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Adversity and Queer Health
Jane is a forty-four year old realtor experiencing frequent severe headaches and general malaise. She has been insured for primary healthcare, however, she can’t remember her last visit to the doctor. Jane has also been in a relationship with a woman for about as long as she’s neglected doctor’s visits, eight years. Only after [...]
IRQR: Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees
It is incredibly difficult to find information about queer rights organizations in highly conservative countries, and those in which homosexuality is illegal, because most of their activity is covert. However, if these individuals are able to organize and seek international assistance, organizations such as The Global Fund for Women can provide grants to nonprofits or [...]
“Silenced Revolution”: Fighting for LGBT acceptance and visibility
While searching for positive interventions and media portrayals supporting members of the international LGBT community, I was forced to face the conclusion that, unfortunately, even the best interventions are silenced or under wraps. For instance, on a larger scale, take the recent film, Circumstance, created in an effort to afford greater visibility to both gender [...]
Implicit & Explicit Discrimination of LGBTQ members in an International Context
This week I would like to shed light on actual cases of discrimination against members of the LGBTQ community that live in what are considered “developing” or more conservative areas around the world. Sometimes it is easier to connect to tangible accounts to make the situation more vivid, especially in places where the government [...]
Gendered Spaces in Thailand
In an effort to extrapolate from the interesting concept of social acceptability of queer men vs. queer women, I’d like to extend the issue to international examples. First, in Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap’s book, Out in Public, an argument about visibility of queer women mirrors the previous post. It is argued basically that [...]
Social Acceptability of Queer Men and Women
I really appreciated the comments received from the first blog post, and I wanted to address one of the questions Will brought up: Is it more difficult to be a gay man, a gay woman or are they equally disadvantaged? This is a very complex issue that I’ve been struggling to answer for a while. [...]
Looking at international women’s health and human rights through the lens of particular populations: Women of the LGBT Community
Women who identify under the umbrella term of the queer community face compounded discrimination that can disproportionally harm their health. As stated in From Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice, “our world is only beginning to accept the equality of women, much less to respect the right of women to [...]
Prince Manvendra and Queer Visibility