The role of the gay/lbian person the af culture and munitn problems which ntribute to or terfere wh self acceptance as well as fay or muny acceptance are the fol pots for this article. Chang that have been ma the af culture and the culture at large rpect to sexual inty issu and the parison of muni (af to gay/lbian) are also outled. Although not addrsg very aspect of the issu surroundg the af, gay/lbian client, this article provis suggtns for unselors and others who may be nonted wh the issu.
Contents:
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR SECTN
- WAG TO BE HEARD: ON BEG DEAF AND GAY
- WH 'THIS CLOSE,' JOSH FELDMAN PUTS DEAF, GAY LIV IN THE SPOTLIGHT
- GAY AND DEAF SERT RINTS: IT'S NOT A DISABILY
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR SECTN
* gay deaf culture *
Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Sectn. Deaf Queer Rource Center The Deaf Queer Rource Center (DQRC) is a natnal nonprof rource and rmatn center for, by and about the Deaf Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Transsexual, Intersex and Qutng muni (hereafter referred to as the “Deaf Queer muny”).
WAG TO BE HEARD: ON BEG DEAF AND GAY
The purpose of this Alliance is to tablish and mata a society of Deaf Gays and Lbians to enurage and promote the tnal, enomil, and social welfare; to foster fellowship; to fend our rights; and advance our terts as Deaf Gay and Lbian cizens ncerng social jtice; to build up an anizatn which all worthy members may participate the discsn of practil problems and solutns related to their social welfare. Assembly Required: Not om a Deaf Gay Life.
WH 'THIS CLOSE,' JOSH FELDMAN PUTS DEAF, GAY LIV IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Ey of Dire: A Deaf Gay & Lbian Rear. This is surprisg, nsirg what my sister, an terpreter for the af, has told me: “You’d be surprised how many af people are gay. Usg the qutnable Ksey timate that ten percent of the populatn is gay or lbian and the fact that there are 28 ln af or hard of hearg people the US, they nclu that 2.
GAY AND DEAF SERT RINTS: IT'S NOT A DISABILY
8 ln of them – or ten percent – are gay or lbian. Season four of The Janice Dickson Molg Agency featured Mart Rchie, a handsome gay af man who ma the cut to the top 12 and got to live wh the other nttants and Janice herself (don’t the man have enough to al wh whout subjectg him to that? Two years earlier, the murr of Gallt Universy hman Eric Plunkett ma headl and put the af school’s gay muny on high alert.
A 1987 article by Jean Phanf, “Consiratns on Deafns and Homosexualy”, me to the ncln “The arth of lerature and rearch data on afns and sexualy only pots to the need for rearch. As recently as 2007, Alison Beth Klger noted that there was still a lack of rearch this area her dissertatn, The Social Development of an Invisible Mory: The Deaf Gay and Lbian Populatn.