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Microaggresion: Racial Prejudice In The Gay Community

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Marque Griggs
Tennessee State University Field Study Paper
Research has found that racial prejudice is something that may be tolerated in the gay community (Callander, Newman, & Holt, 2015). The researchers posit that racial prejudices and preferences are more openly communicated in online communities than in person and found that many people do not consider voicing racial preferences as a microaggression or racism. These experiences of general racism perpetuated in the Gay community against people of color prove difficult and disconcerting for gay men of color. Microaggressions are generally characterized as brief, daily assaults on minority individuals, which can be social or environmental, verbal or nonverbal, …show more content…
This type of framework may be used to make a transformation in an area such as racism. The interpretive framework of this observation is the social justice framework because the study will seek to recognize categorical themes from the coding in the observation transcript. The researcher will draft overall themes based on the behaviors of the observed. These themes will encompass the microaggressions that people of color in the Gay community from their White counterparts.
The Microaggresion-Interaction Situation
Three observations, over varying lengths of time, were completed of the interaction situation in three different LGBT friendly establishments — Tribe, Play, and Trax which are jock, twink, and bear friendly respectively. The assumptions are that the interactions will not be as blatant as online; however, I predict that there will be violations of the assumptions. The interaction situation was similar at each site as there were parallel interaction behaviors even though these were distinct places that catered to different subcultures (jock/fit, twink, bear/bigger).
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Dancing without trying to taunt another.
Tribe 2/24/17 Play 3/25/17 (Violation: Dancing to taunt one in due to unattraction) Trax 3/18/17
2. Dancing without trying to entice another.
Tribe 2/24/17 Play 3/25/17 (Violations: Dancing to lure one in due to attraction) Trax 3/18/17
Respecting: Treating others with dignity and respect.
Behaviors associated with respecting:
1. Addressing bar goers with proper etiquette.
Tribe 2/24/17 Play 3/25/17 Trax 3/18/17 (Violations: Rude facial expressions, disengaging, dismissing others)
STAGE III
Post-Engaging
Respecting: Treating others with dignity and respect.
Behaviors associated with respecting:
1. Conversing with others about guys and sports in a respectful way.
Tribe 2/24/17 Trax 3/18/17 Play 3/25/17 (Violation: Discussion about unattraction to black men, biases, and not belonging)
2. Treating and speaking to others with dignity.
Tribe 2/24/17 Trax 3/18/17 Play 3/25/17 (Violation: Justifying racial discrimination in attraction and belonging)

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