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“You're this person who's providing light”: Embodied responses to information loss and transition within LGBTQIA+ communities

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper reports on findings from 15 semi‐structured interviews with LGBTQIA+ individuals within the United States who have experienced the loss of one or more LGBTQIA+ information spaces. The paper specifically focuses on how such losses occurred and the information transitions experienced by the participants in response to this loss ...
Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa L. Kitzie
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Research as Interacting Dialogic Processes: Implications for Reflexivity

Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2002
Research within a postmodern frame moves us into arenas where subjectivity is both assumed and appreciated. This framework provides an opportunity to attend to how subjectivity (of researcher[s] and of research participants) and inter-subjectivity ...
Glenda M. Russell, Nancy H. Kelly
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Mentoring Sexual Minority Youth [PDF]

, 2000
It is estimated that up to 10 percent of the U.S. population is lesbian or gay. Thus, one can assume that some of the teenagers being served by mentoring programs are members of this sizeable minority group.
Linda Jucovy
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Toward information resilience: Applying intersectionality to the HIV/AIDS information practices of Black sexual minority men

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Using intersectionality as a critical theoretical framework and analytical tool, this study investigated the HIV/AIDS information practices of Black sexual minority men (SMM). Twenty‐two Black SMM were interviewed about their HIV/AIDS‐related information practices.
Megan Threats
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Safe spaces and beyond: Examining the role of LGBT+ Pride Groups in fostering ontological security and allyship within UK schools

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the critical role that safe spaces, or ‘Pride Groups’, can play in developing ontological security and allyship within schools. Drawing on data collected from eight UK secondary schools and one college, the research evaluates the impact of these groups, using an innovative theoretical framework combining Meyer's minority ...
Adam Brett
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Sexual Diversity in the Judiciary in England and Wales; Research on Barriers to Judicial Careers

Laws, 2013
Debates about the diversity of the judiciary in the UK have been dominated by gender, race and ethnicity. Sexuality is notable by its absence and is perceived to pose particular challenges.
Leslie J. Moran
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Gay People Are Living There: Reaching Out Beyond the Cities [PDF]

, 2009
Evaluates the 2008 Out In Africa Satellite Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in Mafikeng, South Africa. Describes the challenges and impact of bringing queer films to isolated, mainly black and poor, gay and lesbian communities and strengthening local ...
Janet Shapiro, Marion Nel
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Changing positions: The Sexual Politics of A Women’s Field Hockey Team 1986-1996 [PDF]

, 2000
Despite a huge expansion in the literature on individual aspects of sexual identity and sexuality, and the growth of studies on women in sport, there are still relatively few investigations into women’s sporting and sexual subcultures.
Brackenridge, CH, Fuller, M, Shire, J
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Bias in Sentencing Men for Sexual Offenses Against Minors: Male Victims Bring More Punitive Sentences Than Female Victims

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior theoretical and empirical research examining the influence of sex on sentencing has been primarily concerned with the sex of the offender, as opposed to the victim. The present study drew on a convenience sample of males (n = 1190) in state and federal correctional facilities across the country, examining minimum sentences in relation to
Shawn M. Rolfe, Bruce Rind, Thomas K. Hubbard   +2 more
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Identity/Time

Laws, 2013
This paper engages the unspoken fourth dimension of intersectionality—time. Using the construction of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) identities as an example, it establishes that identity, as it is lived and experienced, is not only ...
Nancy J. Knauer
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