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    Navigating Queer Street: Researching the intersections of LGBT health.

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    2008
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    Fish, Julie
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    Abstract
    Health researchers engaged in the project of identifying lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) health as a distinct topic for study have often emphasised the differences in health and health care from heterosexuals and similarities among LGBT people. This work has sometimes rendered the experiences of disabled, black and minority ethnic and other groups invisible and has contributed towards the homogenisation of LGBT communities. In this paper, intersection theory is used to explore how diverse identities and systems of oppression interconnect. As a theory, intersectionality requires complex and nuanced thinking about multiple dimensions of inequality and difference. Drawing on the work of Crenshaw (1993), I use three concepts of intersectionality: methodological, structural and political to explore how the meanings of being lesbian may be permeated by class and gender and how racism and heterosexism intersect in the lives of black and minority ethnic gay men and women. Intersection theory offers possibilities for understanding multiple inequalities without abandoning the politics of social movements.
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    Citation : Fish, J. (2008) Navigating Queer Street: Researching the intersections of LGBT health. Sociological Research Online, 13, 1
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    http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4749
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.1652
    ISSN : 1360-7804
    Research Group : Participation & Social Justice
    Research Group : Social Work
    Research Group : Reproduction Research Group
    Research Group : Health Policy
    Research Group : Mary Seacole Research Centre
    Research Group : Health Policy Research Unit
    Research Institute : Institute of Health, Health Policy and Social Care
    Peer Reviewed : Yes
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