ABSTRACT
Racial repertoires produce meanings about violence and its relationship to queer subjectivity. In this chapter I argue that homophobia is ‘blackwashed’ to make racial attributions, intersected with sexuality, class and gender, about the characters and characteristics of violence. This authorises a set of racialising terms on which homophobia-related violence – its cause, consequences and cures – come to be understood such that particular sets of power relations and the axes of privilege to which they relate, are reasserted.
