Popular narratives cite religion as the driving force behind homophobia in Africa, portraying Christianity and LGBT expression as incompatible. Without denying Christianity’s contribution to ...the stigma, discrimination, and exclusion of same-sex-attracted and gender-variant people on the continent, Adriaan van Klinken presents an alternative narrative, foregrounding the ways in which religion also appears as a critical site of LGBT activism.
Taking up the notion of “arts of resistance,” Kenyan, Christian, Queer presents four case studies of grassroots LGBT activism through artistic and creative expressions—including the literary and cultural work of Binyavanga Wainaina, the “Same Love” music video produced by gay gospel musician George Barasa, the Stories of Our Lives anthology project, and the LGBT-affirming Cosmopolitan Affirming Church. Through these case studies, Van Klinken demonstrates how Kenyan traditions, black African identities, and Christian beliefs and practices are being navigated, appropriated, and transformed in order to allow for queer Kenyan Christian imaginations.
Transdisciplinary in scope and poignantly intimate in tone, Kenyan, Christian, Queer opens up critical avenues for rethinking the nature and future of the relationship between Christianity and queer activism in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa.
Research suggests that many trans masculine people experience distress from body dysphoria. Social and medical transition through hormones and gender confirmation surgery offer some relief for body ...dysphoria; however, trans masculine people may continuously experience the impact of their body dysphoria on sexual experiences. This qualitative study explored the influence of body dysphoria on sexual experiences with 10 trans masculine people using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. The first emerging theme included mental negotiation of dysphoria in which participants described a process of having a mind-body connection, experiencing negative mental health outcomes, and continuous thoughts. The next theme was physical negotiation of body dysphoria in which participants described having body discomfort, using testosterone and surgeries to reduce body dysphoria, creating sex boundaries, using prosthetics, exploring masculinity, and self-pleasure. The last theme was relational negotiation of body dysphoria, participants discussed feeling burdened by sharing sexual needs, finding a stronger sexual connection with certain sexual identities, partner pleasing, communication, and receiving support. This study demonstrated that it is crucial for clinicians to understand the connection between body dysphoria and sexual experiences. Allowing a space for trans masculine people to be validated can reduce negative mental health outcomes, build community, and increase resiliency.
This article unpacks different meanings of visibility and adds to a more complex and nuanced understanding of visibility and its role in LGBT + activism in Uganda, a widely discussed case of ...political homophobia. Public visibility has a central, although contested, role here. The study aims to explore how visibility is understood and navigated by local LGBT + activists, unaffiliated people with same-sex desires, as well as international development partners. Interviews conducted in Kampala from December 2021–January 2022 reveal different and complex narratives surrounding visibility. Local unaffiliated individuals and activists agreed on the importance of making the LGBT + rights struggle more visible. This, however, did not translate into a wish to “come out” themselves. International development actors expressed a need for caution regarding their own visibility, mindful that explicit and visual support may generate accusations of neo-imperialism.
There is significant research evidence which demonstrates that LGBTQI+ young people experience higher rates of homelessness than their straight and cis peers. However, estimates of the scale of their ...over representation in homelessness vary significantly. This partially reflects difficulties in identifying and researching LGBTQI+ homeless youth due to their invisibility within homeless services. Drawing on in-depth interviews with homeless LGBTQI+ youth in Dublin and other Irish cities and with policy makers, homeless service providers and advocacy group representatives, this article reflects on the causes and implications of this invisibility. As its title suggests, the article identifies four interrelated causes of the invisibility – the unreal, unsheltered, unseen and unrecorded nature of LGBTQI+ youth homelessness. The article examines how these factors individually and collectively perpetuate the invisibility of LGBTQI+ homeless youth, impede their access to services for homeless people and reduce the likelihood that homeless services will be tailored to meet their needs and enable them to successfully exit homelessness.
This article examines the role of dance shoes in LGBT+ ballroom dancers’ identity formation and expression on the dancefloor. Applying Entwistle’s (2015) ‘situated bodily practice’ to an analysis of ...ethnographic field notes and 35 interviews, I highlight that dancers’ performative constitution of subversive identities through reiterative mobilisation of the traditional symbolic values of dance shoes is influenced by the material. The article makes a key contribution to sociological knowledge on performativity through an introduction of materialities of place, bodies and artefacts into a close reading of reiterative acts. I argue that a closer look into performative acts is necessary for determining whether and how resistance is constituted, recognised and reproduced, taking into account how materialities interweave with discourse in order to give credit to subversive agents emerging in the micro-moments.
Derivado del mapeo del reconocimiento de derechos nacionales a favor de las personas LGBT en América Latina y de la identificación de los mecanismos de aprobación que se han seguido desde el año 2002 ...hasta el 2021 para el Observatorio de Reformas Políticas en América Latina (REFPOL), se presenta un análisis del papel que han tenido las cortes supremas en la región sobre el reconocimiento de estos derechos a partir del litigio estratégico a causa de derechos humanos que han emprendido colectivos y organizaciones de las poblaciones no heteronormadas ni cisnormadas, como una ruta alterna ante las invisibilizaciones, discriminaciones y violencias que los contextos democráticos nacionales aún continúan ejerciendo sobre estas poblaciones. Cuando la vía de aprobación de derechos LGBT ha sido negada por los Congresos en los países latinoamericanos, la ruta más frecuente a seguir ha sido el litigio estratégico que encuentra cauce positivo cuando los rasgos conservadores de la composición de la Corte están atenuados. Se observa que cuando se logra el reconocimiento de derechos LGBT se contribuye a fisurar el orden patriarcal, heterosexual y cisgénero en el que se asentó tradicionalmente la democracia liberal; no obstante, la vía de acceso para conseguir el derecho a través de las cortes supremas perpetúa la judicialización de derechos de las personas LGBT, lo que no ocurre con las personas heterosexuales cisgénero.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth and young adults are known to have compromised physical and mental health, and family rejection has been found to be an important risk factor. Yet ...few studies have examined the positive role that support from parents, friends, and the community have for LGBT young adults. In a cross-sectional study of 245 LGBT non-Latino White and Latino young adults (ages 21-25) in the United States, sexuality-related social support was examined in association with measures of adjustment in young adulthood. Family, friend, and community support were strong predictors of positive outcomes, including life situation, self-esteem, and LGBT esteem. However, family acceptance had the strongest overall influence when other forms of support were considered. Implications for the unique and concurrent forms of social support for LGBT youth and young adult adjustment are discussed.
La pandémie de COVID-19 a conduit de nombreux pays à travers le monde, et notamment le Chili à adopter diverses mesures, y compris le confinement physique et social. Les effets de ces mesures, ...nécessaires pour empêcher la propagation du virus, doivent être étudiées. En particulier, on sait que les quarantaines ont un impact sur la qualité de vie et le bien-être (par exemple, les symptômes associés tels que la dépression, l’anxiété, le stress post-traumatique et autres conséquences psychosociales). En outre, on suppose que ces effets sont plus prononcés dans des populations déjà vulnérables, comme les personnes LGBT. Cet article décrit les principales mesures adoptées par la population LGBT, au Chili, en réponse à la situation de quarantaine pour éviter le COVID-19 et ses conséquences psychosociales.
Un échantillonnage non probabiliste a été construit. Une enquête en ligne auto-administrée a permis de recueillir 1181 questionnaires. Il s’agissait de lesbiennes, de gays, de bisexuels et de transgenres âgés de plus de 18 ans au Chili.
Près de huit participants sur dix étaient en situation de quarantaine totale. 18,2 % d’entre eux étaient en isolement partiel et seulement 4,6 % n’étaient pas en quarantaine. Le COVID-19 a touché la majorité des participants LGBT et en outre, et en outre, dans une certaine mesure, il a affecté émotionnellement la grande majorité d’entre eux. En d’autres termes, la pandémie a affecté leur vie. Cet impact psychosocial de la COVID a été plus important pour les personnes qui se définissent comme *sexuelles (y compris les homosexuels, les asexués, les pansexuels, les démisexuels).
Les mesures prises pour prévenir la transmission du virus affectent de manière significative les personnes LGBT. Les personnes *sexuelles doivent affronter la discrimination dont elles sont les victimes ainsi que la stigmatisation de leur identité dans de nombreux contextes, notamment leur famille.
COVID-19 pandemic has led many countries around the world, including Chile, to take various measures, including physical and, social isolation. The effects of these measures, necessary to prevent the virus from spreading, must be studied. In particular, quarantines are known to have an impact on quality of life and well-being (for example, associated symptoms such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and other psychosocial consequences). Furthermore, these effects are expected to be more pronounced in previously disadvantaged populations, such as LGBT people. This paper describes the main measures taken by LGBT population during quarantine to avoid COVID-19 and its psychosocial consequences on an individual and social basis.
Non-probability sampling was used. An online self-administered survey including 1181 participants was used. These were lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender residents over 18 years old from Chile.
Almost eight out of ten participants were in a total quarantine situation. From them, 18.2% were in partial isolation and only 4.6% were not in quarantine. COVID-19 has affected almost all the LGBT participants to a certain extent. COVID-19 has emotionally affected the vast majority of the LGBT participants to a certain extent. In other words, the pandemic has affected their lives. This psychosocial impact of COVID has been greater for people who define themselves as *sexual (include queer, asexual, pansexual, demisexual).
The measures taken to prevent the virus transmission significantly affect LGBT people's life. In particular, these measures affect *sexual people. *sexual people must manage discrimination and misunderstanding of their identity in many contexts including their family.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) patients experience vast health care disparities. Numerous government and professional organizations have attempted to address these disparities by ...calling for improvement in LGBT health and increased research endeavors. Despite these initiatives, residents still receive inadequate education and training in LGBT health. Here, the authors review these shortcomings and provide a framework for how to improve resident education and training in LGBT health. They describe methods of curricular enhancements and departmental/institutional climate optimization to improve resident competency. Finally, they discuss how LGBT-competent physicians can publicize their expertise and improve overall LGBT health care delivery.
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