Cities and Sexualities

Hubbard, Phil; Gorman‐Murray, Andrew; Nash, Catherine J.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-17341-2_17

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“…There has been an enduring tendency for dominant groups to exclude LGBT people, businesses, and institutions from their own heteronormative residential spaces (Doan, 2011; Hubbard et al, 2015), which we hypothesize has contributed in part to the pattern of environmental injustice we uncovered.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…While our results cannot support inferences regarding events that led to increased exposures for same-sex partner households, we can conclude that shifts toward heteronormative acceptance of alternative sexualities, societal assimilation, and spatial decentralization of LGBT residence over the past 15 years (Spring, 2013) have apparently not ameliorated the sexualized patterning of environmental injustice nationwide. Thus, while the sexualities and space literature has documented the decline of gayborhoods and dispersal of LGBT people across residential space (Brown, 2014; Hubbard et al, 2015), at a national level, same-sex partners (especially same-sex male partners) remain concentrated in more highly polluted zones. And while LGBT people have experienced social justice victories—e.g., via the legalization of civil partnership and gay marriage in some jurisdictions—struggles for equality continue.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…And while LGBT people have experienced social justice victories—e.g., via the legalization of civil partnership and gay marriage in some jurisdictions—struggles for equality continue. The ambivalent situation for LGBT people has been documented by some sexualities and space scholars, who have asserted that new “rights to the city” are largely limited to “homonormative LGBT people embodying middle-class and normatively gendered demeanours” (Hubbard et al 2015), whereas those not conforming to homonormative LGBT identities (e.g., those of working class, color, and/or queer or trans identities) continue to experience barriers to mobility and exclusion (Lewis, 2016; Nash, 2011). Additionally, although some gay enclaves have experienced gentrification (and possibly improved environmental quality) over the past few decades (Brown, 2014), we detected a pattern whereby same-sex partner enclaves remained burdened by heightened risks from air pollution in 2010 nevertheless.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Environmental injustice and sexual minority health disparities: A national study of inequitable health risks from air pollution among same-sex partners

Collins

Grineski

Morales

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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Air pollution is deleterious to human health, and numerous studies have documented racial and socioeconomic inequities in air pollution exposures. Despite the marginalized status of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations, no national studies have examined if they experience inequitable exposures to air pollution. This cross-sectional study investigated inequities in the exposure of same-sex partner households to hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) in the US. We examined cancer and respiratory risks from HAPs across 71,207 census tracts using National Air Toxics Assessment and US Census data. We calculated population-weighted mean cancer and respiratory risks from HAPs for same-sex male, same-sex female and heterosexual partner households. We used generalized estimating equations (GEEs) to examine multivariate associations between sociodemographics and health risks from HAPs, while focusing on inequities based on the tract composition of same-sex, same-sex male and same-sex female partners. We found that mean cancer and respiratory risks from HAPs for same-sex partners are 12.3% and 23.8% greater, respectively, than for heterosexual partners. GEEs adjusting for racial/ethnic and socioeconomic status, population density, urban location, and geographic clustering show that living in census tracts with high (vs. low) proportions of same-sex partners is associated with significantly greater cancer and respiratory risks from HAPs, and that living in same-sex male partner enclaves is associated with greater risks than living in same-sex female partner enclaves. Results suggest that some health disparities experienced by LGBT populations (e.g. cancer, asthma) may be compounded by environmental exposures. Findings highlight the need to extend the conceptual framework for explaining LGBT health disparities beyond psycho-behavioral mechanisms translating social stress into illness to include environmental mechanisms. Because psycho-behavioral and environmental factors may together exacerbate health disparities, we call for a shift toward interdisciplinary research on LGBT health that takes into account cumulative risks, including the role of environmental exposures.

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Environmental injustice and sexual minority health disparities: A national study of inequitable health risks from air pollution among same-sex partners

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Morales

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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“…A tenet of the sexualities and space literature is that sexuality is as fundamental to the production of sociospatial orders as the categories of class, race or gender (Hubbard et al 2015). Theoretical frameworks for the sexual structure of cities with particular regard to the locational dimension of LGBT residence have been proposed.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These models were derived based on the historical-geographical emergence of such neighborhoods in major cities of North America, Europe, and Australia post-WWII (Hubbard et al 2015), when childless partnered and single gay (white) people flocked to inner-city neighborhoods in pursuit of a supportive community as well as affordable residence (Adler and Brenner 1992; Castells 1983). Hubbard et al (2015: n.p.…”

Section: Gender Sexuality and Distributive Dimensions Of Environmentmentioning

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Sexual Orientation, Gender, and Environmental Injustice: Unequal Carcinogenic Air Pollution Risks in Greater Houston

Collins

Grineski

Morales

2016

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Disparate residential hazard exposures based on disadvantaged gender status (e.g., among female-headed households) have been documented in the distributive environmental justice literature, yet no published studies have examined whether disproportionate environmental risks exist based on minority sexual orientation. To address this gap, we use data from the US Census, American Community Survey and the Environmental Protection Agency at the 2010 census tract level to examine the spatial relationships between same-sex partner households and cumulative cancer risk from exposure to hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) emitted by all ambient emission sources in Greater Houston (Texas). Findings from generalized estimating equation analyses demonstrate that increased cancer risks from HAPs are significantly associated with neighborhoods having relatively high concentrations of resident same-sex partner households, adjusting for geographic clustering and variables known to influence risk (i.e., race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, renter status, income inequality, and population density). However, HAP exposures are distributed differently for same-sex male versus same-sex female partner households. Neighborhoods with relatively high proportions of same-sex male partner households are associated with significantly greater exposure to cancer-causing HAPs while those with high proportions of same-sex female partner households are associated with less exposure. This study provides initial empirical documentation of a previously unstudied pattern, and infuses current theoretical understanding of environmental inequality formation with knowledge emanating from the sexualities and space literature. Practically, results suggest that other documented health risks experienced in gay neighborhoods may be compounded by disparate health risks associated with harmful exposures to air toxics.

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Constructing ‘Micro-territories of the local’: young people making place in regional Australia

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2022

Australian Geographer

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Cities and Sexualities

Cited by 11 publications

References 93 publications

Environmental injustice and sexual minority health disparities: A national study of inequitable health risks from air pollution among same-sex partners

Environmental injustice and sexual minority health disparities: A national study of inequitable health risks from air pollution among same-sex partners

Sexual Orientation, Gender, and Environmental Injustice: Unequal Carcinogenic Air Pollution Risks in Greater Houston

Constructing ‘Micro-territories of the local’: young people making place in regional Australia

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