In many societies, there are varying degrees of acceptance and legal protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) individuals. This can have significant...
LGBTQ individuals have faced significant barriers to entering and advancing in the job market due to various factors that include social stigma, discrimination, prejudice, and lack of support. As a...
Transphobia is a form of prejudice directed at individuals who identify themselves as having different gender identities than what they were assigned at birth, including but not limited to cisgender...
The purpose of this paper is to explore how visibility strategies for LGBTQ individuals interact with social, cultural, and political risks such as stigma, exclusion, or violence. In order to do so,...
Queer experiences are those that fall outside of normative sexuality and gender roles. They have been documented in post-Soviet spaces since the early 1990s, when Russia decriminalized homosexuality....
Social discrimination has been an enduring problem for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning community since time immemorial. This paper will focus on how social...
The concept of urban planning involves creating an environment where people from all walks of life feel welcome and comfortable. One such group is the LGBTQ community, which has faced discrimination,...
Universities play a critical role in educating young people to become productive members of society, but they also serve as a place where knowledge is created through research and experimentation....
We will explore how religiously-infused moral frameworks can impact the process of internalizing societal attitudes towards sexual minorities such as LGBTQ individuals. We will begin by discussing...
The LGBTQ community has made significant progress toward acceptance in recent years, but society still places unfair burdens on people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and...