Negotiating ethnicity, sexuality and gender : the personal identities of lesbians from non-English-speaking backgrounds

Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Women's Studies, 199

Putting families of origin into the queer picture

Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) individuals have been socially constructed as “family outlaws”, but in relation to partnership and parenting, far-reaching changes have taken place in the last decades, and research has kept an attentive eye on these changes. This chapter introduces the issues regarding families of choice and families of origin. It also introduces the chapters in the book that present research on families of origin and shifting discourses and constructions of family. It also suggests directions for future research and critical thinking

Supporting same-sex attracted and gender diverse young people of multicultural and multifaith backgrounds: executive summary and full research report

Deakin University and the Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council Inc. (AGMC) are pleased to provide this research report to the Victorian Commissioner for Gender and Sexuality, Ro Allen, and the Advisory Group: Carmel Guerra, CEO of the Centre for Multicultural Youth; Soo-Lin Quek, Knowledge & Advocacy Manager of the Centre for Multicultural Youth; and Matt Dixon, Director of the Equality Branch of the Department of Premier and Cabinet. The research project involved conducting a case study analysis of the needs of SSAGD (same-sex attracted and gender diverse) young people of multicultural and multifaith (MCMF) backgrounds, and how these needs can be addressed by government, and by their cultural and religious communities

The "Real Voyage of Discovery": Auto/Biography, Reflexivity and Spiritual Journeying

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust The auto/biography Someone You Know (Pallotta-Chiarolli, 1991) is a voyage into the lives and worlds of two people. Jon is in a gay relationship; he is from an Anglo-Saxon Seventh Day Adventist background. Maria is a feminist, married, and from an Italian-Catholic background. They are teachers at a single-sex Catholic boys' school in Adelaide. Despite, and perhaps because of, their differences, and framed by the Catholic setting of the school and the ethnic and gay subcultural settings of their worlds outside the school, they become strong friends: their various worlds and emotional and spiritual journeys begin to interweave. This "real voyage of discovery" begins to appear part of some larger pre-destined tapestry as Jon discovers he has AIDS and Maria discovers she is pregnant. The book follows their interwoven emotional and spiritual journeys to birth/death and the discoveries that await them at their points of arrival

We\u27re the x-files : bisexual students \u27messing up tidy sex files\u27

Recent studies are pointing to higher rates of anxiety, depression and other mental health concerns among bisexual-identifying young people in Australia as compared to homosexual and heterosexual young people (Jorm et aI., 2002). International research has found that bisexually active adolescent males report especially high levels of AIDS risk behaviour (Goodenow et aI., 2002). There appears to be a strong link between these findings and the under-representation and mis-representation of bisexuality in Australian school curricula, cultures and communities (McLean, 2001, 2003a, forthcoming 2004; Owens, 1998; Pallotta-Chiarolli, in preparation 2005) .<br /