Sociological literature on gun ownership in the United States has primarily centered on white, heterosexual, cisgender men and vulnerability to violence. However, many gun owners do not fit this profile. In this article, I begin to fill this gap by focusing on one group—lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people—and answer the question: How does the status of being a vulnerable gender and/or sexual minority shape LGBTQ gun owners’ perspectives on gun ownership? To do so, I focus on gun literature, LGBTQ lives, and questions of vulnerability, and draw on in-depth interviews with 30 LGBTQ gun owners from across the United States. In this study, LGBTQ gun owners highlight two major themes. First, they discuss how their gender expression/sexuality creates possibilities for violence. Second, they relate minority oppression with the violent uprisings that created the LGBT movement. As such, these LGBTQ gun owners go against the LGBT movement’s discourse of pro-gun control and structural change.

关于美国枪支所有权的社会学文献主要集中在白人、异性恋、顺性别男性和易受暴力侵害的问题上。然而，许多枪支拥有者并不符合这种情况。在本文中，我开始通过关注一个群体——女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、跨性别者和酷儿 (LGBTQ) 人群来填补这一空白，并回答这个问题：作为弱势性别和/或性少数群体的地位如何？塑造 LGBTQ 枪支拥有者对枪支所有权的看法？为此，我关注枪支文献、LGBTQ 生活和脆弱性问题，并深入采访了来自美国各地的 30 位 LGBTQ 枪支拥有者。在这项研究中，LGBTQ 枪支拥有者强调了两个主要主题。首先，他们讨论他们的性别表达/性行为如何创造暴力的可能性。第二，他们将少数族裔的压迫与引发 LGBT 运动的暴力起义联系起来。因此，这些 LGBTQ 枪支拥有者反对 LGBT 运动关于支持枪支控制和结构变革的话语。