Incorporating queers: Blowback, backlash, and other forms of resistance to workplace diversity initiatives that support sexual minorities

Advances in Developing Human Resources

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-53

  Hill, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Backlash; Bisexual; Blowback; Ethics; Gay; Lesbian; LGBTQ; Queer; Resistance; Transgender

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849098731     PISSN: 15234223     EISSN: 15523055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1523422308328128     Document Type: Article

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