Context:
The behavior model for preventing HIV/AIDS transmission in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth can contain HIV/AIDS information in this population.
Objective:
According to ...Planned Behavior Theory (PBT), human growth within different social environments may gain further information on various issues. This information can be the basis of their behavioral beliefs, social demands of essential others (normative beliefs), and obstacles that can prevent them from showing certain behaviors (control beliefs). These factors can influence intention and behavior. This study aims to develop a model for HIV/AIDS risk-related behavior among LGBT youth based on PBT.
Methods:
This was an observational study using a cross-sectional approach. The modeling used the Structural Equation Model (SEM) pathway through the AMOS 8.50 software application. The variables in this study are internal factors, such as religious obedience, knowledge, beliefs, intention, and risky behavior.
Participants:
This study occurred in Gorontalo Province with 200 LGBT youths with risky behaviors.
Results:
Risk behavior modeling results of LGBT youths in Gorontalo; Religious adherence affects risk behavior through intention. Overall, research results from the study using the PBT approach emphasize that religious obedience does not directly affect the behavioral variables but rather beliefs and intentions.
Conclusion:
HIV/AIDS prevention programs for LGBT youth should focus on religious activities.
The public workplace has traditionally been conceived of in heteronormative and cisnormative terms, wherein heterosexuality, the gender binary, and opposite-sex relationships are presumed and ...institutionalized in both word and deed. Recent policy changes and public opinion shifts regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals have placed an onus on employers to develop means to include sexual and gender minorities in the overall organizational culture and improve LGBT individuals’ workplace experiences. Using multilevel data analysis, this study focuses on how LGBT federal workers’ perceptions of inclusion at the agency, supervisory, and work unit levels affect their job satisfaction. The results indicate that LGBT employees’ inclusion perceptions play a moderating role between their sexual or gender minority identities and individual job satisfaction. The findings suggest that interventions aimed at developing an inclusive culture that reduces or eliminates traditional heteronormativity and cisnormativity, both agency-wide and at separate organizational levels, may improve job satisfaction among LGBT workers.
Abstract
Purpose
Domestic violence has been an emerging area of study in recent decades for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender people (LGBT +). While some research discussed domestic ...violence among LGBT + couples in Western countries, very little attention was paid to the patterns of domestic violence in the Chinese context. Against this backdrop, this study sought to elucidate the prevalence and distinctive features of family violence against LGBT + individuals that have been recorded by court rulings, as well as to scrutinize the responses of the judicial system towards these cases of violence.
Methods
This study utilized a qualitative research approach, relying on court rulings as the primary data source. Specifically, data were collected from the official website that publishes judgments from courts at all levels of China. Content analysis and discourse analysis were employed as analytical techniques to uncover the underlying patterns of family violence among LGBT + people and examine the responses of the judicial system concerning the protection of LGBT + individuals.
Results
Through an analysis of the court rulings, the findings reveal a total of fifty-three cases of family violence involving LGBT + individuals. These cases constitute approximately ten percent of all criminal cases concerning the LGBT + population. Among these cases, forty cases involve violence perpetrated by LGBT + intimate partners. The violence can be further classified into distinct categories, including break-up violence, sexual violence, and violence occurring in daily life. The consequences of such violence typically result in fatalities or physical injuries. Another form of violence examined in the study is observed within legal partnerships, such as between a heterosexual husband and his lesbian wife. This type of violence also tends to lead to severe outcomes, including deaths or bodily harm to the victim. Furthermore, one noteworthy case of family violence discussed in the research involves a parent–child relationship.
Conclusions
This study uncovers multiple sources of violence experienced by LGBT + individuals within the context of domestic relationships in China. While LGBT + individuals can employ criminal law to protect their rights as citizens, the legal recognition of same-sex relationships remains rare. Yet, this legal recognition could change the situation in same-sex families troubled by family violence.
This article includes personal reflections on the future of LGBT aging, informed by findings from the author's landmark study: Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging, Sexuality and Gender Study. ...Using an equity framework (pursuit of fairness and opportunity for all to reach
their full potential), the article outlines a blueprint for action in services, policies, and research to address the growing needs of LGBT older adults now and for generations to come.
LGBTQIA+ is an acronym that stands for ‘lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer/questioning, asexual and other diverse sexualities and genders’. In Australia, LGBTQIA+ people still ...experience extensive discrimination within the education system, a recent report highlighting that most Australian LGBT students felt unsafe in secondary school. LGBTQIA+ youth in Australia have significantly higher rates of anxiety, mental health conditions and suicide attempts when compared to the general population. At the same time, pre-service teacher training in Australia is not consistent in providing information and support to prospective educators in LGBTQIA+ inclusive practice and curricula development. This paper explores the initial results of a multi-phase, ongoing project designed to assist pre-service teachers in developing their awareness and understanding of LGBTQIA+ inclusive practice. Utilizing Participatory Action Research (PAR), co-creation and the Design Justice Principles (DJP), the research group sought stakeholder feedback from both pre-service teachers, LGBTQIA+ identified educators and LGBTQIA+ allies to design and deliver LGBTQIA+ inclusive training and resources. Data was collected from pre-service teacher’s survey responses to a professional learning workshop on LGBTQIA+ inclusive practice, revealing high value in understanding inclusive language and discussions of gender diversity and desire for earlier inclusion of these topics in teaching degrees. This was followed by a co-creation phase, resulting in the development of a queering curriculum resource site, followed by a focus group with lived experience stakeholders. This latter phase of the project drew upon insider perspectives to help refine the co-designed resources to make them more intersectional, inclusive, and relevant. The resulting analysis highlights the link between our research and the DJP, while emphasizing the importance of ‘listening to the voices from within’ by establishing meaningful, ongoing stakeholder engagement in the development and delivery of inclusive education resources and materials.
What's on the gay (legal) agenda? This study addresses this question by examining the press releases of national LGBT legal advocacy organizations in response to both new opportunities, after ...decisions such as U.S. v. Windsor (2013) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), and significant challenges such as the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and his subsequent conservative judicial appointments. Using original data from more than 2,800 press releases filed by the largest LGBT legal advocacy organizations from 2010 to 2019, we analyze the LGBT legal agenda and explore how it evolved throughout this period in reaction to changes in the legal opportunity structure. We find that LGBT legal advocacy organizations are strategic and adapt their agendas to shifts in their legal opportunities to achieve social movement goals. Specifically, we find that after marriage equality was achieved, significant shifts in the legal opportunity structure, including conservative countermobilization and new cultural and legal frames, placed transgender rights at the top of the LGBT legal agenda. These findings shed light on the politics of LGBT legal advocacy organizations, provide insight into LGBT politics after Obergefell, and contribute to our understanding of how legal advocacy organizations respond to changing legal opportunities in social movements.
Este artigo apresenta um olhar antropológico e crítico para as principais dinâmicas do desenvolvimento de um pujante campo de produção de conhecimento (em especial norte-americano), o qual tem ...investigado por algumas décadas os processos de envelhecimentos de lésbicas, gays, bissexuais e transgêneros. Esse campo, ainda relativamente pouco conhecido no Brasil e na América do Sul como um todo, tem sido chamado de “gerontologia LGBT”. Meu interesse, dessa maneira, reside em apresentar e contextualizar crítica e sistematicamente as principais tendências, polêmicas e embates teóricos desse campo, assim como os seus desdobramentos recentes em prol da complexa constituição, legitimação e criação de políticas públicas concernentes a novos atores sociais (cuja assunção se dá em concomitância), no caso: os “idosos LGBT”.
Medical students face many challenge in their academic path. The disclosure of their own sexual orientation may be problematic since it impacts negatively on their acceptance in the educational ...environmental and the course of their career. Mental health issues may also occur among medical students as consequences of their perceived homophobia as well as stigma after the coming out. Research shows that students' attitude to the sexual orientation disclosure may vary across countries and cultures as well as students' homophobic attitudes towards sexual minorities: the latter should be addressed since prejudice might affect the quality of medical care for LGBT+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) patients. We suggest that more education and training on LGBT + health issues is needed in the medical students' core-curricula: this would improve the health care of sexual minorities and LGBT + students' acceptance in the academic milieu.
O artigo discute os gestos de interpretação de sujeitos LGBT e seus processos de identificação, descrevendo a relação do sujeito com as memórias deste campo. Realiza, também, uma escuta discursiva de ...seus dizeres acerca de si mesmos desde suas condições de produção e analisando os processos pelos quais sujeitos e sentidos se (des)fazem, considerando a heterogeneidade constitutiva do dizer. Assim sendo, perguntamos: Como sujeitos LGBT produzem dizeres sobre si mesmos? Que sentidos são evidenciados ao serem convidados a falarem a respeito de suas experiências? O que significa fazer parte deste grupo? Michel Pêcheux (1997, 2024) foi o referencial teórico principal, entre outros. O trabalho empírico envolveu entrevistas semiestruturadas endereçadas a dois homens gays, uma mulher bissexual e uma travesti não-binária que se identificou como pansexual, com idades entre 20 e 50 anos. Concluímos que, afetados, de modo contraditório e tenso pela normatividade e pela insistência em existir apesar dela, os sujeitos se constituem a partir de sua identificação, ou não, com saberes circulantes em formações discursivas antagônicas que são manifestação de uma formação ideológica dos costumes. Ressoam, da relação de forças entre as formações discursivas, efeitos de sentido de expurgo, cerceamento, esperança e humanidade.
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