Confronting Sexual Stigma and Prejudice: Theory and Practice

By G. Herek. 2007

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology

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Internalized Stigma Among Sexual Minority Adults: Insights From a Social Psychological Perspective (2009, background): “For elaboration of this point, see Herek (2007). in Table 1 can enrich psychologists’ understanding of how sexual stigma affects all members of society.”
Structural Stigma and Health Inequalities: Research Evidence and Implications for Psychological Science (2016, neutral): “…component of structural stigma: the dominant cultural norms regarding whether certain identities/statuses are socially devalued, such as the “public stigma” of mental illness (Corrigan, Morris, Michaels, Rafacz, & Rüsch, 2012) or the sexual prejudice surrounding sexual minorities (Herek, 2007).”
“Let Me Do What I Please With It . . . Don’t Decide My Identity For Me”: LGBTQ+ Youth Experiences of Social Media in Narrative Identity Development (2020, background): “…access social media now offers across time and context, empowers adolescents and emerging adults to adopt identities that do not “fit” within traditional hetero- and homonormative expectations (master narratives) which may have once led participants to consider themselves deviant (Herek, 2007).”
Social stigma and its consequences for the socially stigmatized. (2011, background): “…of discriminatory life events related to some stigmatized statuses (e.g., race ⁄ ethnicity, gender, age), many stigmatized individuals (e.g., sexual minorities) are not protected from multiple forms of discriminatory life events by policies, furthering social inequality (e.g., Herek, 2006, 2007).”
Sexual Orientation Microaggressions: Processes and Coping Mechanisms for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals (2011, background): “…and transphobia have all pointed to detrimental impacts of overt and covert discrimination on the mental health of LGBT individuals (Burn, Kadlec, & Rexer, 2005; Herek, 2000, 2007; D. B. Hill & Willoughby, 2005; Meyer, 1995, 2003; Morrison & Morrison, 2003; Szymanski, 2005; Walls, 2008).”
Predictors of Attitudes Toward Gay Men and Lesbian Women in 23 Countries (2020, background): “Specifically, people’s attitudes reflected the societal context, such that prejudice was higher in countries with low (vs. high) levels of protection for sexual minorities, which is in line with the idea that “cultural heterosexism” sets the stage for sexual prejudice (Herek, 2007).”
Gender, Sexual Prejudice and Sport Participation: Implications for Sexual Minorities (2009, background): “Given the results from Study 1, and the literature demonstrating the existence of gender differences in sexual prejudice and subsequent behaviors (Gill et al. 2006; Herek 2002, 2007 ), we expected gender differences in the current study.”
Homonegativity in Southeast Asia: Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam (2017, background): “One component of the social ecology faced by sexual and gender minorities is public opinion toward them and their sexualities (Herek, 2004, 2007; Herek & McLemore, 2013).”
Sexual Orientation Microaggressions: “Death by a Thousand Cuts” for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth (2011, result): “…sexual/antigay harassment and prejudice (Burn, Kadlec, & Rexer, 2005; Herek, 2000; Lewis, Derlega, Brown, Rose, & Henson, 2009), sexual stigma (Herek, 2007), modern homonegativity (Morrison & Morrison, 2002), modern heterosexism (Walls, 2008), and transphobia (Hill & Willoughby, 2005) has all…”
System Justification, Right-Wing Conservatism, and Internalized Homophobia: Gay and Lesbian Attitudes toward Same-Sex Parenting in Italy (2011, background): “These social biases against homosexuality are endorsed not only by heterosexual individuals but often by lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people as well, insofar as they internalize the negative cultural messages about their own sexual orientation (e.g., Herek 2007; McNaught 1983).”