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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)"”.
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Experiences of gender policing within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community
This is an exploratory study and qualitative investigation of the social construction and enforcement of gender through social interactions with a specific focus on how gender policing is experienced within the LGBTQ community in Riverdale (pseudonym), the specific location of this study. Gender …
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Identit(ies) and Agency: College Students' Navigations of Sexuality and Gender in Complex Figured Worlds
In this study I conducted individual and focus group interviews in order to understand the ways in which students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) perceive the campus climate at West Virginia University and in what ways their experiences are shaped by that …
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Experiences of LGBTQ Students Attending a University in Rural, Bible Belt America
<p>The experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) students currently attending universities in rural, Bible Belt areas in the United States are unknown. Additionally, there is disconnect noted in the literature between the purpose of a postsecondary educational …
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BELIEFS ABOUT THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY AMONG SOCIAL WORK GRADUATE STUDENTS
… prepared to adequately provide services to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) populations.</p> <p>Additionally, and of primary concern to the researchers, this project sought to determine whether graduate students felt that they had received adequate training and education …
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“Que(e)rying Religious Activism: Culture, Identity, and the Politics of Family in Unitarian Universalist Churches”
<p>Despite the longstanding debate about religion’s role in social movements, conservative religious opposition to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) social movement in the United States has limited sociological research in this area to questions of individual identity or the …
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CULTURALLY SENSITIVE HEALTH CARE: AN EXPLORATION OF MEDICAL PROVIDERS IDENTIFIED AS LGBTQ-FRIENDLY AT MIDWESTERN, NON-URBAN UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTERS
Training resources and guidelines about best practices for healthcare facilities and medical providers are readily available. Conversely, there are not a substantial number of physicians easily identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ)-friendly. For LGBTQ patients, this is …
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Latino/a LGBTQ Migrations
<p>Despite Latin America’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) movement’s recent ground-breaking political achievements, wide spread social acceptance of LGBTQ individuals is not evident in every institution, nor in every part of the region. For some, migration to the U.S. is the …
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Exploring the Coming Out Experience Through Animal Self-portraiture
… navigating the coming out process. For lesbian, gay. bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, coming out may not only be a significant event, but a life long process affecting many aspects of their lives. The student researcher met LGBQ individuals (N = 16) and asked them to …
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Exploring Cultural and Linguistic Aspects within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Youth Community
… of this study was to explore the cultural and linguistic aspects within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) youth community. A qualitative research design with an exploratory approach was utilized in this study. An interview questionnaire was created to explore …
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5-0 Is Not Coming To Save You: Examining The Lack Of Police Intervention In LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence
… by the criminal justice system, the media and, academia. Intimate partner violence laws have seen drastic changes over the past hundred years often coupled with the changes of culture and society. Though intimate partner violence surely warrants that attention, the growing and important …
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Exploring the community-based involvement of Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ adults
Research and theory about the lived experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer+ (LGBTQ+) populations are often characterized by both stress and resilience. One protective factor that is commonly explored is community-based involvement or one’s behavioral engagement with the …
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LGBTQ Experiences with the Courts: The Role of Gender Nonconformity and Assertiveness
<p>Using lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) and non-LGBTQ participants, a pair of studies explored the influence of LGBTQ identity and gender nonconformity (GNC) in experiences of discrimination in court settings. A one-way ANOVA tested whether LGBTQ participants were more …
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East Asian LGBTQ Individuals’ Coming Out Experiences to Parents
Asian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals face unique intersectional challenges that cannot be accounted for solely by racism and homophobia. In particular, they grapple with navigating their intersectional identities as ethnic and gender/sexual minorities, struggling …
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“I’m not just a Jew, I’m a trans jew, and I’m not just trans, I’m trans and Jew”: agency and identity in the experiences of gender diverse former students in non-Orthodox Jewish day schools in the United States
A large and growing percentage of self-reported gender diverse people are young individuals who are school-aged (Herman et al., 2022; Minter, 2018). Yet, schools, the main venue for children’s socialization and gender negotiation (Mackie et al., 2021, Meyer, 2022), have been evidenced to be unsafe …
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Contextualizing LGBTQ Faculty Experiences: An Account Of Sexual Minority Perceptions
… is susceptible to influence from intrinsic and extrinsic occupational characteristics. Heterosexism or hostile environments can be associated with decreased satisfaction amongst sexual minorities. As such, this transcendental phenomenology examined perceptions from tenured lesbian, gay, …
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Enactment of LGBTQ Health in Medical Curriculum
… the needs of a marginalized patient population, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities. Because LGBTQ populations experience significant health and health care disparities in comparison to heterosexual and cisgender populations, medical education and medical curriculum …
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Finding the "T" in LGBTQ: ESL Educator Perceptions of Transgender and Non-Binary Gender Topics in the Language Classroom
<p>While there is a “T” in the acronym for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ), the focus in both academia and the real world often shifts solely to sexuality. Even though the real world discussion of sexuality (and perhaps academia’s as well) is also much lacking in both …
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The curriculum of coming out: queer pedagogies, literacies, and rhetorics in LGBTQ lives
"In a meeting of Between Women, an LGBTQ support and discussion group at Centerville University, one of the participants said, “I’m here in order to get the words together.” This statement perfectly illustrates the imperative at the heart of this dissertation: people’s need to learn literacy and …
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Libraries for social change: centering youth of color and/or LGBTQ youth in library practice
… to the state through surveillance, policing, and incarceration. This research traces how past policies and processes that established white, middle-class, and hetero-normative conduct and knowledge as central to library services worked - and continue to work - against youth of color and/or …
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How Counselors Are Trained to Work with Bisexual Clients in CACREP-Accredited Programs
… addressing the need for cultural competence with lesbian and gay-identified clients, bisexual-identified clients continue to be marginalized in the principles, theories, and methods of studying sexuality as well as in the training provided by counselor educators. A descriptive content analysis was …