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That's so gay! Microaggressions and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.

DOI: 10.1037/14093-000

Publisher: American Psychological Association - American Psychological Association

Feb 10, 2014

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Introduction.

Nadal, Kevin L.

Pages: 3 –13

The purpose of this book is to highlight the microaggressions that LGBT people experience on an everyday basis and to examine the impacts that such experiences have on mental health. In this book, my aim is to provide readers with some initial insight into the different types of microaggressions...
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A brief history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and civil rights.

Nadal, Kevin L.

Pages: 14 –37

Despite the strides toward equality and diversity in the United States with regard to race, gender, religion, and disability, serious disparities still exist and encompass all areas of life, from earning and institutional leadership to basic health and safety. When it comes to understanding...
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A review of the microaggression literature.

Nadal, Kevin L.

Pages: 38 –49

In the present chapter, I review the history of the microaggression literature, beginning with the work that has focused on racial microaggressions and gender microaggressions. I then highlight a taxonomy that outlines the types of microaggressions that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender...
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Sexual orientation microaggressions: Experiences of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people.

Nadal, Kevin L.

Pages: 50 –79

I revisit the microaggression taxonomy presented by Nadal, Rivera, and Corpus (2010) while including the additional categories presented in Nadal, Issa, et al. (2011). With each of these categories, I provide quotes from various sources, including previous microaggression literature, examples...
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Gender identity microaggressions: Experiences of transgender and gender nonconforming people.

Nadal, Kevin L.

Pages: 80 –107

This chapter revisits the categories based on the microaggression taxonomy presented by Nadal, Rivera, and Corpus (2010); however, here I focus on the microaggressions from the perspectives from transgender people. I also provide examples from my own research (e.g., Nadal, Skolnik, & Wong, 2012),...
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Intersectional microaggressions: Experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people with multiple oppressed identities.

Nadal, Kevin L.

Pages: 108 –151

In this chapter, I discuss intersectional microaggressions: those microaggressions that are encountered as a result of one’s intersectional or multiple identities. First, I discuss power and privilege as a way to understand the complexities of intersectional identities, in particular, within the...
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Processes of dealing with microaggressions.

Nadal, Kevin L.

Pages: 152 –173

In the previous five chapters of this book, I provided numerous examples and case studies of the types of microaggressions that are encountered by people within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. However, this chapter takes a different approach in that it focuses on the...
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Conclusion: What can you do?

Nadal, Kevin L.

Pages: 174 –190

This chapter focuses on what you can do to help combat microaggressions. Some of these recommendations may seem too big to tackle, maybe because you might not have the power or resources to carry them out. However, some of these recommendations are not difficult at all. Sure, they may take some...

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