Signs, Songs, and Dr. Seuss: The Activism of LGBTQ College Students Challenging the Hostile Messages of Campus Preachers

Q2 Social Sciences
M. Barringer, B. Savage, Caroline Howard
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ABSTRACT LGBTQ youth participation in activism on university campuses helps students to build resiliency and thrive as college students. Campus preachers are a catalyst of such activism among LGBTQ students and their allies. Sociological research has largely overlooked LGBTQ activism aimed at localized conditions such as campuses. Additionally, the phenomenon of campus preachers is largely absent from the social science literature. The current study targets this gap by examining the tactics college students use to contest the anti-LGBTQ messages of campus preachers at their universities. The dataset consists of articles drawn from online student newspapers at four-year, public universities in the United States, published between 2010 and 2020. Centered in the framework of contestation, intentionality, and collective identity, our analysis reveals the LGBTQ students asserted their agency and visibility by challenging the anti-LGBTQ messages of campus preachers through intentionally selected tactics, and in doing so, they often built solidarity with non-LGBTQ students. We conclude that by engaging in such activism aimed at the localized campus culture, LGBTQ students used the visitations of the campus preachers as opportunities to engage the intrapersonal and interpersonal components of thriving, employing agency, creativity, resilience, and social connectedness to counter the messages designed to denigrate and oppress them.
标志,歌曲和苏斯博士:LGBTQ大学生的激进主义挑战校园传教士的敌对信息
LGBTQ青年参与大学校园的行动主义有助于学生建立弹性,并作为大学生茁壮成长。校园传教士是LGBTQ学生及其盟友中这种激进主义的催化剂。社会学研究在很大程度上忽视了针对校园等局部条件的LGBTQ活动。此外,在社会科学文献中,校园传教士的现象在很大程度上是缺失的。目前的研究针对这一差距,研究了大学生在他们的大学校园传教士的反lgbtq信息中使用的策略。该数据集由2010年至2020年间发表的美国四年制公立大学在线学生报纸上的文章组成。在争论、意向性和集体认同的框架下,我们的分析揭示了LGBTQ学生通过有意选择的策略挑战校园宣教者的反LGBTQ信息,从而维护了他们的能动性和可见性,并在这样做的过程中,他们经常与非LGBTQ学生建立团结。我们得出的结论是,LGBTQ学生通过参与这种针对本地化校园文化的行动主义,将校园传教士的访问作为参与蓬勃发展,雇佣代理,创造力,弹性和社会联系的个人和人际成分的机会,以对抗旨在诋毁和压迫他们的信息。
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Sociological Focus
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