Editing Sexual orientation (section)

===Racism and ethnically relevant support===
{{see also|African-American culture and sexual orientation}}
In the United States, non-Caucasian LGBT individuals may find themselves in a double minority, where they are neither fully accepted or understood by mainly Caucasian LGBT communities, nor are they accepted by their own ethnic group.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Cheng | first1 = P. | year = 2011 | title = Gay Asian Masculinities and Christian Theologies | url = https://semanticscholar.org/paper/5899c4c6f0a1fd9c34e4ea57bdde6e12759ba65b | journal = Cross Currents | volume = 61 | issue = 4 | pages = 540–48 | doi = 10.1111/j.1939-3881.2011.00202.x | s2cid = 170388404 | access-date = 2019-12-01 | archive-date = 2021-08-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210824071649/https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Gay-Asian-Masculinities-and-Christian-Theologies-Cheng/5899c4c6f0a1fd9c34e4ea57bdde6e12759ba65b | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="Masequesmay, G. 2003">{{cite journal | last1 = Masequesmay | first1 = G. | year = 2003 | title = Emergence of queer Vietnamese America | url = https://semanticscholar.org/paper/c9ec9600cbbed6efc56c0de809b565d0a4c0d079 | journal = Amerasia Journal | volume = 29 | issue = 1 | pages = 117–34 | doi = 10.17953/amer.29.1.l15512728mj65738 | s2cid = 146235953 | access-date = 2019-12-01 | archive-date = 2021-08-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210824071650/https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Emergence-of-Queer-Vietnamese-America-Masequesmay/c9ec9600cbbed6efc56c0de809b565d0a4c0d079 | url-status = live }}</ref> Many people experience racism in the dominant LGBT community where racial stereotypes merge with gender stereotypes, such that Asian-American LGBTs are viewed as more passive and feminine, while African-American LGBTs are viewed as more masculine and aggressive.<ref name="Garnets, L. 2003" /> There are a number of culturally specific support networks for LGBT individuals active in the United States. For example, "Ô-Môi" for Vietnamese American queer females.<ref name="Masequesmay, G. 2003" />