the future of the equality movement. Policy Implications Policies which beneficially impact and engage a diverse range of LGBTQ + people would facilitate mobilization of LGBTQ + political communities.

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“Things Will Get Worse Before They Get Better”: LGBTQ + People’s Reactions to the 2020 US Presidential Election

Schlehofer

Wagner

Bramande

2023

Sex Res Soc Policy

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Coping with the Australian marriage law postal survey and its legacy: “I create meaning and joy and connection and community”

Casey

Bowman

Power

et al. 2022

Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services

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LGBTQI+ professional accountants and the consequences of stigmatization: An identity work perspective

Ghio,

Malsch,

McGuigan

2024

Contemporary Accting Res

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Using a qualitative research design and drawing on an identity work perspective, we explore how LGBTQI+ professional accountants relate their self‐identity to their professional occupation and manage their stigmatized identity at work. Sharing original empirical data from focus groups and semi‐structured interviews with LGBTQI+ professional accountants, we show how they engage in inward‐facing identity work by resisting stigmatizing pressures by conceiving of a self that is both outside the norm (“deviant”) and adapted to it (i.e., a deviant‐adapted self). However, we also find that stigmatized identities can be embraced by participants as legitimate sources of distinct professional dispositions and a more powerful work ethic. This finding offers a less confrontational view of how marginalized identities and sexuality intersect with the accounting profession. In outward‐facing processes of identity work, we show considerable variations in how and when participants communicate about their stigmatized identity. Finally, we highlight the collective dynamic of stigma management as a fundamental condition of possibility for targets to overcome the limits of atomized individual action. However, this collective dynamic entails the risk of all targets being absorbed into a collective representation and social‐identity that either makes them invisible, or directly opposes certain aspects of their self‐identity. In this respect, we show how some of our participants actively contribute to the creation of a collective social‐identity to combat stigmatization within firms, which in turn generates symbolic power differentials and symbolic violence within LGBTQI+ professional accountants.

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“A Tremendous Outpouring of Love and Affection”: A Template Analysis of Positive Experiences During a Major LGBTQ Rights Campaign

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“Things Will Get Worse Before They Get Better”: LGBTQ + People’s Reactions to the 2020 US Presidential Election

“Things Will Get Worse Before They Get Better”: LGBTQ + People’s Reactions to the 2020 US Presidential Election

Coping with the Australian marriage law postal survey and its legacy: “I create meaning and joy and connection and community”

LGBTQI+ professional accountants and the consequences of stigmatization: An identity work perspective

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