Challenging Epistemologies and Methodologies That Frame Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Research

• In Event: Roundtable Session 100

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This roundtable opens with a discussion of “truncation,” a form of silencing that can re-victimize marginalized groups . The next paper explores the impact of the legalization of same-sex marriages on curriculum and instruction and examines how teachers rationalize their inclusion/exclusion of LGBTQ topics in the formal curriculum. Moving to the larger community, the third paper examines the motivations of creators of videos submitted to the It Gets Better project. Finally, HIV/AIDS research and prevention strategies are challenged in light of the impact of networked and digital technologies that now mediate the sexual behaviors of gay men, other MSM, and trans folks.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Queer Studies

Chair

• Jenna McWilliams, Indiana University

Papers

• Silence at the Intersection: Essentialism and Truncation of Experience - Jenna McWilliams, Indiana University

• “It’s Already Happened”: Examining the Impact of Same-Sex Marriage on Curriculum and Instruction - Janna Jackson Kellinger, University of Massachusetts - Boston; Lianna Levine, University of Massachusetts - Boston

• Public Pedagogy, Community, and Social Technologies in the “It Gets Better Project” - Sara Hurley, University of Minnesota

• Building the HIVe: Disrupting Biomedical HIV/AIDS Research With Gay Men, Other Men Who Have Sex With Men, and Transgenders - Christopher Walsh, The Open University; Gurmit Singh, University of Leeds