Performativity Double Standards and the Sexual Orientation Climate at a Southern Liberal Arts University
@article{Byron2017PerformativityDS, title={Performativity Double Standards and the Sexual Orientation Climate at a Southern Liberal Arts University}, author={Reginald A. Byron and Maria R. Lowe and Brianna Billingsley and Nathan Tuttle}, journal={Journal of Homosexuality}, year={2017}, volume={64}, pages={671 - 696} }
ABSTRACT This study employs quantitative and qualitative methods to examine how heterosexual, bisexual, and gay students rate and describe a Southern, religiously affiliated university’s sexual orientation climate. Using qualitative data, queer theory, and the concept tyranny of sexualized spaces, we explain why non-heterosexual students have more negative perceptions of the university climate than heterosexual male students, in both bivariate and multivariate analyses. Although heterosexual…
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