Decriminalizing LGBTQ+: Reproducing and Resisting Mental Health Inequities

Chapter 34 - Decriminalizing LGBTQ+: Reproducing and Resisting Mental Health Inequities

from Part V - Criminal Justice and Social Considerations

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2021

Tyler M. Argüello

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Katherine Warburton and

Stephen M. Stahl

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Katherine Warburton: Affiliation:
University of California, Davis
Stephen M. Stahl: Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego

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Secure settings are, in fact, queer spaces. This is not simply because LGBTQ+ people are found, disproportionately at that, in these settings. (“LGBTQ+” herein refers to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, Two Spirit, and asexual.) Rather, these spaces are implicitly and explicitly domains for non-normative cultures, behaviors, as well as identities. Often that means various antisocial behaviors, those who have committed crimes, or those who live with severe mental illnesses; or a combination therein. In this review, while those may be operative, the case of those who hold minoritized sexualities and genders will be centralized and examined. It can be that LGBTQ+ people are in secure settings because they have committed crimes and/or live with severe and persistent mental illnesses. However, there are also structural and social forces that contribute to their disproportionate presence in these settings specifically due to existing as a person with a minoritized sexuality or gender, regardless of criminality or mental health.

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Information: Decriminalizing Mental Illness , pp. 338 - 360

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