"It Feels like Diversity as Usual": Navigating Institutional Politics as LGBTQ+ Professionals. Issue 1 (1st January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pryor, Jonathan T.; Hoffman, Garrett D.
• Is Part Of: Journal of student affairs research and practice. Volume 58:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 94
• Page End: 109
• Publication Date: 2021-01-01
• Subjects: Universities and colleges -- United States -- Periodicals; Counseling in higher education -- United States -- Periodicals; Counseling in higher education; Universities and colleges; United States; Periodicals; 378
• DOI: 10.1080/19496591.2020.1740717
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1949-6605

Abstract

Abstract : LGBTQ+ affairs professionals are often marginalized in their work and identities and therefore develop strategies to resist this continued marginalization. Using a critical conceptual framework, the traditionally heterogendered institution (THI), we show how LGBTQ+ affairs staff resist bureaucratic systems in their praxis to center LGBTQ+ (and other minoritized) identities on their campuses and how administrators who supervise LGBTQ+ affairs professionals might improve their praxes and better support LGBTQ+ affairs professionals.