A Queer Approach to Understanding LGBT Vulnerability during the Covid-19 Pandemic

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ID6354976
AuthorsGraeme Reid (0000-0002-6404-2459, Human Rights Watch), Samuel Ritholtz (0000-0002-6301-0076, University of Oxford)
Year2020
Volume16
Issue4
Pages1101-1109
Publication date2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitics & Gender (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1743-923X • E-ISSN: 1743-9248
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1743923x20000707
OpenAlexW3110763769
LanguageEN
Citations received28
References cited16

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, advocates have argued for the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) people in humanitarian response efforts. Yet the application of this differential focus has been mixed among international policy guidelines and national programs. This research note details a queer theoretical approach to humanitarian crises that considers the intersectional factors that produce specific vulnerabilities within LGBT communities. We take two examples from distinct LGBT communities during the COVID-19 pandemic to demonstrate the analytical risk of treating the umbrella acronym LGBT, indicating distinct identity groups, as monolithic and not differentiating within identity groups based on other factors. We contend that this monolithic approach risks obviating the way different structural forces further compound precarity during crisis. Thus, we make the case for rooting intersectional approaches in any queer analyses of crisis

Aesthetics · Computer security · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Criminology · Face (sociological concept · Identity (music · Identity crisis · Intersectionality · Lesbian · Pandemic · Political science · Precarity · Queer · Sexual minority · Social science · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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