Abstract Over the past 20 years, sociological research on LGBTQ people and communities has disproportionately studied coastal regions big cities in United States. Scholars pay most attention to queer urban life “great cities” like New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago understudy lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, (LGBTQ) South, rural suburban areas, ordinary cities. This ignores demographic evidence about where live I argue that these geographical choices—born out of convenience or...

Research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movements has accelerated in recent years. We take stock of this literature with a focus the United States. Our review adopts historical approach, surveying findings three protest cycles: gay liberation lesbian feminism, queer activism, marriage equality. Existing scholarship focuses primarily oscillations movement's collective identity between emphasizing similarities to heterosexual mainstream celebrating differences. contrast...

Abstract Objective This article calls on family scholars to take seriously how families are invested and divested in maintaining reproducing cisnormativity. Background Families can be a prime institution for the reproduction of For transgender nonbinary members, families' investment cisnormativity generate ambiguous toxic familial relations. Yet, studies have not developed an adequate framework examine why operates within families. Method The authors engage with empirical theoretical work...

This article is an exploration of American lesbian and gay activists' attitudes towards transgender inclusion in the LGBT movement. Lesbian activists articulated different that were inflected by their subcultural histories ability to make connections personally with issues. Through analysis 32 semi-structured interviews Midwestern activists, this examines process which become allies through making parallels own oppression or visible discrimination. research contributes existing literature on...

Background Hypernasality, a hallmark of velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI), is speech disorder with significant psychosocial and functional implications. Conventional diagnostic methods rely heavily on specialized expertise equipment, posing challenges in resource-limited settings. This study explores the application OpenAI's Whisper model for automated hypernasality detection, offering scalable efficient alternative to traditional approaches. Methods The was adapted binary classification by...

Research on youth can miss important aspects of their lives if this work focuses only the parent-child relationship. This focus also overlook Black feminist interventions to understanding roles othermothers and how nonparental relatives such as aunts may provide support, housing stability, safety for youth. On basis a mixed-methods longitudinal study with 83 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) in South Texas Inland Empire California, authors intervene through examining aunts’...

Abstract Since the late 1970s, Religious Right has mobilized to oppose lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) movement in United States. Sociologists have studied relationship between these two movements as a classic movement‐countermovement dynamic, which strategies, actions, framing of one impact other. I analyze way reactive proactive opposition gay rights affected LGBTQ movement. First, provide an overview literature on negative impacts Right, including diversion goals,...

This research contributes to social movement framing theory about frame variation, along with the problems literature on child protectionism. I extend theorizing frames by arguing that variation can be a response new agendas and goals of countermovements opponents. Specifically, for opponents rights activism, reaction assertion protagonists, specifically their entry into spaces. study analyzes most deleterious protectionist claims stranger danger, assertions presence racial, gender, sexual...

Sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals experience a greater burden of poor mental health compared to heterosexual individuals. One factor that helps explain this disparity is trauma experienced during childhood. SGM are more likely report traumatic experiences childhood contributing disparity. Previous research has shown resilience moderates the relationship between adults outcomes. As part Strengthening Colors Pride project, data on 463 living in San Antonio were collected using...

Abstract Objective This study documents the importance of grandparents for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) Latinx youth how cisnormativity shapes these relationship dynamics. Background Most research on LGBTQ+ youth's family relations centers parent–child relationship. Grandparents are important racially marginalized families, particularly families. Additionally, impacted by precarious familismo—the disparate experiences with members in which their gender sexuality...

Background: Even after palatoplasty, the incidence of velopharyngeal dysfunction (VPD) can reach 30%; however, these estimates arise from high-income countries (HICs) where speech-language pathologists (SLP) are part standardized cleft teams. The VPD burden in low- and middle-income (LMICs) is unknown. This study aims to develop a machine-learning model that detect presence using audio samples alone. Methods: Case control were obtained institutional publicly available sources. A was built...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth experience disproportionate mental health challenges due to minority stress. Little research, however, has considered how social support from intragenerational friends impacts the of LGBTQ youth, particularly for color. Based mainly on qualitative interviews a longitudinal study with 83 California Texas, we develop concept intersectional support—how multiply marginalized individuals subjectively interpret they view similar others....

Queer spaces are significant for understanding transgender inclusion as "queer were places where individuals expected to be attentive or aware of alternative possibilities being, including non-normative formulations bodies, genders, desires and practices" (Nash, 2011 Nash, C. J. 2011. Trans experiences in lesbian queer space. Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien, 55: 192–207. [Crossref], [Web Science ®] , [Google Scholar], p. 203). Indeed, this interview study members a leather group...

Mimi Schippers (2007) theorizes that hegemonic femininity operates in relation to and support of masculinity. According Schippers, is maintained by the containment pariah femininities, gender non-conforming femininities may contaminate relationship between masculinity femininity. We extend Schippers’ theory analyzing practices are used manage examining lesbians sorority life a liberal arts college USA. Using interviews focus groups with members, we demonstrate way members engage subtle such...

This paper is a content analysis of political flyers and messages developed by Religious Right campaigns between 1974 2013 to fight legislation supportive lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) individuals. The focuses on 16 in which groups made claims about adults children. In these (n = 60), children are presented as similar adults; frame immutably gendered, confused, sexually predatory. research advances the body literature adultification minority I argue that girls adultified...

This article continues the dialogue started by Skolnik 2018 about synergistic union of social work and psychodrama group approaches. The theoretical clinical alignment sociometry with groups will be described. A practice illustration from Mirmont Treatment Center presented discussed to explore some dynamics and, in particular, therapeutic value surplus reality. Surplus reality is a creative tool used provide corrective emotional experience. Integrating insights neuroscience, this advocates...

Scholars theorize that the development of community is an important part resilience. In this mixed-methods study, we argue race informs experiences transgender and non-binary (TNB) people have in seeking community. Using Strengthening Colors Pride Phase I II research, a Latinomajority city, Latinx Anglo TNB connected with broader lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ+) community, although reported more transphobia LGBTQ+ Black American Indian communities color specifically...

This paper examines the ways in which rhetorics of Blackness and civil rights have been deployed by Whites positioned on both sides modern gay discourse United States. The authors argue that contemporary deployment anti-gay movements concurrently is linked to longstanding use race referendum initiative campaigns since late 1970s, as well even longer history racialization homosexuality Europe offers a brief nineteenth-century racial construction homosexuality, sets stage for later pairing...