Contextual Prejudice: How Occupational Context and Stereotypes Shape Bias against Gay and Lesbian Employees

The Impact of Like-Mentors for Gay/ Lesbian Employees

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Gay and Lesbian Adolescents

Lesbian and Gay Relationships

Public awareness of lesbian and gay couples is growing; attention to homosexuality in the popular media is increasing. Social scientists have also begun to describe and analyze the nature of gay and lesbian relationships. The new scholarship on homosexual relationships is important both to the scientific community and to the general public. For the emerging science of close relationships (Kelle...

Stigma, Prejudice, and Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men

Institutional and personal hostility toward lesbians and gay men is a fact of life in the United States today. At the cultural level, homosexuality remains stigmatized through institutional policies. Statutes prohibiting antigay discrimination in employment, housing, and services are in force in only two states (Wisconsin and Massachusetts), the District of Columbia, and a few dozen municipalit...

Development and validation of a scale measuring modern prejudice toward gay men and lesbian women.

This paper describes the psychometric properties of the Modern Homonegativity Scale (MHS), which measures contemporary negative attitudes toward gay men and lesbians (i.e., attitudes not based on traditional or moral objections to homosexuality). In Study 1 (N = 353), a preliminary version of the MHS was developed, and its psychometric properties were examined. Participants in Studies 2 and 3 (...