Masculinity, sexuality and disaster : unpacking gendered LGBT experiences in the 2011 Brisbane floods in Queensland, Australia

Andrew Gorman-Murray, Scott McKinnon, Dale Dominey-Howes

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Abstract

LGBT populations in Australia are a marginalized group who experience discrimination and peripheralization in everyday life (Leonard et al., 2012). It is important to note, however, that marginality is not experienced evenly across the disparate lives encompassed by the LGBT acronym. Moreover, intersections of age, dis/ability, race and class also modulate marginality and vulnerability, including within disaster contexts (D'Ooge, 2008; Pincha and Krishna, 2008). Our interest in this chapter lies in understanding how masculinities may operate in and through LGBT experiences of disaster. Rather than arguing that hegemonic masculinity results in uniform forms of vulnerability for LGBT populations, we suggest that a more nuanced understanding reveals both differing impacts of vulnerability, as well as ways in which hegemonic masculinity may in fact be resisted or deployed as a means of resilience.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMen, Masculinities and Disaster
EditorsElaine Enarson, Bob Pease
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherRoutledge
Pages128-139
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781315678122
ISBN (Print)9781138934177
Publication statusPublished - 2016

Keywords

  • Australia
  • masculinity
  • natural disasters
  • sexual minorities

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