Sexual/gender minority-related individual differences predict likelihood of social action after a hate crime.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brynn E. Sheehan ◽  
Ralitsa S. Maduro ◽  
Valerian J. Derlega
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Hate Crime ◽  
Related Individual ◽  
Gender Minority

LGBTQ-Related Individual Differences Predict Emotional Reactions to the Pulse Nightclub Shootings

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-226
Author(s):  
Ralitsa S. Maduro ◽  
Brynn E. Sheehan ◽  
Phoebe Hitson ◽  
Alexander T. Shappie ◽  
Valerian J. Derlega
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Hate Crimes ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Personal Safety ◽  
Related Individual ◽  
Gender Minority ◽  
Identity Centrality ◽  
Public Regard

This study examined, among 232 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning (LGBTQ) participants, the association of identity centrality and public regard with negative affect about the Pulse nightclub shootings in Orlando, Florida. Identification with victims and perceived threat to personal safety were sequential mediators. Identity centrality was associated with greater identification with the shooting victims. In turn, identification with the victims was associated with greater perceived threat, followed by more negative affect. Low public regard was associated with greater perceived threat that, in turn, was associated with more negative affect. The results support the notion that LGBTQ-related individual differences increase distress about anti-sexual/gender minority hate crimes, especially for individuals with a strong LGBTQ identity and who believe that the majority, heterosexual society devalues sexual/gender minority persons.

scholarly journals Time-Related Individual Differences

1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 273-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Francis-Smythe ◽  
Ivan Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Related Individual

“Last Night, I Prayed to Matthew”: Matthew Shepard, Homosexuality, and Popular Martyrdom in Contemporary America

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott W. Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Action ◽  
News Media ◽  
Hate Crime ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Gays And Lesbians ◽  
American Society ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
The University ◽  
Matthew Shepard

AbstractIn October 1998, Matthew Shepard, a young gay student at the University of Wyoming, was brutally murdered. Upon hearing the news, many Americans described him as a victim of a hate crime. Others, however, proclaimed Shepard a gay martyr. This declaration was not simply political rhetoric. Despite long-standing conservative religious opposition to homosexuality, they believed that Shepard had been granted salvation and a place among the saints in heaven. This article addresses the questions, “How and why was Matthew Shepard declared a popular martyr?” More specifically, how does this popular martyrdom relate to contemporary debates surrounding civil rights for gays and lesbians in America? As part of a series of social movements that followed the Second World War, sexual minorities have struggled to claim legitimate space in American society, leaving dramatic social changes in their wake. Noting this, while contrasting the news media’s construction of Shepard with the simultaneous popular discussion on the Internet, this article argues that a long tradition of popular martyr-making came together with social and political circumstances at a certain historical moment to transform the obscure victim of a hate crime into a popular martyr residing in heaven. That is, although the news media constructed Shepard as simply the affable young victim of a fatal hate crime, these contingencies allowed many Americans to reconstruct Shepard as a popular martyr. They expressed this belief in political, cultural, and social action. In time, Shepard's popular martyrdom helped further a growing acceptance of gays and lesbians into America's mainstream.

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