This study explored the experiences of college staff members engaged in advancing LGBTQ equity at a small fine arts college in the Midwestern United States. This qualitative case study advanced a conceptual framework for queer leadership in higher education. Findings illuminate how campus leaders engaged queer leadership strategies and LGBTQ…

The justifiability scale (JS) is widely used to measure individual and country differences in moral attitudes. However, the validity of the instrument has been barely assessed. The current study addressed the concurrent and content validity of four popular JS items (justifiability of homosexuality, suicide, prostitution, and euthanasia). A sample…

The teaching of young children (aged between 5 and 9) or Foundation Phase (FP) as it is known in South Africa, is highly gendered and is labeled a 'woman's' job. Globally there have been calls to lessen the gender disparity within the profession by increasing the participation of men. However, apprehensions about men teaching young children can…

Purpose: Discourses celebrating Kurt Hahn's practical and intellectual contributions to the field of progressive education are ubiquitous. However, the centrality of sexuality in Hahn's educational aims is often misrecognized in contemporary accounts. The purpose of this paper is to provide an historical and historicized contextualization of…

This manuscript examines the ways that a Queer Chicana teacher's multiple identities and perceptions of race, gender, and sexuality shape her efforts to disrupt colonial models of education in the United States. Through a self-narrativization research design, the authors explore three essential dimensions of educational expectations…

This article presents a thematic analysis of a part of research results on LGBT (in)visibility in education from the perspective of educators, obtained by four focus groups conducted with educators (N = 27) employed at four secondary schools. The aim of the article is to apply the pedagogical relationship as a conceptual framework to analyze the…

Background: Given the high levels of homophobia that exist in South Africa, including in its schools and universities, it is imperative that university lecturers develop integrated and transdisciplinary curriculums to educate pre-service teachers about sexuality and to empower them to incorporate lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex…

The institution of schooling is a key socializing agent, and teachers' attitudes toward gender and sexual diversity play a crucial role in the education of all children, shaping in particular the school experience of LGBT + children and youth. Our research used a survey of Early Childhood and Primary teachers (N = 182) and university students…

Purpose: This qualitative, phenomenological study explores gay fatherhood visibility in schools. The study was guided by prior research on families headed by lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) parents, as well as the theoretical exploration of "doing family" for LGBTQ-headed households and queer families. Data Collection…

This study examined how first-year, gay, male undergraduate students attending Jesuit Catholic institutions make sense of their transition to college experience. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews. The participants included seven gay, cisgender, male individuals who were current undergraduate students at a Jesuit university and…

This paper examines the experiences of nine Chinese girls and young women as they explore and negotiate queer subjectivities within the constraints of patriarchal and (hetero)sexual norms surrounding girlhood and young femininity. I focus on filial piety ("xiaoshun") as a normative gendered discourse being reconfigured in changing…

Formerly heterosexually partnered gay fathers raised with religion are an under-researched group of LGBTQ parents. This group have potentially complex coming out journeys, which can result in them seeking counselling. This research qualitatively explores the counselling experiences of 12 such men and offers suggestions for working therapeutically…

This article explores vulnerability and intuition through Stay Gold, an intergenerational arts program developed specifically for the LGBTQIA+ community and its relationship to museum education. Our bodies are subjugated by normative ideologies at birth, and certain bodies (I use the term queer for these bodies, which encompasses sexualities,…

In "All In: Community Engaged Scholarship for Social Change," authors at various stages of their academic and professional careers, and in very different geographical contexts and community settings, provide unique examples of public scholarship for social justice. Readers will learn about activities promoting equity in a variety of…

Heterosexual adolescents with same-sex sexual partners may be at increased risk for psychological distress from victimization; this may lead to suicidality. We tested if sexual identity modified the association between bullying at school and suicide planning among adolescents with the same-sex sexual partners. We sampled 924 youth with same-sex…