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The social construction of identity in a multi-cultural setting becomes more intricate within the context of marginalized sexual identities and family interactions, dynamics, and roles. The research focused on the construction and reconstruction of identities of self-identified gay men within their families utilizing phenomenology as the theoretical underpinning to describe and analyze lived experiences. Qualitative research was employed utilizing one-on-one semistructured interview questions. A total of 33 respondents were interviewed and data were recorded and transcribed. Data was analyzed utilizing a content analysis matrix for thematic and experiential construction and reconstruction of identity within family relationships and dynamics. Mixed results were found in terms of family expectations, family structure, family dynamics, family roles, family expectations, and family objections based on the identity of the gay respondents. Flexibility in adjustment to the sexual identity of the respondents was sometimes obstructed by family obligations, but also reflected acceptance and family affection. Cultural expectations of maintaining the "face" of the family were also taken into consideration by respondents when constructing their identities. The family is important in the construction of sexual identity in terms of acceptance and integration into familial roles. As roles are played out and expectations are met, a certain flexibility is evident in how families interact with gay male family members. Dynamics become more nuanced and require more intersubjective clarification and creation. While not reflective of Malaysian society in its entirety, the data indicates that change is occurring in terms of acceptance and integration of gay men within ethnic familial contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines how LGBTQ individuals in Beirut articulate discourses of progress, modernity, and exceptionalism in light of the regional geopolitical situation. While transnational discourses portray Beirut as an open and cosmopolitan city in the Arab World, the study focuses on how LGBTQ individuals engage with and negotiate these discourses in their everyday lives. The author examines the gap between discourses of Beiruti openness and exceptionalism, and the realities of exclusion experienced by LGBTQ individuals in Beirut. Focusing on unequal access to space, the author asks, for whom is Beirut cosmopolitan and gay-friendly? Drawing on ethnographic observations and 20 life-history interviews with LGBTQ individuals in Beirut, the author finds that LGBTQ individuals in Beirut create relational understandings of modernity and cosmopolitanism that situate Beirut in relation to other Arab cities, rather than just Euro-American cities. In addition, gender normativity and class shape LGBTQ individuals' access to several types of spaces. Finally, it is suggested that scholars must be attentive to celebratory discourses of exceptionalism and cosmopolitanism of places, and conceptualize them as relational and contextual designations which obscure inequalities that characterize those places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article follows the events at the Auckland Pride parade in February 2015, where protesters from the queer and transgender prison abolitionist group No Pride in Prisons attempted to prevent police officers from marching. It contextualises this event within a history of Pride and gay liberation in Aotearoa, finding that the politics, or lack thereof, of Pride have changed over time. It is proposed that the contemporary iteration of Auckland Pride, as it usually occurs, exists as a homonormative event that does not challenge the current structures of domination. Auckland Pride is, following Jacques Rancière, an example of "consensus democracy." However, it is argued that this particular parade was exceptional because it, unlike many other Pride parades, had a moment of politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The author discusses aspects of research, validity, and idea of freedom of speech in art education. Topics include articles about academic research from the periodical "The Chronicle of Higher Education," lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) equality, and Alice Goffman's 2014 book "On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City."

The article focuses on parliamentary report on Canada related to development of legislation by the parliament of Canada. Topics discussed include development of several legislative amendments by the Parliament by the Senate of Canada, involvement of several parliamentary committees of Canada such as Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights for Supreme Court justices nomination, and approval of several legislative bills such as the Bill 103 for improvement of transgender conditions.

This research examined how construal level and the salience of moral values affect relationships between political ideology and moral reactions to same-sex issues. In Study 1 (N = 170), political conservatism was a stronger predictor of moral reactions to physical intimacy between a male same-sex couple (vs. an opposite-sex couple). However, this was only true among participants induced to adopt an abstract (vs. concrete) construal level. Study 2 (N = 152) found political conservatism was a stronger predictor of moral negativity to physical intimacy between men when the idea of moral purity (vs. fairness) was made salient. However, this effect only occurred among participants induced to adopt an abstract (vs. concrete) level of mental construal. The implications of this research for better understanding when socialcognitive factors interact with political ideology to influence moral reactions toward same-sex social policy issues are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the development of second wave feminism and the emergence of an increasingly visible and articulate community of lesbians within feminist circles in the 1970s, an influential strand of radical feminism began to advocate separatism as a political strategy for lesbians. Simultaneously, the Australian women’s movement was opening up a space in which it was possible to acknowledge the dual role of some women as lesbians and as mothers, and a small minority of lesbians were using artificial insemination and other methods to conceive children in the context of lesbian relationships. The co-existence of these two strands of lesbian feminist thought gave rise to a new issue: that of the place of the boy-child in lesbian feminist ideology and communities. Drawing on oral history interviews and archival research, this article explores the debate about boy children in Australian lesbian feminist circles in the 1970s and 1980s. A range of views were expressed, from the suggestion that boy children presented an opportunity to raise a new generation of pro-feminist men, to the view that the boy child threatened women’s autonomy and need for sisterhood. This article traces the development of these arguments and considers the impact of the debate on the mothers of boys, their boy-children and the broader lesbian feminist community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of life as a lesbian person in society.

The article focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) studies relating to work in music education and developments in musicology in the U.S. Topics discussed include recognition of LGBTQ students in the contexts of elementary and secondary education, orientation to LGBTQ studies and queer theory, and issues on school climate, student safety and harassment or bullying within lived experiences of inservice teachers in various stages of coming out or not.

This review explores how critical autoethnography as a qualitative research tool can be used to capture some of the social and material realities embedded in the processes of embodiment and performance and its implication for queer of color critique. Using African immigrant queer identity performances as an example, I elaborate how autoethnography can be used to highlight multiple, complex and sometimes contradictory identity negotiation strategies used by African queer migrants to navigate simultaneous systems of privilege and oppression. I show that identities of African queer migrants are ongoing processes riddled with constant negotiation and re-negotiation with systems with power which autoethnography can be used to illuminate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Utilizing performative writing to interrogate the experiences of a queer Xicano male in the discipline of Communication Studies, this essay argues for specificity in dialogue with specificity to disrupt dominant and/or normalized power relations in Queer of Color Critique (QOCC) and beyond. After defining QOCC, the potentiality of jotería critique is offered as a decolonial queer praxis that focuses on hybridity, radical interconnectedness, and nonheteronormative mestiza/o sexual and gender subjectivities. Further, by embracing the ambiguities of hybridity and the politics of radical interconnectedness, Jotería communication studies is a nascent sub-discipline that works in the borderlands between the academic, the artistic, and the activist world, which contributes to and challenges the greater discipline to disrupt the multiple logics of the center in emancipatory, transformative, and embodied forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the lack literary themes in youth adult literature (YAL) related to issues of LGBT people, such as social inequalities, gender representation, and ostracism and its acceptance.

A reliability generalization was conducted on studies that reported use of the Attitudes toward Lesbians and Gay Men (ATLG) scale, published between 1994 and 2013. For inclusion in this meta-analysis, each study had to have reported a Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient for its sample. Other variables of interest, such as ethnicity and version of the ATLG (e.g., 20-items versus 10-items), were assessed to determine whether they affected the reliability of scores produced by the ALTG when administered to a particular sample. The reliability scores produced by the ATLG ranged from .82 to .96 with an average of .91 (SD = .03); therefore, all of the reported reliability scores for this instrument were in the acceptable to excellent range. A significant difference was found in total reliability scores for predominantly Caucasian versus predominantly non-Caucasian samples, with the former having higher scores (M = .93, SD = .03 vs. M = .86, SD = .03). Additionally, mean scores on the Attitudes toward Lesbians (ATL) subscale was negatively correlated to reliability scores for the ATL scale, indicating individuals with negative attitudes towards lesbians responded less consistently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the affective dimensions of social phenomena in developing social justice-oriented perspectives and practices and building static structures of social justice and the aspects of social transformation for the LGBT people.

The article provides information on the National Art Education Association's (NAEA) stance on human rights issues in the United States. It discusses "Creative Activity as a Human Right," the organization's concept designed to use the arts to identify and advocate social divisions and social unrest related to the LGBTQ community and communities of color.

The article discusses the negative effect of stigma, discrimination, and the health care system on the health of gender and sexual minorities. Topics discussed include the ways in which stigma impacts LGBTQ health and contributes to health disparities, the aspects of the U.S. health system that contribute to disparities in access and care, and the legislative attempts to reduce the disparities in health access. It suggests changes that could reduce and prevent health disparities.

This article discusses the social conditions experienced by lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual, intersex, and questioning (LGBTIQ) people in the 21st century. The author comments on the violence, discrimination, abuse, and other crimes directed towards this group. She also examines the development and implementation of a support network for LGBTIQ people, known as Hermes, which resolves to fight discrimination and social stigmas related to sexual orientation and identity. Conferences and workshops regarding this topic throughout 2012 and 2013 are also highlighted.

The article presents a study which examined the spoken language and discourse used by gay men in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The language features the use of -i suffixing and kh-prefixing, taboo terms, feminine personal pronouns and female names in normal conversation and homophobic lexical words. The distinct language created by gay men fosters a sense of community, social bonding and freedom of expression.

While the past decade shows dramatic progress in tolerance, acceptance, and support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) people/rights in the United States, this population remains underserved. Statistics on LGBTQ youth suicide remain troublingly high; yet, when LGBTQ youth attend schools with Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs), open faculty support, anti-bullying programs and policies, and LGBTQ-inclusive curricula, they fully integrate and avoid many of the stresses and negative safety/health consequences of homophobia (Kosciw, Greytak, Diaz, Bartkiewicz, Boesen, & Palmer, 2012, p. 6). An annual National Art Education Association Convention ensemble performance--Big Gay Church--examines the material, physical, psychological, and spiritual impact of Conservative, fundamentalist, anti-LGBTQ religious doctrine in creating and maintaining the underserved, marginalized status of the LGBTQ community in the US. Big Gay Church advocates and demonstrates the power of creative, collaborative, arts- and inquiry-based scholarship for interrogating discrimination and injustice, accepting agency, and imagining and enacting more equitable possibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Qualitative researchers have begun to analyze narratives of individuals' experiences with coming out in order to explore the social influences that affect these processes. However, most studies on coming out are based on the assumption that "coming out" has a singular shared meaning. The present study is centered on challenging this very assumption by taking a constructivist grounded theory approach to exploring the meaning of coming out for 30 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) individuals via open-ended interviews. Coming out does not have a universal meaning among LGBQ persons; rather, it varies on the basis of individuals' experiences, social environment, and personal beliefs and values. All 30 participants in the current study agree that coming out is a transformative process and an important element in identity formation and maintenance, thus challenging the notion that coming out is no longer a relevant concept. For some participants coming out is more of a personal journey of self-affirmation, while for others it is about the sharing of their sexuality with others - and oftentimes a combination of these two characteristics. Implications for future research on coming out are included. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses Sydney, Australia from the 1970s to the 2000s as a case-study for the changing social conditions experienced by gay men such as James Riviera, Anthony Schembri, and a man named Dave. Topics include the Sydney Gay Liberation political activism organization, the Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby organization, and the impact of HIV viruses on the gay community.

This article documents and reflects on making an autobiographical performance piece with a black South African lesbian performer. The occurrence of ‘corrective rape’ amongst lesbians in South Africa, particularly black lesbians, is alarmingly high. This particular performer approached me about facilitating the making of a work that drew on her biography. She felt the need for her story, as a black lesbian, to be heard and taken seriously. She felt the need, through the telling of her story, to celebrate her sexuality in the light of the stigma attached to being a lesbian in South Africa that often leads to ‘corrective rape.’ The process of making the work engaged methods of mapping that involved creating a physical life-sized map of the body as well as utilising the Destructuring aspect of Fitzmaurice Voicework® as a way of mapping the breath in the body and engaging the imagination in the remembering of stories that reside in the soma of the performer. The article explores how the suggested methodology, i.e. that of somatic mapping, might assist the performer in dealing with, and expressing freedom from, the hetero-normative ideas around the body and sexuality. I investigate how this methodology can potentially assist the exploration of the body's story as it intersects with the personal and political body through the notion of destructuring and restructuring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on the public recognition of gay people and relationships. It proposes a new theoretical framework called respectable queerness to understand the issue, which suggest recognition of respectable social identity of gay people and relationships. It highlights the problems posed by the framework, which include fuelling moralism, dissonance between one's public and private selves, and entrenching divisions between LGBT constituencies. It discusses on contemporary rise of respectability, especially during the onset of AIDS in the ealry 1980s and advent of the gay market during the 1990s.

The article focuses on a passport policy implemented by the U.S. Department of State which allows transgender people to change their gender marker on their Consular Certificates of Birth Abroad and passports. Transgender individuals obtain federally-issued government identification under the passport policy. It mentions the features which must be exhibited to define a certain person is a transgender such as the sexual reassignment surgery and an outline on what makes someone transgender.

This article considers narratives of transition experiences of a group of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) young people in Malta. The article draws on Goffman's concept of stigma and uses this to explore transitions in a society that retains some traditional characteristics, particularly the code of honour and shame, although mediated by aspects of modernity. Interviews were undertaken with 15 young people with the goal of producing narratives. The article analyses the experience of stigma, its effects and how young people manage its consequences. It concludes by drawing attention to the pervasive nature of stigma and the importance of structure, agency and reflexivity in youth transitions. In particular stigma remains an important feature of societies in which hetero-normative sexuality remains dominant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is a critique of discourse focused on at-risk behaviour and homophobic bullying. The paper argues that conversations around homophobic bullying must include discussions of doing equity and achieving social justice,in which the ultimate goal of constructing safe schools is achieved through the utter transformation of school culture. Failure to do anything less continues to license homophobia and makes predictable and inevitable violence against queer youth. This study employed a series of interviews with sexual minority students and teachers combined with observations in the field, documenting and critically inquiring intothe effectiveness of anti-harassment policies and safe school legislation to address the problem of bullying of sexual minority students in Canadian high schools. The study concludes that the effectiveness of legislation and polices, as well as the larger goal of doing equity and achieving social justice in schools, is impacted by how a school conceptualizesand implements "safety".This study was supported by the Law Foundation of British Columbia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on the contributions of Rebecca Patterson in recognizing the role of women in the American society. It discusses the works and efforts of Patterson in showing the society the importance of women through her biographical works about Emily Dickinson, revealing Dickinson's homosexuality. However, Patterson's works are criticized not by lesbians but by the society who judges the lesbian desire. Moreover, Patterson's works have pushed women to the forefront of public debate.

A British lesbian couple's petition to have their Canadian marriage recognised as a marriage in England has prompted interesting discussions about the current status and meaning of marriage, but reinforces conservative ideas about the primacy of marriage over all other relationships and may lead to renewed disadvantage for other family forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the "Pacte civil de solidarité" (PACS) legislation in France, passed in 1999 to ensure civil union status for all couples who want it, irrespective of the sex of the partners. The author notes that PACS is not as effective for same-sex couples as similar legislation in other Western countries, and it does not allow same-sex couples to adopt. She discusses pending legislation and the views of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and philosopher Sylviane Agacinski.