ABSTRACT “Cross-over” books are those that can be read beyond the intended audience. For example, books intended for students can also inform parents and teachers. For educators in middle and high schools, such books about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues can be particularly useful. This review highlights five such books, two written for educators, two for teenagers, and one for parents. All five can be productively read by all three audiences.
{"title":"“Cross-Over” Books Provide GLBT Information for Educators, Parents, and Students","authors":"D. R. Walling","doi":"10.1300/J367V02N04_05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J367V02N04_05","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT “Cross-over” books are those that can be read beyond the intended audience. For example, books intended for students can also inform parents and teachers. For educators in middle and high schools, such books about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues can be particularly useful. This review highlights five such books, two written for educators, two for teenagers, and one for parents. All five can be productively read by all three audiences.","PeriodicalId":213902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126725612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Although major strides toward the inclusion of GLBT images in North American libraries have indeed been achieved, censorship is alive and well where children’s literature is concerned. Recent reports in Texas indicate that a library director has been subject to acts of criminal mischief for stocking positive-themed gay literature on library shelves (“Censorship Roundup,” 2004). In Alaska, a poster exhibit about gay elected officials raising no opposition while on display in district high schools has attracted hostility from local parents when mounted at the library (Aurand, 2004). And in South Dakota, Governor Mike Rounds demanded the shut down of a state library website for teens in order to remove “controversial” links (McCaffrey, 2004). Viewed against a backdrop in which these three states are among the top ten, in which gay couples are likely to have children (Gilgoff, 2004), it is plain to see that libraries have become a major battleground for the free flow of information about and for GLBTQ children and families. Fortunately, a new video resource, entitled Reaching Out: Library Services for GLBT&Q Teens (Lynne Barnes, Producer/Director, 2004), provides a cross-sectional examination of this debate and offers techniques for librarians to “reach out” to GLBTQ audiences. The educational video, only 16 minutes in length, presents the perspectives of youth, writers and librarians on this most important issue. It begins as GLBTQ students share their experiences of verbal abuse, severe isolation, and the challenges of staying in school. These contributions are juxtaposed against their perceptions of the role libraries
{"title":"United States: Reaching Out with Library Services for GLBTQ Teens","authors":"J. Carter","doi":"10.1300/J367V02N04_08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J367V02N04_08","url":null,"abstract":"Although major strides toward the inclusion of GLBT images in North American libraries have indeed been achieved, censorship is alive and well where children’s literature is concerned. Recent reports in Texas indicate that a library director has been subject to acts of criminal mischief for stocking positive-themed gay literature on library shelves (“Censorship Roundup,” 2004). In Alaska, a poster exhibit about gay elected officials raising no opposition while on display in district high schools has attracted hostility from local parents when mounted at the library (Aurand, 2004). And in South Dakota, Governor Mike Rounds demanded the shut down of a state library website for teens in order to remove “controversial” links (McCaffrey, 2004). Viewed against a backdrop in which these three states are among the top ten, in which gay couples are likely to have children (Gilgoff, 2004), it is plain to see that libraries have become a major battleground for the free flow of information about and for GLBTQ children and families. Fortunately, a new video resource, entitled Reaching Out: Library Services for GLBT&Q Teens (Lynne Barnes, Producer/Director, 2004), provides a cross-sectional examination of this debate and offers techniques for librarians to “reach out” to GLBTQ audiences. The educational video, only 16 minutes in length, presents the perspectives of youth, writers and librarians on this most important issue. It begins as GLBTQ students share their experiences of verbal abuse, severe isolation, and the challenges of staying in school. These contributions are juxtaposed against their perceptions of the role libraries","PeriodicalId":213902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127342899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT The Lexicon, published in Italy under the auspices of the Papal Council for the Family, provides a dictionary of terms (such as gender, homosexuality, and homophobia) that the Vatican has found problematic in their use. This essay discusses implications as well as the consequences if the Lexicon is adopted as a reference textbook by educators or used in parochial and public schools and details Italian activists'challenge to its use and sale. The authors conclude by raising questions on the freedom of speech and the role of education and educators in reducing prejudice and encouraging greater tolerance.
{"title":"Rome, Italy: The Lexicon–An Italian Dictionary of Homophobia Spurs Gay Activism","authors":"Maurizio De Pittà, R. De Santis","doi":"10.1300/J367v02n03_10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J367v02n03_10","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Lexicon, published in Italy under the auspices of the Papal Council for the Family, provides a dictionary of terms (such as gender, homosexuality, and homophobia) that the Vatican has found problematic in their use. This essay discusses implications as well as the consequences if the Lexicon is adopted as a reference textbook by educators or used in parochial and public schools and details Italian activists'challenge to its use and sale. The authors conclude by raising questions on the freedom of speech and the role of education and educators in reducing prejudice and encouraging greater tolerance.","PeriodicalId":213902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education","volume":"257 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125913332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT The study examined mental health outcomes for samesex attracted youth with a Christian background based on their differential internalization of attitudes toward homosexuality and gay issues that are socialized by most major Christian denominations. Data from 339 young men and 56 young women ages 13–25 who participated in the OutProud/Oasis Internet Survey of Queer and Questioning Youth were analyzed. In comparison to those who reported “no conflict” between their religious and sexual identities, youth who did not adopt a lesbian/gay/bisexual identity and believed change in sexual orientation is possible had higher internalized homophobia. Those who left Christianity and had difficulty believing God loves them had both higher internalized homophobia and poorer mental health. Responses from youth who resolved or ignored the conflict were not significantly different from those who experienced no conflict.
{"title":"Reconciling Christianity and Positive Non-Heterosexual Identity in Adolescence, with Implications for Psychological Well-Being","authors":"Geoffrey L. Ream, ritch c. savin-williams","doi":"10.1300/J367v02n03_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J367v02n03_03","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The study examined mental health outcomes for samesex attracted youth with a Christian background based on their differential internalization of attitudes toward homosexuality and gay issues that are socialized by most major Christian denominations. Data from 339 young men and 56 young women ages 13–25 who participated in the OutProud/Oasis Internet Survey of Queer and Questioning Youth were analyzed. In comparison to those who reported “no conflict” between their religious and sexual identities, youth who did not adopt a lesbian/gay/bisexual identity and believed change in sexual orientation is possible had higher internalized homophobia. Those who left Christianity and had difficulty believing God loves them had both higher internalized homophobia and poorer mental health. Responses from youth who resolved or ignored the conflict were not significantly different from those who experienced no conflict.","PeriodicalId":213902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126917317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT The evolution of queer youth programs from 1966 to 2003 has been influenced by sexual ideologies (essentialism, existential constructivism, critical theory, gay liberation, and queer theory) that shape how groups address membership, participants' roles, understandings of sexual identities, coming-out, and ways of contesting homophobia. Group types (given with starting dates) include: radical grassroots groups (1966), advocating revolutionary change, community-based programs (1970s), offering emotional support and social services; school-based counseling programs (1984) countering victimization and harassment induced by homophobia; alternative schools (1985), providing separate and safe educational environments; Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) (circa 1989), encouraging the integration of all students; online forums (1990s) where anonymous dialogue reflects the diverse views of an ever-shifting membership; and at least one anti-homophobia education group (1993), supporting critical and queer discourse. The remarkable history of queer youth groups reveals evolving and divergent understandings of sexuality shaping how youth-as gay liberationists, clients, and activists-have worked to counter isolation, achieve personal or political change, and define sexual identities.
{"title":"Liberationists, Clients, Activists: Queer Youth Organizing, 1966–2003","authors":"S. Cohen","doi":"10.1300/J367v02n03_06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J367v02n03_06","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The evolution of queer youth programs from 1966 to 2003 has been influenced by sexual ideologies (essentialism, existential constructivism, critical theory, gay liberation, and queer theory) that shape how groups address membership, participants' roles, understandings of sexual identities, coming-out, and ways of contesting homophobia. Group types (given with starting dates) include: radical grassroots groups (1966), advocating revolutionary change, community-based programs (1970s), offering emotional support and social services; school-based counseling programs (1984) countering victimization and harassment induced by homophobia; alternative schools (1985), providing separate and safe educational environments; Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) (circa 1989), encouraging the integration of all students; online forums (1990s) where anonymous dialogue reflects the diverse views of an ever-shifting membership; and at least one anti-homophobia education group (1993), supporting critical and queer discourse. The remarkable history of queer youth groups reveals evolving and divergent understandings of sexuality shaping how youth-as gay liberationists, clients, and activists-have worked to counter isolation, achieve personal or political change, and define sexual identities.","PeriodicalId":213902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121534111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
During the mid-to-late 1980s, I researched lesbian and gay youth in what would become Growing up Gay in the South. Focusing on a baker’s dozen of “sexual rebels,” my ethnographic case studies ran the gamut of challenges faced by queer youth (that phrase, of course, was not in vogue at the time). There was Malcolm, who suffered from his father’s physical and verbal abuse, the raging conflict between his father and mother, their religious fanaticism, and the repression of homosexual feelings. Malcolm seriously considered suicide on multiple occasions, as did two-thirds of this sample. Then there was Everetta, who not only attempted suicide but, like forty percent of the sample, also used alcohol and drugs regularly. Harassed by her peers and rebuffed by her would-be sweetheart, she was one of the few to have found a supportive teacher and a knowledgeable school district psychologist. A majority of the entire sample, as adolescents and young adults, reported feeling isolated, fearing being discovered or coming out, having low self-esteem, being harassed because they were “different,” often wishing they were someone else, and wanting to leave home on many an occasion. These data and the young adult narratives that accompany them fit the profile of the “gay teen” that has emerged during the past two de-
{"title":"Queer Praxis","authors":"D. Goltz, Jason Zingsheim","doi":"10.1300/j367v02n03_01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/j367v02n03_01","url":null,"abstract":"During the mid-to-late 1980s, I researched lesbian and gay youth in what would become Growing up Gay in the South. Focusing on a baker’s dozen of “sexual rebels,” my ethnographic case studies ran the gamut of challenges faced by queer youth (that phrase, of course, was not in vogue at the time). There was Malcolm, who suffered from his father’s physical and verbal abuse, the raging conflict between his father and mother, their religious fanaticism, and the repression of homosexual feelings. Malcolm seriously considered suicide on multiple occasions, as did two-thirds of this sample. Then there was Everetta, who not only attempted suicide but, like forty percent of the sample, also used alcohol and drugs regularly. Harassed by her peers and rebuffed by her would-be sweetheart, she was one of the few to have found a supportive teacher and a knowledgeable school district psychologist. A majority of the entire sample, as adolescents and young adults, reported feeling isolated, fearing being discovered or coming out, having low self-esteem, being harassed because they were “different,” often wishing they were someone else, and wanting to leave home on many an occasion. These data and the young adult narratives that accompany them fit the profile of the “gay teen” that has emerged during the past two de-","PeriodicalId":213902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126476630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT Most research about HIV among gay youth focuses on HIV risk behaviors. Many of the studies of gay youth are also driven by a deficit model of development. Scholars have argued that such deficit models may be contributing to their stigmatization while ignoring their resiliency. This article focuses attention on a subset of the sexual stories told by young gay men as part of the Sexual Stores Project. The twenty Anglo and twenty Latino young gay men, ages 18–24, were drawn using a snowball sampling procedure within each ethnic group. Analyses of these semi-structured interviews allow for examinations of these young gay men's safe sex accounts and their experiences in sex education at school. Recommendations for meaningful and relevant HIV prevention sex education guided by “Gay-boy” talk are provided.
{"title":"Safer Sex Stories Told by Young Gay Men: Building on Resiliency Through Gay-Boy Talk","authors":"M. Mutchler, G. Ayala, Katie L. Neith","doi":"10.1300/J367v02n03_04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J367v02n03_04","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Most research about HIV among gay youth focuses on HIV risk behaviors. Many of the studies of gay youth are also driven by a deficit model of development. Scholars have argued that such deficit models may be contributing to their stigmatization while ignoring their resiliency. This article focuses attention on a subset of the sexual stories told by young gay men as part of the Sexual Stores Project. The twenty Anglo and twenty Latino young gay men, ages 18–24, were drawn using a snowball sampling procedure within each ethnic group. Analyses of these semi-structured interviews allow for examinations of these young gay men's safe sex accounts and their experiences in sex education at school. Recommendations for meaningful and relevant HIV prevention sex education guided by “Gay-boy” talk are provided.","PeriodicalId":213902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125243579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT Placed in the current political context of growing liberalization within China, this essay describes the Shanghai Hotline for Sexual Minorities. Funded by agencies outside the government, these services target LGBTs toward self-acceptance and AIDS/STD education while seeking to reduce social prejudice.
{"title":"Shanghai, China: Hotline for Sexual Minorities","authors":"Steven Gu","doi":"10.1300/J367V02N03_09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J367V02N03_09","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Placed in the current political context of growing liberalization within China, this essay describes the Shanghai Hotline for Sexual Minorities. Funded by agencies outside the government, these services target LGBTs toward self-acceptance and AIDS/STD education while seeking to reduce social prejudice.","PeriodicalId":213902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122643437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT This article, based on the author's doctoral research, examines the ways in which some religious schools in New South Wales (NSW), via institutional practices, maintain and perpetuate discrimination in relation to lesbian teachers and lesbian sexualities. These institutional practices, which included threats of dismissal, forced resignations, implicit harassment, monitoring and surveillance, curriculum silences, and censorship, silence lesbian sexualities and impact the teacher's daily operations and freedom of speech. Vicarious witnessing of these forms of punishment (in the Foucauldian sense) further ensures the silencing of lesbian identities. Moreover, statewide anti-discrimination legislation, which excludes some private institutions from compliance in the area of sexuality, serves to reinforce discriminatory practices, and ultimately silenced the various violence perpetuated against many of the participants in this research.
{"title":"Institutional Silence: Experiences of Australian Lesbian Teachers Working in Catholic High Schools","authors":"Tania Ferfolja","doi":"10.1300/J367v02n03_05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J367v02n03_05","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article, based on the author's doctoral research, examines the ways in which some religious schools in New South Wales (NSW), via institutional practices, maintain and perpetuate discrimination in relation to lesbian teachers and lesbian sexualities. These institutional practices, which included threats of dismissal, forced resignations, implicit harassment, monitoring and surveillance, curriculum silences, and censorship, silence lesbian sexualities and impact the teacher's daily operations and freedom of speech. Vicarious witnessing of these forms of punishment (in the Foucauldian sense) further ensures the silencing of lesbian identities. Moreover, statewide anti-discrimination legislation, which excludes some private institutions from compliance in the area of sexuality, serves to reinforce discriminatory practices, and ultimately silenced the various violence perpetuated against many of the participants in this research.","PeriodicalId":213902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education","volume":"377 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122167151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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