Same-sex Relationship Development Study

Hello, The Today's Couples and Families Research Program at the University of Cincinnati Psychology Department, under the direction of Sarah Whitton, Ph.D., is recruiting participants for a new study that focuses on how same-sex relationships develop, how same-sex partners symbolize their commitment to one another, and how different relationship formation processes are related to relationship stability and emotional wellbeing. The important information gathered from this survey will be used to inform policy and relationship education programs designed to help same-sex attracted individuals initiate and maintain healthy relationships. I would be thankful if you would be willing to spread the word through your organization. We are looking for 1,000 participants to take our online survey. The recruitment advertisement is provided at the end of this email. Please distribute this advertisement through your organization's listserv. A pdf copy of a flyer is available if you would be willing to post it in your building. Please feel free to take a look at our research lab's website. http://homepages.uc.edu/~whittosh/TCF/SSRDS.html Thank you for your time, Today's Couples and Families Research Program University of Cincinnati Psychology Department

[BiNet USA] Call for Submissions: Queer webzine with a focus towards bisexuals and pansexual

Hi, I'm a 22 year old queer male who goes by radiantDirtt on the internet and I'm trying to start a webzine called Pantos Mag (pantosmag.tumblr.com <-- check us out!). I'm looking for submissions and thought you all might be interested in the magazine, in general. Pantos Mag is a multiple media publication that will juxtapose thoughtful op-ed articles with other writings and graphic art Who can submit? Published pieces will be created by and/or relate to the LGBTQ community, especially bisexual and pansexual identifying individuals. Pantos Mag will provide a space for the discussion of LGBTQ interests and issues as well as a space for artists and writers to showcase their work. Bisexual and pansexual people are specifically encouraged to submit, but any member of the LGBTQ community or ally is welcome to submit as well. So, what is Pantos Mag looking for? We are looking for essays and op-ed pieces, poems, short stories, photographs, drawings/illustrations, and any other 2-D art. Are there guidelines? Yes! Pantos Mag will be digital but structured somewhat like a print magazine. Op-ed pieces and essays should be around 500 to 1000 words. Short stories should try to stay below 2500 words, but can be longer if they are especially compelling. 2-D artwork should fit on a single 8 ½ by 11 inch page, although exceptions can certainly be discussed. What isn't Pantos Mag looking for? We will not publish anything racist, classist, sexist, cissexist, homophobic, biphobic, body negative, appropriating, or otherwise alienating and oppressive. However, the discussion of any of these issues is absolutely encouraged and Pantos Mag is very interested in publishing pieces addressing intersectionality from a diversity of viewpoints. How do I submit? Send all your submissions to pantosmag@gmail.com! We'll review them and contact you regarding edits and information we need to publish, like what name you want to use. If you're interested in writing essays or op-ed pieces we suggest you email us with a brief pitch so we can talk it out before you write it. Will I still own my work? Pantos Mag is here for you, not for profit. You will retain all the rights to any work you submit and anyone who contacts us looking to use something you've created will be directed to you. You should be aware, that some publications may decline to publish something that has already been published even though you still have the rights to it. The images and design of the magazine that we create will be licensed under the creative commons noncommercial-sharealike license and we encourage our submitters to to embrace sharing their creativity and use creative commons licenses as well. Got more questions? pantosmag@gmail.com pantosmag.tumblr.com twitter.com/PantosMag Help us spread the word to LGBTQ artists and writers!

Transgender Studies Quarterly: Announcement and CFP

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly Announcement of Publication and First Call for Submissions Announcement of Publication General Editors Paisley Currah and Susan Stryker are pleased to announce that TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly will be published by Duke University Press, currently planned for launch in the first quarter of 2014. TSQ aims to be the journal of record for the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies, and to promote the widest possible range of perspectives on transgender phenomena broadly defined. Every issue of TSQ will be a specially themed issue that also contains regularly recurring features such as reviews, interviews, and opinion pieces. The first four themes have been selected to highlight the scope and diversity of the field: • TSQ 1:1 will be a collection of short essays on key concepts in transgender studies, “Postposttransexual: Terms for a 21st Century Transgender Studies.” • TSQ 1:2, “Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary,” will explore cross-cultural analysis of sex/gender variation, and bring transgender studies into critical engagement with ethnography and anthropology. • TSQ 1:3, “Making Transgender Count,” co-edited with the Williams Institute’s GENIUSS group (Gender Identity in U.S. Surveillance), will tackle such issues as population studies, demography, epidemiology, and quantitative methods. • TSQ 1:4 “Trans Cultural Production,” will be devoted to the arts, film, literature, and performance. CFPs for TSQ 1:2-4 will be issued in the months ahead. Proposals for issues starting with TSQ 2:1 (2015) are welcome at any time, and will be reviewed on an on-going basis. Please send inquiries to tsqjournal@gmail.com. Call for Submissions for TSQ 1:1 (2014) We invite submissions of short pieces (250-1500 words) for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, “Postposttransexual: Terms for a 21st Century Transgender Studies,” to be published by Duke University Press and planned for launch in the first quarter of 2014. Our intention is to showcase a wide range of viewpoints on the present state of the field by bringing together fresh thoughts and informed opinion about current concepts, key terms, recurring themes, familiar problems, and hot topics in the field. Each piece should have a title consisting of a single word or short phrase describing its content; the volume will be organized alphabetically by that title. Articles may be written in the style of a mini-essay, as in Raymond Williams’ classic Keywords; as a factual encyclopedia-style article such as might be found on Wikipedia; as a capsule review of transgender-related developments in a particular field (archeology, musicology), geographical location (Iran, Taiwan), or a topic (pornography, psychoanalysis). Creative interpretations of the required form are also welcome. However, each article must address the topic under discussion in relation to some aspect of transgender studies or transgender phenomena. Contributors are free to propose topics of their own, or to choose from the following suggestions of key terms and concepts: ability, abject, activism, administration, aesthetics, agency, aging, affect, anarchy, animal, anti-heteronormativity, architectonic, archive, asexual, assemblage, authentic, becoming, bureaucracy, binary, biology, biopolitics, biotechnology, bisexual, body, body part, border, built environment, burlesque, capital, castration, children, choice, class, clinic, colonization, color, commodity, commons, community, condition, construction, cosmetic, cross-dressing, cut, dance, death drive, decadence, decolonize, deconstruction, degenerate, desire, deterritorialization, diagnosis, diaspora, difference, digital, disability, discipline, discrimination, diversity, drugs, embodiment, empire, employment, epistemology, erotic, error, essence, ethics, ethnology, ethnic, ethology, etiology, eugenics, exception, exotic, experiment, fake, fantasy, fashion, feeling, feminist, fetish, film, forensics, freedom, fundamentalism, futurity, gay, gender, gender-variant, genderqueer, genetic, genitals, gesture, global, habit, haptic, hate crime, haunting, health, HIV/AIDS, homophobia, homosexuality, hormones, hybrid, hygiene, ICD, identity, indigeneity, information, incarceration, institutionalization, interdisciplinary, intersex, jouissance, joy, justice, LGBT, labor, lack, language, law, lesbian, liberation, man, Man, marriage, materiality, media, medicine, memory, migration, misogyny, modernity, monster, morphogenesis, movement, murder, mutilate, necropolitics, network, NGO, non-Western, normal, object, objectification, occupy, ontology, open, organ, origin, original, originary, paradigm, pathology, pedagogy, performativity, performance, pharmaceutical, phenomena, phenomenon, posthuman, policy, political economy, popular culture, population, pornography, poverty, power, practice, premodern, progress, privilege, prostitution, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychosis, public, queer, race, racialization, reality, reform, religion, resistance, revolt, revolution, representation, reproduction, reterritorialization, rhizome, rights, riot, ritual, sacrality, science, science fiction, segregation, sense, sensorium, separatism, sex, sexuality, smell, somatechnics, sound, space, state, sterilization, subaltern, subject, surgery, surveillance, swarm, taste, technique, temporality, terror, third, toilet, touch, trafficking, trans-, transgender, translation, transphobia, transnational, transspecies, transsexual, transversal, transvestite, underground, victim, virtual, vitality, visuality, violence, voice, WPATH, whiteness, will, woman, work, X, xenotransplantation, youth, zoontology. To be considered for publication, please submit a one-paragraph proposal to tsqjournal@gmail.com, stating the term or concept you’d like to write on, the estimated length of the article, a brief indication of your approach or main idea, and a brief identification of yourself and your qualifications for addressing the topic. Inquiries are due by Tuesday September 4, 2012; submissions will be due by December 3, 2012, and final revisions will be due by March 4, 2013. -- Renee Wells Assistant Director Center for Diversity and Inclusion Michigan Tech University 1400 Townsend Drive Hamar House, Bldg 13 Houghton, MI 49931 Work (906) 487-1829 Fax (906) 487-3101 Cell (906) 281-7930 Women's Programming Page Women's Programming Calendar Michigan Tech Women on Campus Facebook page GLBTQ Programming Page GLBTQ Programming Calendar Keweenaw Pride Facebook page Safe Place Website Safe Place Facebook page Center for Diversity and Inclusion Facebook page Center for Diversity and Inclusion upcoming events

Minnesotans United Vacation Program

My name is Gaby and I am working for Minnesotans United for All Families, the official campaign which will defeat the constitutional amendment that would ban marriage for same-sex couples. I am contacting you today because we are offering the opportunity to be part of the first state of 30 to defeat the amendment. Please join us in our fight for marriage equality! Minnesotans United is now the largest grassroots campaign that Minnesota has ever seen - using a unique hybrid of community and electoral organizing. Programs such as, "Let Your Friends Know," are run all over the state and focus on having educational discussions with family, coworkers, and friends, to emphasize the importance of voting 'no.' We need to have over a million conversations to persuade, motivate, and keep Minnesotans with us until election day in November. In order to reach that goal, we need 1000 experienced volunteers. Almost all polling thus far has shown us below the 50% +1 majority that we need in order to defeat this amendment – that means if the election were held today, we would lose. We're beginning a professional fellowship program with our campaign and are looking to partner with various colleges and universities to give students an opportunity for personal, professional and academic development. We're offering either fall internships lasting until the election day or shorter term opportunities that could align with a student's service-learning component or research project for a course by coming here for 1 weekend - 2 weeks or a fall break. Students would receive a thorough training on our innovative strategies and work side by side with our organizers and regional organizing directors. They will receive free supporter housing but travel and other living costs will be covered by them or the partnering organization/university. In order to move forward to the application process, do not hesitate to contact Anya Svanoe at anya@mnunited.org or at 612-412-7262 with any questions or concerns you may have. Feel free to read the attached flyer. Thanks in advance for your reply. Sincerely, Gaby Fabre

Undergraduate Internship Opportunity - ACLU's LGBT & AIDS Project

Hello,

I am writing to inform you of an undergraduate internship opportunity at the ACLU’s LGBT & AIDS Project in New York this fall. I would greatly appreciate you passing this information along to any students in your organization who might be interested in applying. More information can be found below, and at this link:http://www.aclu.org/node/35535.

I was also wondering if your organization has a permanent group email that we could keep for our records, and use to send out information and opportunities like this in the future.

Thank you, and best regards,
Anna


Anna Ziering

Paralegal, LGBT & AIDS Project

American Civil Liberties Union

125 Broad St., New York, NY 10004

■ 212.549.2672 ■ aziering@aclu.org

www.aclu.org

FALL 2012 INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY
NOTICE TO UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
LGBT & AIDS Project, NY

The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLU), founded in 1920, is a nationwide, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, with more than 500,000 members and is dedicated to the principles of liberty and equality embodied in the U.S. Constitution. The ACLU’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) and AIDS Project of the ACLU’s National Office in New York City invites applications for theUndergraduate Fall Internship which will begin in September 2012.

OVERVIEW

The LGBT & AIDS Project brings impact lawsuits in state and federal courts throughout the country—cases designed to have a significant effect on the lives of LGBT people and those with HIV/AIDS. In coalition with other civil rights groups, we also lobby in Congress and support grassroots advocacy, from local school boards to state legislatures. Our legal strategies are built on the idea that fighting for civil rights means not just persuading judges but ultimately changing the way people think. As we litigate for change, we use targeted media, online and outreach campaigns to change public attitudes, as well as provide advocacy tools to help citizens take action in their community. As part of the broad civil liberties mission of the ACLU, the Project brings together the LGBT and HIV/AIDS communities with other social change movements to achieve a just society for all.  For more information visit aclu.org/lgbt and aclu.org/HIV-AIDS.

INTERNSHIP OVERVIEW

Our Fall internship requires a 12-16 week commitment.  This position is part-time with negotiable weekly hours. The number of interns accepted varies. Interns are highly encouraged to obtain funding from outside sources, as the internship is unpaid.  Arrangements can be made for work/study or course credit.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Our undergraduate internship program is designed to provide interns with the opportunity to learn about public interest work.  Interns will be under the direct supervision of the Project's Paralegal and will have the opportunity to learn and interact with other staff members of the Project.  Interns will gain experience by working on the following:

∙             Assisting with legal intakes and tracking requests for assistance.

∙             Assisting in the maintenance of case files and compiling of press files.

∙             Conducting general, legal and policy research.

∙             Supporting the Project in outreach to potential clients.

∙             Other projects as assigned.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Applicants must possess:

∙             An interest in a legal, organizing, legislative or public interest career.

∙             Excellent research, writing and communication skills.

∙             Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel.

∙             Strong organizational skills.

∙             Familiarity with issues surrounding LGBT rights, HIV/AIDS and other civil liberties issues is desirable; commitment to these issues is essential.

HOW TO APPLY

Please send a cover letter, resume and a brief writing sample of no more than five pages in length to hrjobsLGBTintern@aclu.org  [Re: Fall 2012 LGBT Undergraduate Internship Application] in the subject line – or by mail to:

American Civil Liberties Union

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project

RE: Fall 2012 LGBT Undergraduate Internship

125 Broad Street, 18th Floor

New York, New York 10004-2400

Please indicate in your cover letter where you learned of this internship opportunity.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the position(s) are filled. 

The ACLU is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer and encourages applications from all qualified individuals including women, people of color, persons with disabilities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals.

The ACLU comprises two separate corporate entities, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU Foundation. Both the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU Foundation are national organizations with the same overall mission, and share office space and employees. The ACLU has two separate corporate entities in order to do a broad range of work to protect civil liberties. This job posting refers collectively to the two organizations under the name “ACLU”.

[BiNet USA] [GLAAD]: Study Shows Stereotypes about Bisexuality are Harmful

Researchers publishing in the The Journal of Bisexuality say a variety of unfounded assumptions often driven by the media contribute to a culture of Biphobia that affects all bisexual people. The studies show that the Bisexual community is diverse and subject to discrimination from gay/lesbian and straight people alike, which negatively impacts the health and social lives of people who identify as bisexual.

Denise Penn, a director with the American Institute of Bisexuality (AIB), spoke with GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) about her thoughts on these recent studies, and how to end stereotypes about bi people in the media.

Penn, who says that bisexuality "is sometimes forgotten" by the public, is very pleased with the increasing diversity of LGBT characters in the media, but notes "there's still a lot of progress to be made." Often when a character is portrayed as bisexual, "the stereotype lingers that it's a person who is confused, or someone who has a man and a woman on the side, or who has a woman and a man on the side."

Read Full Article Here:
http://www.glaad.org/blog/study-shows-stereotypes-about-bisexuality-are-harmful

Pat Tetreault, Ph.D.
Director, LGBTQA Resource Center at UNL
346 Nebraska Union
Lincoln, NE 68588-0453
402.472.1752

Consortium: Gay or bisexual males 18 - 25 - Research Participants Needed

From: Abel Jr, Robert [mailto:RAbelJr@devry.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 12:11 PM
To: practitioner@lgbtcampus.org
Subject: Consortium: Research Participants Needed

Good afternoon everyone. I am conducting my dissertation research on the relationship between family acceptance, internalized sexual stigma (ISS) and substance abuse in sexual minority males 18-25. This research has been approved by the Northcentral University’s Institutional Review Board (IRB# 2012-04-18-097).

In order to participate, participants must identify as a gay or bisexual male between the ages of 18-25. If you or someone you know would like to participate in this study, please use the link below and you will be directed to the online survey:

http://ncu.us2.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_77EcbJoYHgxIvoU

Thank you very much in advance for your time!  

Please feel free to forward the link to other people who might be eligible. If you have any question about this study, please direct all questions to psychapteacher@hotmail.com orDr. Jeanette Shutay, Dissertation Chair at, jshutay@my.ncu.edu.

Robert Abel, Jr.

Academic Affairs Specialist

DeVry University