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This chapter highlights some of the extant literature on LGBT students at Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and discusses some of the challenges they encounter at these institutions. Furthermore, it offers... more

This chapter highlights some of the extant literature on LGBT students at Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and discusses some of the challenges they encounter at these institutions. Furthermore, it offers recommendations to help HBCUs be more intentional about creating a more affirming and inclusive campus environment for LGBT students.

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  • LGBT Issues, HBCUs, LGBT college students attending an HBCU

Researchers have tended to favor scholarship that looks at institutional forms of support for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students in the context of resource centers specifically tailored to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and... more

Researchers have tended to favor scholarship that looks at institutional forms of support for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students in the context of resource centers specifically tailored to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students. Our study makes two distinct contributions to the study of gay and lesbian students of color: (1) We move away from resource centers as a focal point of support for students and attempt to explore the role of student health at 11 HBCUs; and (2) We draw attention to the ways in which health administrators challenge the influence of respectability to promote the delivery of healthcare that is attuned to the needs and experiences of sexual minorities, thereby providing evidence that pushes back against dominant narratives that reinforce HBCUs as homogenous communities of conservatism and homophobia.

• • by Steve D. Mobley, Jr.
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  • Black Studies Or African American Studies, Queer Studies, HBCUs, LGBT college students attending an HBCU

This paper conceptualizes Hopson's notion of crash moments by exploring an intercultural interaction (between an individual who identifies as heterosexual and another who identifies as homosexual) within a graduate classroom by drawing on... more

This paper conceptualizes Hopson's notion of crash moments by exploring an intercultural interaction (between an individual who identifies as heterosexual and another who identifies as homosexual) within a graduate classroom by drawing on cultural schema theory and critical incident analysis. Ultimately , this paper deconstructs a communication breakdown through a self-reflexive process in which the researcher was ''outed'' (someone else disclosed the sexual orientation of a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered individual in a public setting) by a classmate—which the researcher deems as a problematic occurrence, making the incident critical and fitting for analysis within an intercultural communication context. This paper also considers the complexities of sexual identity negotiation as an African American female lesbian at a Historically Black College/ University.

• • by Sheena Howard
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  • Gender and Sexuality, Sexual Identity, Sexual Orientation, Identity Negotiation