TY - JOUR
T1 - Creating Identity and Community
T2 - Latino Gay and Bisexual Men's Motives for Participation in the AIDS Movement
AU - Kuhns, Lisa M.
AU - Ramirez-Valles, Jesus
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Motives are situated vocabularies providing insight into the social context and identities of activists and volunteers. In this paper, we examine motives for participation in the AIDS movement. We focus on an understudied group of volunteers and activists (N=75) in the USA, Latino gay and bisexual men. Participants elaborated on 11 motives: values, helping others, reciprocity, understanding, personal development, career enhancement, community concern, social change, esteem enhancement, personal experience, and social networking. Across almost all categories of motives, activists spoke of working for, and meeting, other Latinos and other Latino gay and bisexual males, and about fighting what they consider oppressing forces. Motives were articulated within the context of a collective identity. Participants' descriptions highlight the process by which they create and reproduce identity and community through their involvement and as they articulate their motives.
AB - Motives are situated vocabularies providing insight into the social context and identities of activists and volunteers. In this paper, we examine motives for participation in the AIDS movement. We focus on an understudied group of volunteers and activists (N=75) in the USA, Latino gay and bisexual men. Participants elaborated on 11 motives: values, helping others, reciprocity, understanding, personal development, career enhancement, community concern, social change, esteem enhancement, personal experience, and social networking. Across almost all categories of motives, activists spoke of working for, and meeting, other Latinos and other Latino gay and bisexual males, and about fighting what they consider oppressing forces. Motives were articulated within the context of a collective identity. Participants' descriptions highlight the process by which they create and reproduce identity and community through their involvement and as they articulate their motives.
KW - Gay men
KW - HIV/AIDS movement
KW - Latinos
KW - Motives
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U2 - 10.1002/casp.2233
DO - 10.1002/casp.2233
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84954393501
VL - 26
SP - 32
EP - 46
JO - Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology
SN - 1052-9284
IS - 1
ER -
