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‘It's something you just have to ignore’: understanding and addressing contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans safety beyond hate crime paradigms
- Authors:
- BROWNE Kath, BAKSHI Leela, LIM Jason
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 40(4), October 2011, pp.739-756.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) people continue to face discrimination and abuse. This paper, drawing on evidence from Count Me In Too, an LGBT participatory research project in Brighton & Hove, UK, challenges approaches to dealing with LGBT safety that emphasises reporting within a hate crime paradigm, and recognises the shift towards multi-agency approaches to LGBT safety. The evidence suggests that many LGBT people do, or do not, recognise abuse. By focusing on the effects of abuse and how it is dealt with by individuals and communities, rather than focusing on what constitutes abuse, this paper shows the importance of addressing LGBT safety in ways that move beyond questions of criminal justice and the reporting of hate crime. It argues for a broader social policy framework that uses multi-agency approaches to community safety for those who experience abuse, which should attend to how safety services may provide more appropriate contexts of care and support. Developing cohesions among LGBT communities may also empower them to work towards better social integration.
Queer spiritual spaces: sexuality and sacred places
- Authors:
- MUNT Sally R., BROWNE Kath, YIP Andrew
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 318p.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
The authors pose the question; Where are queer spiritual spaces and what happens in them? Their book is the culmination and review of a research project conducted during 2008–2009, which involved a group of academics talking to about 150 lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex people involved in several religious/spiritual traditions. The institutional and non-institutional case studies chosen were, Quakers, Muslims, and Buddhists, together with ‘non-aligned’ more place-based faith activities including: the New Age community at Findhorn in Scotland, spirituality at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival in the US and the ‘spiritually curious online’ on the Internet. Drawing on this extensive empirical research the authors investigate the contemporary socio-cultural practices of belief, by those who have historically been, and continue to be, excluded or derided by mainstream religions and alternative spiritualities. The book explores the recently emerging innovative spaces and integrative practices of queer spiritualities.