Other Sheep - Multicultural Ministries with Sexual Minorities

Annotated
Bibliography

on this page...

Social
Hatred and
Prejudice

Social Hatred and Prejudice

Robert John Ackerman, Heterogeneities: race, Gender, Class, Nation and State, Boston, University
of Massachusetts Press, 1996.
Ackerman examines the hidden assumptions of social ideology, arguing that homogenous constructs
of society are artificial. He does not address sexual orientation, but his work is quite applicable.

Betty Berzon, Setting Them Straight: You Can Do Something about Bigotry and Homophobia in Your
Life, New York, Plume, 1996.
Berzon examines homophobia and social hatred and how to move beyond them.

Warren J. Blumenfeld (ed), Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price, Boston, Beacon Press, 1992
Explores the "acceptability" of social hatred of lesbigays in society and its social damage.

Chris Bull & John Gallagher, The Religious Right, the Gay Movement, and the Politics of 1990s, New
York, Crown Publications, 1996.
Bull and Gallagher provide an insightful narrative into the escalating conflicts between religious
extremists and the gay civil rights movement.

J. Michael Clark, "Patriarchy, Dualism, & Homophobia," in Homophobia and the Judaeo-Christian
Tradition, ed. by Michael L. Stemmeler & J. Michael Clark, Dallas, Monument Press, 1990, pp. 51-66.
Clark relates homophobia to patriarchal dualism and AIDS phobia.

Gary David Comstock, "Theological & Ethical Implications of Homophobic Violence," in Homophobia
and the Judaeo-Christian Tradition, ed. by Michael L. Stemmeler & J. Michael Clark, Dallas,
Monument Press, 1990, pp. 95-114.
Comstock examines the theological underpinings of homophobia.

Gary David Comstock, Violence against Lesbians and Gay Men, New York, Columbia University
Press, 1991.
Comstock provides a well-research study on social violence and hatred against lesbians and gays.

Gary David Comstock, "Abnormal and Normal Homophobia," in A Rainbow of Religious Studies, ed.
by J. Michael Clark & Robert E. Goss, Dallas, Monument Press, 1996, pp. 1-7.
Comstock explores the effects of what he terms normal and abnormal homophobia.

Louis Crompton, "Gay Genocide: From Leviticus to Hitler", in Louis Crew, ed., The Gay Academic,
Palm Springs, Etc Publications, 1978, pp. 67-91.
Brief overview the history of violence against people attracted to the same-sex.

Sara Diamond, Spiritual Warfare: The Politics of the Christian Right, Boston, South End Press, 1989.
Unsettling expose of the growth and politics of the Christian extremism.

Sara Diamond, "Change in Strategy", Humanist, Jan 1994, vol. 54, # 1, pp. 34-36.
Diamond expresses concern to recruit within racially diverse communities.

Sara Diamond, "Watch on the Right: The Christian Right's Anti-Gay Agenda", Humanist Jul 1994,
vol. 54, # 4, pp. 32-34.
Right-wing Christians are introducing ordinances and statutes that invalidate existing
antidiscrimination laws.

Nicola Field, Over the Rainbow: Money, Class, and Homophobia, East Haven, Pluto Press, 1995.
Field looks at the economic, political and social organization of homophobia.

Marcia Lee Geyer, Human Rights or Homophobia? The Rising Tides, Universal Fellowship Press,
Los Angelos, 1997.
Geyer explores human rights and issues of homophobic discrimination.

R. A. Gilbert, Casting the First Stone: The Hypocrisy of Religious Fundamentalism and its Threat to
Society, Shaftesbury, UK, Element Books, 1993.
Gilbert demonstrates how Christian fundamentaliists actively oppose everything that they regard as
a threat and propose values of intolerance, curtailment of freedom, and the imposition of their
minority agenda.

Didi Herman, The Antigay Agenda: Orthodox Vision and the Christian Right, Chicago, The University
of Chicago Press, 1996.
Herman digs into the undercurrents of anti-women, racist, and antigay agendas of the Christian right.

Arthur Frederick Ide, Evangelical Terrorism: Censorship, Falwell, Robertson & The Seamy Side of
Chrisian Fundamentalism, Irving, Scolars Boosk, 1986.
A book that gives some insight into fundamentalism. Needs to be updated.

Patricia Beattie Jung & Ralph F. Smith, Heterosexism: An Ethical Challenge, Albany, SUNY, 1993.
Jung and Smith exaxime how heterosexism as paradigm for the formation of ecclesial theology and
ethics.

Terry Murray & Michael McClure, Moral Panic: exposing the Religious Right's Agenda on Sexuality,
New York, Cassell Academic, 1996.
This book exposes the hypocrisy and arrogant ideologies of extremist Christians over abortion,
homosexuality, feminism. and the nuclear family.

Jack Nichols, The Gay Agenda: Talking Back to the Fundamentalists, Prometheus Books, 1996.
Nichols exposes fundamentalist propaganda, homohatred, and distortions of gay and lesbian
liberation movement.

Joseph H. Niesen, "Heterosexism: Redefining Homophobia for the 1990s," Journal of Gay and
Lesbian Psychotherapy, # 1, 1990, pp. 21-31.
Hertosexist presumptions of normalcy underpin homophobia.

Joseph H. Niesen, "Healing from Cultural Victimization: Recovery from Shame Due to Heterosexism,"
Journal of Gay and Lesbian Pscyhotherapy, # 2, 1993, pp. 77-89.
A good exploration of heterosexist shame.

Mary Jo Osterman, Homophobia is a Social Disease, Evanston, Kinheart, 1987.
Osterman treats homophobia as a disease.

Suzanne Pharr, Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism, Litttle Rock, Chardon Press, 1988.
A passionate analysis of the relationship of sexism to homophobia.

Howard R. Rice, "Homophobia: The Overlooked Sin," Church & Society, vol. 73, 1982, pp. 5-13.
Rice outlines many causes of homophobia within the church and possible solutions to it.

Esther Rothblum & Lynne A. Bond (eds), Preventing Heterosexism and Homophobia, Thousand
Oaks, Sage Publications, 1996.

Rosemary Radford Ruether, "Hompohobia, Heterosexism, and Pastoral Practice," in Homosexuality
in the Priesthood and the Religious Life, ed. by Jeannine Gramick, New York, Crossroad, 1989, pp.
21-35.
Questions any pastoral strategy in dealing with gays/lesbians because it is rooted in patriarchy.

Mark Simpson, Antigay: Homosexuality and Its Discontents, New York, Cassell Academic, 1996.
A good resource analyzing antigay sentiment.

Michael L. Stemmeler, "Gays--A Threat to Society? Social Policy in Nazi Germany & the Aftermath,"
in Homophobia and the Judaeo-Christian Tradition, ed. by Michael L. Stemmeler & J. Michael Clark,
Dallas, Monument Press, 1990, pp. 69-93.
Stemmeler details a powerful history of a Christian society persecution of homosexuals.

Elisabeth Young-Bruel, The Anatomy of Prejudices, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1996.
Young-Bruel turns critical attention to prejudice in America and tries to reach for understanding to
diffuse the fear of difference.