How do queer marriage and parenting arrangements disrupt heteronormative conceptions of family, how do policy and social attitudes adapt or resist, and what future family models might emerge as...
Legal recognition, cultural norms, and social practices have a significant impact on how individuals perceive queer marriages. Legal recognition refers to the formal acknowledgment of a marriage...
Gender Identity and Family Life
The way that gender is expressed within families has changed dramatically over time. Traditionally, most families were heterosexual nuclear families where the...
How do digital identities mediate discrepancies between personal gender identity and legal recognition, and what opportunities and risks emerge in this negotiation?
The world is experiencing...
LGBTQ people have long struggled for recognition and acceptance of their identities and relationship structures. One area where this struggle is particularly acute is surrogacy and alternative family...
Generations are groups of individuals born within roughly 20 years of each other who share similar experiences, social norms, cultural references, and worldviews. Queer rights refer to the legal,...
Normalizing Queer Households Transforms Legal Paradigms
The current state of law and culture is characterized by heteronormativity and homophobia. This means that society assumes everyone is...
How do intersex experiences expose the limitations of binary legal reasoning? Intersex people are born with a variation in their physical sex characteristics that do not fit into typical male/female...
There has been a growing movement towards legal recognition for same-sex marriage and other forms of non-traditional relationships. This shift in societal attitudes towards these types of unions has...
How do different civilizations historically conceptualize sexual diversity?
Sexual diversity refers to the many ways that people can express their gender and sexual identities, such as...