Violence against bisexuals, gays and lesbians in Mexico City.
An essential premise of this work is that three dominant ideologies explain oppression against BGL, as a result of a gender system: adhesion to gender stereotypes, androcentrism and heterosexism. Three hundred eighteen bisexual and gay males (BG) and 188 bisexual and lesbian females (BL) were surveyed. By means of a self-applied questionnaire, variables of interest were researched. The following trends were observed: an important number of men and women interviewed suffered violence in their childhood and adolescence because they defied gender stereotypes, and not because of their sexual orientation; BG males were more often victims of violence than BL females. Within the BG group, those who challenged gender stereotypes were more frequently attacked than those who did not; men were identified as aggressors more frequently than women; and in the BG group, gender stereotype transgression was associated with the perception of suffering violence in the future.
Ortiz-Hernández
Luis
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Depatamento de Atención a la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Calz del Hueso 1100, Col Villa Quietud, Coyoacán, DF, 04960, México. lortiz@cueyatl.uam.mx
Granados-Cosme
José Arturo
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001727:Bisexuality; D002947:Cities; D005260:Female; D018452:Homosexuality, Female; D018451:Homosexuality, Male; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D008875:Middle Aged; D011287:Prejudice; D014754:Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data