GLQ:A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies is a scholarly,peer-reviewed journal based published by Duke University Press. It was co-founded by David M. Halperin and Carolyn Dinshaw in the early 1990s. In its mission,the journal seeks "to offer queer perspectives on all issues touching on sex and sexuality." It covers religion,science studies,politics,law,and literary studies.
Sex work in Venezuela is legal and regulated. The country's Ministry of Health and Social Development requires sex workers to carry identification cards and to have monthly health checkups. Prostitution is common,particularly in Caracas and in other domestic tourist destinations. The Venezuelan sex work industry arose in conjunction with the oil industry of the twentieth century and continues today.
Julia Michelle Serano is an American writer,musician,spoken-word performer,trans–bi activist,and biologist. She is known for her transfeminist books Whipping Girl (2007),Excluded (2013),and Outspoken (2016). She is also a prolific public speaker who has given many talks at universities and conferences. Her writing is frequently featured in queer,feminist,and popular culture magazines.
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is a gay Puerto Rican author,scholar,and performer. He is better known as Larry La Fountain. He has received several awards for his creative writing and scholarship as well as for his work with Latino and lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) students. He currently resides in Ann Arbor,Michigan.
Trish Salah is an Arab Canadian poet,activist,and academic. She is the author of the poetry collections,Wanting in Arabic,published in 2002 by TSAR Publications and Lyric Sexology Vol. 1,published by Roof Books in 2014. An expanded Canadian edition of Lyric Sexology,Vol. 1 was published by Metonymy Press in 2017.
Aaron H. Devor,is a Canadian sociologist and sexologist known for researching transsexuality and transgender communities. Devor has taught at the University of Victoria since 1989 and is the former dean of graduate studies. Devor is the current Research Chair in Transgender Studies at the University of Victoria,and the Founder &Academic Director of The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria Libraries. Maclean's, a Canadian weekly news magazine,described Devor as "an internationally respected expert on gender,sex and sexuality."
Vanessa Davies is a Venezuelan journalist.
Paisley Currah is political scientist and author,known for his work on the transgender rights movement. His book,Sex Is as Sex Does:Governing Transgender Identity examines the politics of sex classification in the United States. He is a professor of political science and women's and gender studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was born in Ontario,Canada,received a B.A. from Queen's University at Kingston,Ontario and an M.A and Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University. He lives in Brooklyn.
Susan O'Neal Stryker is an American professor,historian,author,filmmaker,and theorist whose work focuses on gender and human sexuality. She is a professor of Gender and Women's Studies,former director of the Institute for LGBT Studies,and founder of the Transgender Studies Initiative at the University of Arizona,and is currently on leave while holding an appointment as Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women's Leadership at Mills College. Stryker serves on the Advisory Council of METI and the Advisory Board of the Digital Transgender Archive. A transgender woman,she is the author of several books about LGBT history and culture.
Joy Ladin is an American poet and the former David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College for Women at Yeshiva University. She was the first openly transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish institution.
Transgender studies,also called trans studies or trans* studies,is an interdisciplinary field of academic research dedicated to the study of gender identity,gender expression,and gender embodiment,as well as to the study of various issues of relevance to transgender and gender variant populations. Interdisciplinary subfields of transgender studies include applied transgender studies,transgender history,transgender literature,transgender media studies,transgender anthropology and archaeology,transgender psychology,and transgender health. The research theories within transgender studies focus on cultural presentations,political movements,social organizations and the lived experience of various forms of gender nonconformity. The discipline emerged in the early 1990s in close connection to queer theory. Non-transgender-identified peoples are often also included under the "trans" umbrella for transgender studies,such as intersex people,crossdressers,drag artists,third gender individuals,and genderqueer people.
Proyecto ContraSIDA por Vida was a non-profit HIV-prevention agency located in the Mission District of San Francisco that provided community-based healthcare for the Latino/a and LGBT communities. It was one of several community-based health organizations that emerged in response to the AIDS crisis. Proyecto ContraSIDA por Vida emerged from a variety of organizations that aimed at reducing the spread of HIV in communities of color. Some of the predecessor organizations of PCPV were the National Task Force on AIDS Prevention (NTFAP),the Gay Latino Alliance (GALA),and Community United in Responding to AIDS/SIDA (CURAS),among others. Some of the leaders who came together to create PCPV included Ricardo Bracho,Diane Felix,Jesse Johnson,Hector León,Reggie Williams,and Martín Ornellas-Quintero.
Tatiana de la tierra was a Colombian writer,poet and activist. She was the author of the first international Latina lesbian magazine Esto no tiene nombre.
TSQ:Transgender Studies Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering transgender studies,with an emphasis on cultural studies and the humanities. Established in 2014 and published by Duke University Press,it is the first non-medical journal about transgender studies.
Maya Chinchilla is a Bay Area-based American poet best known as one of the founders of EpiCentroAmerica and for writing The Cha Cha files:A Chapina Poética. She is of mixed American,German,and Guatemalan heritages. She was a lecturer at University of California,Santa Cruz where she developed courses on Central Americans in Diaspora and Creative Writing. Chinchilla is also a lecturer at the University of California Davis in the department of Chicano Studies.
El/La Para TransLatinas is a non-profit organization that provides legal,fiscal,educational,health,and other services to transgender Latinas. The organization was founded in San Francisco,California,in 2006.
Emma Pérez is an American author and professor,known for her work in queer Chicana feminist studies.
Eli Clare is an American writer,activist,educator,and speaker. His work focuses on queer,transgender,and disability issues. Clare was one of the first scholars to popularize the bodymind concept.
Histories of the Transgender Child is a 2018 transgender studies book by the transgender author and academic Jules Gill-Peterson. The book is an exploration of transgender childhood in the United States throughout the twentieth century. It received the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction and the 2018 Children’s Literature Association Book Award.
