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Despite the empowering pride culture that has evolved globally in
the past half-century, the LGBTQAI+ community continues to face
widespread discrimination. They are often subjected to cruelty and
discrimination and are the bearers of a heavy psychological burden
and frustration that stems from not coming out and expressing their
concerns freely. Today, the invisibility of this community and its
concerns have become enormous challenges for the world as their
interests often go unrepresented and unaddressed by governments due
to various barriers. Global LGBTQ+ Concerns in a Contemporary
World: Politics, Prejudice, and Community considers the harsh
realities of the LGBTQAI+ community and draws attention to key
issues such as violation of their rights and disparities in access
to basic amenities such as healthcare, employment, and security.
Covering key topics such as inclusion, mental health, queer
communities, and human rights, this reference work is ideal for
activists, advocates, politicians, sociologists, gender studies
specialists, policymakers, government officials, industry
professionals, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners,
instructors, and students.
Mobile is simultaneously a typical and unique city in the postwar
United States. It was a quintessential boomtown during World War
II. That prosperity was followed by a period of rapid urban decline
and subsequent attempts at revitalizing (or gentrifying) its
downtown area. As in many other US cities, urban renewal,
integration, and other socioeconomic developments led to white
flight, marginalized the African American population, and set the
stage for the development of LGBTQ+ community building and
subculture. Yet these usually segregated segments of society in
Mobile converged once a year to create a common identity, that of a
Carnival City. Carnival in Alabama looks not only at the people who
participated in Mardi Gras organizations divided by race, gender,
and/or sexual orientation, but also investigates the experience of
"marked bodies" outside of these organizations, or people involved
in Carnival through their labor or as audiences (or publics) of the
spectacle. It also expands the definition of Mobile's Carnival
"tradition" beyond the official pageantry by including street
maskers and laborers and neighborhood cookouts. Using archival
sources and oral history interviews to investigate and analyze the
roles assigned, inaccessible to, or claimed and appropriated by
straight-identified African American men and women and people who
defied gender and sexuality normativity in the festivities
(regardless of their racial identity), this book seeks to
understand power dynamics through culture and ritual. By looking at
Carnival as an "invented tradition" and as a semiotic system
associated with discourses of power, it joins a transnational
conversation about the phenomenon.
Young adult literature featuring LGBTQ characters is booming. In
the 1980s and 1990s, only a handful of such titles were published
every year. Recently, these numbers have soared to over one hundred
annual releases. Queer characters are also appearing more
frequently in film, on television, and in video games. This
explosion of queer representation, however, has prompted new forms
of longstanding cultural anxieties about adolescent sexuality. What
makes for a good "coming out" story? Will increased queer
representation in young people's media teach adolescents the right
lessons and help queer teens live better, happier lives? What if
these stories harm young people instead of helping them? In Queer
Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture, Derritt Mason
considers these questions through a range of popular media,
including an assortment of young adult books; Caper in the Castro,
the first-ever queer video game; online fan communities; and
popular television series Glee and Big Mouth. Mason argues themes
that generate the most anxiety about adolescent culture - queer
visibility, risk taking, HIV/AIDS, dystopia and horror, and the
promise that "It Gets Better" and the threat that it might not -
challenge us to rethink how we read and engage with young people's
media. Instead of imagining queer young adult literature as a
subgenre defined by its visibly queer characters, Mason proposes
that we see "queer YA" as a body of transmedia texts with blurry
boundaries, one that coheres around affect - specifically, anxiety
- instead of content.
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A Life Begins
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Keith Harrison Walker
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For many decades, the LGBTQ+ community has been plagued by strife
and human rights violations. Members of the LGBTQ+ community were
often denied a right to marriage, healthcare, and in some parts of
the world, a right to life. While these struggles are steadily
improving in recent years, disparities and discrimination still
remain from the workplace to the healthcare that this community
receives. There is still much that needs to be done globally to
achieve inclusivity and equity for the LGBTQ+ community. The
Research Anthology on Inclusivity and Equity for the LGBTQ+
Community is a comprehensive compendium that analyzes the struggles
and accomplishments of the LGBTQ+ community with a focus on the
current climate around the world and the continued impact to these
individuals. Multiple settings are discussed within this dynamic
anthology such as education, healthcare, online communities, and
more. Covering topics such as gender, homophobia, and queer theory,
this text is essential for scholars of gender theory, faculty of
both K-12 and higher education, professors, pre-service teachers,
students, human rights activists, community leaders, policymakers,
researchers, and academicians.
This book explores queer identity in Morocco through the work of
author and LGBT activist Abdellah Taia, who defied the country's
anti-homosexuality laws by publicly coming out in 2006. Engaging
postcolonial, queer and literary theory, Tina Dransfeldt
Christensen examines Taia's art and activism in the context of the
wider debates around sexuality in Morocco. Placing key novels such
as Salvation Army and Infidels in dialogue with Moroccan writers
including Driss Chraibi and Abdelkebir Khatibi, she shows how Taia
draws upon a long tradition of politically committed art in Morocco
to subvert traditional notions of heteronormativity. By giving
space to silenced or otherwise marginalised voices, she shows how
his writings offer a powerful critique of discourses of class,
authenticity, culture and nationality in Morocco and North Africa.
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