Occupational Safety and Health Legislation: Employment Equality Causing Protection Inequality of Women at Work

Abstract

Family home might be the first place where LGBT+ individuals intensely experience pressure and various forms of violence. For many LGBT+ subjects, leaving home is a liberating action that opens a way for eliminating domestic violence and offers a resource for establishing/experiencing their identity. Since then, the spaces that queers can be "queer" starts to be formed for the LGBT+s and gay venues (e.g. gay bars) are one of the critical components of this transition. They offer adequate information related to identity diversity, relatively safer zones and a sphere to find oneself or others. It also can enable new forms of relations and a sense of belonging to a place. However, there is still a risk that these venues can be repressive for several reasons that have similarities to the family home dynamics that put obstacles towards queer liberation. This study focuses on the opportunities and pitfalls of LGBT+ venues by comparison with the experience of the family home. I investigate the possibilities: Do these venues keep individuals away from oppression or do they become places where a different form of oppression emerges by expecting certain performances from their attendees similar to the inside home performance? Furthermore, I inquiry whether the gay individuals associate these venues with the notion "home", or the people in the community with the notion "family". To be able to acquire these possibilities, the in-depth interviews have been conducted with LGBT+ persons (n=13) who have experienced physical or digitally gay venues.