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Queer Men with Prostate Cancer: How Heteronormative Healthcare is Harming Sexual Minority Men

05.30.19

Queer men navigating prostate cancer are harmed by a healthcare system that sees heterosexuality as the default. This assumption of heterosexuality prevents healthcare professionals from advising and acknowledging how adverse effects of prostate cancer treatment may affect queer men. These effects can be devastating to their sexual expression, sex role identification, and relationships to the […]

Gender, Race and Identity

If Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps is a terrorist organization, so are other state-run groups

05.28.19

BY NIKU JAFARNIA In early April, the Trump administration designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a branch of Iran’s military, as a terrorist organization. The decision was unprecedented. As Trump himself noted, the IRGC designation marked “the first time that the United States has ever named a part of another government as a[n] FTO” (Foreign […]

International Relations and Security

Responding to the Needs of LGBTQ Refugees

05.22.19

Rawad, a gay man from northeast Syrian town of Raqqa, was kidnapped shortly after Islamic State insurgents invaded his hometown in 2013. They tortured him. They beat him. They handcuffed him and hung him from the ceiling. After eleven days, he escaped. Rawad fled Syria and sought refuge in Lebanon, where he has tried to […]

Gender, Race and Identity

Defending Rights from “Gender Ideology”: Discourses in Mexico’s Backlash against LGBTI Inclusion

05.22.19

In May 2016, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto issued a number of directives for LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex) inclusion in various arenas, including marriage. This was followed by strong opposition, in particular from the Catholic Church and the National Front for the Family, a newly emerged coalition of civil society organizations. The […]

Gender, Race and Identity

LGBT Rights on the International Stage: An Analysis of Diplomatic Practice

05.22.19

Over the last decade, LGBTQ rights have developed a strong presence within international diplomacy, yet support remains subject to debate within the international community. International bodies such as the United Nations have passed measures to support LGBTQ rights, but official statements typically face resistance from member states unwilling to address their own records on the […]

Gender, Race and Identity

The Protection of LGBTI Migrants in Camp Settings

05.22.19

This paper examines the dangers presented to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender or Intersex (LGBTI) persons who find themselves among the 2.6 million forcibly displaced persons living in camp settings. While some LGBTI individuals flee due to the persecution of their sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression (SOGIE), others are forcibly displaced by a political, […]

Gender, Race and Identity

Queer Kinship Could Heal the World

05.22.19

This article argues that queer people possess a unique social potential and position that could be leveraged to build empathy and knowledge bridges related to an array of challenges facing the contemporary world. Queer people have a unique relationship to kinship, as they often possess at least one distinct identity from those of their immediate […]

Gender, Race and Identity

Ignored LGBTQ Prisoners: Discrimination in Education, Rehabilitation, and Mental Health Services During Incarceration

05.22.19

Editor’s Note: Given the limited technology and communication pathways afforded prisoners, this manuscript was edited by Reed Miller of Black and Pink, Inc. LGBTQ people are sent to prison for a wide range of convictions, with most tracing their first incarceration to their juvenile years. LGBTQ youth are disproportionately represented in the juvenile “injustice” system. […]

Gender, Race and Identity

Transgender Warrior & Elder: An Interview with Jessica Xavier

05.22.19

Jessica Xavier has been a leading trans activist, scholar, and artist for more than 25 years. She was the co-founder of the first nationally organized grassroots political action and lobbying group for transgender people, It’s Time, America!, in 1994, and also co-founded Gender Education and Advocacy in 2000. Jessica is also a pioneer in transgender-related […]

Gender, Race and Identity

Non-Binary Actors and the Theatre Industry: An Interview with Kevin Kantor

05.22.19

Kevin Kantor (they/them) is a genderqueer non-binary director, actor, and performance poet working to challenge, deconstruct, and reimagine traditional semiotics of gender on stage and in performance. They are currently in rehearsals at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, where they are originating the role of Mia in the American Premiere of Things I Know To Be […]

Gender, Race and Identity

That Time I Thought Homophobia Was Over on the Upper West Side

05.22.19

It doesn’t matter that it was two summers ago. It’s still hard to write about. And it doesn’t matter that Anita Bryant’s Save the Children Campaign, which successfully mobilized enough Miami residents to rescind an anti-discrimination ordinance protecting LGBTQ employees, was 40 years ago. Her campaign reverberates today. Especially in schools. Bryant’s motivation for Save […]

Gender, Race and Identity

Overriding the Constitution: Populism, the Notwithstanding Clause, and its implications for Canada’s rights framework

05.20.19

  BY ZACHARY SMITH On March 26, 2019, Quebec Premier François Legault confirmed that his government intended to preemptively override Canadian constitutional rights when passing Bill 21, An Act Respecting the Laicity of the State. While political taboos have historically prevented governments from using such overrides, normalization and changing political rhetoric have removed the restraints […]

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