{"title":"Facilitating the transition processes of transsexual people in a university setting: Lessons from one transperson’s journey","authors":"M. Valentich, Teri Jane Ursacki-Bryant","doi":"10.53841/bpslg.2009.10.1.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpslg.2009.10.1.52","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents Teri’s story of her male-to-female transition in a university setting, revealing issues and strategies for improving the odds of success in transsexual transitions in educational settings.","PeriodicalId":311409,"journal":{"name":"Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117059807","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":"‘Like a wall coming down’: Experiencing homosexuality as Mormon returned missionaries","authors":"J. M. Montenegro","doi":"10.53841/bpslg.2008.9.1.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpslg.2008.9.1.18","url":null,"abstract":"This study attempted to explore the ‘coming out’ experiences of gay men affiliated with the Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon) Church, and who once were missionaries for their church. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was chosen as the method of data analysis. Three self-identified gay men were interviewed over the telephone and their discourses tape-recorded and transcribed. Five main themes emerged from the data: (1) heterosexuality as ideal; (2) awareness of own sexuality; (3) becoming a Missionary; (4) enduring gay feelings; and (5) embracing a gay lifestyle. Overall, participants experienced early in life the stigma that their church has on homosexuality, and felt failure and despair for sometime after returning from their mission. In the end, they have prioritized their sexuality over religion but are hopeful that the LDS church will one day accept gay people without trying to change their sexuality.","PeriodicalId":311409,"journal":{"name":"Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127673254","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":"Homosexuals in Poland: Gender, sexuality and personality","authors":"I. Janicka, M. Kwiatkowski","doi":"10.53841/bpslg.2008.9.1.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpslg.2008.9.1.34","url":null,"abstract":"The research aimed to describe personality profiles and possible differences in terms of psychological gender of homosexual and heterosexual individuals.This was a survey study where the Neuroticism-Extroversion-Openness Inventory – Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) and Inventory of Psychological Gender were administered.The project included 152 people. The homosexual group comprised of 59 males and 31 females, and the heterosexual group had an equal number of 31 males and females.A difference was found in the personality profiles of homosexual and heterosexual persons of both sexes. Homosexual women scored higher in neuroticism and conscientiousness than heterosexual women (p=0.001), while homosexual men had a significantly higher level of conscientiousness than heterosexuals (p=0.018): they represent an androgenic type of psychological gender, in which they consider themselves belonging to categories assigned by society to both men and women.","PeriodicalId":311409,"journal":{"name":"Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114888894","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":"Interview with Professor Peggy CohenKettenis on the treatment of Trans Youth","authors":"C. Richards","doi":"10.53841/bpslg.2008.9.1.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpslg.2008.9.1.44","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311409,"journal":{"name":"Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126809199","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":"Health needs of the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual community extend beyond sexual health","authors":"E. Buckley, P. Sanderson, D. White","doi":"10.53841/bpslg.2007.8.2.116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpslg.2007.8.2.116","url":null,"abstract":"Health promotion within LGB populations is almost solely confined to HIV prevention needs of men. However, research (primarily from the US) suggests LGB individuals experience inequalities in mental and physical health compared to heterosexuals. This research aimed to assess the wider health needs of the LGB population of the West Midlands, UK, via self-report questionnaires. 1532 LGB individuals participated. There was a high level of smoking, alcohol and substance use, engagement in sexual risk behaviours, and mental health problems (depression, self-harm and suicide attempts), and low use of screening/vaccination services. Whilst it is important to address sexual risk behaviours directly, it is necessary to consider the broader context of the physical, mental and sexual health of LGB populations in health promotion.","PeriodicalId":311409,"journal":{"name":"Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114502949","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":"Migrant men: Managing gay and European identities in London","authors":"Gian Nicola Bagnara","doi":"10.5964/EJOP.V3I4.415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5964/EJOP.V3I4.415","url":null,"abstract":"London and its multicultural arena provide the socio-geographical niche for the qualitative analysis of identity processes. In this report I explore the psychological strategies adopted by migrant gay men to manage multiple identities. Grounded theory was used to discover dominant themes emerging from respondents’ narratives about the interplay between European, national, migrant and gay identities. My analysis suggests that multiple identities are managed as a form of resistance against the oppression inflicted by mainstream heteronormative structures. The ‘self in action’, the major emergent theme, downplays fixed identities, chooses amongst the available social scripts, and strives to generate new forms of cultural and social capital. Despite a favourable socio-political climate, respondents’ narratives reflect the crisis of the London gay community in providing ‘positive gay visibilities’ that go beyond the commercial scene. The implications of multiple identities for research, as well as the risks involved with qualitative analysis of small samples, are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":311409,"journal":{"name":"Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114691987","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":"Obituary: Vernon L. Bullough (1928–2006)","authors":"Toni Brennan","doi":"10.53841/bpslg.2007.8.2.169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpslg.2007.8.2.169","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311409,"journal":{"name":"Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130242902","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":"Resisting the binary: Discourses of identity and diversity in bisexual politics 1988–1996","authors":"Helen Bowes-Catton","doi":"10.53841/bpslg.2007.8.1.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpslg.2007.8.1.58","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, post-structural discourse analysis is used to examine discourses of identity in the political literature of the UK bisexual movement during the period 1988-1996. Two competing discursive strategies are identified, both of which draw on academic discourses of essentialism and constructionism to articulate resistance to dominant binary categories of sexuality. The first of these strategies seeks to establish bisexuality as essential and authentic, dismissing homosexuality and heterosexuality as socially constructed. The second presents bisexuality as unifying and liberating, compared to divisive and restrictive binary categories.","PeriodicalId":311409,"journal":{"name":"Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130487270","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":"Beyond the one-size-fits-all model of relationship recognition","authors":"P. Tatchell","doi":"10.53841/bpslg.2007.8.1.00","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpslg.2007.8.1.00","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311409,"journal":{"name":"Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review","volume":"234 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133171625","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":"Modern prejudice at work: Effects of homonegativity and the perceived erotic value of lesbians and gay men on heterosexuals’ reactions to explicit and discrete couples","authors":"Carmen Buechel, P. Hegarty","doi":"10.53841/bpslg.2007.8.1.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpslg.2007.8.1.71","url":null,"abstract":"Modern heterosexism has been described as a negative attitude that differs from ‘old-fashioned’ moral objections about homosexuality, but includes more abstract objections, such as the view that gay men and lesbian women exaggerate the importance of, or flaunt their sexuality (Morrison & Morrison, 2002). Modern heterosexists are likely to accept homosexuality per se, while feeling uncomfortable with people ‘doing’ homosexuality. Sixty-seven male and 68 female students read vignettes about either a gay, lesbian, or straight couple who were co-workers and who were dating explicitly or discretely. Participants expressed their acceptance of and comfort with the couple, and their reaction to a complaint made about them by a co-worker. Males scored higher than females on old-fashioned and modern prejudice. High scorers, but not low scorers, on a modern heterosexism scale preferred discrete to explicit homosexual couples. Additionally, men who perceived lesbianism as highly erotic were no more acceptant of lesbian than gay couples. Results are discussed and implications for future research are described.","PeriodicalId":311409,"journal":{"name":"Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130975391","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}