{"id":6899,"date":"2018-07-02T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=6899"},"modified":"2018-06-28T17:42:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T22:42:14","slug":"acceptance-vs-advocacy-of-lgbtq-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2018\/07\/02\/acceptance-vs-advocacy-of-lgbtq-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Acceptance vs. Advocacy of LGBTQ Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pride month<\/span><\/a>, with all its fun and flair,\u00a0has come to a close as various parades and festivals to celebrate LGBTQ rights and inclusion finished up around the world. But now that Pride is over for another year, this doesn’t mean we can forget about LGBTQ communities. While the\u00a0social acceptance of LGBT communities has increased in recent decades<\/a>, this does not necessarily mean these communities receive support in practice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In a <\/span>recent Op-Ed for the Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/span><\/a>, sociologist <\/span>Amin Ghaziani<\/span><\/a> discusses his research on heterosexual attitudes towards same-sex relationships. <\/span>While heterosexuals are willing to extend \u2018formal rights\u2019 to gay couples, like hospital visitation and family leave, studies reveal that straight people are less willing to demonstrate political engagement or material support for LGBTQ communities. <\/span>In their research on \u2018Gayborhoods\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0— urban districts with a prominent LGBT presence — Amin Ghaziani and Adriana Brodyn<\/a> find that increased liberal attitudes towards homosexuality may actually mask the persistence of discrimination and prejudices among straight residents. <\/span><\/p>\n

While Ghaziani\u2019s participants generally accepted gay rights, the residents often did not make a concerted effort as allies to help improve LGBTQ livelihoods. Ghaziani describes the concept of \u2018<\/span>privilege fatigue\u2019 — frustration that stems from the coexistence between progressive attitudes about homosexuality and conservative-to-apathetic behavior towards the LGBTQ community. <\/span>Ghaziani\u2019s research demonstrates that prejudice remains, and that acceptability does not necessarily translate into advocacy for queer lives. As Ghaziani concludes, <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are mistaken if we interpret \u2014 or celebrate \u2014 straight people moving into gay neighborhoods as evidence that we have made significant strides toward equality. True progress would be things like employment and housing non-discrimination laws, closing the sexual orientation wage gap, addressing anti-gay and anti-trans hate crimes, and other pressing social problems. Unless progressive straights are helping on those fronts, they may be gays\u2019 neighbors, but they aren\u2019t their allies.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pride month, with all its fun and flair,\u00a0has come to a close as various parades and festivals to celebrate LGBTQ rights and inclusion finished up around the world. But now that Pride is over for another year, this doesn’t mean we can forget about LGBTQ communities. While the\u00a0social acceptance of LGBT communities has increased in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,15,55,13,85],"tags":[746,39116,39112,470,105604,39114,2836,57,347,39110,1434,21526,16858,39115,58,10758,3312,779,1936,54,176,105607],"class_list":["post-6899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-culture","category-gender","category-inequality","category-politics","tag-attitudes","tag-crime","tag-culture","tag-discrimination","tag-gayborhood","tag-gender","tag-heterosexuality","tag-homosexuality","tag-identity","tag-inequality","tag-lgbt","tag-lgbtq","tag-neighborhood","tag-politics","tag-prejudice","tag-pride","tag-privilege","tag-queer","tag-sexual-identity","tag-sexual-orientation","tag-sexuality","tag-support"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6905,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions\/6905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}