As a form of leisure, Pride events offer LGBTQI+ people a chance to gain visibility, advocate for their rights, and construct and express their identity. The benefits such events offer are ...particularly crucial within rural communities, often perceived to be heteronormative spaces that may exhibit greater levels of prejudice against sexually and gender-diverse individuals. This paper examines the perceived social impacts Pride events can have within a rural community by studying an inaugural Pride event hosted in the Australian township of Wagga Wagga. Informed by an interpretivist approach and using a mix of participant observation and semi-structured interviews, the study found the event had three key outcomes. First, the event challenged assumptions about how acceptance of diverse sexualities and gender identities were in the town. Second, it appeared to help build community acceptance by providing a public space/time for LGBTQI+ individuals to be acknowledged as legitimate citizens. Finally, it contributed to identity construction and created opportunities for connection with other LGBTQI+ residents and the rural community more broadly.
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Abstract
Background
Sun exposure is an extrinsic risk factor for skin aging, wrinkle formation, and the development of skin cancer, namely melanoma, basal cell carcinoma (BCC), and squamous cell ...carcinoma (SCC). Sun protection measures have emerged as an important means of preventing these harmful effects. Studies have shown that sexual minority men have a greater prevalence of skin cancer than heterosexual men.
Aims
There is limited research investigating the reasons behind this risk of skin cancer development. This is especially important because identifying preventable risk factors, like those pertaining to sun exposure behaviors, can be targeted in the fight against skin cancer and help establish screening tools and preventive interventions for the SGM community. This study focused on members of the SGM community and demonstrated their tendency not to use sun‐protective measures, as well as their deficits in knowledge of skin cancer prevention.
Materials and Methods
This study is a cross‐sectional study that investigates sun protection practices and trends among adults in Lebanon's SGM community using a survey. It includes adults aged 18–80 that were recruited from the dermatology clinics at AUBMC as well as LGBTQ+ organizations Helm and SIDC.
Results
A total of 129 participants took part in the study and completed the survey. Reasons for tanning varied among our participants: tanning to get a color (13.1%), tanning to get vitamin D (4.6%), tanning socially (6.9%), and tanning for mood elevation (0.8%). No significant association was found between sexual orientation and SPF use (
p
= 0.167). No significant association was found between sexual orientation and tanning frequency during summer (
p
‐value: 0.231). Similarly, no significant association was noted between sexual orientation and tanning bed use (0.951). No significant association was noted between the type of job and SPF use (
p
= 0.601). Despite no significance between SPF use and the highest educational degree attained (
p
= 0.070), the tendency to use SPF increased with higher levels of education. Moreover, awareness of sun‐induced skin cancer did not significantly affect SPF use (
p
= 0.067). However, a significant association was found between the information source for skin cancer and SPF use (
p
< 0.001) where participants receiving information from dermatologists displayed notably higher SPF use (72.2%), compared to those obtaining information from media (18.2%) or family and friends (5.3%).
Discussion
Surveying the perception of the Lebanese SGM community towards sun damage and their adaptive practices to prevent it can help implement and gear a nation‐wide campaign to spread proper awareness about this subject. Studying their behavioral tendencies for not using sunscreen can help overcome this contributing risk factor for skin cancers.
Conclusion
Future investigations have yet to identify confounding variables contributing to higher levels of skin cancers in this population.
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Metaphern sind nicht nur rhetorisches Stilmittel. Sie sind auch ein bedeutender Teil der Rechtswirklichkeit. Dass die Wirkungen, die sie nach sich ziehen können, sogar rechtsstaatliche und ...demokratische Risiken bergen, zeigt ein Blick über den Atlantik. Zooey Zephyr, Abgeordnete im US Bundesstaat Tennessee wurde ihres Rederechts beraucht, nachdem sie den Republikanischen Abgeordneten vorwarf, diese hätten ,Blut an den Händen'. Die juristische Auslegung ermöglicht gegenwärtig jedoch keinen treffenden Zugriff auf derlei Metaphern. Daher ist ein Umdenken notwendig.
This paper nuances the notion of access when considering minority segments and their use of health care services in rural communities. It argues that access needs to be considered as both the ...availability and the perceived ability to use a service without fear of retribution. By taking such a stance, this paper addresses the inequality in LGBTQI+ care in rural communities. It claims equitable care can only be achieved if the appropriate environment is created where individuals can disclose their identity and seek appropriate treatment. Given the complexity surrounding rural communities, their prevailing culture and perceptions, as well as stigmas and poor health outcome, a multilevel approach is taken to identify implications. It is argued that to address the individual and systemic barriers to equitable health care, a human rights‐centred approach to health needs to be adopted considering the individual, the community and the health system.
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Pride events challenge hegemonic notions of sexuality and gender within places they are held. This is particularly the case in rural communities that are perceived, rightly or wrongly, as prejudices ...towards individuals with a diverse sexuality or gender identity. However, although academic
literature has extensively explored Pride events within an urban context, limited attention has been paid to the rural context, and still little to those in their infancy. This article examines how stakeholders responded to the cancellation of a Pride event in the Australian rural township
of Wagga Wagga due to COVID19. The pandemic, in this context, provided an opportunity to understand attitudes towards the event and its cancellation. Through this process, eight topics were identified as: council funding, cancellation as homophobic, last-minute cancellation, cancellation regretted,
cancellation supported, organizers acknowledged, LGBTIQI+, and Pride event. Based on these findings, implications for the cancellation of social contentious events in response to such circumstances are identified. These implications suggest the need for a more considered approach to communicating
about the cancellation to prevent allegations of prejudice and demonstrate the value of such events.
This article extends Clapham's (2002) concept of 'housing pathways' to explore the nature of specific youth homelessness associated with diverse LGBTQI+ identities. Drawing on in-depth interviews ...with homeless LGBTQI+ youth in Ireland we offer a queer consideration of the structural challenges and agentic potentialities of young people's housing pathways. Building on these young people's experiences of becoming, being and leaving homelessness our queering process focuses on three phenomena: queer temporalities, queer liminalities and queer kinships. We argue that due to their evolving sexualities and gender identities 'housing and home' have distinctive meanings for LGBTQI+ youth. These meanings prioritise safe, non-homophobic/transphobic spaces, in which they can be themselves without the pressure to conceal their evolving identities or conform to heteronormative expectations. We suggest these meanings inform pathways into, through and out of homelessness and may contribute to higher rates of homelessness among LGBTQI+ youth. Finally, we argue these queerly informed understandings increase knowledge of how proactive interventions might best be framed.
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Academic literature has typically taken a metrocentric perspective to studying LGBTQI+ pride events, with limited attention being paid to rural LGBTQI+ pride events, particularly from an organization ...perspective. This study addresses this gap by developing a framework to assist with
the organization of pride events in rural communities. Ten experts with experience of organizing such events in rural communities were interviewed. The aim of the interview was to identify the components that needed to be managed when organizing such an event and considerations relevant to
implementing each component. Seventeen components were identified that needed to be addressed at different points in the event organization process-that is, before the event, during the event, and after the event. Based on these components, the Rural Pride Event Organization Framework
is put forward.
Os indivíduos LGBTQI+ descrevem experiências de discriminação que têm impacto ao nível da saúde mental. O objetivo deste estudo foi conhecer a perceção da experiência de discriminação e da saúde ...mental de jovens e adultos LGBTQI+ comparativamente com os não LGBTQI+. Realizou-se um estudo transversal e seguiu-se a metodologia quantitativa. A amostra foi constituída por 122 participantes, 60 (49.2%) do género feminino, 34 (27.9%) do género masculino, 2 pessoas identificadas como transgénero e 1 não binária (2.4%), com idades compreendidas entre os 18 e os 69 anos (M=32.4, DP=11.0). A amostra foi composta por dois grupos: o primeiro grupo formado por 60 participantes não LGBTQI+ e o segundo grupo por 62 participantes LGBTQI+. Foram utilizados instrumentos para avaliar a experiência de discriminação, os sintomas psicopatológicos, nomeadamente a ansiedade e depressão e ainda uma medida para avaliar a vergonha interna. Os resultados obtidos neste estudo revelaram diferenças ao nível do bem-estar psicológico. Contudo, apenas no item de satisfação com a trajetória de vida as diferenças foram estatisticamente significativas. Ao nível da experiência de discriminação verificaramse diferenças associadas à condição financeira, à perceção da imagem negativa do grupo LGBTQI+ por parte da comunicação social e, ainda, ao conhecimento de pessoas que vivenciaram experiências de discriminação.
The subject of the article is the parental experience of coming out of a child with a queer identity, in the context of a socio-political landscape in which homophobia and transphobia are a ...significant problem. Drawing on the results of two empirical studies conducted in Poland, the authors focus attention on two themes: (1) parents’ reactions to their children’s coming out as queer persons, and (2) the disclosure of the identity of a “parent of a queer person.” Analysis of the data indicates the complexity and processuality of parental experiences and the variety of strategies used by them.
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Stressors brought on by the pandemic may have further encouraged lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex plus (LGBTQI +) cancer survivors to smoke. The purpose of this study is to ...examine factors associated with smoking among LGBTQI + cancer survivors during the pandemic.
We used a secondary data analysis of OUT: The National Cancer Survey. We conducted logistic regression analysis to examine the associations between psychological distress, binge drinking, and socio-demographic factors with ever use and current use of cigarettes, other tobacco, and nicotine products.
Of the 1629 participants in our sample, 53% used in their lifetime and 13% reported current use. Correlates of increased ever use included being of older age (AOR = 1.02; 95% CI: 1.01, 1.03) and binge drinking (AOR = 2.47; 95% CI: 1.17, 5.20) while correlates of decreased ever use were among those with a graduate or professional degree (AOR = 0.40; 95% CI: 0.23, 0.71). Correlates of increased current use included being of Latine descent (AOR = 1.89; 95% CI: 1.07, 3.36), binge drinking (AOR = 3.18; 95% CI: 1.56, 6.48), without health insurance (AOR = 2.37; 95% CI: 1.10, 5.10), and being disabled (AOR = 1.64; 95% CI: 1.19, 2.26) while correlates of decreased current use were among cisgender women (AOR = 0.30; 95% CI: 0.12, 0.77), being of younger age (AOR = 0.98; 95% CI: 0.96, 0.99), and having a graduate or professional degree (AOR = 0.33; 95% CI: 0.15, 0.70).
Our findings demonstrate that a proportion of LGBTQI + cancer survivors continue to smoke during the pandemic despite the increased risk involved with smoking. Furthermore, individuals with intersecting marginalized identities experience additional stressors that may have been further exacerbated by the conditions of the pandemic that encourage them to smoke.
Quitting smoking after a cancer diagnosis can decrease the chances of recurrence and a new primary malignancy. In addition, practitioners and researchers should advocate towards examining and addressing systemic forms of oppression in institutions that LGBTQI + cancer survivors navigate during the pandemic.
