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Unpacking civic engagement: the sociopolitical involvement of same-gender loving black women
Angelique Harris1, Juan Battle
1Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881, USA. angelique.harris@marquette.edu
Abstract:
Employing a national sample of over 600 same-gender loving (SGL) black women, 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 as well as sociopolitical involvement within people of color (POC) communities. Findings indicate that feelings of connectedness to the LGBT community are 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. Further, the impact of the importance of identity was negligible.
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