Tag: LGBTQIA

Social Policy
Six diverse people from behind wearing long coats, each dressed in one monoblock colour of the pride flag

Services for LGBQIA+ Youth

Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

October is LGBTQ History Month. Today we have a bonus post in honour of National Coming Out Day. Social science studies can help organisations implement meaningful change to improve services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) youth.

  • “Implement a social and emotional well-being approach... frequently adopted in Aboriginal research and health practice.”
  • Collage showing young people wearing the pride and trans flags on their clothing and painted on their faces, while standing at a march. Key points from research by Dingle and Anderson, as well as this quote: “...[S]chool-based sexuality education in Australia is profoundly non-inclusive, heteronormative, and cisnormative, failing to represent or meet the needs of LGBTQIA+ students.”
  • Collage of polaroids and photos of queer Aboriginal people marching at Mardi Gras in Sydney, as well as hugging and laughing. Aboriginal artwork depicts a meeting place with people represented by dots, circles, and u-shapes, as well as joining song lines, depicted by concentric circles and wavery lines. Recommendations from Liddelow-Hunt and colleagues, as well as this quote: “Implement a social and emotional well-being approach... frequently adopted in Aboriginal research and health practice.”
  • Collage showing a polaroid and another cutout photo of diverse queer people, and a drawing of the globe. Recs from the Multicultural Youth Advocacy Network, plus this quote: “Implementing an action plan to ensure organisations hold themselves accountable to LGBTQIA+ refugee and asylum seeker inclusion policies, recruitment strategies and service delivery.”
  • Polaroid of a young white boy in a wheelchair with people playing in a park in the background, plus a cutout of a young white boy wearing the pride flag, and a graphic of a house. Recs from Lim and colleagues, plus this quote: “Experiences of homelessness appear to be particularly pervasive among youth who are: (i) trans and gender-diverse, (ii) disabled and (iii) who reside outside of urban centres.”
  • Polaroid of a Black woman's hands holding small pins with pride flags and slogans, as well as a cutout of six queer people from behind wearing long coats, each dressed in one colour of the pride flag. Another cutout shows two women of colour hugging, and holding a sign saying FREE [watermelon drawing] AND HUGS. Text says: Learn more: SocialScienceInsights.com. At the bottom is a list of references
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Day in the Life of an Applied Sociologist
Youth are seen walking from the crowd, from the back. One of them wears the pride flag

Wear it Purple Day

Social Science Insights

Today is Wear it Purple Day, when we wear the color purple to show our support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual (LGBTQIA) youth.

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Social Science in Action
The Pride Flag and a sign saying "YES" at the Marriage Equality march in Sydney

Marriage Equality

Social Science Insights

I marched at the Marriage Equality rally in Sydney this afternoon among with 30,000 people! It’s the biggest LGBTQIA protest in Australian history and also the biggest rally ever in Sydney.

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Social Science Issues

Transgender Indigenous Australians

Social Science Insights

The term “Brother Boy” describes an Indigenous transgender man and “Sister Girl” describes transgender women. In this short interview with The Wire (below), brother boy Kai Clancey talks about his social identity being a “double edged sword.”

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Social Science Issues
A large crowd of Catholic people pray and hold one another's shoulders

Pope Francis and Homophobia

Social Science Insights

Australian writer-comedian Rebecca Shaw (who identifies as lesbian) argues we need to look at the actual changes of the Catholic Church rather than simply applauding empty platitudes by the Pope. So far, the Church remains negligent on upholding the human rights of LGBTQI people. The article is worth reading in full on SBS News.

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Social Science Issues

International Responsibility on LGBTQI Rights

Social Science Insights

The Hon Michael Kirby speaks about the need for Australia to contribute towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) rights on a global scale. Kirby is now working with The Kaleidoscope Trust, a not-for-profit international organisation fighting against LGBTQI … Continue reading International Responsibility on LGBTQI Rights

Social Science Issues

Marriage Equality in Canberra

Social Science Insights

Same sex marriages have been talking place in the Australian Capital Territory, the first Australian state or territory to legalise non-heterosexual marriage.

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