Although the political and social climate has changed substantially in recent years, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and transsexual young adults still face a vast array of challenges. Discrimination, homophobia, lack of family support, depression, substance abuse, homelessness, and low self-esteem are only a few of the many factors that may compromise GLBT students' chances of success in college. In this interactive workshop, learn more about the lifelong coming out process and the issues affecting GLBT students. The workshop will also explore how GLBT persons have been represented in young adult literature over the past three decades and how this literature can be used to support GLBT students and to inform the broader student population. Finally, the workshop will provide information on BSC's new GLBTA Pride Center and the services it provides to the entire BSC community.
In the course of less than forty years, the Spanish political and cultural scenario has changed drastically, particularly in relation to civil rights. Social movements, especially feminist and LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) organizations, have been successful in putting demands on the political agenda that have translated into gender equality, same-sex and transgender laws. Looking at definitions of equality, this article explores the implications of some postmodern theories that promote the analysis of political intersectionality for some of the recent laws that are presented as progressive and transformative in Spanish policy making. The analysis will explore two case studies: samesex marriage and equality policy law texts, discussing the conception of intersectionality and equality. In addition, the definition of the feminist political strategy in which these policies are framed is addressed. Both case studies show that the policies are conceptualized within a liberal and assimilationist framework, since neither the male norm nor the sexual order is profoundly questioned.
The importance of offering a lesbian and gay American history course was initially impressed upon me in 1986. A newly minted Ph.D., I was teaching my very first class: a U.S. history survey at San Francisco State University (sfsu). The course required each student to review a book of his or her choice on any topic in U.S. history. One student chose John D'Emilio's Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940–1970 from my list of suggested titles and wrote a thoughtful, enthusiastic review.1 At the bottom of the review was a handwritten note: "Thanks for recommending this book. As a gay man, I didn't know I had a history." Didn't know he had a history?! My fellow historians will share my sense of dismay and my determination to remedy this unthinkable state of affairs. I have always included the history of gay men and lesbians in my various classes, not as a sop to "political correctness" and not because it is an amusing/interesting "add on" to "real" history, but because it is a vital component of a more complete understanding of American political, economic, social, legal, military, and religious history. For example, my courses that focus on the twentieth century include the significant role that the campaign against homosexuals played in McCarthy-era persecutions; in "U.S. Historical Geography" (which examines the role physical geography has played in the development of the United States), we study how and why the coastal cities of New York and San Francisco emerged as major centers of homophile populations; in women's history courses we examine the controversy and contributions lesbians brought to various feminist movements.
Sexual orientation and gender identity are not currently covered by federal hate crime laws. This analysis compares victimization rates for lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals with groups already covered by hate crime laws. Results indicate that the hate crime rate against lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals is comparable to the rate of hate crimes against already protected groups. While the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs reports an average of 213 hate crimes per year, the federal government has no system in place for documenting or collecting these statistics. This discrepancy indicates a need for including gender identity in hate crime tracking laws, and extending legislative protection to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
2013 Summer. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; The present research applied a modified version of the investment model to the study of how gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) persons become committed to the social, political, and organizational GLBT community. Additionally, a main goal of the study was to determine if community commitment was a risk or protective factor for health behaviors and outcomes. First, a confirmatory factor analysis determined that the three theorized aspects of the GLBT community can be measured distinctly and individually. However, results did not indicate that commitment to individual aspects of the GLBT community (while controlling for commitment to other aspects) predicted individual health outcomes. It was not demonstrated that commitment to the GLBT community was either a risk or a protective factor. This research has important implications for understanding how one's community can or cannot influence health behaviors.
N April 23, the Center for the Study of Women will present a one-panel symposium, entitled "Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization," from 3 to 5 pm in 314 Royce Hall. Roderick Ferguson, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, will present "The Lateral Moves of African American Studies." Ruby Tapia, Assistant Professor of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University, will present "Volumes of 'Transnational' Vengeance: Fixing Race and Feminism on the Way to Kill Bill." Two UCLA professors, Rafael Perez-Torres of the Department of English and Russell Robinson of the Critical Race Studies program in the School of Law, will provide comment. This event is co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Center, the Chicano Studies Research Center, the Women's Studies Program, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Studies Program, the Asian American Studies Department, UC Humanities Research Institute, and the Critical Race Studies Program in the School of Law.
Abstract Queerness is now global. Many emerging economies of the global South are experiencing queer mobilization and sexual identity politics raising fundamental questions of citizenship and human rights on the one hand; and discourses of nationalism, cultural identity, imperialism, tradition and family-values on the other. While some researchers argue that with economic globalization in the developing world, a Western, hegemonic notion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) identity has been exported to traditional societies thereby destroying indigenous sexual cultures and diversities, other scholars do not consider globalization as a significant factor in global queer mobilization and sexual identity politics. This paper aims at exploring the debate around globalization and contemporary queer politics in developing world with special reference to India. After briefly tracing the history of sexual identity politics, this paper examines the process of queer mobilization in relation to emergence of HIV/AIDS epidemic and forces of neoliberal globalization. I argue that the twin-process of globalization and AIDS epidemic has significantly influenced the mobilization of queer communities, while simultaneously strengthening right wing "homophobic" discourses of heterosexist nationalism in India.
2011 Summer. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Since the Defense of Marriage Act, the issue of same-sex marriage has dominated the political discourse of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender politics. Scholars claim that the litigation in Hawaii that took place in the 1990s was responsible for the subsequent political activity surrounding same-sex marriage in the United States, including the Defense of Marriage Act, but none has empirically tested this claim. This paper seeks to understand whether or not the litigation in Hawaii prompted congressional action that resulted in the introduction of the federal Defense of Marriage Act and if so, why. By using Kingdon's multiple streams framework as a guiding tool, this research evaluated different political participants and factors to understand how the litigation in Baehr v. Lewin (74 Haw. 530; 852 P.2d 44; 1993) connects to the federal Defense of Marriage Act. This paper finds that the litigation in Hawaii is the catalyst that prompted the subsequent activity that resulted in the Defense of Marriage Act by energizing a well organized coalition opposed to same-sex marriage to expand the political debate and move the issue of same-sex marriage from the state courts in Hawaii to Congress.
Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues, while widely recognized and celebrated as a groundbreaking portrayal of a transgendered protagonist at the time of its publication, has rarely been seriously considered as a novel. Regularly assumed to be a thinly disguised autobiography and generally considered too "sentimental" to rank as a serious literary accomplishment, Feinberg's text is considered politically and pedagogically effective, but not literarily or culturally significant. Such assessments, however, take for granted both the genre of "sentimental" fiction and its status as "unliterary," and, in so doing, obscure the way that Feinberg both draws upon and revises traditions of women's literature-particularly the captivity narrative-to produce and alter the genre's particular sentimental effects. Understanding the way that Feinberg has constructed this deeply affective narrative is significant not only for our understanding of hir transgender protagonist, but for our approach to "multicultural" literatures more broadly. I would like to argue that Feinberg's revision of the captivity narrative is a pioneering and significant example of narrative that manages to represent a "minority" body without allowing that body to become rhetorical, symbolic, or displaced. In presenting readers with the opportunity for ethical contact, in Levinas's sense of the word, Feinberg eschews the focus on ethical content that has characterized, and limited, early approaches to multicultural curriculums and pedagogies, including the study of "minority" sexualities.
In ihrem Beitrag befassen sich Sandra Stoll und Berit Kitzing mit dem gesellschaftlichen Umgang mit Intersexualität aus einer kulturanthropologischen, Akteur_Innen zentrierten Perspektive. Sie haben sich einem gesellschaftlichen Bereich genähert, in dem medizinisches Wissen und juristische Normen in Lebensformen, Identitäten und Körper lenkend eingreifen, sich gegenseitig legitimieren und das 'Andere' pathologisieren bzw. ausschließen. Hierzu haben sie Interviews mit internationalen Künstler_Innen des Ausstellungs- und Archivprojekts 1-0-1 [one'o one] intersex – Das Zwei-Geschlechter-System als Menschenrechtsverletzung (NGBK Berlin-Kreuzberg 17.06. – 31.07.2005) geführt. Nach einer theoretischen Einführung in das Zwei-Geschlechter-System analysieren sie genauer die Kunstprojekte von Ins A Kromminga, Del LaGrace Volcano und Terre Thaemlitz. Im Fokus stehen deren Strategien der Sichtbarmachung von selbstverständlich erscheinenden Normen im Hinblick auf das Postulat der Ausstellung, "dass Eingriffe in die Menschenrechte von Intersexuellen kein individuelles, sondern ein gesamtgesellschaftliches Problem sind, das alle angeht."
This paper examines the emergence of non-normative sexual orientations in contemporary Indonesian films. Unlike the representation of sexuality in New Order Indonesian films, which centred on the female reproductive role and presented the nation as constructed of heterosexual families rather than individual citizens, a number of 200()s Indonesian films can be seen as negotiations of new understandings of sexual diversity and individual subjectivity. These films represent a challenge to monolithic and essentialist constructions of sexuality in Indonesia, and portray characters and situations in ways that seem to fulfil the five selection criteria which Griffin and Benshoff (2006) apply to the definition of 'queer' cinema. As such, they are indicative of a paradigm shift in Indonesian cinema, which needs to be studied in association with broader patterns of social and political change. The paper describes three categories in the representation of sexual minorities in contemporary Indonesian films. The first category is represented by films such as Arisanl and , Gie, which portray characters and situations deal with male homosexual subjectivity or homoeroticism. The second category concerns films of this type that portray female characters, such as Detik Terakhirand TentangDia. In the third category are films which depict waria (male to female transgender characters) and transsexuals, represented by Panggil Aku Puspa and Realita Cinta dan Rock n Roll. The paper examines these films in the light of Boellstorff's (2005) study of gay and lesbi communities and subjectivities in Indonesia, as a way of situating them in a larger cultural picture. It suggests that the makers of these films are attempting to change the perception of their audiences about non-normative sexualities, and investigates the strategic devices used by the film makers to subvert censorship codes and social taboos in a country where homosexual behaviour is accommodated, but homosexual identities remain outside the range of socially and culturally-sanctioned subjectivities.
The mission of the Colorado State University Journal of Student Affairs is to develop and produce a scholarly publication that reflects current national and international education issues and the professional interests of student affairs practitioners. Specifically, the Journal provides an opportunity for the publication of articles by current students, alumni, faculty, and associates of the Student Affairs in Higher Education graduate program at Colorado State University. Articles are submitted in the fall and the Journal is published mid-spring. https://sahe.colostate.edu/journal/journal-board-archives/. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Undocumented student access to higher education: overview of state and federal legislation / Christina A. Wright Fields -- Disruptive behavior disorders: precursors to problems for college students / Rachel L. Goold -- Examining the influence of residential college participation on student academic success and persistence / Tyler Crisman -- Battlefields and book bags: campus ecology's effect on student veterans / Kristyn M. Emmer -- Effects of gender and Facebook use on the development of mature interpersonal relationships / Ryan C. Masin, John D. Foubert -- Helping honors students choose college majors / Ingrid Davidson -- Depression and suicide prevention in Indian Country / Tiffani N. Kelly -- Exploring the use of evidence in resource allocation: towards a framework for practice / Marilee J. Bresciani, Benjamin Gillig, Mark Tucker, Matthew R. Evrard, Lauren Weiner, Lisa McCully -- The transgender student: struggles presented by a college experience / Carter E. Gilbert -- Examining the roles of seniority and hierarchy in perceived leadership competence and confidence in undergraduate student organizations / Dana R. Glink, Kathryn E. DiGiulio, Joseph G. Gasienica, Alex J. Romine, David M. Rosch -- The first-year commuter: impacts of residency and involvement on the university transition / Niamh C. O'Shea -- Circular framing: a model for applying Bolman and Deal's four frames in student affairs administration / Rishi Sriram, Jesse Hines Farley -- The isomorphic importance of amateurism in intercollegiate athletics / Carl Mehta -- Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders: examining symptoms and implications for student affairs practitioners / Emma Hart, Maria R. Marinucci -- Academic international field experiences in student affairs / Olivia Des Chenes, Spencer Ellis. ; Annual.
Communication presented to international meetings "The body and law. From the beginning to the end of life" AIECI. Marseille 23-24 September 2005. The metaphor of the renaissance is sometimes used to refer to transsexualisation. Based on this qualification, the article explores the transition and reflects its conceptualisation in our society. The description of the transsexual pathway thus reveals that the claim for a sex registration other than that received at birth is conceived as a significant change of identity, as it is envisaged as the arrival of a new person in the world. That change can, moreover, be achieved only gradually in the context of a socially organised procedure and only if it is used as a therapeutic act complying with sex standards. Wishing and undertaking a change in the gender of the summons is therefore a commitment to seek relief from a state of disorder of identity, recognition of sex norms and reference to them in order to be able to transform one's body; it is a chance to develop in a medical and judicial pathway that makes time a condition for the completion and success of the company. ; The metaphor of rebirth is sometimes used to evoke the transsexual transition. From this qualification, the article investigates the transition and reports on its conceptualization in our society. The description of the transsexual process reveals that the claim of belonging to an ascribed gender other than the one received at birth, is conceived as a consequent identity change: a new being comes into the world. Moreover, this change can be only realized in the framework of a gradually medical and legal protocol which respects carefully gender norms. In consequence to begin a transsexual transition means translating the desire of transformation in terms of identity trouble and asking for its treatment; signifies testifying to recognize the gender norms and refering to them for the body transformation; and also means engaging in a medical and legal journey which considers temporality as the condition ...
