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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.

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

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

"Although the last decade has seen steady progress towards wider acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, LGBTQ residential and commercial areas have come under increasing pressure from gentrification and redevelopment initiatives. As a result many of these neighborhoods are losing their special character as safe havens for sexual and gender minorities. Urban planners and municipal officials have sometimes ignored the transformation of these neighborhoods and at other times been complicit in these changes. Planning and LGBTQ Communities brings together experienced planners, administrators, and researchers in the fields of planning and geography to reflect on the evolution of urban neighborhoods in which LGBTQ populations live, work, and play. The authors examine a variety of LGBTQ residential and commercial areas to highlight policy and planning links to the development of these neighborhoods. Each chapter explores a particular urban context and asks how the field of planning has enabled, facilitated, and/or neglected the specialized and diverse needs of the LGBTQ population. A central theme of this book is that urban planners need to think "beyond queer space" because LGBTQ populations are more diverse and dispersed than the white gay male populations that created many of the most visible gayborhoods. The authors provide practical guidance for cities and citizens seeking to strengthen neighborhoods that have an explicit LGBTQ focus as well as other areas that are LGBTQ-friendly. They also encourage broader awareness of the needs of this marginalized population and the need to establish more formal linkages between municipal government and a range of LGBTQ groups. Planning and LGBTQ Communities also adds useful material for graduate level courses in planning theory, urban and regional theory, planning for multicultural cities, urban geography, and geographies of gender and sexuality"--

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.

pt. 1. Planning and LGBTQ populations in traditional gay neighborhoods -- pt. 2. Planning and LGBTQ populations outside the gay village -- pt. 3. Expanding planning horizons : recognizing LGBTQ intersectionality -- pt. 4. Linking planning and LGBTQ activist groups to ensure service delivery -- pt. 5. Conclusions.

1. Human rights, LGBT rights, and international theory / Anthony J. Langlois -- 2. To love or to loathe : modernity, homophobia, and LGBT rights / Michael J. Bosia -- 3. LGBT and (Dis)United Nations : sexual and gender minorities, international law, and UN politics / Francine D'Amico -- 4. Transversal and particularistic politics in the European Union's antidiscrimination policy : LGBT politics under neoliberalism / Markus Thiel -- 5. Sexual diffusions and conceptual confusions : Muslim homophobia and Muslim homosexualities in the context of modernity / Momin Rahman -- 6. Peripheral prides : Amazon perspectives on LGBT politics / Manuela Lavinas Picq -- 7. Between the universal and the particular : the politics of recognition of LGBT rights in Turkey / Mehmet Sinan Birdal -- 8. Queering security studies in Northern Ireland : problem, practice, and practitioner / Sandra McEvoy.

Foreword: telling new stories / by Darla Linville and David Lee CarlsonOut of the closet and all grown up: problematizing normative narratives of coming-out and coming-of-age in young adult literature / by Amanda Haertling Thein -- Queer recognition and interdependence: LGBTQ young adult literature and the contemporary moment / by David Lee Carlson -- Billy Elliot, Swan lake and shifting queering effects / by Angelo Benozzo, Mirka Koro-Ljungberg, and Sergia Adamo -- Friendship as shared enmity / by Kevin J. Burke and Adam J. Greteman -- At the intersections of identity: race and sexuality in LGBTQ young adult literature / by Sybil Durand -- Destabilizing the homonormative for young readers: exploring Tash's queerness in Jacqueline Wodson's After Tupac and D Foster / by Jill M. Hermann-Wilmarth and Caitlin l. Ryan -- After homonormativity: hope for a (more) queer canon of gay YA literature / by William P. Banks and Jonathan Alexander -- Creating spaces of freedom for gender and sexuality for queer girls in young adult literature / by Darla Linville, Ph.D -- Exploring the tensions of reading LGBTQ YAL with higher education: student affairs professionals / by Jacqueline Bach and Chaunda Allen Mitchell -- Reading YAL queerly: a queer literacy framework for inviting (a)gender and (a)sexuality self-determination and justice / by S J Miller -- Queer literacies: a multidimensional approach to reading LGBTQ-themed literature / by Kirsten Helmer -- Openly straight: a look at teaching LGBTQq young adult sports literature through a queer theory youth lens / by Nicole Sieben -- Afterword / by Mollie V. Blackburn and Caroline T. Clark.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- SECTION I -- IDENTITY AND FLUIDITY -- TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES AND TRANSFORMING KNOWLEDGE -- CROSSROADS AND COMPLEXITIES -- SECTION II -- EVERYONE IS BISEXUAL -- THE KNOWLEDGEABLE COUNSELOR -- FACULTY SPEAK -- TRANSGRESSING AFRICAN AMERICAN MANHOOD IN COLLEGE -- CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS.

"This book provides new insights about the roles in which LGBTQ individuals contribute in society and various organizations. The literature is divided into two sections. Section I includes thee chapters from higher education administrators, faculty and community activists. The chapters share personal narratives describing the life experiences of those who are often marginalized within academia. Each chapter provides personal and professional aspects of the authors' lives. Section II includes four chapters; Section II includes four chapters which shares voices of people whom are normally excluded from research. Each author's identity is shared as an aspect of their research. The authors present a broad range of issues, challenges and concerns, supported by prior literature, organized around several broad topical areas and intended to fill the gaps in our knowledge about how LGBTQ leadership is engaged across multiple types of institutions and how the experiences affect the quality of life for LGBTQ individuals throughout the academic community. Their complex identities affect their research interests, findings, and interpretations."--Back cover