Anti-gay hate crimes in Improving the climate To Welcome or Affirm: Emotional Distress Among RECONCILING RELIGION

South Africa: for LGBTQ students at Black Clergy Views About LGBT Youth: The Influence AND LGBT RIGHTS:
prevalence, reporting an Historically Black Homosexuality, Inclusivity, of Perceived Discrimination CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITIES,
practices, and University and Church Leadership Based on Sexual THEOLOGICAL
experiences of the Orientation ORIENTATIONS, AND
police LGBT INCLUSION

WHERE SA, Gauteng USA, Virginia USA, Tennessee USA, Boston USA
METHOD Quantitative Qualitative Qualitative Quantitative Qualitative
OLOGY
FOCUS Evaluates the hate Evaluates the Evaluates inclusivity and Evaluate cause of Evaluate Christian
crime rate in Gauteng, experience of black church leadership of gays emotional distress amongst colleges’ and universities
why crime is not queer students in and lesbians high queer high school inclusion of queer
reported, how SAPS college students compared to individuals
handles LGBTQI+ cases heterosexual students.
KEY 1. Queer people have 1. Campus climate: 1. Clergy is aware that 1. Queer students are more 1. Majority of Christian
FINDINGS little faith in police supportive/accepting church is not an affirming likely to experience colleges and universities
due to mishandling of 2. Faculty response: place for sexual minorities emotional distress as have adopted non-
cases. avoidant behaviour 2. Churches ‘tolerate’ demonstrated by higher discrimination statements
2. Stronger judicial toward the LGBTQ rather than accept queer levels of depressive inclusive of sexual
enforcement is students, suggesting a people symptoms, and a greater orientation
needed specifically for need for training 3. Clergy is conflicted likelihood of reporting self-
hate crimes 3. Training needs: because they don’t affirm harm and suicidal ideation
3. An official record of relative to the queer homosexuality but don’t 2. Queer students are more
anti-gay crimes needs student community on want to take part in likely to report
to be kept campus, faculty stated exclusionary measures discrimination and bullying
that they were insecure against them (Ironic, based on sexual orientation
about their knowledge because their silence still
and skills related to the does it anyways)
queer campus
community