We conducted a literature review of 58 studies on homophobia and LGBT disabled people published between 1994 and 2013 that reported a complex and conflictual relationship among different cultures. These are the expression of three social communities: (i) the LGBT community, (ii) the disabled community, and (iii) the mainstream society (mainly identified as the heterosexual and able-bodied community). The condition of exclusion that both disabled and LGBT people endure is rooted in two socially shared myths: compulsory able-bodiedness and compulsory heterosexuality. Both of them are the basis of homophobic prejudice. However, in order to neutralize the socio-cultural barriers, responses produced by the two minority communities, i.e., the LGBT and disabled people, are often in conflict with each other making their spaces inhospitable to LGBT disabled people.
Homophobia and Disability: Literature Review
MELONI, FABIO;FEDERICI, Stefano;MELE, MARIA LAURA
2011
Abstract
We conducted a literature review of 58 studies on homophobia and LGBT disabled people published between 1994 and 2013 that reported a complex and conflictual relationship among different cultures. These are the expression of three social communities: (i) the LGBT community, (ii) the disabled community, and (iii) the mainstream society (mainly identified as the heterosexual and able-bodied community). The condition of exclusion that both disabled and LGBT people endure is rooted in two socially shared myths: compulsory able-bodiedness and compulsory heterosexuality. Both of them are the basis of homophobic prejudice. However, in order to neutralize the socio-cultural barriers, responses produced by the two minority communities, i.e., the LGBT and disabled people, are often in conflict with each other making their spaces inhospitable to LGBT disabled people.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
