“Regardless of Their Gender”: Descriptions of Sexual Identity among Bisexual, Pansexual, and Queer Identified Individuals

Galupo, M. Paz; Ramirez, Johanna L.; Pulice-Farrow, Lexi

doi:10.1080/15299716.2016.1228491

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“…This is similar to an estimate from a 2003-2005 California-based sample of high school youth who participated in gay-straight alliances, which found that 5.2% of the nonheterosexual sample identified as queer, with 8.5% identifying as some-thing other than queer, straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or questioning (Russell et al, 2009). In contrast, other studies have found that queer respondents are older than other sexual minorities in their samples (Galupo, Ramirez, et al, 2017;Morandini et al, 2017). The present study aims to fill a gap in knowledge needed to understand cohort differences in queer identification.…”

Section: Who Is Queer?supporting

confidence: 78%

Exploring the Q in LGBTQ: Demographic characteristic and sexuality of queer people in a U.S. representative sample of sexual minorities.

Goldberg¹,

Rothblum²,

Russell³

et al. 2020

Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity

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Although queer identity has been used among sexual minorities for decades, little is known about the population of queer-identified people in the United States. We compared people who identify as queer (unweighted n = 88; 5.8% weighted) with those who identify as lesbian/gay (n = 833; 46.9%), bisexual (n = 493; 40.6%), or other sexual minority identities (n = 93; 6.7%), to describe queer-identified people as a distinct sexual minority group. The study is the first to estimate demographic characteristics and sexuality of queer-identified people using a U.S. nationally representative sample. We found that queer people are overwhelmingly cisgender women and genderqueer/nonbinary (GQNB), younger, and more highly educated than other groups. After stratifying by gender identity (cisgender women; cisgender men; GQNB), survey-weighted descriptive differences in attraction, sexual partnering, and relationship patterns show that queer individuals are more likely to report attraction to, and sexual relationships with, transgender and GQNB people, though differences by respondent gender identity were noted: The majority of queer women are attracted to and partnered with both women and men, and were more likely than other groups to be attracted to and partnered with cisgender and transgender people. In contrast, queer men are split in their attractions-about half were attracted exclusively to men, and half to men and women-but the majority partnered with men only. Of all groups, queer men are the most likely to partner with transgender men, but none had partnered with transgender women. GQNB people are more likely than cisgender people to identify as queer (25.9%, versus 6% of cisgender women and 1.5% of cisgender men), and are attracted to both cisgender and transgender women and men, yet predominantly partnered with cisgender people. The results provide support for queer as a distinct sexual identity. Public Significance Statement We explored the demographics and sexuality (e.g., sexual partnering and attraction) of people who identify as queer, compared to those who identify as lesbian/gay, bisexual, or other sexual minority identities, to better understand if, and how, queer-identified people are distinct from other sexual minority groups. We found that queer people are overwhelmingly cisgender women and genderqueer/ nonbinary (GQNB), younger, and more highly educated than other groups. Sexuality-wise, queer individuals are more likely to report attraction to, and sexual relationships with, transgender and GQNB people, though differences emerge by gender identity.

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Section: Who Is Queer?supporting

confidence: 78%

Exploring the Q in LGBTQ: Demographic characteristic and sexuality of queer people in a U.S. representative sample of sexual minorities.

Goldberg¹,

Rothblum²,

Russell³

et al. 2020

Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity

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“…This includes the 6 original Kinsey "scale" with its scores from 0 (exclusively heterosexual) to 6 (exclusively homosexual) (Kinsey, 1948;Kinsey et al, 1953;Schaffer, 2007), as well as "grids" that aim to weld together domains such as sexual attraction, sexual behaviour, sexual fantasies, emotional preference, social preference, lifestyle preference, self-identification and asexuality (cf. Klein, 1978;Storms, 1979;reviews in Galupo, Davis, Grynkiewicz & Mitchell, 2014;Galupo, Ramirez & Pulice-Farrow, 2016). Thus, instead of being essentialized, bisexuality is often grouped with alternative concepts such as sexual fluidity, sexual preference etc.…”

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Ambiguity Tolerance Toward Nonbinary Sexuality Concepts: Evidence from British Newspapers

Bryson

Soligo

Sommer

2018

Journal of Bisexuality

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Humans tend to construct their world view via binaries, i.e. two distinct, non-overlapping elements, such as the juxtapositions of human-animal, human-machine or male-female. Our research focuses on the binary categories of "heterosexuality-homosexuality" and explores how stable or malleable they are. For this, we analyse newspaper coverage of sexuality concepts in the UK from 1995-2010 and quantify if and how tolerance towards ambiguous concepts including "bisexuality" vary across time as well as with gender, political opinion and expertise. Our findings indicate a distinct "millennial effect" of intolerance towards sexual ambiguity, suggesting that resistance against ambiguity rears up during periods of instability. Conversely, we found higher levels of ambiguity tolerance in left-wing newspapers, broadsheet publications, female journalists and expert writers, as opposed to right-wing newspapers, tabloid publications, male journalists and novice writers. Our results can help to better understand to what degree concepts related to human sexuality are relatively hard-wired or rather fluid social categories.

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“…A lack of adherence to public stories (as referenced by Donovan and Barnes) is also present, in different ways. Nelson (2020) identifies the academic and social invisibility of plurisexual people (Paz Galupo et al, 2017). Their research identifies how plurisexual people (of different nationalities) navigate gender norms and queer coding in their negotiation to make their gender and sexual identity visible.…”

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Experiences of and responses to disempowerment, violence, and injustice within the relational lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people

Gahan

Almack

2020

Journal of Sociology

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This article introduces a special edition of the Journal of Sociology that aims to interrogate the ongoing entrenchment of hetero- and cis-normative borders, and the consequential manifestations of power, violence and in/justice experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people in their relationships and family lives. The articles in this issue all explore different forms of violence, injustice, and persecution that continue to exist despite the success of many social justice campaigns in recent years for LGBTQ people. This article provides a synopsis of the research in this collection – research which demonstrates and expands our understandings of the complexities of LGBTQ lives around the globe negotiating empowerment, safety, and justice. We highlight the ongoing importance of this work as LGBTQ people around the world are experiencing the disproportionate impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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“Regardless of Their Gender”: Descriptions of Sexual Identity among Bisexual, Pansexual, and Queer Identified Individuals

Cited by 148 publications

References 35 publications

Exploring the Q in LGBTQ: Demographic characteristic and sexuality of queer people in a U.S. representative sample of sexual minorities.

Exploring the Q in LGBTQ: Demographic characteristic and sexuality of queer people in a U.S. representative sample of sexual minorities.

Ambiguity Tolerance Toward Nonbinary Sexuality Concepts: Evidence from British Newspapers

Experiences of and responses to disempowerment, violence, and injustice within the relational lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people

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