Surveys 162 self-identified lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals with regard to suicidal behaviors, suicide risk factors, and reasons for living. Approximately 41% of the respondents indicated a serious consideration of suicide including the identification of a specific suicide plan or a past suicide attempt with significant intent to die.…

Analyzes South Dakota Supreme Court decision reversing school board's dismissal for incompetence of fifth-grade teacher for answering boys' questions about homosexual sex in explicit language. Court held that teacher's singular incident involving indiscreet answers was not sufficient to support charge of incompetence nor was the board policy…

A counselor training seminar on sexual orientation is presented in this article. The seminar incorporated popular songs, readings, and class discussion to increase awareness of sexual identity development, stereotypes, and counseling interventions for lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) clients. Results of evaluations suggest that the seminar had a…

The cultural world of the Two Spirit, the traditional role of Native individuals believed to possess both male and female spirit, is explored in both "old ways" and current-day experiences. Cultural beliefs and meanings around sexual identity are discussed from a Native perspective with recommendations for counseling Two Spirit clients.…

Discusses how a feminist conception of objectivity can be used to guide a needs assessment of the sexual health needs of men who have sex with men. In the example, a feminist approach was used to inform a needs assessment that involved 1,000 men. Applied criteria proposed by D. Haraway (1988): accountability, positioning, and partiality. (SLD)

Explores some queer and performative objections, challenges, and counterproposals to the identity-based pedagogies still dominating composition studies and closely related fields, bringing to the foreground pedagogies that take the instability of identity as a starting point and move toward even greater deconstruction. Proposes a tentative…

Focuses on the way sexual excesses inscribed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Oriental discourses served to open up "queer" spaces in Romantic literature, while analyzing the degree to which the master narrative of British colonial domination was in part dependent on narratives of the sexual degeneracy of the Other. Focuses on…

Presents an interview with Alex Sanchez. Notes that his book "Rainbow Boys" has been called the "best gay youth book of the year." Notes that "Rainbow Boys" chronicles the lives of three high school seniors who struggle to manage their issues about sexual identity and coming out to themselves, to each other, and to the world. (SG)

Notes that Judith Butler is arguably one of the world's most influential and innovative scholars dealing with questions of difference, identity, and the role of rhetoric in subject formation. Explores Butler's views on anti-intellectualism and identity relating to sexual orientation. Presents an interview examining many of Butler's writings. (SG)

Presents a limited list of strategies and resources so as to better prepare counselors for dealing with lesbian and homosexual clients. Topics covered include introduction to counseling; counseling theories and practice/practicum; personality and human development; marriage/family/couples counseling; career counseling; multicultural counseling;…

Presents the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Psychosocial Counseling Model which organizes into five phases the major psychosocial issues encountered by homosexual and bisexual clients with AIDS: (1) overcoming the initial fear of AIDS; (2) redefining relationships; (3) modifying lifestyles; (4) re-evaluating life's meaning; and (5)…

Relates Holland's theory of vocational choice and congruence between personality and work environment to Cass's model of lesbian/gay identity development. Suggests that Holland's congruence and Cass's interpersonal congruence concepts need to be considered in career counseling with lesbian/gay clients. (SK)

Notes that clinical psychological research has explored relevant cultural variables and their effects on mental health and treatment of ethnic minority group members. Reviews literature pertinent to the cultural proscriptions of several ethnic minority groups and their relevance to mental health issues and treatment of gay and lesbian members.…

Explores the emancipatory and oppressive roles adult education plays in the gay community. Demonstrates that mainstream adult education reproduces heterocentric assumptions, social relations, and beliefs, disenfranchising gay discourse. (SK)

Examined relationship between religiosity of 285 mothers and their offspring, taking both sex and sexual orientation of offspring into account. Female offspring were found to be more religious than male offspring, and their religiosity tended to more closely resemble that of their mothers. Offspring who were not exclusively heterosexual tended to…