{"title":"Gay-Straight Alliances and the Rethinking of Sexual Identity in Schools","authors":"D. R. Walling","doi":"10.1300/J367v04n01_07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J367v04n01_07","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As schools struggle to address gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues, some have found gay-straight alliances helpful. This essay reviews two recent GSA-related books, Melinda Miceli's Standing Out, Standing Together, and Susan Birden's Rethinking Sexual Identity in Education. Although largely philosophical treatments, both books present pathways to promising school practices.","PeriodicalId":213902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125231185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"British Columbia","authors":"Gerald Walton","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt1w6tg46.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1w6tg46.16","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Most school districts in British Columbia have failed to address homophobic bullying through programs and policies related to school safety. Two exceptions, namely the Victoria and Vancouver school districts, have adopted policies that specify homophobic bullying and education for students, staff, and administrators.","PeriodicalId":213902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114124706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bullying and Homophobia in UK Schools: A Perspective on Factors Affecting Resilience and Recovery","authors":"I. Rivers, H. Cowie","doi":"10.1300/J367v03n04_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J367v03n04_03","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article reports the results of a three-year study focusing on the experiences of a sample of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people in the United Kingdom who were victimized by their peers at school. Data collected from 190 LGBs suggested that experiences of victimization at school were both long-term and systematic, and were perpetrated by groups rather than by individuals. Subsequently, data collected from a sub-sample of 119 participants indicated that over 50 percent had contemplated self-harm or suicide at the time they were being harassed, and that 40 percent had engaged in such behavior at least once. As adults, participants were found to exhibit symptoms associated with negative affect when contrasted with heterosexual and non-victimized LGB peers. Seventeen percent exhibited symptoms associated with PTSD. However, the results also demonstrated that the majority of participants did not differ significantly from comparison groups in terms of self-esteem, and they had a positive attitude towards their sexual orientation. These findings are discussed with reference to the current literature about the development of resilience following exposure to violence and trauma.","PeriodicalId":213902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128780458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Media, Sexual Subcultures, and a Critical Perspective on Research Problematics, Practices, and Possibilities","authors":"M. Bryson","doi":"10.1300/J367v03n04_11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J367v03n04_11","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay provides an examination of questions that are intended as a provisional frame for critical inquiry concerning new media and sexual subcultures. The author provides a close reading of recent studies that are exemplary in their contribution to research concerned with the significance of artifacts and the production, mediatization and narrativization of queer relations, identificatory practices, desires, community participation, and social networks.","PeriodicalId":213902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131538906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Danger and Opportunity: Institutional Identity Crises and Transformation","authors":"Warren J. Blumenfeld","doi":"10.1300/J367v03n04_06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J367v03n04_06","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Using the theoretical lenses of Erik Erikson, Burton Clark, and Sonia Nieto, the author highlights the case of Colgate University-a private liberal arts university in central New York State-to consider larger issues of institutional identity by investigating points of crises bringing to the surface opposing forces, which struggle, on one hand, to maintain and permanently entrench the status quo, and on the other hand, to transform an institution to a new, qualitatively distinct developmental position. At the core of this investigation is Colgate University's questioning of its identity in terms of a prevailing “masculine” culture and its climate of heterosexism. This examination of Colgate University in microcosmic perspective exemplifies the clash of opposing forces surfacing in institutions of higher education across the United States.","PeriodicalId":213902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122266262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Queer Global Education: Finding Me, Finding You","authors":"Robert C. Mizzi","doi":"10.1300/J367v03n04_10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J367v03n04_10","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This review essay examines three texts: Queer Theory: Readers in Cultural Criticism; Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism; and Homosexuality: Challenging the Stigma. These books illustrate the engaged cultural complexities when reinforcing a power-knowledge-culture nexus in public pedagogy in local and international contexts.","PeriodicalId":213902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education","volume":"195 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126170773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Portrait of a Lesbian Couple","authors":"Laurel Lampela","doi":"10.1300/J367V03N04_02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J367V03N04_02","url":null,"abstract":"Mammen is one of the most versatile and unusual artists of her time. She was born Gertrud Johanna Mammen on November 21, 1890 in Berlin, Germany. When she was five-years-old the family moved to Paris. She and her older sister, Marie Louise, had their formal art education in France, Brussels, and Italy. Upon their return to Paris, in 1912, they moved into a studio and organized their first exhibition. At the outbreak of World War I, the German family had fled France, first going to Holland and then onto Berlin, where they struggled to survive. In 1919, Mammen and her sister moved into an apartment studio in the middle of the city, where they pursued their artwork. Especially during the 1920s and 1930s, Mammen created vivid depictions of life in the booming metropolis Berlin. She portrayed people of all walks of life, but her focus was on the New Woman in the Weimar Republic and her role in society. At the time, Berlin was the center for lesbian and gay subculture in Germany. Mammen painted a realistic picture of her female subjects, also unabashedly depicting lesbians involved in intimate relationships–some portraits less obvious and more covert than others (Lampela, 2005; Sykora, 1989). She Represents is one of the many watercolors of that style period (realistic style period 1922-1934). It can be read as a restrained and possibly coded portrait of a lesbian couple. We are first confronted with what appears to be a heterosexual couple but soon realize both figures","PeriodicalId":213902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122697560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Equity Undone: The Impact of the Conservative Ontario Government's Education Reforms on the Triangle Program","authors":"V. Russell","doi":"10.1300/J367V03N04_04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J367V03N04_04","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While many schools and boards of education are currently forming viable partnerships with queer community organizations in an effort to build upon existing anti-homophobia initiatives, there has been an erosion of such programs in Ontario, Canada. The education system has felt the effects of almost a decade of a conservative government, including a decrease in power of locally elected school boards, the amalgamation of cities, and serious cuts to programs serving the needs of marginalized communities. The author, a former consultant at the Toronto District School Board in the Equity Department and teacher/coordinator of the Triangle Program (the only high school classroom for queer youth in Canada), traces the effects of these political changes on the program and the infrastructure which supports it.","PeriodicalId":213902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131414929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}