Conditions of Living: Queer Youth Suicide, Homonormative Tolerance, and Relative Misery

Autor/in	Cover, Rob
Titel	Conditions of Living: Queer Youth Suicide, Homonormative Tolerance, and Relative Misery
Quelle	In: Journal of LGBT Youth, 10 (2013) 4, S.328-350 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1936-1653
DOI	10.1080/19361653.2013.824372
Schlagwörter	Homosexuality; Sexual Orientation; Social Bias; Social Attitudes; At Risk Persons; Youth; Suicide; Social Support Groups; Resilience (Psychology); Social Justice; Political Issues; Activism; Civil Rights; Neoliberalism; Gender Issues; Social Influences; Rejection (Psychology); Psychological Characteristics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Homosexualität; Sexuelle Orientierung; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Risikogruppe; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Selbstmord; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Politischer Faktor; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Geschlechterfrage; Sozialer Einfluss; Ablehnung
Abstract	Despite the increasing social tolerance accorded nonheterosexual persons in many Western countries, queer youth suicide rates remain high. This opens the need to question not only how broad social conditions continue to make lives unlivable for many queer youth but whether queer community formations and representations that emerge within a tolerance framework provide supportive environments for fostering youth resilience. This article presents a theoretical approach to understanding the continuity of youth suicide by considering how queer community formations built on tolerance create new exclusions for some queer youth that can make a life unlivable in relation to peers. The article articulates the tolerance framework through a return to Dennis Altman's 40-year-old "Homosexual Oppression and Liberation" and the more recent "homonormativity" critique of queer politics. It examines how tolerance and homonormativity are implicated in exclusions and suicidality through the "relative misery" suicide thesis and the concept of frustrated aspiration. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10