LGBTQ Youth Harmed by Homelessness

Severe family conflict, abuse, neglect, and abandonment all contribute to the social crisis of family displacement and homelessness for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth in America. A growing body of research points to the conclusion that each year, hundreds of thousands lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth will experience homelessness. LGBTQ youth are not only over-represented in homeless youth populations, but studies indicate that this population experiences greater physical and sexual exploitation while homeless than their heterosexual peers. Unfortunately, most American communities lack an adequate capacity of programs and resources to offer support to prevent and end homelessness for LGBTQ homeless youth. Once homeless, LGBTQ youth experience instability, abuse, and exploitation during a critical human development stage. Without residential stability, nurturance, and opportunities for positive youth development, LGBTQ homeless youth are set up for further challenges as adults

Bias in the Workplace: Consistent Evidence of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination 1998-2008

This article summarizes social science data published during the past decade documenting discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in employment. Over the last ten years, many researchers have conducted studies to find out whether LGBT people face sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace. These studies include surveys of LGBT individuals\u27 workplace experiences, wage comparisons between lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) and heterosexual persons, analyses of discrimination complaints filed with administrative agencies, and testing studies and controlled experiments

Seminars in the City Update

Each semester, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies hosts a Seminar in the City, a series of monthly discussion meetings where nonacademic readers read major works in lesbian/gay/ bisexual/transgender and queer studies. This fall, Seminars in the City focused on the theme of transgender politics, reading texts by Kate Bornstein, Leslie Feinberg, and Riki Anne Wilchins

Homosexual Identity, Translation, and Prime-Stevenson\u27s Imre and The Intersexes

In her article Homosexual Identity, Translation, and Prime-Stevenson\u27s Imre and The Intersexes Margaret S. Breen examines the role of translation in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies. Breen\u27s focus is Edward Prime-Stevenson, who, under the penname Xavier Mayne, wrote two works: a short novel, Imre: A Memorandum (1906), and a general history of homosexuality, The Intersexes: A History of Similisexualism as a Problem of Social Life (1908). Breen argues that Prime-Stevenson\u27s texts are relevant to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century discussions of (homo)sexuality because they point to the importance of translation in writings concerning sexual and gender identities and behavior, specifically in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender literature from the late nineteenth century forward

North East GLBT Group/Center List 2008

This is a compiled list all the colleges and university GLBT groups and/or Centers in the North East as of October of 2008. North East GLBT Center Listings 2008; Pankaj Ahire; Joe Santiago; Joseph A Santiago; New England Queer College Organization (NEQCO) [email protected] RHODE ISLAND: Rhode Island College – The Unity Center Phone: 401-456-8791 or 401-456-8255 Email: [email protected] Out On Campus Newsletter: [email protected]; Brown University – Queer Alliance Phone: 401-863-3062 Email: [email protected] Salve Regina University – Gay, Straight, Lesbian & Bisexual Alliance No Contact given on Website – Dir. Of Student Activities: Bart Carithers (ext.2225) Main Phone: 401-847-6650 Roger Williams; Bryant University – Bryant Pride (Student Organization) President – link provided on site Advisor: Judith McDonnell ([email protected]) Johnson and Wales University – Women’s Center (works w/ LGBTQ community) Phone: 401-598-2248; 401-598-1289 Links to email provided on site CONNECTICUT: Fairfield University - Alliance [email protected] Southern CT State University, Women’s Center (203) 392-6946 [email protected]. UCONN – Rainbow Center We are located in the Student Union on the 4th Floor, Room 403. Mailing Address: 2110 Hillside Road, Unit 3096 Storrs, CT 06269-3096 Phone: 860.486.5821 Fax: 860.486.6674 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.rainbowcenter.uconn.edu/ Western CT State University Gay Straight Alliance Stand Together [email protected] University of Hartford Presidents Advisory Committee Jane Horvath, Chair, Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences [email protected] Gene Gort, Assistant Professor, Hartford Art School [email protected] Marcia Moen, Associate Professor, Arts & Sciences [email protected] Lynn Thibodeau, Information Technology Services [email protected] MASSACHUSETTS: Boston University – Spectrum [email protected] Bridgewater State College – GLBT Pride Center Lisa Forest, GLBT Coordinator GLBTA Pride Center Campus Center Room 009a [email protected] (508) 531-1408 Emerson College – The Office of GLBT Student Life [email protected] Northeastern University Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Advisory Group Donnie Perkins, Dean & Director Office of Affirmative Action (617) 373-2133 voice (617) 373-5814 TTY [email protected] Suffolk University - President’s Commission Wilma Busse, Chair, 617.573.8226 NEW HAMPSHIRE: Dartmouth College – Tuck Gay/Straight Alliance 100 Tuck Hall Tuck School of Business Hanover, NH 03755 Email [email protected] Plymouth State University – ALSO – the GSA of PSU [email protected] University of New Hampshire – President\u27s Commission on the Status of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues [email protected] NEW JERSEY: Bergen Community – College GLBT Alliance President: Jamie Bussell [email protected] Advisor: Ed Mather [email protected] Advisor: Jim Bumgardner [email protected] The College of New Jersey – PRISM [email protected] (609) 771-2390 AIM: PRISMatTCNJ Rowan University – Gay Straight Alliance [email protected] PENNSYLVANIA: Bloomsburg University GLBT Office [email protected] 570-389-2819 Indiana University of Pennsylvania – University Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues Contact: Dan Burkett, Associate Professor Department of Mathematics Indiana University of Pennsylvania 219C Stright Hall Indiana, PA 15701 724.357.4761 (office) [email protected] Penn State University Rainbow Alliance Karen Kihurani, Advisor 610-396-6080 [email protected] Pete Coleman 610-396-6072 [email protected] NEW YORK: Alfred University, Spectrum (GLBT Student Group) Advisor: Vikki Eaklor 607.871.2706 [email protected]; PENNSYLVANIA: Bloomsburg University GLBT Office [email protected] 570-389-2819 Indiana University of Pennsylvania – University Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues Contact: Dan Burkett, Associate Professor Department of Mathematics Indiana University of Pennsylvania 219C Stright Hall Indiana, PA 15701 724.357.4761 (office) [email protected] Penn State University Rainbow Alliance Karen Kihurani, Advisor 610-396-6080 [email protected] Pete Coleman 610-396-6072 [email protected] NEW YORK: Alfred University, Spectrum (GLBT Student Group) Advisor: Vikki Eaklor 607.871.2706 [email protected] Bard College, Queer Alliance Contact: Elizabeth Anderson (914) 758-6822 [email protected] Barnard College, Barnard Center for Research on Women 212.854.2067 [email protected] Brooklyn Law School, Outlaws (Student Group) Bryan Levine [email protected] Ben Riskin [email protected] Colgate University, Office of LGBTQ Initiatives Center for Women\u27s Studies 315-228-7279 [email protected] [email protected] The College of Saint Rose, Multicultural Student Affairs (GLBT Issues and student group) (518) 454 – 2050 [email protected] Columbia University, Columbia Queer Alliance President: Peter Gallotta ([email protected]) Email the entire board at: [email protected] The Cooper Union, GALA (Gay and Lesbian Association)–Student Organization Dean of Students 212.353.4130 Cornell University, Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Studies Director: Masha Raskolnikov 607.255.6480 [email protected] Fordham University, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Law Students Association (LGBTLSA) Co-Chairs: Katy Schuman and Claire Black (212) 636-6968 Faculty and Alumni Liaison: Shelia Cockburn Fordham University, LGBT Group Molly Grimes, PsyD (212) 636-6228 Hamilton College, Women’s Studies Department Professor Margaret Gentry (315) 859-4282 [email protected] Hofstra University, Office of Multicultural and International Students Programs Gay Straight Alliance (516) 463-6796 Link on Website Ithaca College, Center for LGBT Education, Outreach and Services Lis Maurer, Coordinator 607-274-7394 [email protected] Jewish Theological Seminary, Gayava and the NUJLS– links for email on website: http://www.jtsa.edu/x1193.xml Manhattan College, Standing Together (student group) Advisor: Dr. Thomas Ferguson (718) 862-7137 [email protected] Manhattanville College, Gay Straight Coalition [email protected] New School University, GLBT Student Group Contact: Tanya Sielman Asst. Dir. Of Student Development 212.580.0210 x4844 [email protected] New York University, The Office LGBT Student Services (212) 998-4424 [email protected]; The Cooper Union, GALA (Gay and Lesbian Association)–Student Organization Dean of Students 212.353.4130 Cornell University, Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Studies Director: Masha Raskolnikov 607.255.6480 [email protected] Fordham University, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Law Students Association (LGBTLSA) Co-Chairs: Katy Schuman and Claire Black (212) 636-6968 Faculty and Alumni Liaison: Shelia Cockburn Fordham University, LGBT Group Molly Grimes, PsyD (212) 636-6228 Hamilton College, Women’s Studies Department Professor Margaret Gentry (315) 859-4282 [email protected] Hofstra University, Office of Multicultural and International Students Programs Gay Straight Alliance (516) 463-6796 Link on Website Ithaca College, Center for LGBT Education, Outreach and Services Lis Maurer, Coordinator 607-274-7394 [email protected] Jewish Theological Seminary, Gayava and the NUJLS– links for email on website: http://www.jtsa.edu/x1193.xml Manhattan College, Standing Together (student group) Advisor: Dr. Thomas Ferguson (718) 862-7137 [email protected] Manhattanville College, Gay Straight Coalition [email protected] New School University, GLBT Student Group Contact: Tanya Sielman Asst. Dir. Of Student Development 212.580.0210 x4844 [email protected] New York University, The Office LGBT Student Services (212) 998-4424 [email protected] Pace University, Office of Diversity Programs (GLBT Resources) 914-773-3775 [email protected] Sarah Lawrence College, Queer Variety Coalition (QVC) Contact: Ken Schneck, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs 914.395.2575 [email protected] SUNY Purchase, GLBTU (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Transgender Union) (914) 251-6976 Vassar College, Queer Coalition of Vassar College (845) 437-7203 [email protected] Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Pride Aliance Advisor: Beth Guikema [email protected] President: Justin Meden [email protected] PR Officer: Marc Ebuna [email protected] St. John’s University, Gay and Lesbian Law Association President: Zoe Polk Advisor: Prof. John Barrett [email protected] City University of New York, Division of Student Affairs Dr. Esther Peralez, Vice President for Student Affairs 212.650.5426 [email protected] Mr. Carmelo Rodriguez, Director of Student Services 212.650-5426 [email protected] The Graduate Center, QUNY Contact: Karin Kohlmeier [email protected] Stony Brook University, (SUNY) LGBTA (631) 632 6469 [email protected]

Invisible Majority: The Disparities Facing Bisexual People and How to Remedy Them

During the past decade, the United States has witnessed growing understanding and acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and increased legal protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Rarely, however, have the experiences and lives of bisexual people, who comprise more than half of the entire LGBT community, been explicitly considered in the social or legal narrative. Rather, bisexual people are frequently swept into the greater lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) community, their specific disparities made invisible within data about the LGB community as a whole.Invisible Majority: The Disparities Facing Bisexual People and How to Remedy Them focuses on the "invisible majority" of the LGBT community, the nearly five million adults in the U.S. who identify as bisexual and the millions more who have sexual or romantic attraction to or contact with people of more than one gender. The report provides an overview of current research so we can better understand those who comprise the largest share of the LGB population. It also examines how bias, stigma, discrimination, and invisibility combine to create serious negative outcomes for bisexual people, and it provides concrete recommendations for change. Finally, sidebars throughout the report highlight the lived experiences of bisexual people—and the pervasive discrimination and key disparities they face

Out for Change: Racial and Economic Justice Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communities

This research report identifies the range and complexity of issues faced by low-income LGBT people and LGBT people of color, including poverty and economic hardship, homelessness, the criminal justice system, violence and discrimination, and immigrant rights. The report concludes with a series of recommendations for grantmakers to support these issues

QUNY Notes

QUNY, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer student group at the CUNY Graduate Center, has recently elected Robert Kaplan (English) to join Manolo Guzman (Sociology) as the graduate student representatives to the CLAGS board. QUNY and CLAGS have also been working together to develop an interdisciplinary concentration in lesbian and gay studies at the GSUC

Progress and opportunities in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender health communications

This article describes elements of effective health communication and highlights strategies that may best be adopted or adapted in relation to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations. Studies have documented the utility of multidimensional approaches to health communication from the macro level of interventions targeting entire populations to the micro level of communication between health care provider and consumer. Although evidence of health disparities in LGBT communities underscores the importance of population-specific interventions, health promotion campaigns rarely target these populations and health communication activities seldom account for the diversity of LGBT communities. Advances in health communication suggest promising direction for LGBT-specific risk prevention and health promotion strategies on community, group, and provider/consumer levels. Opportunities for future health communication efforts include involving LGBT communities in the development of appropriate health communication campaigns and materials, enhancing media literacy among LGBT individuals, supporting LGBT-focused research and evaluation of health communication activities, and ensuring that health care providers possess the knowledge, skills, and competency to communicate effectively with LGBT consumers