Bakgrund: Att ha en sexuell läggning eller könsidentitet som skiljer sig från normen innebär för individen att hen i vardagen bli utsatt för mikroaggressioner. Individen blir därför försiktig med att avslöja sin sexuella läggning eller könsidentitet. Eftersom HBTQ-gruppen har mer ohälsa generellt sett än den övriga populationen tycks vårdmötets kvalitet vara avgörande för att ändra på detta. Både sjukvårdspersonalens bemötande och HBTQ-patientens inställning är aspekter som spelar in i vårdmötet, dels hur sjukvårdspersonalen bemöter patienterna men också huruvida patienterna vid vårdmötet väljer att avslöja sin sexuella läggning.Syfte: Syftet var att utifrån ett relationellt perspektiv belysa vad vårdmötet innebär för HBTQpatienter.Metod: En litteraturstudie med kvalitativ ansats utfördes innehållande tio vetenskapligaartiklar och granskades med hjälp av en SBU-modifierad granskningsmall, analyserades med innehållsanalys och sammanställdes sedan med inspiration av Polit och Beck, samt Friberg. Databaserna CINAHL och PsycInfo användes för sökning av artiklarnaResultat: Fyra teman framträdde som lyfter fram viktiga aspekter av fenomenet vårdmötets upplevelse: sjukvårdspersonalens medvetenhet och kunskap, sjukvårdspersonalens attityder, patienters sårbarhet och patienters proaktiva åtgärder. Resultatet visade sjukvårdspersonalens brist på medvetenhet om HBTQ-patienter, otillräcklig kunskap om allmänna och hälsorelaterade HBTQ-frågor, samt icke-vårdande attityder. Det motsatta, d.v.s. vårdande vårdmöten, dokumenterades också. Vårdmötet innebar ofta för patienterna en komplex hantering av avslöjandet om den sexuella läggningen/könsidentiteten och att de själva måste arbeta för att bli väl bemötta.Konklusion: Det finns olika aspekter av erfarenheter av vårdmötet för HBTQ-patienter, vilka kompletterar varandra. Huruvida dessa möten upplevs som vårdande eller icke-vårdande tycks påverka patienternas hälsa respektive positivt eller negativt.Nyckelord: coming-out, erfarenheter, HBTQ, kunskap, patienter, sjuksköterskor, vårdmöte / Background: To have a non-conforming sexual orientation or gender identity means beingexposed to microaggressions in everyday life. LGBTQ people are therefore often cautiouswith the way they disclose information regarding their sexuality or gender. Since LGBTQpeople tend to have greater ill-health than the rest of the population, quality in health careencounters is seen as an important factor in improving their health. A health care relationship involves both health care provider and patient, where both parts bring along their singular dispositions into the health care encounter. Questions regarding the way health care providers meet LGBTQ patients are raised, as well as how patients manage their non-conforming sexual or gender identities within health care encounters.Aim: The aim of this study was, from a relational perspective, to examine how LGBTQpatients give meaning to the health care encounter.Methods: A qualitative review of literature containing ten scientific articles was conducted.The articles were examined using an SBU’s modified review template, analysed with content analysis and compiled with inspiration from Polit and Beck, as well as Friberg. The databases CINAHL and PsycInfo were used for data collection.Findings: Four themes emerged, which highlight important aspects of the health careexperience phenomenon: health care providers’ awareness and knowledge, health careproviders’ attitudes, patients’ vulnerability and patients’ proactive measures. There wasextensive coverage for the health care staff's lack of awareness about the existence of LGBTQ patients, for the insufficient knowledge of both general and health-related LGBTQ issues, as well as for non-caring attitudes. But the opposite, which is to say caring health care encounters, were also documented. Health care encounters often implied for patients a complex management of their coming-out, as well as an effort on their part to make sure that they as patients be well received.Conclusion: Results show that different and complementary elements constitute LGBTQpatients’ experiences of health care encounters. Whether these encounters are perceived as caring or non-caring seems to affect patients’ health positively in the first case and negatively in the other.Key words: coming-out, experiences, LGBTQ, knowledge, patients, nurses, health careencounter

The screenplay (creative production component) follows Sunny, a young South African Indian woman, who relocates to Cape Town to study fine art. She sets her eyes on a significant award, but makes the critical mistake of falling for her greatest rival. Despite facing crippling cultural expectations and biases, Sunny discovers that being different - and loving who she wants to love - is not a crime, but an imperfect truth. The screenplay explores the protagonist's first year at university, complicated by questions of identity, race, gender, sexuality and their intersection with tradition and culture in contemporary South Africa. Taking the form of a coming-of-age Indie drama (with an artistic twist), the main character embarks on a journey of self-discovery and learning, as she confronts these challenges. The reflective creative explication serves as an accompaniment to the screenplay. It is used to expound upon the creative process of writing the screenplay: highlighting key scenes, beats and decisions whilst interrogating the theoretical frameworks surrounding representations of ‘othered' groups - specifically queer womxn of colour - and their perception in society, aided by the lens of personal lived experience. This is followed by a review of the Indie and coming-of-age genres, in which the screenplay operates. The piece acts as a critical reflection intended to contextualise and justify the creative decisions made in the screenplay, so as to provide a means of accessing the larger themes and concerns at hand.

Presented thesis deals with conversations that arise within the online mentoring counseling center "S barvou ven". Mainly young people going through the process of coming out are the target group of counseling center. In the theoretical part of thesis, I describe the counseling center, the social atmosphere that prevails around the issue of people with minority sexual orientation, clarify what a mentoring relationship is and its importance in the lives of adolescents and describe the process of coming out. The empirical part deals with the qualitative analysis of nineteen conversations. The results of the analysis showed that clients entering the counseling center use the conversation with the mentor to meet various needs, from the need to share their feelings or experiences to the desire to find their "friend" or partner in the mentor. The results of the second part of the analysis provide an indicative overview of the client's needs, as well as when and why their needs could or could not be met. The results also show how mentors work with needs which clients can not consciously describe. Last but not least, the results overview shows that mentors use a wide range of questions, offer information or provide clients, for example, a sense of belonging or hope, or offer their own experience.

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A collection of short stories and personal essays, Please Don’t Interrupt Me While I’m Ignoring You weaves a lamé of humor and private desperation on the page. An actor in one story craves career gratification, while a United Nations coordinator in another finds herself attracted to a nervous NGO. A housewife attempts to convince her husband to commit an infidelity, while an architect finds that his new pet companion isn’t helping him to get over his ex-girlfriend. Having a difficult time relating, these characters often find themselves stuck in a miscommunication loop, and their journey to get what they want is subtle. These stories are followed with essays about the author’s own experiences while he was stuck in a miscommunication loop. Driven by his obscene fear of conflict, the author chronicles what happens when conflict is inevitable. Travel and self-loathing abound in these narratives depicted with sensitivity and sarcasm—bitterness and love. Together they leave a lasting impression of the impermeability of worldly citizens, and the internalizations they have to combat to get there

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The present study addresses three objectives: 1) to explore the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) persons who are coming in the United States as students and coming out about their sexual orientation, 2) to explore the cultural narratives that emerge in their disclosure process, and 3) to generate ways to support LGBQ international students. Research on the disclosure process for LGBQ persons have been comprised largely of white, middle-class individuals and families. This narrative inquiry broadens our understanding of how LGBQ persons from different cultures define and experience the coming-out process, particularly in the context of moving to a different country. Twelve LGBQ international students shared their coming in, coming out stories through interviews, journals, a timeline, online forum, and picture. Narrative analysis of their stories consisted of three methods: thematic, structural, and dialogic. These findings provide directions for future research, clinical practitioners, educators, and student affairs personnel working with international students. / Ph. D. / Imagine moving to a different culture. You arrive in a foreign land, where you are grouped into a racial category that represents many countries and cultures. You struggle to stay in contact with family and friends from your native country while trying to build connections and find support in your new home. On top of that, your sexual identity is non-heterosexual, and the social climate and level of acceptance toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) people in your new home is vastly different from your country-of-origin. This is a sliver of the experiences that LGBQ persons may face when moving to a different country. The present project explores the stories of LGBQ international students in the United States, in hopes of generating ways to support them. Twelve LGBQ international students shared their coming in, coming out stories. This broadens our understanding of how cultures shapes the coming-out process, particularly in the context of moving to a different country. These findings provide directions for future research, clinical practitioners, educators, and student affairs personnel working with international students.

Esta pesquisa insere-se no campo dos Estudos Literários, em uma perspectiva interdisciplinar com os estudos de gênero e diversidade sexual e visa contribuir com as investigações desenvolvidas no âmbito do Grupo de Pesquisa “Estudos sobre a narrativa brasileira contemporânea” (CNPq/UFT), coordenado pelo Prof. Dr. Flávio Pereira Camargo. Seu objetivo geral é fazer uma análise da relação entre homoerotismo e homossociabilidade no romance Em nome do desejo, de João Silvério Trevisan, de modo a evidenciar os desdobramentos da relação homoafetiva entre Abel e Tiquinho, os dois protagonistas do romance, no espaço do Seminário, que é, por excelência, um espaço estritamente masculino, homofóbico e disciplinador dos corpos, das identidades e dos desejos daqueles que o habitam. Esta pesquisa é de cunho bibliográfico e teórico, através da qual realizamos um exercício de hermenêutica em relação à narrativa Em nome do desejo, de João Silvério Trevisan. Para tanto, o embasamento teórico e crítico parte, principalmente, de uma perspectiva pós-estruturalista de modo a evidenciar que a literatura, de modo geral, conduz à alteridade, ou melhor, leva ao reconhecimento de que o outro pode e tem o direito de ser diferente e que nós não devemos ser indiferentes, negligentes ou preconceituosos a qualquer aspecto constituinte da identidade do outro com relação à nossa identidade. A literatura homoerótica pode ser uma via para compreender o outro, uma vez que este outro está discursivamente representado no texto literário, na narrativa homoerótica. Por isso, propomos uma reflexão sobre a abertura da crítica literária à discussão do homoerotismo na literatura, uma vez que há resistências desta crítica sobre a literatura de vertente homoerótica, que é capaz de revelar ao seu leitor aspectos constitutivos da identidade gay. Além disso, procuramos evidenciar questões diversas referentes à homossociabilidade e às amizades masculinas como forma de sociabilidade para driblar o preconceito, a homofobia e a hostilidade latente em nossa sociedade. Para embasar nossas reflexões sobre o tripé literatura, homoerotismo e homossociabilidade nos baseamos em Antonio Candido (1970, 2006, 2007), Antonio de Pádua Dias da Silva (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011), Antonio de Pádua Dias da Silva e Carlos Eduardo Fernandes (2011), Dreyfuss e Rabinow (2010), Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1985), Didier Eribon (2008), Flávio Camargo (2011, 2012), Guacira Lopes Louro (2007, 2008, 2010), José Carlos Barcellos (2006), Judith Butler (2008, 2010), Jurandir Costa (1992), Kathryn Woodward (2000), Mário César Lugarinho (2008), Rick Santos (1997), Terry Eagleton (2006) e Tzevetan Todorov (2010), entre outros autores e críticos que se ocupam dessas questões. / This research falls within the field of Literary Studies in an interdisciplinary perspective with gender studies and sexual diversity and aims to contribute to the investigations carried out under the Research Group "Studies on contemporary Brazilian narrative" (CNPq / UFT) coordinated by Prof. Dr. Flávio Pereira Camargo. The objective of this research is to analyze the relationship between homoeroticism and homosociability in the novel Em Nome do Desejo, by João Silvério Trevisan, in order to highlight the consequences of the homoaffective relationship between Abel and Tiquinho, the two main characters of the novel, in the space of Seminar, which is, par excellence, a strictly male space, homophobic and disciplining of bodies, identities and desires of those who inhabit it. This research is bibliographic and theoretical, through which we undertook a hermeneutic exercise in relation to the narrative Em Nome do Desejo, João Silvério Trevisan. Thus, the theoretical part and critical is based mainly in a poststructuralist perspective in order to show that literature in general, leads to otherness, or rather leads to the recognition that the other can and has the right to be different and that we should not be indifferent, negligent and prejudiced to any constituent aspect of the identity of the other with respect to our identity. The homoerotic literature can be a way to understand the other, because this other is discursively represented in literary text in homoerotic narrative. We therefore propose a reflection on the opening of the literary criticism to the discussion of homoeroticism in the literature, since there is resistance of this literary critical to homoerotic literature, which is able to reveal to the reader constitutive aspects of the gay identity. In addition, we seek to highlight various issues relating to homosociability and male friendships as a form of sociability to dribble prejudice, homophobia and latent hostility in our society. To support our reflections on tripod of literature, homoeroticism and homosociability we rely on Antonio Candido (1970, 2006, 2007), Antonio de Pádua Dias da Silva (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011), Antonio de Pádua Dias da Silva e Carlos Eduardo Fernandes (2011), Dreyfuss e Rabinow (2010), Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1985), Didier Eribon (2008), Flávio Camargo (2011, 2012), Guacira Lopes Louro (2007, 2008, 2010), José Carlos Barcellos (2006), Judith Butler (2008, 2010), Jurandir Costa (1992), Kathryn Woodward (2000), Mário César Lugarinho (2008), Rick Santos (1997), Terry Eagleton (2006) and Tzevetan Todorov (2010), among other authors and critics concerned with these issues.

Over the past 20 years, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals have made progress in attaining the same basic civil rights as heterosexual individuals. As in other civil rights movements, the college campus has played an important role. The LGBT community participates in academic and campus life, and numerous colleges are developing and supporting an inclusive, safe, and respectful culture. However, bias and prejudice continue to occur. While researchers have studied the repercussions of prejudice, discrimination, and low evaluation scores for LGBT faculty, little research has been done to explore professional identity and activism in LGBT faculty at traditional 4-year universities. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore how the narratives of LGBT faculty at traditional 4-year universities inform the experience of professional identity and activism. Using social identity theory and the concept of activism as conceptual frameworks, 13 faculty from college campuses across the United States were interviewed. The data were analyzed using NVivo software and hand coding. Ten themes were identified: coming out, identity, gender fluidity, stigmatization, campus climate, blatant prejudice and discrimination, resources, advocacy, responsibility, and positive experiences. Participants described professional identity as being fused with their sexual and social identity and described activism as an obligation. The results of this study will be shared in the scholarly and professional communities to support civil rights, activism, and advocacy for the LBGT community on campuses. Future research is recommended regarding the struggles of coming/being out in the academic workplace, as well as activism for LGBT issues on college campuses.