Homophobia

by Blumenfeld, Warren

• ISBN13: 9780807079195
• ISBN10: 0807079197
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1992-06-13
• Publisher: Beacon Press

Summary

"This invaluable collection of essays makes forcefully clear that homophobia stunts the hater even as it oppresses the hated. In a country like ours, so intolerant of differentness, there can be no more important message." -Martin Bauml Duberman

Author Biography

Warren Blumenfield is a writer and gay activist who frequently conducts antihomophobia workshops in schools, businesses, and other institutions. He is also the coauthor of Looking at Gay and Lesbian Life.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	1	(22)
I. Definitions and Origins: Homophobia and Other Oppressions	23	(56)
1. Squeezed into Gender Envelopes	23	(16)
WARREN J. BLUMENFELD
2. S(h)ifting the Terms of Hetero/Sexism: Gender, Power, Homophobias	39	(18)
ANN PELLEGRINI
3. Racism and Homophobia as Reflections on Their Perpetrators	57	(10)
PHILLIP BRIAN HARPER
4. Moving beyond Binary Thinking	67	(12)
ROBYN OCHS
MARCIA DEIHL
II. Children, Families, and Homophobia	79	(78)
5. From Silence to Suicide: Measuring a Mother's Loss	79	(16)
B. JAYE MILLER
6. "It Has Nothing to Do with Me"	95	(19)
DIANE ELZE
7. "In the Best Interests of the Child": Thoughts on Homophobia and Parenting	114	(17)
DIANE RAYMOND
8. Homophobia, Homosexuality, and Heterosexual Marriage	131	(26)
JEAN S. GOCHROS
III. Other Societal Manifestations of Homophobia	157	(78)
9. Appearances	157	(10)
CARMEN VAZQUEZ
10. Lesbian Baiting as Sexual Harassment: Women in the Military	167	(10)
MICHELLE M. BENECKE
KIRSTIN S. DODGE
11. Loving What Is Real: Toward an Inclusive Jewish Family	177	(10)
MARGARET HOLUB
12. True to Our Tradition	187	(18)
GARY E. DOUPE
13. Homophobia, Censorship, and the Arts	205	(12)
DAVID EBERLY
14. Homophobia and AIDS Public Policy	217	(18)
JEFFREY LEVI
IV. Breaking Free	235	(40)
15. On Being Heterosexual in a Homophobic World	235	(14)
COOPER THOMPSON
16. Homophobia and the Healing of Society	249	(9)
AMANDA UDIS-KESSLER
17. Benefits for Nonhomophobic Societies: An Anthropological Perspective	258	(17)
WALTER L. WILLIAMS
APPENDIX: Conducting Antiheterosexism Workshops: A Sample	275	(28)
WARREN J. BLUMENFELD
CONTRIBUTORS	303