Gay People of Color: Facing Prejudices, Forging Identities

by Jaime A. Seba

Overview

What does it feel like to be a minority within a minority? For lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people of color, their experiences coming out and living openly can be incredibly complicated. They may face discrimination from their community because of their sexual orientation, and they may be subjected to racism by their LGBT peers. Learn about the complicated health and personal issues related to this community, and find out how role models such as openly gay comedian Wanda Sykes, drag performer RuPaul, Latino icon Ricky Martin, and openly gay actor B.D. Wong help provide representations of LGBT people of color.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781422296660
Publisher:	Mason Crest
Publication date:	11/17/2014
Series:	Gallup's Guide to Modern Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Lifestyle Series
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	64
Lexile:	1300L (what's this?)
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	12 - 15 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

1 Who are Gay People of Color? 9

2 The Politics of Being a Minority in the Minority 22

3 Health Issues 37

4 Forging Ahead 48

Bibliography 61

Index 63

About the Author and the Consultant 64

Editorial Reviews

Gr 6–9—These titles present solid information and have eye-catching and relevant illustrations. Banking Basics and All About Money have a wonderfully colorful and well-illustrated section on the history of currency, somewhat overlapping in content. Banking Basics focuses more on U.S. monetary history, while All About Money gives a greater global overview. There is an assumed understanding of such topics as "regulating banks" and "Fed issued currency" so they might require further explanation. Cost of Living includes photos that really drive home the reality that everything in a household, small and large, costs money. It covers daily expenses and how to plan for them, along with reviewing such concepts as price inflation versus monetary inflation. Investing Money includes a "risk/reward" pyramid and touches on diversified investments with a nice piggy-bank analogy about hiding your full piggy banks in different spots around the house in case of disaster or theft. The sections on bonds and collectibles are notable because these are more accessible investment concepts than the abstract mutual funds and money markets for this age group. There is a positive, take-action focus on strategies for starting to save. In Understanding the Stock Market, the lemonade-stand example is used to great effect throughout the presentation of even the more sophisticated concepts including what variables affect stock prices and the selling of corporate shares. All the books are clearly written, making understandable connections between daily life and financial concepts.—Meredith Toumayan, The Governor's Academy, Byfield, MA

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