The Gay & Lbian Review - March/April 2016

Contents:

• MAGAZE STAND :: THE GAY & LBIAN REVIEW – JULY/AUGT 2023
• THE GAY & LBIAN REVIEW – MARCH/APRIL 2016
• LBIAN AND GAY PARENTG
• GAY & LBIAN REVIEW WORLDWI
• THE GAY & LBIAN REVIEW WORLDWI.

MAGAZE STAND :: THE GAY & LBIAN REVIEW – JULY/AUGT 2023

The Gay & Lbian Review Edor Richard Schneir opens the July-Augt 2023 issue by explorg the theme “Fantasy Lands”: “Today’s digal technologi have created possibili for whole new worlds of immersn and experience, and wh them a panoply of subcultur anized around the s. Culled om a longlist of hundreds, movi nsired for the list promently feature gay, lbian, trans, or queer characters; ncern self centrally wh LGBTQ+ them; prent s LGBTQ+ characters a fair and realistic light; and/or be seen as a touchpot the evolutn of queer cema. And we regnize that some of the films the list will re-igne healthy bat that have been fixtur of discsn around LGBTQ+ films — straight actors playg gay characters, cis actors playg trans characters, and the historil domance of whe male perspectiv.

THE GAY & LBIAN REVIEW – MARCH/APRIL 2016

For our most recent update to the list, we’ve add mastream edi Fire Island and Bros, thriller Knock at the Cab (featurg two pairs of hbands whose vatn is terpted by the potential apolypse), Disney feature Strange World (wh the stud’s first openly gay lead character), Blue Jean (a Brish drama set durg the Thatcher premiership), the extremely well-reviewed Girl Picture), France’s magil realist The Five Devils, and Cann 2023 buts Monster and Strange Way of Life.

LBIAN AND GAY PARENTG

The first issue, Wter 1994, of The Harvard Gay & Lbian Review me out late the followg fall and featured a 10, 000-word memoir by Andrew Holleran entled “My Harvard”—a transcript of the talk he had given the sprg of 1991 at the first annual Jon Pearson Perry lecture—a tantalizg scriptn of what was like to be gay at Harvard the mid-1960’s.

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The prev edn, which was tled Lbian and Gay Parentg: A Rource for Psychologists (1995) was the succsor to a publitn tled Lbian Parents and Their Children: A Rource Paper for Psychologists that was jotly produced by CLGBC and CWP 1991.

Unlike heterosexual parents and their children, however, lbian and gay parents and their children are often subject to prejudice bee of their sexual orientatn that n turn judg, legislators, profsnals, and the public agast them, sometim rultg negative out, such as loss of physil ctody, rtrictns on visatn, and prohibns agast adoptn (ACLU Lbian and Gay Rights Project, 2002; Appell, 2003; Patterson, Fulcher, & Waright, 2002). As this summary will show, the rults of existg rearch parg lbian and gay parents to heterosexual parents and children of lbian and gay parents to children of heterosexual parents are que clear: Common stereotyp are not supported by the data. The relevance of this cricism has been greatly rced as rearch has expand to explore life a wir array of lbian mother and gay father fai (many of which have never lived through the divorce of a heterosexual uple), and as newer studi beg to clu a wir array of ntrol groups.

Other cricisms have been that most studi have been based on relatively small sampl, that there have been difficulti wh asssment procr employed some studi, and that the classifitn of parents as lbian, gay, or heterosexual has been problematic.

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An expert readg of the Sarantakos article reveals that certa characteristics of s methodology and sample are highly likely to have skewed the rults and renred them an valid ditor of the well-beg of children raised by gay and lbian parents at least three rpects:. The children raised by gay and lbian parents experienced unually high levels of extreme social ostracism and overt hostily om other children and parents, which probably acunted for the former's lower levels of teractn and social tegratn wh peers (see pp.