https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks Answering the research question: What historical, political, and social events have normalized or encouraged violence against the LGBTQ community in America? en-us 2020-04-08 05:17:26 UTC 2023-02-23 12:56:49 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/518550998/a64e78b53bf6bc7b76ab42b513924ff3/93429954_1871923732932480_6515193052745695232_n.jpg xxmelissamata https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/499908208 This article is a secondary source that I found interesting because it brings up issues of intersectionality of race, sexuality and class. It focuses on the gentrification of historically gay neighborhood and how it leads to heavier police surveillance; which ultimately, effects gay POC the most. It acknowledges the gay POC experience and compares it the white queer experience. It also overviews history of police brutality of against the LGBTQ and how anti-gay behavior was exhibited in our politics. This article will be useful in giving example of institutionalized forms of homophobia in our U.S. government throughout time and how it encourages violence against gays.]]> 2020-04-09 05:57:14 UTC https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/499908208 xxmelissamata https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/502591195 This article is an excerpt from the newspaper the San Francisco Foghorn that dates back to 1996. This piece serves as a primary source because it offers testimonials of gay people who have experienced forms of anti-gay violence and acts of bigotry first-hand. The testimonials are from students of University of San Francisco at the time. What I found interesting was that even in the late 90s that such petty and bigoted crimes were being committed against gays. What I found most appalling was how it was normal for professors of the university to slander gays so publicly in lecture. This is a piece of information I'd find most useful in regard to answering my research question because it shows how anti-gay behaviors and speech were so normalized at a time that even leaders in our institutions felt comfortable spewing their hate publicly. This is a societal factor that has contributed the normalization of violence against gays. ]]> 2020-04-11 00:33:24 UTC https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/502591195 xxmelissamata https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/502601557 2020-04-11 01:06:39 UTC https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/502601557 xxmelissamata https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/502607759 This is a primary source as it provides different interviews from people who lived through the gay rights' movement. Within my research I think it will be important to mention how levels of discrimination and acts of violence ultimately led to movement. These people discuss the oppression they had to endure from society and from the government. It shows the sacrifices people had to make for their liberation. I like that is also brings up issues of intersectionality within the gay community like transgender rights and gays of color.]]> 2020-04-11 01:26:59 UTC https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/502607759 xxmelissamata https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/502613475 This is a secondary source and it celebrates the ending of the gay-panic legal defense but it first goes into depth of the history of how it was created. This article isn't necessarily the strongest in regard to proving my research question. However, if at some point I need to reference gay panic or give a definition of it this would be a good source to use. ]]> 2020-04-11 01:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/502613475 xxmelissamata https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/530568462 2020-04-26 01:59:48 UTC https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/530568462 xxmelissamata https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/530573565 This article is a secondary source and so far is my favorite source that I've found so far. The author very descriptively gets into the history of how hate crimes became normalized in the country and how the justice system responded to these crimes. One key element to my research is proving that the gay panic defense normalized, justified and served as an easy get out of jail free card for homophobic people in the country who decided to kill gays based on their biases. He provides history of how specific cases contributed to the creation of the legal gay panic defense and sheds light on how homophobic a lot our policy-makers and judges were. He also gives very descriptive overviews of violent crimes and I think I could use these examples to describe the extent in which people went to harm gays, and how the criminal justice system indirectly influenced it. I want my audience to really understand how vile and disgusting some of these crimes were, so they can understand how evil and twisted it is for our institutions, media and politics to influence such behavior. ]]> 2020-04-26 02:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/530573565 xxmelissamata https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/530632940 2020-04-26 05:04:58 UTC https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/530632940 xxmelissamata https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/532256340 From The Great Believers, I will be using the two situations in which characters in the story were assaulted. There is a moment in the story in which Charlie explains that anti-gay attacks were up a "threefold" compared to its normal rates. I will be referencing this moment and how the AIDS/HIV epidemic intensified the violence that gays experienced. This moment also ties into the stigma that our government and propaganda placed on gays and how it contributed to raising levels of homophia in our country.]]> 2020-04-27 03:27:05 UTC https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/532256340 xxmelissamata https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/532261967 All these sources connect back to my original research topic which is "What historical, political and social events have normalized and encouraged violence against the LGBTQ community in the U.S.?" because each of them gives an example of each of those events in some point of history. However, I would like to find more sources on gay panic and violence post the AIDS/HIV epidemic. I plan on using a timeline that is something like; during criminalization, post criminalization, during and post AIDS/HIV and then go into the lasting effects of these events in our current day. I don't want to sound redundant or unorganized, so I believe following this sort of timeline will help with that. I also want to organize it based on propaganda, government and politics, media, and criminal justice. So far I do have a lot of sources to cover each element. I'm starting to feel more confident in my research as I've found more relevant sources to use in my paper. I'm starting to visualize a format for it.]]> 2020-04-27 03:33:04 UTC https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/532261967 xxmelissamata https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/555315121 2020-05-06 16:41:32 UTC https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/555315121 xxmelissamata https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/555484618 2020-05-06 17:42:42 UTC https://padlet.com/xxmelissamata/Bookmarks/wish/555484618