QUEERING LGBTQ+ PEOPLE IN RESEARCH: Challenges and Opportunities
Book Chapter
Nieto, BX, Hernandez, GN, Rocco, TS et al. (2024). QUEERING LGBTQ+ PEOPLE IN RESEARCH: Challenges and Opportunities
. 407-419. 10.4324/9781003128151-32
Nieto, BX, Hernandez, GN, Rocco, TS et al. (2024). QUEERING LGBTQ+ PEOPLE IN RESEARCH: Challenges and Opportunities
. 407-419. 10.4324/9781003128151-32
LGBTQ+ research has advanced across many fields (psychology, education, counseling, and sociology). However, stigma and discrimination, like homophobia, are pervasive and play a role in gaps in research on sexual minorities, reducing opportunities for common ground, understanding, or learning. The focus of this chapter to illustrate how research (conceived broadly) can raise the visibility of LGBTQ as a dimension of identity. We examine challenges and opportunities, research methods and designs, and conceptual frameworks common in LGBTQ+ research, review procedural and ethical concerns researchers face, and provide recommendations for lessening these concerns. We also share how LGBTQ+ organizations, academic style guides, and publishers address research on or writing about LGBTQ+ people. Queering research is to use queer lenses to be critical of traditional, established, and standardized research approaches to give place to those approaches that center LGBTQ+ lives, their intersectional identities, strengths, and experiences.
