Foucaldienne, la psychanalyse ? by Pascale Molinier

“…Psychoanalysis will be Foucauldian if, continuing Freud's inaugural movement, it persists in defending itself from a medical or positivist position, and if it is critically confronted with the current knowledge, in particular gay and lesbian studies.…”
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Disparities in Tobacco use and cravings among sexual and gender minority adolescents in the United States by Sunday Azagba, Todd Ebling, Galappaththige S.R. de Silva

“…Results: Tobacco cravings were reported by 25.66 % of gay or lesbian, 34.63 % of bisexual, pansexual, queer, or asexual, and 19.09 % of other sexual minority adolescent tobacco users. …”
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Living Together with LGBT: A Discussion from the Sharia Perspective by Mohd Azhar Abdullah, Nur Azwani Mansor, Abdul Azib Hussain, Muhammad Lukman Ibrahim, Khairulnazrin Nasir

“…Living together with individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) demands significant consideration, particularly when they cohabit as partners. …”
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Taire ou exposer la diversité sexuelle ? Impacts des normes de genre et de l'hétéronormativité sur les pratiques enseignantes by Gabrielle Richard

“…Results suggest that teachers’ professional practices regarding homophobia and sexual diversity are influenced by these norms, whether they identify as heterosexual or as lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB). Thirty years after the first studies on LGB teachers’ experiences, the coming out literature remains central to the understanding of teachers’ apprehensions and fears, as well as their pedagogical practices.…”
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Dispositifs de catégorisation et construction du lien social : l’entrée dans une association homoparentale by Luca Greco

“…Drawing from fieldwork in a French gay and lesbian parents association, I will analyze how inter-subjectivity is constructed between fieldworkers and participants through the participants’ use of interactional and linguistic devices. …”
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Construire des minorités sexuelles et de genre dans les écoles étasuniennes by Lila Braunschweig

“…From an analysis of several documents produced by the GLSEN (gay, lesbian, straight educational network) and of legal material, I show that these policies are centered on the notion of safe space. …”
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Violence sexuelle ou « initiation » ? by Pierre Niedergang, Tal Piterbraut-Merx

“…It continues with the observation of a difference in the treatment of the question of sexual violence within the lesbian and gay communities, and with an elaboration on the need to politicize the trauma. …”
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Le sujet juridique homosexuel et transgenre dans la jurisprudence de la Cour Européenne des Droits de l’Homme. Choix linguistiques et création des identités by Francesca Romana Ammaturo

“…This article considers the importance of language in the creation and definition of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the work of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe. …”
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« Homosexualiser » un rituel chrétien. Le Fêtez-Dieu de l’association David & Jonathan by Mickaël Durand

“…The literature on gay and lesbian Christians focuses on the process of identity negotiation between their religious and sexual identifications. …”
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Towards a Queer Futurity: New Trans Television by Ralph J. Poole

“…While gay and lesbian characters have a steady presence in American television series by now, this is not the case with transgender persons. …”
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Militantisme et identités gaies et lesbiennes : quelle identité pour quels objectifs ? by Guillaume Marche

“…The war in Iraq poses a challenge for identity-based social movements. The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) movement is split as to whether it should mobilize exclusively around issues narrowly defined in terms of sexual orientation. …”
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The church and LGBTQ: Towards the church as an inclusive communion of disciples by Y.B. Setyawan

“… Some churches worldwide, including those in Indonesia, practise ecclesial discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, as manifested in the rejection of their existence. …”
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Le moment 70 de la sexualité : de la dissidence identitaire en milieu militant by Massimo Prearo

“…Confronting the difficulty of situating the political action of feminists, homosexuals and lesbians in the historical sequence of the 1968’s, sometimes improperly linked to the events of May 68, sometimes apprehended as cropping up in the wake of the “68’s moment”, research for new paradigms seems necessary. …”
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Défendre la culture gaie. Entretien avec David Halperin by David M. Halperin, Mathieu Trachman

“…He describes the direction his present research is taking and the evolution of homosexual activism in the United States, the reasons for the increased depoliticization of homosexuality, and argues that queer theory has misrepresented the character of the lesbian and gay studies which preceded it. He also draws attention to the different ways in which queer theory has made it more difficult to grasp sexual identities as specific forms of existence. …”
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Från strategisk anpassning till institutionell allians by Mattias Lundin

“…The point of departure for this project is the importance of a sense of belonging to the contexts in which one is assigned to work, which in this case mainly refers to teachers’ sense of belonging to both their colleagues and their identity as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender or queer (LGBTQ). …”
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Beyond the rainbow: Attitudes of Brazilian consumers regarding homoaffective advertisements by Estela Maria Hoffmann, Maria José Barbosa de Souza, Melanie Morrison, Todd Morrison

“…Although there is societal pressure to accept diversity, negative attitudes towards minority groups such as gay men and lesbian women, especially in Brazil, remain widespread. …”
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Coming Out in Poland by Tomasz Basiuk

“…Moreover, a contemporary call for Polish lesbian women and gay men to come out in order to promote marriage equality seems more directly aligned with the present-day U.S. political context than with any broadly accepted local activist position on the question of same-sex marriage. …”
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Michel Foucault : drôle de genre pour une psychanalyse ? by Laurie Laufer

“…For psychoanalysis not to become a dead language, reading and rereading Michel Foucault proves indeed quite relevant: it implies reading, together with him, Queer, Gay, Lesbian and Gender Studies. This article relies on queer authors such as Gayle Rubin, Eve Kosofsky-Sedgwick, and Judith Butlers, but also on Freud, Lacan and Allouch, to reflect on how we can possibly think the sexual, sexuality and gender identity in the Freudian field and beyond a hetero-normative gender binary perspective. …”
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Neo-Characterization in the Neo-Victorian Novel by Georges LETISSIER

“…The purpose of this study is to initiate a reflection on a poetics of second degree characters within the frame of neo-Victorian fictions to document some migrations by confronting such critical approaches as narratology, reception theory, psychoanalysis, historical epistemology, gender and gay and lesbian studies. Hopefully, this cursory, panoramic overview might shed some light on the centrality of character (character-building, -skewing, -bending, -sapping and so forth) in operating a shift from Victorian characterization to what may be designated as neo-Victorian neo-characterization; i.e. a renewed return to a familiar novelistic cast. …”
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La honte au corps : vers le réel de la performance S/M by Jacques Brunet-Georget

“…She thus questions the erotic interest within the context of bodily sadomasochistic performance - the lesbian one in particular. However, her intention to provide a non-ontological, but erotic, definition of shame, is contradicts some of her presuppositions. …”
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