Go Underground or in Your Face: Queer Students’ Negotiation of All-Girls Catholic Schools

Love, Bettina L.; Tosolt, Brandelyn

doi:10.1080/19361653.2013.799901

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“…By exploring young people’s discourses around LGBTQ issues, our analysis contributes to our understanding of homophobia within schools. There is a dearth of qualitative research to understand young people’s views about LGBTQ issues within schools with a few exceptions (Castro and Sujak, 2014; Kjaran and Kristinsdóttir, 2015; Love and Tosolt, 2013). Only a few qualitative studies explore the perspectives of straight-identified youth exclusively, or in addition to, LGBTQ youth (Athanases and Comar, 2008; Ngo, 2003) and limited studies exist in the Canadian context (Dalley and Campbell, 2006).…”

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“It’s not my business”: Exploring heteronormativity in young people’s discourses about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer issues and their implications for youth health and wellbeing

Haines‐Saah

Knight³

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Health (London)

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In Canada, the issue of creating safe and inclusive school environments for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students has been in the spotlight. Several researchers and advocates have pointed out the positive effects of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer-positive policy frameworks on the health and wellbeing of all young people. In this article, we take a critical approach to analyzing narrative findings from qualitative interviews conducted with youth in three communities in British Columbia, Canada: "the North," Vancouver, and Abbotsford. Using a Foucauldian Discourse Analytic Approach and Butler's concept of Citationality, our analysis suggested that although explicit homophobia was largely absent from youth discussions, young people discursively constructed lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer identities and "communities" in ways that reified heteronormativity. Youth made references to sociopolitical discourses of libertarianism and liberalism and to homonormative stereotypes regarding gay masculinity. A few young people also alluded to egalitarian, queer-positive discourses, which appeared to interrogate structures of heteronormativity. Since studies suggest a connection between the existence of institutional supports for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students in schools and their mental and physical wellbeing, we conclude by considering the limitations and possibilities of these sociopolitical discourses in the struggle for sexual and gender equity, and how they might help frame future health-related, anti-homophobia policy frameworks in educational settings.

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“It’s not my business”: Exploring heteronormativity in young people’s discourses about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer issues and their implications for youth health and wellbeing

Haines‐Saah

Knight³

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Health (London)

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“…These results fill a gap in research at the intersection of religion and sexualities. Previous research has focused extensively on how religious affiliation and religiosity affect views toward samesex issues and can lead to internalized conflict for religious sexual minorities (Bramlett 2012;Olson et al 2006; Love and Tosolt 2013;Wedow et al 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Proverbial Closet: Do Faith and Religiosity Affect Coming Out Patterns?

Ratcliff

Haltom

2021

Social Currents

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Disclosing one’s sexual minority identity or “coming out of the closet” is a key milestone in sexual minority identity development. While scholars have explored how race, gender, class, and other social classifications shape coming out patterns among lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) individuals, we know far less about the effect of religious contexts. To address this shortcoming, we extend existing theoretical insights to better understand how faith and religiosity shape coming out patterns among sexual minorities both independently and collectively. Specifically, we examine how religious affiliation and religious attendance (a measure of religiosity) affect when LGB individuals privately realize and publicly disclose their sexual minority identity. Using data from the Pew Research Center’s 2013 Survey of LGBT Adults, we conduct a series of ordinary least squares regressions on a representative sample of LGB adults ( n = 1,136). We find religious contexts—both religious affiliation and attendance—have no independent effect on when a person realizes or publicly discloses their sexual minority identity for the first time. However, evangelical Protestants that frequently attend religious services publicly disclose their sexual minority identity at older ages. These results highlight the social cost of publicly disclosing an LGB identity, especially within conservative religious spaces.

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“…However, there is little existing UK research that brings these two issues together, such as exploring queer experiences of faith schools. Love and Tosolt (2013) and Callaghan (2016) conducted qualitative research with queer-and lesbian-identified young women at Catholic high schools in Canada. The homophobia their participants encountered, and the religious school setting as an unsafe place to be queer, necessitated the deployment of different survival and resistance strategies.…”

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Queer religious youth in faith and community schools

Taylor

Cuthbert

2018

Educational Review

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Queer youth are positioned as 'at risk', and queer youth in religious settings and communities are seen as especially vulnerable due to the anti-LGBT sentiment assumed to inhere there. Governmental funding has recently been directed towards challenging homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in English faith schools specifically, as the political discourse of 'British values' comes increasingly to include an ostensible commitment to LGBT rights. It is in this context that we present qualitative research with queer religious youth who attended both faith and community schools in England. The lived experience of queer religious youth in faith schools is much more multi-faceted than is commonly represented-this was also the case for pupils in (non-faith) community schools. Rather than locating the problem within religion, attention needs to be paid to the heteronormativity and gender binarism that structures the entire educational experience. Furthermore, in engaging with the experiences of queer youth who are also religious, we explore the ways in which religion can be mobilised as a form of support, and more broadly argue against the tendency to see queer youth exclusively in terms of their queerness.

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Go Underground or in Your Face: Queer Students’ Negotiation of All-Girls Catholic Schools

Cited by 15 publications

References 36 publications

“It’s not my business”: Exploring heteronormativity in young people’s discourses about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer issues and their implications for youth health and wellbeing

“It’s not my business”: Exploring heteronormativity in young people’s discourses about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer issues and their implications for youth health and wellbeing

The Proverbial Closet: Do Faith and Religiosity Affect Coming Out Patterns?

Queer religious youth in faith and community schools

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