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Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer or Questioning. Each of these terms has an individual meaning and community around them. Through interviews with professionals as well as those in the LGBTQ community, readers can learn not only the definition of each of these words, but also what it means on a greater scale. Perfect for research or personal use, this text will provide teens with answers to many of their questions about sexuality and create a dialogue through which they can learn to accept each other and themselves

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- What's LGBTQ? -- Gender Identity -- Homophobia and Transphobia -- The Stonewall Riots -- The AIDS Crisis -- Hate Crimes -- Marriage For All -- Don't Ask, Don't Tell -- Employment Discrimination -- Current Issues -- Advocacy -- Be an Ally -- Looking Forward -- Timeline of the LGBTQ Rights Movement -- Glossary -- Index, Websites -- Back Cover

This far-reaching and contemporary encyclopedia examines and explores the lives and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, focusing on the contexts and forces that shape their lives. The work focuses on LGBTQ issues and identity primarily through the lenses of psychology, human development and sociology, emphasizing queer, feminist and ecological perspectives on the topic, and addresses questions such as: What are the key theories used to understand variations in sexual orientation and gender identity? How do gay-straight alliances (GSA) affect LGBTQ youth? How do LGBTQ people experience the transition to parenthood? And many more

This compiled and edited collection engages with a theme which is increasingly attracting scholarly attention, namely, religion and LGBTQ sexuality. Each section of the volume provides perspectives to understanding academic discourse and wide-ranging debates around LGBTQ sexualities and religion and spirituality. The collection also draws attention to aspects of religiosity that shape the lived experiences of LGBTQ people and shows how sexual orientation forges dimensions of faith and spirituality. Taken together the essays represent an exploration of contestations around sexual diversity in the major religions; the search of sexual minorities for spiritual 'safe spaces' in both established and new forms of religiosity; and spiritual paths formed in reconciling and expressing faith and sexual orientation. This collection, which features contributions from a number of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, religious studies and theology, provides an indispensable teaching resource for educators and students in an era when LGBTQ topics are increasingly finding their way onto numerous undergraduate, post-graduate and profession orientated programmes.

This book focuses on the difficulties young people face as members of households in which one or more members are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. It offers encouragement, insights, and resources to help them cope with and embrace the uniqueness of their family life. Teens and adults from LGBTQ families-and teens who identify as LGBTQ themselves-tell their personal stories and share strategies they use to deal with a sometimes unaccepting society. Topics discussed include politics, religion, media, and bullying.

Multicultural education, in some capacity, is a part of nearly every teacher education program in the country. Studies have shown, though, that this multicultural education does not often include issues of gender non-conformity and sexuality as a part of the instruction. Given these experiences in teacher preparation programs, we wanted to investigate pre-service and in-service social studies teachers' sense of self-efficacy in working with LGBTQ youth, teaching LGBTQ content, and addressing LGBTQ bias in school context. Using a Likert-scale we assessed the self-efficacy of 47 pre-service teachers. We found that the teachers had the highest sense of self-efficacy working with LGBTQ students and families. The participants reported a lower sense of self-efficacy teaching LGBTQ content and the lowest sense of self-efficacy addressing bias against LGBTQ individuals in commercial teaching materials and school contexts. The results of this study reveal the need for social studies teacher educators to be purposeful in the inclusion of these topics in their teacher preparation courses.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- 2 LGBTQ Education Research in Historical Context -- 3 Sociolegal Contexts of LGBTQ Issues in Education -- 4 Schools and Children in LGBTQ Families -- 5 K-12 Students in Schools -- 6 Bullying and K-12 Students -- 7 LGBTQ Student Achievement and Educational Attainment -- 8 Higher Education -- 9 School Workers -- 10 Use of Large-Scale Data Sets and LGBTQ Education -- 11 Challenges to Doing Research on LGBTQ Issues in Education and Important Research Needs -- 12 Conclusion and Recommendations for Further Research -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- Workshop Participant Roster -- About the Contributors

AbstractThis article examines the role of city twinning as a device for conducting transnational activism around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) politics. It focuses on the city of Leiden in the Netherlands, examining how the city's twinning links with the cities of Torun in Poland and Oxford in the UK have been used at different times as a device to mobilize transnational solidarities with LGBTQ people outside of the Netherlands. Drawing on qualitative semi‐structured interviews with LGBTQ activists in Leiden as part of a wider study of transnational LGBTQ activism in Europe, I seek to understand how twinning links are used to forge sustainable solidarities both across national boundaries and within Leiden. I suggest that relational comparisons about the status and treatment of sexual dissidents in Leiden and its twin cities are central to the production of these solidarities. While twinning has significant potential as a device for the production of sustainable transnational LGBTQ activism, I also suggest that it can be used to advance problematic geo‐temporalities about the relative 'progressiveness' or 'backwardness' of LGBTQ politics in specific cities.

Preface : Entering the Conversation : Dancing with Dragons / Veronica Bloomfield and Marni E. Fisher -- Raising Awareness : Troubling the Waters / Veronica Bloomfield and Marni E. Fisher -- How Old Ideas Can Help New Teachers : Support for LGBTQ Students as a Core Value / Michael Sadowski -- Exploring LGBTQ Issues in K-12 Education : A Dialogue with Graduate Students / Lynda R. Wiest, Cynthia H. Brock, and Julie L. Pennington -- Speaking of Sexuality : Teaching, Learning, and Mothering through the Questions / Veronica Bloomfield -- Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence : Creating Spaces at the Intersection of Diversity and Controversy / Marni E. Fisher and Kevin Stockbridge -- Traveling Poet / Stacy E. Schupmann -- Climate and Culture: Fostering Positive Identities / Veronica Bloomfield and Marni E. Fisher -- Educator Evaluations of School Climate for LGBTQ Students : A Reiteration of the Bullying Discourse / Melissa J. Smith and Elizabethe Payne -- Searching for Self and Society : Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Online / Elise Paradis -- Changing School Culture through Gay-Straight Alliances / Markus Bidell -- Queering Children's Literature: Rationale and Resources / Danné E. Davis -- Do You Need My Queerness to Define Your Straightness : The Pedagogy of Queering-Deviance in the Academy / Anna V. Wilson -- Transformative Practices / Veronica Bloomfield and Marni E. Fisher -- We Recruit : A Queer Pedagogy for Teacher Education / Julia Heffernan and Tina Gutierez-Schmich -- Out of the Closet and Into the Classroom : LGBTQ Issues and Inclusive Classroom Practice / Sean Robinson -- Developing Critical Dialogue / J. Spencer Clark and James S. Brown -- Queer Earth : Troubling Dirt, Humanness, Gender Assumptions, and Binaries to Nurture Bioculturally Responsive Curricula / Marna Hauk -- Dénouement : Speaking Up / Marni E. Fisher and Veronica Bloomfield