Queer news/research
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- Visit the News archive for older articles
- Visit HOT News for queer issues currently raging in Australia/NZ
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Queer News Sites
- UP-TO-DATE Info on the Australian political front: Rodney Croome's blog -- Info on Rodney Croome -- See also Australian Coalition for Equality
- MCV - Local Queer newspaper
- UK Gay News World Wide Coverage of news events
- Peter Tatchell's website- Activism and world news from the well-known gay/human rights activist
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Education-related News
- See News archive for previous 2007-08 articles
- USA - No hate in triple murder says prosecutor --Spaceadmin 09:14, 3 May 2008 (EST)
- USA - Gay safe-space pamphlet sparks religious debate in university --Spaceadmin 09:09, 3 May 2008 (EST)
- USA - Florida Governor signs anti-bullying bill --Spaceadmin 08:54, 3 May 2008 (EST)
- Melbourne - Saint ace wants gay jibes banned --Spaceadmin 08:47, 3 May 2008 (EST)
- USA - A journey of healing - Judy Shepard speaks about the death of her son, Mathhew --Spaceadmin 05:42, 23 April 2008 (EST)
- USA - Mother 'outraged' at teacher's discussion of homosexuality--Spaceadmin 05:33, 23 April 2008 (EST)
- UK- Anti-homophobia books removed from schools --Spaceadmin 09:13, 13 April 2008 (EST)
- Australia - Anglican Church Grammar School Bans Gay Partners at Formal --Spaceadmin 08:50, 13 April 2008 (EST)
- USA - New Children's book about same-sex marriage --Spaceadmin 09:01, 12 April 2008 (EST)
- USA - Kids' Dress up Day draws Christian ire --Spaceadmin 09:01, 12 April 2008 (EST)
- USA - Colleges reaching out to Gay, Lesbian and Transgender students --Spaceadmin 09:01, 12 April 2008 (EST)
- UK - More boys bullied than girls about their sexuality --Spaceadmin 18:27, 2 April 2008 (EST)
- UK - Teachers vote to send delegation to confront homophobia in Jamaica --Spaceadmin 07:47, 27 March 2008 (EST)
- USA - Anti-Bullying Policy moves forward in Georgia --Spaceadmin 07:32, 27 March 2008 (EST)
- USA - This article is so GAY --Spaceadmin 07:31, 27 March 2008 (EST)
- Australia - Give us Mercy from this Ministry --Spaceadmin 07:28, 27 March 2008 (EST)
- Scotland - Death sentence for gay Syrian teenager and Sanctuary for Yakob and Gay refugees have difficulty proving they're gay --Spaceadmin 09:10, 21 March 2008 (EST)
- Australia/world - Where homophobia is the letter of the law --Spaceadmin 09:10, 21 March 2008 (EST)
- UK/Iran - Complicity in Iran's anti-gay stance --Spaceadmin 09:10, 21 March 2008 (EST)
- Israel - 5 year old boy registered with two fathers --Spaceadmin 09:10, 21 March 2008 (EST)
- Israel - US Film on Transgendered Children receives media award --Spaceadmin 09:10, 21 March 2008 (EST)
- UK - How 'gay' became children's insult of choice --Spaceadmin 09:10, 21 March 2008 (EST)
- Italy - Gay Girl Guides --Spaceadmin 09:10, 21 March 2008 (EST)
- Canada - The impact of bullying --Spaceadmin 09:10, 21 March 2008 (EST)
- Australia - At the Crossroads - Independent schools, religion and sexuality --Spaceadmin 08:52, 21 March 2008 (EST)
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Queer Research - History - Indepth Features
Queer research websites
- Journal of gay and lesbian issues in education - Online Access available through RMIT Library
- Gay and Lesbian Review worldwide
- GLQ
- International Journal of Transgenderism Articles up to 2002.
Bullying and Violence
- Israel - Monument to Gay Holocaust
- USA - A journey of healing - Judy Shepard speaks about the death of her son, Mathhew
- UK - More boys bullied about their sexuality - Liverpool City Council Bullying Audit 2007; Stormbreak Research and Consultancy; report commissioned by Liverpool City Council and Stonewall, The School Report 2007.
- Iraq - New disappearances of gays - sexual cleansing
- UK - Fairytale of Hypocrites - Peter Tatchell discusses the use of term 'faggot' arguing that it's considered somewhat different to other terms of derision.
- USA - Hate Crimes in the USA - Judy Shepard speaks out
- Middle East - Gay Muslim love: A Jihad for Love
- USA - Domestic Violence in same-sex relationships - Eric Houston, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Chicago. This study found that "gay men experience partner abuse at almost the same rate as women in heterosexual relationships."
- South Africa - We are forced to live in fear, Unisa Centre for Applied Psychology in collaboration with gay and lesbian organisations. Study that shows rape and sexual abuse of gay men is increasing, while HIV prevalence among black lesbians is high.
- USA - Anti-gay slurs hurt heterosexuals too - V. Paul Poteat & Dorothy L. Espelage, University of Illinois. Study of 143 seventh graders that examined the extent they were the target of anti-gay name-calling over a 1-week period.
- USA - Victimization for Sexual Orientation Increases Suicidal Behaviour in College Students - Heather Murphy, University of Washington researcher (Science Daily) *If you need someone to talk to contact Lifeline or Gay and Lesbian Switchboard
- Europe/N. America - 2007 - Hate Crimes Survey This report focuses on anti-semitic and other racist and religiously-motivated violence as well as violence motivated by biases based on gender, disability, and sexual orientation. Here's an article on the report.
- Australia - School's Out: Homosexuality, Bullying and Suicide - H. Gilchrist, G. Howarth & G. Sullivan, University of Sydney. This is a 2003 AARE Conference Paper. If you need someone to talk to contact Lifeline or Gay and Lesbian Switchboard
- USA - Dancehall Hate in City Park
- USA - Anti-gay bias crimes & Anti-gay hate crimes spread wider than previous estimates Gregory Herek, University of California, 2007.
- Iraq - Life in Iraq for gays and Gays living in the shadows of new Iraq
Disability
- Melbourne - Just don't call me 'disabled'
Discrimination
- USA - Interview with gay service-man who work on a nuclear aircraft carrier
- USA - Integrity - The LGBT Foreign Policy Project - Centred around Human Rights for LGBT people across the world
- USA - Ageism the other phobia
- USA - Gay soldier's words breaking silence and Gay soldier speaks out
- Morocco - [Morocco Life in Morocco
- Russia - Life in Russia in 2007
- UK - Nearly a third of HIV positive people in London report discrimination - Study by London’s City University and the Centre for the Study of Sexual Health and HIV at Homerton University Hospital
- Iraq - Being gay in Iraq
- UK - Our Gay Past: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on the Criminalisation of Sexual Deviance - Linda McCann
- Australia - GLBTI stories of discrimination - Collected by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
- Australia - On the brink of Schism - Queer Ministers within the Anglican Church speak out. * Also see Coming Out in Church
- USA - Aging and Gay and Facing Prejudice
- Scotland - Queer and Now - Looking back over teenage years
- USA/Europe - For the Bible tells me so
- Africa - Out in Africa
- USA - Legal in unlikely places - A Newsweek Indepth Feature
- UK - The Wolfenden Report - 50 years ago (1957) the Wolfenden Report was released in the UK. It eventually lead to the decriminalisation of Homosexuality in Britain. ALSO - Read about Lord Wolfenden and an article on the report * See also - Free the buggers and A new life for gay people in Britain began on that day
- USA -The upsurge in global gay politics
- USA - Heterosexism in Education Lee Lacuzzi, Masters of Science in Special Education, Portland State University, 2006
- UK - An article about Brian Epstein, Joe Orton and Joe Meek - three men persecuted for their homosexuality who died in 1967 - the year the stigma was supposed to be lifted
- Africa - Crises across Africa
- USA - Gay Refugees seek Asylum in US - Audio
- Wales, UK - 40 Years after the decriminalisation of homosexuality - gay men in Wales look back See also Mayor of London - Ken Livingstone's speech marking this historical milestone See also Fortieth anniversary of legal gay sex? In reality make that 10 or even four
- USA - History of Sodomy Laws - and their repealing in the USA
- Australia - Research into Ageing and Discrimination Anti Discrimination Board - NSW
- Australia - Elderly gays and lesbians and aged care in Australia, 2006, Jo Harrison and Damien W Riggs, University of South Australia
- Iraq - Life in Iraq for gays
Education
- PhD - Knowledge and attitudes of preservice teachers towards students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered - Daniel Morgan, 2003.
- USA - Safe Schools: A look at efforts to make schools safer for LGBT students - Report on what's happening in Seattle and Michigan.
Health and Well-being
- Canada - Sexual Preference Affects Healthcare - Canadian Community Health Survey 2003-2005
- USA - AIDS patients face downside of living
- USA - Gay seniors rely on friends when ill -Arnold H. Grossman and Eliza Dragowski of New York University, and Anthony D'Augelli of Pennsylvania State University
- USA - Data split on the role of circumcision in reducing HIV infection rates - Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
- USA - Doctor saw AIDS patients when others wouldn't
- Uganda - Help Africa's gay men: You'll save their women too
- USA - Veteran Affairs memo on how to treat Trans veterans
- Australia - How to 'Come Out' at work
- USA - Study of sexual practices of former high-school American Football players - Dr Eric Anderson, University of Bath, UK.
- USA - Out of the Corporate Closet - Being Out in the Workplace
- Empowering men who have sex with men to fight AIDS
- Australia - "Why Lesbian Health?" - Anne Mitchell, Gay and Lesbian Health Victoria
- Australia - Getting inside the mix - Karen Lambert, University of Western Sydney. This is a 2003 AARE Conference Paper exploring the notion of 'sense of place' for lesbians.
- NZ - Study of 2269 New Zealand - GLBTI people
Historical - Notable Figures and Events
- Minsk - Rainbow Flag flies for first time
- Nepal - Sunil Pant - First openly gay parliamentarian in Nepal
- Victoria, Australia - Midsumma speaks of battles won and of battles ahead --Spaceadmin 08:03, 4 February 2008 (EST)
- UK - LGBT History site - South West Peninsula Heritage Project, Scotland
- USA - First U.S soldier discharged for homosexuality - Lieutenant Gotthold Frederick Enslin, 1778.
- Roman Empire - Hadrian - New Exhibition
- UK - Peter Tatchell - Human Rights Activist
- USA - The story of transgender athlete - Renee Richards
- USA - Billie Jean King - Tennis Player
- Canada - Lesbian author and author, Jane Rule dies at 76
- USA - Walt Whitman - Poet
- USA - Countee Cullen - Poet
- USA - Robert Mapplethorpe
- Australia - Australia's first openly gay cabinet minister - Penny Wong
- USA -Getting Queer Straight - An interview with Felice Picano
Homophobia - Heteronormativity
- UK - Homophobia in the social care sector *Also read the report written by Stonewall - UK Gay Rights Group
- Australia - Homophobia kills Alastair Lawrie
- Australia - Why Anti-Homophobia Education? Teachers' Perspectives - Kerry Robinson and Tania Ferfolja, University of Western Sydney. This is a 2003 AARE Conference Paper.
- UK - Officers' homophobia hampered murder investigations - Scotland Yard, UK
- Australia - Disrupting Heteronormativity: What about the girls? - Emma Charlton, University of Queensland. This is a 2004 AARE Conference Paper.
Identity
- USA - Bisexuality goes both ways - Opinion piece
- USA - Study of teen identity and knowledge about sex - Dr. Jean-Yves Frappier, Adolescent Medicine Division at Sainte-Justine University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada
- Women's sexuality - fluid - Study by Lisa Diamond, University of Utah.
- USA - Bisexuality is an identity, not a phase - New research- Lisa Diamond, University of Utah --Spaceadmin 18:12, 20 January 2008 (EST)
Queer Parenting and Queer Parents
- Netherlands -Dutch Study: Lesbian parents just as good
- Australia - Dads' coming out
- Canada - Same-sex parent families - Canada Department of Justice Report
Relationships
- Young Gay Marriage - An article following a number of gay male couples who marry in the USA - BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS, New York Times
- Tasmania's Relationship Registries - What they are - What they encompass - What they are not - Dispelling the Myths - Rodney Croome
- The love that will finally speak its name - An 88 year old lesbian writes about her long time love in Time Magazine
- Are civil unions a 600 year tradition - Journal of Modern History - September 2007.
- USA - Don't look gay: Why American men are afraid of intimacy with each other John Ibson, Cal State Fullerton, 2007.
- Israel - Sex and struggle in a heated city - Bubbles - a new Israeli film
Rights
Safe and Supportive Environments
- UK - Changing times for gays in the city - Being 'out' in the workplace
- USA - Article on the decline of gay community venues
- UK - Is your prospective employer a diversity champion? - Starting Out - A Guide produced by Stonewall UK
- USA - Corporate Equality - How Inclusive is Corporate America?
- Australia -I'm just a Home Economics Teacher. Does Discipline background impact on a teacher's ability to affirm and include gender and sexual diversity? Debbie Ollis. This is a 2004 AARE Conference Paper.
- USA Making libraries queer friendly Bharat Mehra, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee and Donna Braquet, Life Sciences Librarian, Hodges Library, University of Tennessee.
- USA - The possibility of gay teachers for young children James R King, University of South Florida, 2004
- UK - "City is gay, friendly and proud" - Joslin Rowe Interesting article with implications for the gathering of demographic information at RMIT
Sex
- USA - Study of teen identity and knowledge about sex - Dr. Jean-Yves Frappier, Adolescent Medicine Division at Sainte-Justine University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada
- India - Gay Male Sex Workers play Russian Roulette with HIV
- USA - Moral prescriptions are harming our children - Rob Teixeira is a doctoral student whose research explores the intersection of social, moral and sexual regulation, the contested nature of childhood and its implications for queer social worlds.
- USA - America's toe-tapping menace Recent article reporting on a 1970's dissertation by Laud Humphreys on beat sex
- NZ - Caution - This DVD depicts unsafe sex
- Global Sex Survey - Conducted by Durex - with over 30K participants worldwide
Trans and Intersex
- Australia - Tranznation - NEW National Survey of 253 transgender people in Australia and New Zealand - Read it here
- USA - Veteran Affairs memo on how to treat Trans veterans
- The struggles of homeless Trans youth
- My Secret Self - American '60 Minutes' show on Trans-children
- Del LaGrace Volcano - An interview - "I am intersex and intersectional. I am a gender variant visual artist..."
- Intersex - The space between the genders - An article from Cosmos, A Science magazine
- USA - Transgendered children - Indepth feature
- USA - Toilets become Gender Identity Battleground - In depth article
- Australia - Sex Matters in School Felicity Haynes, University of Western Australia, 1999.
- Australia - Censorship in Australia
- USA - Gays in comics- Interviews with comic creators - Part 2, Part 3 2007
- Australia - The construction of psychopathology and sexualities in young people 2003, AARE Paper.
