Lee Jess
a Department of Sociology , University of California , Irvine , California , USA.
J Homosex. 2018;65(14):2005-2027. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2017.1423214. Epub 2018 Feb 26.
The 2015 SCOTUS ruling legalizing same-sex marriage was hailed as a universal victory for the lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) community, but the pervasive support mobilized to achieve this goal may mask important dissension and inequality within the community. Specifically, how race may shape or perpetuate inequalities in the LGB community through same-sex marriage largely has been absent from the discussion. Focusing on the perceived impact of same-sex marriage in respondents' lives, I investigate the relationship between Black LGBs' perception of same-sex marriage legalization and their intersectional identities and community membership. Drawing from the 2010 Social Justice Sexuality Project survey, I explain the complexity of the attitudes of Black LGBs to the legalization of same-sex marriage and illustrate that (1) Black LGBs exhibit heterogeneous interpretation of the effects of same-sex marriage legalization on their lives based on their racial and sexual identities, and (2) same-sex marriage may provide Black LGBs the rationale to affirm their racial community membership as sexual minorities. This study pushes our understanding of the relationship between intersectional identities and individuals' perceptions of the self, identity-based community memberships, and social institutions.
2015年美国最高法院将同性婚姻合法化的裁决被誉为女同性恋、男同性恋和双性恋（LGB）群体的全面胜利，但为实现这一目标而动员起来的广泛支持可能掩盖了该群体内部重要的分歧和不平等。具体而言，种族如何通过同性婚姻在LGB群体中塑造或延续不平等，在很大程度上一直未被纳入讨论。着眼于同性婚姻在受访者生活中的感知影响，我研究了黑人LGB群体对同性婚姻合法化的看法与其交叉身份和群体成员身份之间的关系。借鉴2010年社会正义性取向项目的调查，我解释了黑人LGB群体对同性婚姻合法化态度的复杂性，并表明：（1）黑人LGB群体基于其种族和性取向身份，对同性婚姻合法化对其生活的影响表现出不同的解读；（2）同性婚姻可能为黑人LGB群体提供了作为性少数群体确认其种族群体成员身份的理由。这项研究推动了我们对交叉身份与个人自我认知、基于身份的群体成员身份以及社会制度之间关系的理解。
