ABSTRACT
Contemporary political philosophers who have researched the topic of multiculturalism have faced a paradox. The paradox is that although there are sound normative reasons to provide rights to cultural minorities to sustain their culture, providing such rights may entail providing a form of power to these groups that facilitates the violation of internal minorities. Ayelet Shachar called this the paradox of multicultural vulnerability. Hence, the normative literature on multiculturalism has focused on justice within groups. In particular, the debate has changed to the analysis of the potentially perverse effects of policies to protect minority cultural groups with regard to the members of these minority cultural groups. Most questions have been addressed taking into consideration the situation of women and children. However, lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals’ vulnerability to abuse within minorities has been largely neglected.
