Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Acknowledgments XIII
4. Introduction 1
5. CHAPTER ONE. A Historical Overview 5
6. CHAPTER TWO. Empirical Data on Victims 31
7. CHAPTER THREE. Empirical Data on Perpetrators 56
8. CHAPTER FOUR. Understanding Anti-Gay I Lesbian Violence 95
9. CHAPTER FIVE. A Biblical Perspective on Anti-Gay!Lesbian Violence 120
10. APPENDIX A. Reported Experiences of Anti-Gay I Lesbian Verbal Harassment from Comstock Survey 141
11. APPENDIX B. Further Tables 145
12. APPENDIX C. The Police as Perpetrators of Anti-Gay I Lesbian Violence 152
13. APPENDIX D. Hustlers and Anti-Gay Violence 163
14. APPENDIX E. Results of Comstock’s Survey of Ninety-seven First-Year College Students 166
15. APPENDIX F. Comstock’s Interview with a Former Perpetrator 170
16. Notes 175
17. Selected Bibliography 297
18. Index 313