Looks past the stereotypical picture of violence against sexual minorities to investigate the many daily acts of quiet violence that go on in legal, social, educational, and law enforcement institutions. Discusses violence and gay and lesbian youth, suicide, same-sex marriage and the law, and issues of sexual minorities of color. Useful for social

Violence and Social Injustice Against Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People helps you look past the stereotypical picture of violence against sexual minorities--the public physical assaults on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered youth by hypermasculine male thugs--and directs you toward the many daily acts of quiet violence that go on, unhindered, in the workaday settings of our legal, social, educational, and law-enforcement institutions. You'll learn about the frightening prevelance of complacency, homophobic ignorance, and apathy that pervades our police departments, courts, high...