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The Marathi short film U for Usha (2019) portrays the journey of an illiterate, single mother navigating her identity and desires within a deeply traditional rural society in Maharashtra. This study analyses how the film encodes rural queer intimacy through silence, gesture, and everyday spaces, and how audiences from varied socio-cultural backgrounds decode these meanings. Using an interpretative qualitative design, the research combines close reading of the film, a semi-structured interview with director Rohan Kanawade, and a focus-group discussion. Grounded in feminist film theory, queer ruralism, intersectionality, and Hall's encoding/decoding model, the analysis reveals that Kanawade's rural background shapes the film's narrative and aesthetic choices, while audience interpretations differ based on caste, gender, educational background, region, and media exposure. The study argues that U for Usha challenges urban-centric queer narratives in Indian cinema and highlights the importance of rural, intersectional experiences in understanding queer representation and spectatorship.

This paper examines Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) and its archival newsletter Treatment Issues (1993-2000) to explore one medium by which community-based health organizations construct collective identity and disseminate public health discourse. As the first HIV/AIDS service organization, GMHC played a pivotal role in translating complex medical information into accessible content for affected communities. Through a critical archival analysis, this study interrogates how Treatment Issues signals the presence or absence of various identity categories, revealing how public health discourse foregrounds certain identities while backgrounding others. By examining rhetorical constructions of collective identity, this paper highlights the intersection of service and activism, demonstrating how HIV/AIDS organizing blurred the lines between advocacy and medical support. Findings reveal that while women were present in GMHC's organizing structure, their representation in Treatment Issues was largely constrained to reproductive concerns. Likewise, trans people, incarcerated individuals, and sex workers, despite their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, were notably absent from this discourse. This analysis contributes to scholarship on organizational communication, collective identity, and critical archival research by demonstrating how seemingly neutral public health texts reinforce socio-political hierarchies. Investigating how GMHC communicated health information via Treatment Issues provides insight into one of many mediums by which community-based organizations shape and are shaped by public health discourse in times of crisis.

This study examines how Thai-language online news covers gay men involved in Party n Play (PNP) activities. Analyzing 32 articles tagged #patike (#gayparty) from 11 Thai publications between 2019 and 2024, the research uses a six-dimension framework of journalistic role performance. The findings show that Thai journalists most often adopt infotainment (86%), loyal-facilitator (76%), and intervention (67%) roles. Conversely, civic (14%) and service (24%) roles are significantly underrepresented. The analysis reveals that Thai media coverage of gay men in criminal contexts is characterized by sensationalism, moral judgment, and uncritical support for law enforcement, while failing to provide public health information or community perspectives. This study concludes that these journalistic practices contribute to the perpetuation of societal prejudices against marginalized groups in non-Western contexts and highlights the urgent need for more responsible and nuanced media representation of non-normative communities in Thailand. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of journalistic role performance by applying the framework to a non-Western cultural and linguistic context, challenging Western-centric discourse in journalism studies.

Prejudice and discrimination put 2SLGBTQ+ youth at greater risk of developing poor mental health outcomes. Yet there is heterogeneity within this group, notably a greater risk for poor mental health outcomes in trans and gender diverse (TGD) youth. The goal of this study was to determine if the relationship between bullying and mental health outcomes, and the potential protective influence of peer friendship, differed between cisgender lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB+) and TGD youth. Using data from the 12-year youth survey from All Our Families cohort (n = 221), we analyzed youth's responses on Behavior Assessment System for Children (depression and anxiety), Middle Years Development Instrument (happiness and friendship) and self-reports on bullying within the last year. Bullying was positively associated with anxiety and depression for TGD youth, and for the cisgender LGB+ group, bullying was associated with anxiety symptoms. Friendship buffered the association between bullying and anxiety symptoms for TGD youth. Our findings highlight the importance of examining LGB+ and TGD youth independently, given the heterogeneity found within the broad 2SLGBTQ+ group, as demonstrated by diverse mental health and bullying outcomes. It supports the potential positive influence of friendship on anxiety symptoms, particularly for TGD youth in early adolescence.

Due to longstanding stigma, most lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals in China conceal their identities, making opportunities for intergroup contact between straight and LGB people that theoretically could reduce prejudice uncommon. College dorms provide a rare exception, offering many straight students their first close interaction with openly LGB peers. But does contact in this setting reduce anti-LGB attitudes among Chinese younger generation? Drawing on social media data of over 3000 responses on Zhihu-a popular Q&A platform-this paper answers this question using mixed-methods including manual coding, quantitative and qualitative analysis. Contrary to theoretical expectations, the analysis reveals that contact in dorms does not produce uniformly positive attitudes amongst straight respondents. While positive contact is more widespread, negative contact is common and straight attitudes are polarized toward both LGB roommates specifically and LGB people generally. Given growing conservatism in Chinese socio-political contexts, this research underscores the necessity of fostering intergroup contact between straight and LGB peers, but highlights the subtle difficulties for tackling anti-LGB prejudice-especially among young people who are often presumed to be more socially progressive.

Recently, there has been a growing interest in the history of the gay and lesbian movement in the Nordic countries, Finland included. In this history, the role of transnational connections has proved important-not only with the widely influential US, but also within the Nordic countries themselves. This article focuses on early lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) activists in Finland from the late 1960s to the 1980s, examining how transnational connections appeared in their narratives and how these connections emotionally moved and motivated the activists. Theoretically and methodologically, the study draws from queer oral history and affect theory. The analysis focuses on the narratives of four Finnish and one Swedish LGB activists, as well as archival material from Finnish and Swedish archives of LGB associations. The article argues that transnational flows of attitudes, atmospheres, and personal relationships supported early LGB activists in Finland by offering them affective empowerment.

In 1987, the National Association of Black and White Men Together (NABWMT) received funding to create the National Task Force on AIDS Prevention, the first federally funded organization to do HIV/AIDS prevention directed to Black gay and bisexual men. This article is based on a narrative ethnography of NABWMT, including analysis of ten years of newsletters, 36 oral history interviews, and organizational documents from five different archives, and focuses on the narrative production of the task force. My analysis demonstrates how the task force initially positioned itself as part of NABWMT, narratively practicing interracial gay anti-racism, but then narratively re-positioned themselves as primarily Black gay led and focused and narratively practicing Black gay sexual knowledge, affirmation and subjectivity as prevention. This article expands our understanding of intersectional responses to HIV/AIDS, offering an account of narrative re-positioning from gay interracial intervention to intraventional work of Black gay men for Black gay men, contributing to our understanding of intersectional AIDS framing institutions and the organizational unspoiling of Black gay identity.

Sexual orientation's impact on retirement savings has rarely been examined. Three studies of UK pension savers found that actual pension savings (Study 1) and estimated pension savings (Study 2 and 3) did not differ by sexual orientation. Among a UK pension savings company's customers (Study 2, N = 1043) and users of Prolific (Study 3, N = 275) motives to save were mostly endorsed similarly by sexual orientation, with one exception. Straight male pension savers reported greater motivation to save to pass money to dependents after death than sexual minority male savers did in both studies. However, sexual orientation did not predict saving motives consistently among women across studies. The motivation to save for dependents may differ by sexual orientation among men due to (1) differing expectations that a man will or won't have children in the future, and (2) differing normative pressure to have or not have children in the future. This difference in pension savings motives informs the context of emerging findings of sexual orientation differences in enrollment in pension schemes in the UK and elsewhere, the need for inclusive financial education about retirement savings, and increasingly individualized welfare in Western states such as the UK.

Social media significantly influences how the public perceives gender diversity and LGBT+ rights. In Vietnam, while societal views are gradually shifting, discrimination against the LGBT+ community remains. This study explored the relationship between social media habits and the attitudes and knowledge of healthcare students toward LGBT+ individuals. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among students at Hanoi Medical University from November 2023 to January 2024, using validated Vietnamese versions of the ATLG-S, GTS-R-SF, and KAHQ questionnaires. Multivariate linear regressions were fitted to investigate the influences of social media/video streaming platforms usage behaviors. Of the 646 valid respondents, 97.8% reported using at least one social media or video streaming platform, though 89.8% reported that LGBT+ content made up less than 40% of what they encountered online. Most students showed low levels of homonegativity (6.0%) and genderism (8.0%), yet 85.1% had only low to moderate knowledge of LGBT+ topics. Social media users demonstrated more positive attitudes than non-users, and platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and Netflix were associated with higher knowledge levels. Multivariate analyses indicate that respondents who use Instagram Reels have lower GTS-R-SF scores (β = -1.91; 95% CI: -3.58 to -0.24). Respondents who use Netflix have higher KAH scores than those who do not (β = 0.48; 95% CI: 0.01 to 0.95). ATLG-S scores are lower in respondents who spend more than 2 h per day using social media (β = -1.02; 95% CI: -2.01 to -0.04). The more exposure to LGBT+ content on social media/video streaming platforms, the more positive the attitude toward and knowledge about the LGBT+ community. The findings highlight social media's potential to foster inclusive perspectives among future healthcare providers, emphasizing the need for effective content moderation to enhance its positive influence and reduce the spread of harmful stereotypes.

In Slovakia, there still exists a significant amount of stigma and prejudice against LGBTI+ individuals. Minority stress negatively affects the mental and physical health of queer people. Apart from minority stress, students experience discomfort associated with their regular and university life. Our study aimed to explore the experiences of queer students, identify facilitators and barriers to their well-being, and understand the role that university plays in their lives. We utilized the Photovoice method and semi-structured interviews. 11 students (9 women and 2 non-binary individuals) from Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia participated. Through reflexive thematic analysis, we identified 10 themes, broadly regarding (ill-) well-being, university environment, people, queer identity. Well-being evaluation was different for the university environment and the broader social context. The study highlights the challenges of studying, the superior or inhumane staff behavior and queer negativity as barriers. Conversely, we identified inclusivity, visible hints of support, humanity and support in staff and other individuals as facilitators. The study illustrates how both student and queer identity play a role in the well-being of LGBTI+ students, and how diverging and intersecting these experiences may be. These uniquely contextual results can serve as a basis for the development of interventions and further research.