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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

"This book addresses LGBTQ issues in relation to among others law and policy, mobility and migration, children and family, social well-being and identity, visible and invisible landscapes, teaching and instruction, parades, arts and cartography and mapping. A variety of research methods are used to explore identities, communities, networks and landscapes, all which can be used in subsequent research and classroom instruction and disciplinary and interdisciplinary levels. This extensive book stimulates future pioneering research ventures in rural and urban settings about existing and proposed LGBTQ policies, individual and group mapping, visible and invisible spaces, and the construction of public and private spaces. Through the methodologies and rich bibliographies, this book provides a rich source for future comparative research of scholars working in social work, NGOs and public policy, and community networking and development."--Publisher's description.

Abstract
The study examined how LGBTQ individuals negotiate their identities in the Malaysian heteronormative society using
the Discourse-Historical Approach. In-depth interviews were carried out with 13 LGBTQ individuals to find out the discursive
strategies they used in describing the triggers for coming out, their experiences, and the reasons for their struggles. The
analysis of the interview data showed that the participants used the "destiny" and "rights" arguments to counter the "legal",
"religious" and "traditional values" arguments used by heterosexuals to reject them. Referents and personal pronouns were
selectively used by LGBTQ participants to present different perspectives, "us" versus "them" (heterosexuals), "I" and other LGBTQ
individuals, and "I" versus "they" or "you" (other sexual orientations). The findings have implications that are relevant to
mitigation of LGBTQ identities in contexts which have strong heteronormative norms due to legal, religion and traditional
values.

This study explores how LGBTQ parents in Finland account for the role of financial resources in their family-forming process before the child is born or otherwise joins the family. Semi-structured, thematic, face-to-face interviews (n=18) were conducted, audio-recorded, transcribed and analysed with reflexive thematic analysis. The study expands our understanding of financial resources in the family-forming processes of prospective LGBTQ parents and identifies the diversity of the meanings of financial resources experienced by the informants. It can be stated that the role of financial resources appears not only as a concrete need for money to have children but also as a resource that influences decision making and legal aspects during LGBTQ family-forming processes. However, it is not enough to look only at resources; it is equally important to consider the capabilities of individuals. The reconfigurations of family relations were connected to financial decisions and the importance of society's support in terms of financial resources was essential.

Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Biographical Details -- Preface -- Chapter 1. 'No Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, Classism' -- Chapter 2. 'We are Hated by Everyone': Sexuality and Sextarianism -- Chapter 3. 'The Law Prosecutes the Weakest': The Rise of the LGBTQ Movement -- Chapter 4. 'What Kind of Relationship can be Considered Contrary to Nature?' Contesting Criminalization -- Chapter 5. 'I Exist': The Politics of Ambiguous Visibility and Pride -- Chapter 6. 'LGBT is at the Bottom of Our List': International Actors and Rights -- Chapter 7. 'We Have Always Been There': Tactical Alliances and Protest Spaces -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Contesting Sextarianism -- Notes.

For two years, Philip Gambone traveled the length and breadth of the United States, talking candidly with LGBTQ people about their lives. In addition to interviews from David Sedaris, George Takei, Barney Frank, and Tammy Baldwin, Travels in a Gay Nation brings us lesser-known voices--a retired Naval officer, a transgender scholar and "drag king," a Princeton philosopher, two opera sopranos who happen to be lovers, an indie rock musician, the founder of a gay frat house, and a pair of Vermont garden designers. In this age when contemporary gay America is still coming under attack, Gambone captures the humanity of each individual. For some, their identity as a sexual minority is crucial to their life's work; for others, it has been less so, perhaps even irrelevant. But, whether splashy or quiet, center-stage or behind the scenes, Gambone's subjects have managed--despite facing ignorance, fear, hatred, intolerance, injustice, violence, ridicule, or just plain indifference--to construct passionate, inspiring lives.

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to compare the role honor and shame play in honor killings and anti-LGBTQ homicides by identifying similarities and differences across these two homicide types.


Design/methodology/approach
This study uses data from the US Extremist Crime Database (ECDB). Data for each of the incidents included in the ECDB are gathered from various open sources through a multi-stage process. A total of 16 honor killings and 21 anti-LGBTQ cases (i.e. the universe for both groups) are examined in this analysis. A closed-coded analysis technique is utilized to assess each case for evidence of shame and honor as well as an iterative coding process to identify sub-categories within these broader themes.


Findings
Results indicate that shame and honor play important roles in both honor killings and anti-LGBTQ homicides, although their influence manifests differently across these two types of homicide. Perceived shame to the family is most closely related to honor killings, while suppressing homosexual urges underlines anti-LGBTQ homicides. Violations of religious tenets, protection of masculinity, and protection of honor are evidenced in both types of homicide.


Originality/value
This study uses a unique database to examine the ideological motivations of individuals who perpetrate extremist crimes in comparison to those who commit honor killings. Findings may inform forensic practices, including rehabilitation and prevention programs.

Theatre for social change is a term used to describe a wide range of theatre-based techniques and methods. Through implementation of performance techniques, participants are encouraged to creatively explore and communicate various ideas with the specific intention of eliciting a societal or political shift within a given community. Through this thesis, I will explore the impact of applying theatre for social change in a youth-centered environment. I will discuss my journey as creator, facilitator, and project director of interACTionZ, a queer youth theatre program in Orlando, FL formed through a partnership between Theatre UCF at the University of Central Florida and the Zebra Coalition(&)#174;. I will give specific focus throughout this project to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ+) youth and straight advocates for the LGBTQ+ community. ; 2013-12-01 ; M.F.A. ; Arts and Humanities, Theatre ; Masters ; This record was generated from author submitted information.

This Open Access book argues that Southern European countries offer valuable, though historically overlooked, knowledge regarding intimate citizenship. Guided by the fundamental sociological question of how change takes place and, concomitantly, how law and social policy adjust to and/or shape the practices and expectations of individuals in the sphere of intimacy, this edited volume explores partnering, parenting and friendship issues from the perspective of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people in Italy, Portugal and Spain. Chapters offer a cross-national understanding of the relationship between everyday practices of intimacy amongst LGBTQ people and national legal, political and policy contexts in terms of the recognition of otherwise 'intimate strangers'. The book contributes to further theoretical and policy debates about citizenship, care and choice, as well as, more broadly, sexuality, welfare, health and justice. This book will be of interest to scholars across Gender and Feminist Studies as well as Citizenship Studies, Law, Policy, and Politics.

Acknowledgements: Citizenship, Care and Choice: LGBTQ+ Intimacies in Southern Europe – an Introduction: Ana Cristina Santos -- SECTION I – CITIZENSHIP MATTERS: Chapter 1. Uprisings: A Meditation on Feminist Strategies for Enacting the Common: João Manuel de Oliveira -- Chapter 2. Bisexual Citizenship in Portugal: Mafalda Esteves Chapter 3. Biocriminals, Racism, and the Law: Friendship as Public Disorder: Pablo Pérez Navarro -- Chapter 4. Embodied Queer Epistemologies – a New Approach to (a Monstrous) Citizenship: Ana Cristina Santos -- SECTION II – CARE MATTERS: Chapter 5. Building Safer Spaces. Daily Strategies and Networks of Care in Cisheteronormative Italy: Tatiana Motterle -- Chapter 6. Insurgent Parenting: Political Implications of Child-Rearing and Caring Practices in Spain: Luciana Moreira -- Chapter 7. The Sexual Politics of Healthy Families and the Making of Class Relations: Chiara Bertone -- Chapter 8. Blurring the Boundaries of Intimate Relationships: Friendship and Networks of Care in Times of Precarity: Beatrice Gusmano -- SECTION III – CHOICE MATTERS: Chapter 9. Sharing is Caring – Living with Friends and Heterotopic Citizenship: Ana Lúcia Santos -- Chapter 10. Affective Trans Relationships: Towards a Deleuzian Approach to Friendship Theory: Zowie Davy -- Chapter 11. Italian Queer Transfeminism Towards a Gender Strike: Elia A.G. Arfini.

Contemporary hostility towards Muslims at the global level and the consolidation of Islam in the geopolitical context as an anachronic alterity to the West cannot be understood without addressing the dynamics of the LGBTQ globalization framework. Although this hostility has so far encompassed very diverse areas like the compatibility of Islam with democracy, the regulation of the visibility of Islam in the public space, and the institutionalization of Islam and its relation to immigration, currently there has been an intensification of a praxis of control over some Muslim subjects by contemporary nation-states. These practices have been accompanied by a certain rhetoric on antiterrorism, securitization, nationalism and patriotism, where the LGBTQ question has played a fundamental role. This phenomenon highlights the emergence of a specific form of Islamophobia—referred to as 'queered Islamophobia' in this article—related to what Puar (2007) coined as 'homonationalism' more than a decade ago to denounce an aspect of modernity marked by a convergence between diverse state practices, transnational LGBTQ politics and the emergence of new Islamophobic discourses nourished by the neoliberal instrumentalization of LGBTQ. The homonationalist logic is underpinned by a culturalist discourse that promotes a dichotomous view of the world, where the West —modern, secular and LGBTQ friendly— finds itself face to face with its alter ego —orientalized, anachronistic, Islamic fundamentalist and LGBTQ phobic. This confrontation becomes effective through the transnational production of two antagonistic subjects. National homosexual subjects can only exist outside the limits of religion embodying agency and resistance, and their national legitimacy is done at the expense of their depoliticization and their participation in the subalternization discrimination and criminalization of Muslim sexual-racial subjects. They, in turn, embody neo-Orientalist ideas that link Islam with a lack of agency, depravity and/or sexual repression and LGBTQ phobia, and seem to be invariably evaluated through the lens of LGBTQ Western neoliberal secularism. The theoretical construction of Muslim sexual-racial subjects and so-called Muslim homophobia is, at this time, central to debates on values and securitization in the West and is used to justify repressive antiterrorist measures within Western nation-states (Haritaworn, 2008). Hostility towards gender and sexual diversity connected to Islam and/or Muslims has been conceptualized in different ways. Authors like Abraham (2010) refer to it as hegemonic Muslim homophobia, while Massad (2008) categorizes it as Islamic resistance to Western imperialism. In either case, it seems clear that the assumption of religiosity, in the Geertzian (1966) sense, constitutes a determining element when defining what a Muslim is —or is not— and explains their attitudes towards LGBTQ (Rahman, 2014). The problem is particularly acute considering the urgent need to address LGBTQ phobia as a compendium of geographical, cultural, sociopolitical, economic and legislative factors that goes beyond the strictly religious question. Indeed, the current rejection towards LGBTQ based on traditionalist interpretations of Islam —'Islamicate LGBTQ phobia' in short— and the growing institutionalized repression against sexual and gender minorities in Islamicate nation-states are part of a problem with many elements that cannot be understood without addressing some issues. Firstly, the relationship between gender and sexual diversity in relation to the Islamic tradition is complex. The second question concerns the influence of colonialization and neocolonialization on the gradual transformation of the traditional forms of sex/gender diversity that developed in the historic lands of Islam, as well as on social perception and the legislation adopted regarding these forms in the aforementioned states. The emergence of sexual liberation movements in the United States and Europe in the 1970s entailed an ongoing process of homosexualization (Roscoe, 1997) through which contemporary globalized LGBTQ categories have spread around the world (Rao, 2015). When combined with the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the emergence of Islamicate nation-states, this process has constituted a threat to the continuity of the traditional forms of sex/gender dissidence. This phenomenon would not have been possible without the construction of an invented tradition of Muslim homophobia that is being instrumentalized both in the West—through the disciplinary apparatus of nation-states—and in Muslim-majority countries—through certain forces linked to Islamic fundamentalism—with the common purpose of legitimizing control over the internal order of the societies of both frameworks (Rahman, 2015). The main objective of this article is to review the state of the art of Islam in LGBTQ globalization by looking at the specific historical forms in which knowledge linked to each of these two axes is constituted, as well as the social practices, forms of subjectivities and power relations inherent to such knowledge from the point of view of surveillance, control and banishment strategies. This exercise will be materialised through the analysis of the two hegemonic oppositional positions of Islam and gender and sexual diversity—one of Islamicate LGBTQ phobia and the other of queered Islamophobia—through which Muslims in general and LGBTQ Muslims in particular are subalternized, discriminated against and criminalized today both in the West and in Muslim-majority countries. To that end, the present article proposes a queer approach that aims to contributes to international studies—and the contemporary debates within them—in which LGBTQ issues in relation to Islamic tradition are largely missing. In this regard, while the connections between race, ethnicity, religion, religion, class, gender, sexuality, state and nation have been addressed by certain disciplines of the social sciences, there is still reluctance to take queer contributions into account and, even more so, to frame them within the umbrella of the recently named field of Queer International Relations (Weber, 2016). For the purpose of this work, and without wishing to provide here a specific definition of a queer approach, what is really at stake in any queer research is not so much a specific methodological proposal, but rather a substantial political commitment to place gender and sexuality at the forefront of social science analysis, challenging, in so doing, the hegemonic orders denounced in their research. The queer approach is understood here, therefore, in the sense of moral and political commitment and counter-hegemonic denunciation, rather than in terms of disloyalty to conventional academic methods to which certain queer theorists refer. The article is structured in four sections: introduction, theoretical-methodological approach, discussion and conclusions. The introductory section clarifies from a critical anthropological perspective the relevance of the reconceptualization of religion as a category of analysis when approaching the study of Islam. The section on theoretical and methodological approach reflects on the implications of putting queer studies and international relations in conversation. The first discussion heading, focusing on Islamicate LGBTQ phobia, reflects on the relationship between sexual and gender dissidences, Islamic tradition and Muslim identity, as well as on the influence of colonization and neo-colonization on the current state of these dissidence within Muslim-majority countries. The second discussion heading, dealing with queered Islamophobia, delves into the framework of homonationalism and the consolidation of LGBTQ as a requirement for access to citizenship and as a civilizational marker of Muslim otherness. Finally, I present some brief conclusions and outline some possible future lines of research. ; El objetivo de este artículo es la elaboración de un estado de la cuestión sobre el islam en el marco de la globalización LGBTQ atendiendo a las formas históricas específicas en que se constituye el conocimiento vinculado a cada uno de estos dos ejes, además de las prácticas sociales, las formas de subjetividad y las relaciones de poder inherentes a tales conocimientos desde el punto de vista de las estrategias de vigilancia, control y prohibición. Este trabajo se ha llevado a cabo a través del análisis de las dos posiciones hegemónicas de oposición entre islam y diversidad sexual y de género —una, de LGBTQfobia islamizada, la otra, de islamofobia queerizada— sobre la base de las cuales las personas musulmanas, incluyendo las LGBTQ, son subalternizadas, discriminadas y criminalizadas en la actualidad, tanto en Occidente como en los países de mayoría musulmana. Este trabajo propone un enfoque queer a través del cual poner en conversación las Relaciones Internacionales y los estudios transnacionales y/o globales queer en torno a las conexiones contemporáneas entre raza, religión, clase, género, sexualidad, estado y nación desde un compromiso de denuncia contrahegemónica. Con el fin de profundizar en todas estas cuestiones el artículo está estructurado en cuatro secciones: introducción, enfoque teórico-metodológico, dos epígrafes de desarrollo y conclusiones. El apartado introductorio clarifica, desde una perspectiva antropológica crítica, la pertinencia de la reconceptualización de la religión como categoría de análisis a la hora de abordar el estudio del islam. El primer epígrafe de desarrollo, centrado en la LGBTQfobia islamizada, analiza los múltiples elementos geográficos, culturales, sociopolíticos, económicos y legislativos que componen esta problemática. El segundo epígrafe de desarrollo, dedicado a la islamofobia queerizada, profundiza en el ensamblaje del homonacionalismo y constata la consolidación de lo LGBTQ en tanto que requisito de acceso a la ciudadanía y como marcador civilizacional de la alteridad musulmana. Finalmente, en el apartado de conclusiones, se presenta un resumen de los resultados del trabajo y se pincelan algunas posibles futuras líneas de investigación.

Die Arbeit geht der Frage nach, über welche Möglichkeiten der Soziale Arbeit verfügt, um speziell LGBTQ*-Jugendliche in ihrem Selbsterkennungsprozess zu unterstützen und die Akzeptanz ihrer queeren Identität zu fördern. In einer theoretischen Heranführung werden grundlegende Theorien und Begrifflichkeiten erläutert, die für ein Verständnis der Diskussion um Vielfalt und die Akzeptanz queerer Lebensweisen notwendig sind. Dem folgt eine Übersicht über die aktuelle Situation queerer Menschen in Deutschland.