This literature review examines queer studies and the marginalization of LGBT people. It discusses queer theory and how it explores gender and sexuality categorization. LGBT people face various forms of social, economic, and cultural injustice that results in their marginalization from mainstream society. This marginalization excludes them from support systems and leads to higher rates of psychological issues like depression and anxiety. While the term "queer" was previously a slur, it is now used as an umbrella term for marginalized sexual identities and as part of theoretical approaches to issues of sexual identity.

1. LITERATURE REVIEW: QUEER STUDIES
Paper : 3, Literature Review
M.Phil
Submitted to : SSCCM
Enrollment No: 2154112220170001
Submitted by : Nidhi Jasani

2. Introduction
 Problems of LGBT people
 Their struggle for survival in main stream
society.
 Social, economical, psychological
suppuration.


3. Theory of Marginalization
 “Marginals are people the system of labor
cannot or will not use.” As a result, they are
excluded from one of society’s major
integrating activities, thereby missing out on
one of the basic factors leading to full
inclusion.
- Iris MarionYoung

4. Queer Theory
 Starting in the 1970s, a range of authors
brought deconstructionist critical approaches
to bear on issues of sexual identity
 Queer theory explores and contents the
categorization of gender and sexuality.
 Queer theory is derived largely from post –
structuralist theory.
 . Queer theory is a multilayered, and rather
complex, field of study.

5. Queer Theory
 The term queer theory was introduced in
1990, with Eva Kosofasky Sedgwick, Judith
Butler, Adrienne Rich and Diana Fuss (all
largely following the work of Michel Foucault)
being among its foundational proponents.
Annamarie Jagose wrote QueerTheory: An
Introduction in 1997.

6. Queer theory
 Queer is slang for homosexual and worse,
used for homophobic abuse. Recently, this
term has been used as an umbrella term for a
coalition of sexual identities that are
culturally marginalized, and at other times, to
create discourse surrounding the budding
theoretical model that primarily arose
through more traditional lesbian and gay
studies.

7. Social Problems
 LGBT people, as members of a social minority
group, are suffering various forms of socio
economic and cultural injustice.The lacks of
social recognition has an effect on the
capacity of LGBT people to fully access and
enjoy their rights as citizens.

8. Social Problems
 LGBT people are more likely to experience,
intolerance, discrimination, harassment, and
the threat of violence due to their sexual
orientation, than those that identify
themselves as heterosexual.

9. Social Problems
 This marginalization often excludes LGBT
people from many support structures, often
including their own families, leaving them
with little access to services many other take
for granted, such as medical care, justice and
legal services, and education.

10. Psychological Impact
 Research shows in a region where marital
rights and denied, LGBT people display
higher levels of overall psychological distress,
depression, anxiety and alcohol abuse than
LGBT people in states with marital rights.

11.  Higher perceived family, workplace and
friendship support reduces psychological
distress in LGBT people. Evidence suggests
that a supportive school environment with
clear anti-discrimination and anti-hate crime
laws, LGBT people display lower levels of
psychiatric disorders than do LGBT people in
states without such protection.

12.  Queering is the process of reversing and
destabilising heterosexuality as a norm.
 In defense of the term ‘queer’ which should
justify engagements with queering sociology
in India.

13. Conclusion
 People are marginalized and the suffer a lot
for their right as human being.
 From this many issues and article we can
conclude that, still LGBT struggle for their
survival in mainstream society.
 Now people are awake and try to find out the
solution of problems of LGBT.

14.  Work Cited
 Chatterjee, Subhrajit. "Problems Faced by LGBT
People in the Mainstream Society: Some
Recommendations." International Journal of
Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS)
1 (2014): 15.
 Friedman, Michael.The Psychological Impect of
LGBT Discrimination. 11 February 2014. 13 January
2017 <http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brick-
brick/201402/the-psychological-impact-lgbt-
discrimination>.
 Jenson, Jane. "Thinking about Marginalization:
What,Who andWhy? ." November 2000.
http://www.cprn.org. Canadian Policy Research
Network Inc. (CPRN). 12 January 2017
<http://www.cprn.org>.
 Wikipedia.Queer theory. July 2011. 26 january 2017
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer-theory>.