Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men / Gary David Comstock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Comstock, Gary David, author.

Series:

Between Men-Between Women Lesbian and Gay Studies

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1991]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Focuses on the violence directed against lesbians and gay men during the late 1970's and 1980's in order to make a contribution toward overcoming it. Aims to describe and understand the violence in order to better predict it.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE. A Historical Overview

CHAPTER TWO. Empirical Data on Victims

CHAPTER THREE. Empirical Data on Perpetrators

CHAPTER FOUR. Understanding Anti-Gay I Lesbian Violence

CHAPTER FIVE. A Biblical Perspective on Anti-Gay!Lesbian Violence

APPENDIX A. Reported Experiences of Anti-Gay I Lesbian Verbal Harassment from Comstock Survey

APPENDIX B. Further Tables

APPENDIX C. The Police as Perpetrators of Anti-Gay I Lesbian Violence

APPENDIX D. Hustlers and Anti-Gay Violence

APPENDIX E. Results of Comstock's Survey of Ninety-seven First-Year College Students

APPENDIX F. Comstock's Interview with a Former Perpetrator

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89928-9

OCLC:

1036910824