Queer news/research

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

GLBTI Rights Worldwide Map

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.

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