Journals

Journal of LGBT Youth

The Journal of LGBT Youth is the interdisciplinary forum dedicated to improving the quality of life for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth. This quarterly journal (retitled from the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education to better reflect the journal’s youth focus) presents peer-reviewed scholarly articles, practitioner-based essays, policy analyses, and revealing narratives from young people. This invaluable resource is committed to advancing knowledge about, and support of, LGBT youth. The wide-ranging topics include formal and non-formal education; family; peer culture; the media, arts, and entertainment industry; religious institutions and youth organizations; health care; and the workplace.

The Journal of LGBT Youth is presented in concise, jargon-free language, discussing in detail sexual and gender identity issues while seeking effective policies, exemplary programs, and outstanding practices. Reviews and analyses of queer youth subcultures are explored through film and television, blogs and MMOGS, apparel, and music among others. The journal also cultivates the crucial youth perspective by shining a spotlight on writings by LGBT youth and portraits of queer youth artists and their work. The international and multidimensional approach—and its dedication to the highest quality research and information—make this resource a must-have on the shelf of anyone dealing with youth issues.

Examples of topics covered by the Journal of LGBT Youth include:

* Attitudes among University Undergraduates Toward LGB and Five Ethnic/Racial Groups

* “Do My Teachers Care if I am Gay”? Israeli Lesbigay School Students’ Experiences at their Schools

* Educating the Simpsons: Teaching Queer Representations in Contemporary Visual Media

* Out for Equity: School-Based Support for GLBT Youth

* The Performance of Homophobia in Early Adolescents’ Everyday Speech

* Promoting the Acceptance of Sexual Diversity in a Class of Fifth Grade Boys

* Queering “the” Child Where it Hurts the Most. Or: What’s Fundamentally Wrong about Eating Cookies?

* The Role of Stigma Concealment in the High School Experiences of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Individuals

* School Experiences of Sexual Minority Youth: A Qualitative Study

* Using a Film to Challenge Heteronormativity

* Visibility Management and the Body: How Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth Regulate Visibility Nonverbally

* Youth, MySpace, and the Interstitial Spaces of Becoming and Belonging

The Journal of LGBT Youth is a sensitive, timely journal that belongs in the library of every school administrator, policymaker, activist, counselor, and educator.

Journal of GLBT Family Studies

The first journal to address the everyday concerns of GLBT family life!

The Journal of GLBT Family Studies is a much-needed resource on the working dynamics of the diverse family structures found in every corner of the world. This groundbreaking new journal addresses the vital issues facing gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals and their families. Edited by Dr. Jerry J. Bigner, who has provided expert witness testimony in legal cases and in the litigation involving same-sex marriages in Canada, the journal features interdisciplinary studies and scholarly essays on topics related to GLBT family life and functioning as well as relationships with other families.

The Journal of GLBT Family Studies is the first journal to address family issues and concerns important to GLBT individuals and their families of origin, as well as families formed in adulthood. This unique peer-reviewed journal examines parent-child relationships, child development, sibling relationships, family structure, intimate relationships, stepfamilies, alternative family structures, and extended family relationships. The journal's contributors present research findings on topics that range from family pattern issues relating to roles, rules, boundaries, and communication styles, to high risk issues, such as AIDS, physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, addiction, disclosure, homophobia, and heterosexism.

The Journal of GLBT Family Studies also examines:

* gender roles
* adoption issues
* work issues
* couple and relationship issues
* same-sex marriage
* sexual identity
* and much more!

The Journal of GLBT Family Studies is the only scholarly forum to promote the study of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals and their families. Academics, researchers, and practitioners working in marriage and family therapy, lifespan development, counseling, social work, psychiatry, psychology, and human services will find this journal essential as an everyday resource.

International Journal of Transgenderism

We are very pleased to present the first issue of the International Journal of Transgenderism (IJT). This electronic journal will be an important vehicle for the transmission of scholarly work in the area of transgenderism. We are at an exciting point in history where the interest in the study of transgenderism is keen and quite a bit of scholarly activity is being produced. The study of transgenderism is rapidly expanding both in quantity and in breadth. We are learning more about transgenderism from an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective, from vast new knowledge from psychological and biomedical studies of gender identity, and from anthropological, socio-cultural and historical studies. We feel that this journal will be an important source of information and exchange of ideas from this perspective throughout the world.

We chose the term transgenderism as an umbrella term for various aspects and expressions of gender identity. Older terms like transsexualism, gender dysphoria, transvestism, and cross dressing have been found to be limiting in their understanding of gender expressions and identity. Also, many of these terms have assumed a pathological nature of these phenomena. Transgender is a new term which transcends the restricting and extant categories of gender identity, is more neutral regarding etiology, and encompasses the vast complexity of gender manifestations and identities. Certainly, the IJT will publish articles related to conceptions of transsexualism, transvestism, cross dressing, gender blending, intersex, and others. However, we hope that this term will stimulate new ways of thinking and understanding various aspects of transgenderism.

The name also implies our intention for the journal to be international in focus. We feel that an intercultural study of transgenderism is more likely to be enlightening. Our constructions of gender identity are very much influenced by our own socio-cultural and political frame of reference. Thus, it is through this international and intercultural exchange that we will be able to develop a better understanding of transgenderism.

The editorial board includes a broad representation of international scholars from a wide variety of disciplines. Many of the editorial board members have been longstanding members in the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association. This Association has been committed to the advancement of knowledge in the area of gender dysphoria, the improvement in medical and psychological treatment of transgendered individuals, social and legal acceptance of hormonal and surgical sex reassignment, and professional and public education on the
phenomenon of transgenderism. The Association has held biennial conferences but has never had a journal specifically devoted to this topic. We hope this journal might serve the Association members and other interested scholars. The premier issue of the Journal was designed to coincide with the 15th Symposium of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, September of 1997.

The International Journal of Transgenderism (IJT) will publish peer-reviewed, original articles on a quarterly basis. In addition, we will republish important and seminal articles in our Archives section. With the capabilities of electronic publishing, we will be able to easily publish new books. Submission and review of manuscripts will be handled electronically and will speed the timely publication of new works. Timely information regarding transgenderism will be available quickly and easily.

We are very excited about this new publishing venture. Not only are we excited about the advent of a scientific journal devoted to a topic which we find very important, but we are excited about the ability to offer this journal electronically. We hope that this format will be a better way to disseminate knowledge and to improve communication among scholars interested in the topic of transgenderism. We welcome your submissions of your work as well as your comments and suggestions for improving the International Journal of Transgenderism.

Friedemann Pfaefflin, Eli Coleman and Walter Bockting
Editors

Journal of Gay and Lesbian Politics

This journal is currently in development.

Use this journal to stay updated in LGBT public policy—one of the most hotly contested territories in politics!

The Journal of Gay & Lesbian Politics is the first journal dedicated to all aspects of sexual minority politics. This exclusive resource focuses on U.S. and international politics and policymaking relating to the status of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered persons in society. The journal offers you the expertise of political activists and academics whose experiences and insights provide a forum where public policy on the LGBT movement is analyzed through scholarly research rather than media hype.

The journal publishes submissions from all subfields of political science, including comparative and international studies, political theory, public policy, and American national, state, and local politics. The gay and lesbian rights movement is arguably the most vibrant social and political movement in the contemporary United States, and the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Politics is the singular means for keeping up-to-date with the latest legal changes and revisions in LGBT policies. Scholars, political scientists, and LGBT activists will find this journal fills a giant void in the literature of political science.

The Journal of Gay & Lesbian Politics investigates important sexual minority issues, such as:

• analysis of legislative, executive, or judicial decision making as it affects the LGBT community
• the interaction of religion and sexuality
• community-building and interest group politics
• party and electoral politics
• equality and discrimination within the LGBT communities
  and more!

It could be argued that no subculture is more oppressed in the institution of the school than lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, with schools for the most part failing to provide any kind of support system for students or faculty who have anything other than a heterosexual identity. In fact, schools have been called the primary setting for violence against young people growing up with LGBT identities. This issue of Theory Into Practice offers a range of perspectives and voices that illuminate both the oppressive institutional practices that serve to silence and deny the voices of non-heterosexuals in school contexts, as well as the resistance present in the voices of students, teachers, administrators, and researchers whose efforts point to a shifting power structure within the institution of the school.

Theory Into Practice is the peer-reviewed, scholarly journal published quarterly by The Ohio State University’s College of Education. Visit the TIP web site at www.coe.ohio-state.edu/TIP for more information and a complete table of contents.

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide

The mission of The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide is to provide a forum for enlightened discussion of issues and ideas of importance to lesbians and gay men; to advance gay and lesbian culture by providing a quality vehicle for its best writers and thinkers; and to educate a broader public on gay and lesbian topics.

Journal of Bisexuality (link)

Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services

The Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services is the premiere publication promoting the well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people in contemporary society! Filled with innovative ideas and resources for the design, evaluation, and delivery of social services for these populations at all stages of life, the journal is a positive influence on the development of public and social policy, programs and services, and social work practice.

Dedicated to the development of knowledge which meets the practical needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people in their social context, the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services is a forum for studying, for example, the connection between the public issues of homophobia and heterosexism and the personal, day-to-day experiences of people affected by these attitudes.

Journal of Homosexuality

The highly acclaimed Journal of Homosexuality is devoted to scholarly research on homosexuality, including sexual practices and gender roles and their cultural, historical, interpersonal, and modern social contexts. In addition to research on human sexuality, articles in the journal also explore the political, social, and moral implications of research on human sexuality. Unique perspectives from the disciplines of law, history, and the humanities broaden the scope of the journal even more.

Journal of Lesbian Studies

When lesbian issues and interests overlap with queer issues, the unique needs, concerns, and interests of lesbians can get lost in the shuffle. The Journal of Lesbian Studies helps sort through the confusion, fostering new lesbian scholarship without cutting ties to grassroots activism. The journal gives the lesbian experience an international and multicultural voice, presenting book reviews, poetry, letters to the editor, debates, and commentaries.

An enlightening balance of scholarly and practical information, the Journal of Lesbian Studies presents an interdisciplinary body of work in a completely lesbian context. The journal is a vital forum for research and theory, addressing the history, politics, science, race, literature, and life cycle issues of women who love women.

Resources

Trans-Academics.org is a place where people of all genders can discuss gender theory, the trans community and its various identities, both as a part of the academic world and day-to-day life. This is a trans-friendly space and is open to people of all gender identities.

Trans-Academics.org is especially interested in supporting people who are considering or currently are working with trans related topics via research, writing, teaching, and other academic ventures. It is our hope that people working on trans related topics will be able to connect with other people working within the field. Trans-Academics.org firmly believes that there should be a strong connection between academics and activism, as such this site supports: students of all levels, professors, activists groups including campus Queer and LGBTIQ programs, as well as people who are involved in the gender variant community on a more personal basis.