Race Relations and Racism in the LGBTQ Community of Toronto: Perceptions of Gay and Queer Social Service Providers of Color

Journal of Homosexuality

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 149-185

  Giwa, Sulaimon ^a   Greensmith, Cameron ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; gay and queer social service providers of color; interpretive phenomenological analysis research; qualitative; race relations; racism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858022104     PISSN: 00918369     EISSN: 15403602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2012.648877     Document Type: Article

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