Despite shifts toward greater acceptance in US public opinion and policy, lesbian, gay, and
bisexual people remain widely stigmatized. This article reviews empirical research on …

Research has consistently linked homophobic bullying (eg, teasing, name-calling, use of
slurs) with an array of negative outcomes for children and adolescents. While most of the …

This meta-analysis quantitatively compiled the results of studies from 1992 to 2009 to
determine the prevalence and types of victimization experienced by lesbian, gay, and …

This article brings together two case studies that examine how nontransgender
people,“gender normals,” interact with transgender people to highlight the connections …

Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination provides a comprehensive and compelling
overview of what psychological theory and research have to say about the nature, causes …

George Weinberg's introduction of the term homophobia in the late 1960s challenged
traditional thinking about homosexuality and helped focus society's attention on the problem …

This Handbook provides a uniquely comprehensive and scholarly overview of the latest
research on prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. All chapters are written by eminent …

In 1972, psychologist George Weinberg's book, Society and the Healthy Homosexual,
introduced readers to a new term, homophobia, and to the then-novel idea that hostility to …

The current research studies discrimination from the perspective of people in stigmatized
roles in actual employment settings. Confederates, who were portrayed as being …

Sexual minority adolescents—those self‐identifying as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) or
with same‐sex desires or sexual experiences—report higher rates of victimization and …