Et kvalitativt interviewstudie som undersøger queer- og LGBTQ+ personers møde med det danske sundhedssystem i forbindelse med fertilitetsbehandling. Eksamensprojekt i sexologi 30 højskolepoint. Malmø Universitet: Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle, Institutionen för sexologistudier, 2019.De seneste 20 år har området for reproduktive rettigheder til LGBTQ+ personer undergået en rivende udvikling, og varierede udgaver af LGBTQ+ familier er en familieform i stigning i Danmark. Samtidig tegner LGBTQ+ personer sig som helhed for en høj grad af ulighed i sundhed. De fleste LGBTQ+ personer modtager fertilitetsbehandling når de skal danne familie, men alligevel er der meget begrænset med forskning i hvordan den brede LGBTQ+ gruppe oplever mødet med sundhedssystemet i forbindelse med reproduktion og familiedannelse. Resultaterne viser en overvægt af svære og udfordrende oplevelser på både strukturel og individuel plan. Dette indebærer bl.a. at deltagerne oplever at de skal være eksperter på egen behandling, at de oplever sig forkerte, og henholdsvis meget synlige eller usynlige. Deltagerne har en skeptisk eller negativ forventning til at skulle i behandling grundet tidligere erfaringer med sundhedsvæsenet. Omvendt har deltagerne tillid til det faglige niveau i behandlingen. På trods heraf viser resultaterne adskillige tilfælde af kritisabel behandling. Det konkluderes, at sundhedspersonalet har behov for yderligere viden og kompetencer for at kunne yde queerfamilier en faglig kompetent behandling. Ligeledes efterlyses der yderligere skandinavisk forskning fra et normkritisk og sexologisk perspektiv. / The field of reproductive rights for LGBTQ+ individuals has undergone a substantial development during the last twenty years. Different editions of LGBTQ+ families have appeared and steadily rise in numbers. At the same time, LGBTQ+ individuals are disadvantaged when it comes to health issues. Most LGBTQ+ undergo fertility treatment when they form a family, but despite this fact, the research looking at their experience with the health care system in relation to reproduction and family creation, is very limited. By applying the concept of biopower by Michel Foucault this project explores how the current discourse around reproduction and family manifests itself in the fertility treatment of LGBTQ+ persons.The results show a magnitude of challenging experiences on both structural and individual levels. As a result of this, the participants in this study experience a necessity to become experts of their own treatment; they feel out of place and at the same time very visible and invisible in a heteronormative system. The participants are sceptical or have negative expectations to the meeting with the health care professionals, which are founded in previous negative encounters with the health care system. On the other hand, the participants have high expectations to the professional medical level of the health care professionals. The conclusion is that health care professionals in Denmark need additional knowledge and skill sets to provide LGBTQ+ persons the appropriate professional treatment. This calls out for additional Scandinavian research in fertility treatment from a critical and sexological perspective.

This roundtable session examines ways of addressing social change for LGBTQ members through a motivational interviewing lens within a feminist theory framework. Members of the LGBTQ community face discrimination that can impact income, job security, access to highquality health care, interpersonal relationships and mental health. Rolling with the resistance is the foundation for this roundtable session to invoke social change that promotes equality and safety for this community.

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This thesis examines the portrayal of racial and sexual identities in the film Love, Simon (2018). Love, Simon follows the story of Simon Spier, a white, gay high school student who discovers true love and acceptance from his peers. Many Hollywood entertainment reviewers praised the film for its progressive portrayal of a LGBTQ romance between teenage characters. At the same time, Love, Simon uses Black characters to re-center Simon to show that Whiteness can rehabilitate queerness. I use Jasbir K. Puar’s (2007) idea of homonationalism- LGBTQ rights discourse privilege white gay men while conversely decentering Black and Brown (queer) people- and postracism as organizing frameworks for this thesis project. I ask: how might homonationalism create new understandings of how Love, Simon portrays race and sexuality? What are the costs of the film including some bodies while isolating and disadvantaging others?

CHARLES UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Institute of political sciences LGBTQ issues of the right to asylum and the refugee status Master thesis 2019 Jon Landaluze Aurre Author: Jon Landaluze Aurre Supervisor: JUDr. Milan Lipovsky, Ph.D. Study programme: MAIN Academic Year: 2018/2019 Bibliographic note LANDALUZE, Jon. (2019) LGBTQ issues of the right to asylum and the refugee status. Master thesis. Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences. Institute of Political Science. Supervisor: JUDr. Milan Lipovsky, Ph.D. Abstract Here we find a thesis on the topic of refugee protection and the specific area of LGBTQ applicants. This is a topic that still nowadays is important to analyze, since the acceptation and evolution of these specific cases is something that evolves throughout the present times. The objective of it is to first define the refugee definition and to see if the definition that is given is actually interpreted in the way that it protects this group of people worldwide. It then goes to analyze the European interpretation of the topic and the issues that usually arise when making decisions about international protection of the applicants, concluding with the problems that actually happen and the possible solutions to avoid them. Keywords Refugees, Asylum, LGBTQ, Persecution, International...

Thesis advisor: Paul Poteat / Research examining the health of sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth has expanded recently from a focus on how social contexts are linked to health risk to ways they promote wellbeing. The positive youth development (PYD) framework has been increasingly used to conceptualize how various social contexts may promote SGM youth wellbeing, as well as help them engage in community-level change through contribution efforts. There is limited research examining how the family context may promote PYD outcomes and contribution for SGM youth, despite the setting’s association with positive development for heterosexual/cisgender youth. Furthermore, there is a paucity of literature contextualizing family support for SGM identities alongside other measures of family relationships.Parent-child attachment and family cohesion are two measures of family-child relationships that have historically been linked to positive development in youth. They have been linked to various markers of positive development in youth, including confidence, care for others, hope, and gratitude, which in turn may promote greater advocacy and community engagement. This study examined a structural model testing the role of several measures of family relationships in predicting PYD qualities and contribution behaviors for SGM youth. Among 270 SGM youth, structural equation modeling analyses tested the relationship between family relationships with SGM youth (parent-child attachment, family cohesion, and SGM-specific support) and PYD qualities (confidence, care for others, hope, and gratitude) as well as contribution behaviors (advocacy beliefs and community engagement), as mediated by PYD qualities over a six month period. Results indicated that each measure of family relationships was uniquely associated with various PYD qualities and contribution in participants. Furthermore, care for others acted as an indirect pathway through which parent-child attachment was associated with greater advocacy and community engagement for participants. These findings position families as having a role in promoting SGM youth wellbeing within the larger community and contextualize how various markers of family relationships promote select PYD qualities and behaviors. Future research should continue to investigate the longitudinal role of positive family relationships in SGM youth development and how a more nuanced understanding of these relationships may have clinical applications for practitioners and youth wellbeing. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2022. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology.

LGBTQ individuals may be at risk for suicidal behavior due to perceived stigma and psychopathology. However, protective factors, such as community connectedness, may reduce risk. We examined depression and anxiety as mediators of the linkage between perceived stigma and suicidal behavior, and the moderating role of LGBTQ community connectedness. Among our sample of LGBTQ persons (N = 496), psychopathology mediated the association between perceived stigma and suicidal behavior. Connectedness moderated the relation between perceived stigma and depression, and between perceived stigma and suicidal behavior in the anxiety model. Therapeutically addressing stigma and promoting LGBTQ community connectedness may reduce risk for suicidal behavior.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This paper will be discussing gay and lesbian activism in Indianapolis during the 1980s and how the mayoral administration at the time interacted with it. We know the stories of Stonewall and San Francisco. But what about gay and lesbian activism in the Midwest? What stories does Indianapolis have to tell? This thesis will cover how a portion of the movement played out in Indianapolis. It will shine a light on the 1980s and look specifically at police discrimination on Monument Circle, gatherings like the Gay Knights rallies and the 1990 Celebration on the Circle, and political efforts to combat the HIV epidemic. It will also explore the local actions by city government to undertake the urban renewal movement and how those efforts interacted with queer activism. Collections from the Indiana Historical Society, University of Indianapolis, and the Indiana State Library illuminate both sides of the social conflict to understand what made this moment in Indianapolis a touchstone moment for the city. This thesis argues that gay and lesbian protests and social gatherings on Monument Circle rendered the queer community impossible to ignore in the Hudnut administration’s dreams to reform Indianapolis into an entrepreneurial city.

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