{"id":69031,"date":"2016-06-22T12:58:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T17:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=69031"},"modified":"2016-06-22T12:58:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T17:58:43","slug":"the-intersectionality-of-hate-violence-against-lgbtq-people-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/06\/22\/the-intersectionality-of-hate-violence-against-lgbtq-people-of-color\/","title":{"rendered":"The Intersectionality of Hate: Violence Against LGBTQ People of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It was\u00a0‘Latino night’ at a gay club,”\u00a0Salvador Vidal-Ortiz\u00a0wrote<\/a>. As a sociologist who identifies as a queer Latino man, the intersection of race, gender, and sexual orientation itself was the central story of the Orlando massacre, even as\u00a0liberal media pundits seemed to fixate on sexual orientation and conservative ones on the identity of the shooter.<\/p>\n

In fact, research suggests that racial minorities are far more likely to be victims of anti-LGBTQ hate crimes than whites.<\/p>\n

The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Program<\/a> collected data<\/a> on hate crimes against LGBTQ and HIV-affected people (and those perceived to be so). The 1,253 incidents were self-reports collected by local chapters in 12 states. The data isn’t national or representative,\u00a0so their results\u00a0should be considered tentative and exploratory and, for what it’s worth, it’s difficult to get good\u00a0data on hate crimes, so there isn’t a perfect data set out there.<\/p>\n

Still, if their data is anywhere close to accurate, the findings\u00a0suggest that\u00a0race and citizenship status are\u00a0central to even an elementary understanding of hate crimes against (perceived) sexual minorities.<\/p>\n

While only 38%<\/a> of the US population identify as people of color (non-white and\/or “Hispanic”), the NCAVP study found that\u00a060%<\/a> of survivors of anti-LGBTQ and anti-HIV hate crimes identified as such. And, while only about 3.5%<\/a> of the US population is unauthorized, in the country without the required documentation, 17%<\/a> of survivors reported being undocumented.<\/p>\n

The NCAVP allowed the 752 survivors of color to choose more than one race for a total of 931 racial categories.\u00a0The chart below features the responses\u00a0(excluding white when white was mentioned alongside a non-white racial category).\u00a0Latino\/a was the racial identity most frequently reported, followed by Black or African American. These two groups made up the vast majority of victims.<\/p>\n

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Black and Latino\/a Americans are the largest racial minorities in the US (at 13% and 17% respectively), which may account for much of the disparity among non-white victims, but probably not all. It’s hard to parse the disproportionality because survivors could choose more than one race. The under-representation of Asians is likely real because being able to choose multiple races would err on the side of over-representation. The federal government considers\u00a0people who are Arab or Middle Eastern to be\u00a0White, but that doesn’t throw off the numbers that much.<\/p>\n

These statistics, as I said, are likely\u00a0quantitatively imperfect,\u00a0but they are likely not\u00a0qualitatively wrong<\/em>. Thanks to some combination of discrimination and structural vulnerability, people of color are more likely to be victims of\u00a0anti-LGBTQ and HIV-status violence. “It was\u00a0‘Latino night’ at a gay club.” It matters.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“It was\u00a0‘Latino night’ at a gay club,”\u00a0Salvador Vidal-Ortiz\u00a0wrote. As a sociologist who identifies as a queer Latino man, the intersection of race, gender, and sexual orientation itself was the central story of the Orlando massacre, even as\u00a0liberal media pundits seemed to fixate on sexual orientation and conservative ones on the identity of the shooter. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":69034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2016\/06\/5-3.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69033,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69031\/revisions\/69033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}