While international organizations and governments move to expand equality for all -- regardless of sexual orientation -- recent global developments threaten this progress. The timeline begins at a pivotal moment, the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York, widely regarded as a catalyst for the modern LGBT movement. Stonewall is considered the first instance of community solidarity against systematic, state-sponsored persecution of sexual minorities. While the struggle has been ongoing, the most significant developments have occurred in the last 25 years, including expansion of voting rights, social welfare benefits, and political power. Here, a timeline of the politicization of sexuality is presented. Adapted from the source document.
O texto aborda a vulnerabilidade de travestis e homens homossexuais ligados às religiões afro-brasileiras à violência letal no Brasil, onde não há legislação específica para caracterizar crime homofóbico ou transfóbico. É focado na Teoria Queer, que reconhece certas posições sociais como desprezíveis. Trabalha a relação entre sexualidade, raça e religião para refletir a violência letal contra gays e trans de camadas populares, pobres, negras e mestiças. Conclui refletindo sobre as respostas produzidas por ativistas LGBT e estudiosos envolvidos em reflexões queer, bem como sobre propostas de políticas públicas para combater a homofobia e a intolerância religiosa contra grupos subalternos.
This reportthe first issued by the Center for Minority Serving Institutions,1 located at the University of Pennsylvaniaillustrates in broad brushstrokes where Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) fit within the shifting landscape of U.S. higher education. It focuses on three key areas: students, leadership, and fundraising. In addition to including crucial information about the diversification of HBCU student populations with respect to race/ethnicity and gender, we consider how HBCUs provide support and services for LGBT students and offer programs and classes that ensure students success in an increasingly global world. ; The Center for Minority Serving Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania
As paradas LGBT têm se constituído numa grande festa popular nas cidades onde são realizadas. Neste artigo, analisamos algumas questões referentes à sua espacialidade a partir dos "excessos", aspecto obrigatório nas festas populares, e como estes desencadeiam tanto possibilidades de rupturas como de retorno à ordem, de superação e de ratificação de visões de mundo. Abordamos as paradas como fatos sociais totais, procurando, com isso, explorar certas relações morais, políticas e religiosas implicadas nas festas. Em termos metodológicos, nossas análises são orientadas por participações, observações e entrevistas realizadas na parada goianiense, embora, sempre que possível, recorramos a outros contextos, a título de exemplo.
O artigo apresenta um panorama das dificuldades que se colocam para que diferentes disciplinas possam dialogar para favorecer a compreensão da construção da sexualidade em sua complexidade, de um modo geral, e suas implicações para a questão do enfrentamento dos preconceitos e discriminação diante da diversidade sexual (LGBT). Revisita a teoria dos "roteiros sexuais" de Gagnon e Simon (1973) e esboça uma visão geral sobre os pressupostos que fundamentam a "Teoria Queer", com destaque para os autores que a influenciam, na busca de uma nova postura epistemológica para que se possa produzir um novo enquadramento para a questão do preconceito e da discriminação em relação à diversidade sexual.
On Friday, Nov. 14, the LGBT faculty-staff caucus at Virginia Tech will host Cynthia Burack, associate professor of women's studies at Ohio State and author of the recently published "Sin, Sex, and Democracy: Antigay Rhetoric and the Christian Right." Burack will be the speaker for the 4th annual "Gay in Appalachia" event that evening, which is open to the public and will be held in the Old Dominion Ballroom of Squires Student Center. The lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. but the evening will commence with a reception at 6:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
BACKGROUND: HIV disproportionately affects gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in Africa, where many countries criminalise same-sex behaviour. We assessed changes in the engagement of African MSM with HIV testing and treatment cascade stages over time, and the effect of anti-LGBT legislation and stigma. METHODS: We systematically searched Embase, Global Health, MEDLINE, Scopus, and Web of Science for peer-reviewed cross-sectional or longitudinal studies recruiting at least ten MSM, published from Jan 1, 1980, to Oct 10, 2018. We extracted or derived estimates of HIV testing, engagement with the HIV treatment cascade, or both among African MSM from published reports. We derived pooled estimates using inverse-variance random-effects models. We used subgroup and meta-regression analysis to assess associations between testing and status awareness outcomes and study and participant characteristics, including the severity of country-level anti-LGBT legislation. FINDINGS: Our searches identified 75 independent eligible studies that provided estimates for 44 993 MSM across one or more of five testing and treatment cascade outcomes. HIV testing increased significantly over time overall, with pooled proportions of MSM ever tested for HIV of 67·3% (95% CI 62·1-72·3; 44 estimates) and tested in the past 12 months of 50·1% (42·4-57·8, 31 estimates) after 2011, which were 14·8 percentage points and 17·9 percentage points higher than before 2011, respectively. After 2011, ever testing was highest in southern Africa (80·0%), and lowest in northern Africa (34·4%), with the greatest increase in western Africa (from 42·4% to 70·9%). Levels of testing ever, in the past 12 months, and status awareness were statistically significantly lower in countries with the most severe anti-LGBT legislation compared with countries with the least severe legislation (57·4% vs 71·6%, p=0·0056; 35·5% vs 49·3%, p=0·010; 6·7% vs 22·0%, p=0·0050). Few estimates were available for later stages of the treatment cascade. Available data after 2011 suggest that the pooled proportion of MSM HIV-positive aware has remained low (18·5%, 12·5-25·3; 28 estimates), whereas proportions of current antiretroviral therapy (ART) use were 23·7% (15·5-33·0; 13 estimates) among all MSM living with HIV and 60·1% (48·6-71·1; five estimates) among MSM HIV-positive aware of their status. Pooled levels of viral suppression among MSM currently on ART were 75·6% (64·4-85·5; four estimates), but only 24·7% (18·8-31·2; four estimates) among all MSM living with HIV. INTERPRETATION: Despite improvements in HIV testing among MSM in Africa, HIV status awareness, ART coverage, and viral suppression remain much lower than required to achieve UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets. Further studies are urgently needed to provide more accurate estimates of levels of status awareness, engagement in care, ART coverage, and viral suppression among MSM to inform prevention efforts aimed at improving access to HIV services for MSM. Severe anti-LGBT legislation might be associated with lower HIV testing and status awareness; therefore, further research is needed to assess the effect of such legislation on HIV testing and engagement with the HIV treatment cascade among MSM. FUNDING: US National Institutes of Health, UK Medical Research Council.
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Ibero-American Youth in the Twenty-First Century -- 1.1 Youth in Plural -- 1.2 Youth Studies: North-South Articulations -- 1.3 Youth(s) in the Ibero-American World -- 1.4 Volume Organisation -- Bibliography -- Part I: Activism, Resistance, and Citizenship -- Chapter 2: Youth Protest Culture in Lima (2011-2016) -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Changing the Protest Repertoire -- 2.3 Cultural Activism and Networks of Solidarity and Rage -- 2.4 New Assemblages and Politics in the Victory Against Law 30288 -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Bandas de Barrio (Neighbourhood Gangs) and Gentrification: Racialised Youth as an Urban Frontier Against the Elitisation of Suburban Working-Class Neighbourhoods in Twenty-First-Century Madrid -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Methodology -- 3.3 Puente De Vallecas in the Urban Neoliberalism Era -- 3.4 Hard Hand, Soft Hand, and Everything in Between -- 3.5 When Pacification Is Synonymous with Violence Against Activist and/or Racialised Youth -- 3.6 Gangs, Organised Crime, Degradation: The Policy of Expulsion and Its Relationship with Gentrification. The Use and Abuse of the Concept of Neighbourhood Struggle -- 3.7 Conclusions: Street Youth Groups as Urban Frontiers Against Gentrification -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Urban Experience, Youth, Gender and Sexuality in a LGBT Family on the Periphery of São Paulo -- 4.1 The famílias LGBT -- 4.2 The City, the Body and Their Social Markers of Difference -- 4.3 Urban Activisms and the Uses of Space as a Generational Marker -- 4.4 Urban Space, Violence Against LGBTQIA+ Persons and Racialized and Gendered State Terrorism -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: The Street as a Youth Recognition Place for Adult-Centric Expulsion -- 5.1 Introduction: Social Outbreak in Chile.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- 1. Introduction: Human rights research beyond the doctrinal approach -- 1 Human rights research -- 2 Beyond the doctrinal approach -- 3 Chapter summary -- Bibliography -- Cases -- 2. A Marxist approach to R.M.T. v the United Kingdom -- 1 AMarxist approach -- 2 R.M.T. v the United Kingdom -- 3 A Marxist reading of R.M.T. v the United Kingdom -- Bibliography -- Cases -- Legislation -- 3. A feminist approach to Alyne da Silva Pimentel Teixeira (deceased) v Brazil -- 1 A feminist approach -- 2 Alyne da Silva Pimentel Teixeira (deceased) v Brazil -- 3 A feminist reading of Alyne da Silva Pimentel v Brazil -- Bibliography -- International legal material -- Cases -- 4. A postmodern approach to Elisabeta Dano v Jobcenter Leipzig -- 1 A postmodern approach (govermentality) -- 2 Elisabeta Dano vJobcenter Leipzig -- 3 A postmodern reading of Dano v Jobcenter Leipzig -- Bibliography -- Cases (European Court of Justice) -- Legislation -- Documents -- Conference presentation -- Blogs -- Interview -- 5. A queer approach to the Advisory Opinion 24/2017 on LGBT rights -- 1 A queer approach -- 2 Advisory Opinion 24/2017 on LGBT rights -- 3 A queer reading of the Advisory Opinion 24/2017 -- Bibliography -- Cases -- Report -- 6. A legally pluralist approach to the Bakassi Peninsula case -- 1 A legally pluralist approach -- 2 The Bakassi Peninsula case -- 3 A legally pluralist reading of the Bakassi Peninsula case -- Bibliography -- Cases (domestic courts) -- Cases (international courts) -- International instruments -- 7. A geographical approach to the Moiwana Community v Suriname -- 1 A geographical approach (participatory mapping) -- 2 The Moiwana Community v Suriname -- 3 A geographical reading of the Moiwana Community case -- Bibliography -- Cases.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Putting the SOGI in Human Rights -- From Human Rights to SOGI Human Rights -- Human Rights: What Are They Good For? -- International LGBT Organizations -- The Mainstreaming of LGBT Human Rights -- The Yogyakarta Principles -- The UN and Member States Support SOGI Human Rights -- A Map of the Book -- Chapter 1 The US Government and SOGI Human Rights Abroad: The Early Years -- The Clinton Administration -- The Early Years: SOGI Before 2009 -- The Nazi Persecutee Relief Fund -- The "Gay Billboards Scandal" -- The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief -- The Obama Years: 2009-2011 -- PEPFAR Redux -- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices -- UN Universal Periodic Review -- Lifeline: Embattled Civil Society Organizations Assistance Fund -- Coming Out on SOGI Human Rights -- Chapter 2 SOGI Rights Are Human Rights, and Human Rights Are SOGI Rights -- What Happens in Geneva Doesn't Stay in Geneva -- Unpacking the Speech -- Part One: Just Human Rights -- Part Two: SOGI/LGBTQ Human Rights -- Part Three: What Is to Be Done -- Part Four: To LGBTQ People Worldwide -- Reviews, Responses, and Rejoinders -- Liberal Responses -- Conservative Responses -- Progressive/Critical Responses -- Political Values and Political Reason -- Chapter 3 The US Government and SOGI Human Rights: After Geneva -- The Global Equality Fund -- Diplomatic Initiatives/Embassy Engagement -- A Tale of Two Embassies -- Country No Promo Homo -- Uganda -- International SOGI Human Rights Conferences -- US-Indigenous SOGI Advocacy: A Case Study -- The 2013 ASOGIHRO Conference -- The 2015 ASOGIHRO Conference -- USAID and LGBTI Human Rights -- Special Envoy for LGBTI Human Rights -- SOGI Human Rights Skepticism -- Chapter 4 No Human Right to Sodomy: Christian Conservative Opposition to SOGI Human Rights
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Intro -- Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Part One: Trajectories -- A Small Town Start -- Sexuality, Students, and Disclosure -- Girl meets girl. Girl works with girl. Girl falls in love with girl… -- It's Okay to -- Gay… A Librarian's Journey to Acceptance and Activism -- Out of the Frying Pan: Coming Out As a Culinary School Librarian -- Part Two: Sex and the Institution -- Gay Librarians on the Tenure Track: Following the Yellow Brick Road? -- Out All Over: Giving Voice to LGBTs on Campus -- Managing Outside the Closet: On Being an Openly Gay Library Administrator -- Homophobia in San Antonio -- Part Three: The Rest of the Rainbow -- Leather Librarian -- Gender Changer -- The Secret Life of Bis: On Not Quite Being Out and Not Quite Fitting In -- Passing Tips and Pronoun Police: A Guide to Transitioning at Your Local Library -- Part Four: Coming Out in Time -- Out Lines: An LGBT Career in Perspective -- Outness and Social Networks: From Closet to Container Store -- The Challenges of Coming and Being Out in Historical Perspective -- Curating William Inge -- Part Five: Coming Out in Place -- Activism in Colorado: How Life and Librarianship Bloomed in the Desert West -- In and Out Behind the Desk-In and Out of the Country -- "Do They Know?" A Gay Librarian at a Catholic University -- All About My Job Hunt: The Diary of a Wannabe Librarian -- Part Six: Coming Out in the Field -- Pride and Paranoia @ Your Library -- When is the Personal not Professional? An Exploration -- Out in the Classroom -- Taking the Homosexual Highroad -- Patricia's Child, Patrick's Penis & the Sex of Reference: A Lesbian Librarian's Log of Perverse Patronage -- On Being -- Imagination and Gay Librarianship -- Contributors -- Index.
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La literatura científica internacional enfatiza la labor de las y los profesionales del ámbito de la intervención social en cuanto a la atención a la DASGE (diversidad afectivo-sexual y de género). A pesar de mostrar un bajo nivel de homofobia y transfobia, la falta de formación inicial puede afectar a la posesión de habilidades y recursos para intervenir adecuadamente. Además, este déficit parece condicionar la muestra de actitudes positivas hacia este colectivo, afectando a su desempeño profesional. Desde la necesidad de avanzar en este tipo de estudios en el contexto nacional, esta investigación pretende analizar las actitudes y los conocimientos del alumnado del ámbito de la intervención social (trabajo social y educación social) hacia la DASGE perteneciente a la Universidad de Huelva. Se llevó a cabo un estudio ex-post-facto con una muestra de 307 estudiantes universitarios, con la aplicación de un instrumento de auto informe. Los resultados revelan un déficit en la formación específica y legislativa en relación con la DASGE. Asimismo, también muestran que el mayor o menor nivel de conocimientos, así como de homonegatividad y transfobia, están relacionados con la correlación de determinadas variables (curso académico, titulación universitaria, orientación sexual, contacto con personas LGBT, sentimiento religioso, inclinación política y causa de la homosexualidad). Finalmente, se concluye la necesidad de revisar los programas de estudio e incluir contenidos para una formación específica del alumnado en DASGE. Las conclusiones apuntan a la importancia de que los servicios de orientación universitarios tengan en cuenta la diversidad LGBT en sus intervenciones de sensibilización y formación.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) rights in India have evolved in recent years. However, LGBTQ citizens still face certain social and legal difficulties as compared to the people who do not belong to that community. It is duty of the court to pass just and reasonable order, duty of the Government to ensure that verdict reaches to the general public and duty of the public to welcome the decision of the court with open arms. However, with regard to the Rights of LGBTQ+ people, even though the Supreme Court of India in Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India judgement, 2018 stepped up by abolishing the part of Section 377 of Indian Penal Code which criminalized act of homosexuality, the Government and the public also failed to utilize the judgment to the fullest as even after nearly 40 Months of passing of the landmark judgment, the situation with regard to LGBTQ Community has not improved much. The Central and State Government failed to make any special provisions for upliftment of LGBTQ people and the Community also failed to get societal acceptance from the citizens of the country. The paper looks at the long struggle of LGBTQ Community for basic Fundamental Rights and the Discrimination they face in different spheres of life with special reference to Transgender people and Judicial Pronouncements. The paper finally analyses the road ahead for the LGBT Community and what further legal and social changes are needed for LGBT individuals to gain full acceptance and equality within the conservative Indian society.
Abstract The riots against a New York City police raid at the Stonewall Inn bar in June, 1969, are often identified as having sparked the movement for LGBT rights, and the commemoration of the riots one year later in June, 1970, inaugurated a series of annual LGBT Pride events that continues to this day worldwide. In this two-part Forum, we reflect on the contradictory effects of Stonewall's international legacy. Which facts or legends are celebrated and which are marginalized fifty years later? How has the sign 'Stonewall' come to inspire and/or sideline other resistances as the US event became appropriated globally? In this first part of the Forum, Silva and Jacobo consider how trans women of colour in the Global South have pursued the struggle of the pioneering trans women activists in New York City and engaged the history of Stonewall beyond the United States, negating the whitewashing of discourse on the riots by hegemonic cis gay men and cis lesbian women of the movement, even in their respective nations, Brazil and the Philippines. This forum contribution pays tribute to black and brown trans persons whose bodies had been thought of as monstrous in the heart of empire and elsewhere, where empire remains. The authors together aspire to think the planet from their coordinates: south by south, trans for trans. From the sisterhood they forged, these two trans women from Rio de Janeiro and Manila, imbricated in their wounds but bound together by a will to heal, theorize resistance and reexistence as women in a decolonial, transfeminist present.
Over the last several decades, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans (LGBT) community made the political decision to push for "marriage equality" and the "freedom to marry," rather than "same-sex" marriage or "homosexual" marriage. Like the decision that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made in the 1970s, to refer to "gender-based" equality rather than "sex-based" equality, this change in terminology tried to focus society on the concept of "equality" rather than "sex" and the category of "marriage" rather than "homosexual marriage." Although this change in terminology cannot, alone, account for changes in public opinion, it does coincide with increasing public acceptance of individuals having the freedom to marry the person they love without regard to sex or sexual orientation. Thus, when the Supreme Court announced its decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, the leading LGBT rights organizations applauded a victory for "marriage equality" or the "freedom to marry." Partially reflecting this change in terminology, the Obergefell Court described the victory as one for "same-sex marriage," the "freedom to marry," and the "right to marry," although it never mentioned the term "marriage equality." But what is "marriage equality" and the "freedom to marry"? How does Obergefell relate to those two constitutional protections? This Article argues that the Obergefell decision reflects an important advance for some aspects of marriage equality and the freedom to marry, while also insufficiently developing the freedom to choose to marry. Nonetheless, the roots of the freedom to choose to marry can be found in the precedent underlying Obergefell as well as in some aspects of the decision itself.
