Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Publication Date

2013

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Source Publication

Men and Masculinities

Source ISSN

1097-184X

Abstract

Employing a national sample of over 800 same-gender-loving black men, we explore the relative impact of community-level support/comfort and the importance of sexual orientation and racial identity on two dependent variables—sociopolitical involvement within lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities and sociopolitical involvement within people of color (POC) communities. Findings indicate that feelings of connectedness to LBGT communities is the most important predictor of sociopolitical involvement within both LGBT and POC communities; while, counterintuitively, being comfortable within the LGBT community had a negative impact on the sociopolitical involvement of these men. Further, the impact of the importance of identity was negligible.

Comments

Accepted version. Men and Masculinities, Vol.16, No. 2 (2013): 260-267. DOI. © 2013 by SAGE Publications. Used with permission.

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