As the 2015 election looms and political parties get in to the swing of electioneering, housing is just one of the issues that has made its way onto the campaign agenda. Something that is not top of the political agenda however is LGBT housing. Here Dr Andy King (University of Surrey Sociology Department) offers a timely reminder of the housing issues of older LGBT people.
The Psychology of Sexualities Review accepts Book Reviews for publication. A number of books are available for reviewing as listed below. Authors who complete a review that is published in the PoSR will be able to keep the book. If there is a particular book you would like to review that is not listed below please get in touch and we will see if we can obtain a copy for review.
Batsleer, J. (2013) Youth Working with Girls and Young Women in Community Settings (2nd Ed). Farnham: Ashgate
Bartolo, P & Borg, M. (Eds.) (2003) Homosexuality: Challenging the stigma. London: Agenda
Caldwell, R. A. (2012). Fallgirls: Gender and the Framing of Torture at Abu Ghraib, Farnham: Ashgate.
Doan, P. (2011) Queerying Planning: Challenging Heteronormative Assumptions and Reframing Planning. Farnham: Ashgate
Drescher, J., & Zucker, K. J. (Eds.). (2006). Ex-gay research: Analyzing the Spitzer study and its relation to science, religion, politics, and culture. New York: Harrington Park Press.
Endean, S. (2006). Bringing Lesbian and Gay Rights into the Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress. New York: Harrington Park.
Gerber, L. (2011) Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Glassgold, J.M. & Drescher, J. (2007). Activism and LGBT Psychology. New York: Haworth Press.
Gorman-Murray, A. & Hopkins, P. (2014). Masculinities and Place. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing
Hanway, D. G. (2006). A Theology of Gay and Lesbian Inclusion: Love Letters to the Church. Binghamton, NY: Haworth.
Helminiak, D.A. (2006). Sex and the sacred: Gay identity and spiritual growth. New York: Harrington Park Press.
Minichiello, V. & Scott, J. (2014). Male sex work and society, New York: Harrington Park Press
Oswald R.F (Ed.) (2003). Lesbian Rites: Symbolic Acts and the Power of Community. Binghamton, NY: Haworth
Peniston, W. (2004) Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris. New York: Harrington Park Press.
Phellas, C. (2012). Researching non-heterosexual sexualities. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
Prince, V., Ekins, R., & King, D. (2005). Virginia Prince: Pioneer of transgendering. New York: Haworth Press.
Sharratt, S. (2011). Gender, Shame and Sexual Violence: The Voices of Witnesses and Court Members at War Crimes Tribunals. Farnham: Ashgate.
Tremblay, M., Paternotte, D. & Jognson, C. (Eds.) (2011). The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State. Farnham: Ashgate.
Valentine, B. (2006). A Season of Grief. New York: Haworth Press.
van Hooff, J. (2013). Modern Couples? Continuity and Change in Heterosexual Relationships. Farnham: Ashgate
Winfield, L. (2005). Straight talk about gays in the workplace: Creating an inclusive, productive environment for everyone in your organization, Binghamton, NY: Haworth
Whipple, V. (2006) Lesbian Widows: Invisible Grief, New York: Haworth Press.
Yekani, E.H., Kilian, E, & Michaelis, B. (Eds.), (2013). Queer futures: Reconsidering ethics, activism, and the political. Farnham: Ashgate.
If you are interested in reviewing any of these books, please contact me, Orla Parslow-Breen, Book Reviews Editor for Psychology of Sexualities Review, for further information and guidance at o.parslow@surrey.ac.uk
Extended deadline: 31st May 2015.
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Practitioner Award
For a mental health professional registered with a professional body. The award will be made for a substantial contribution to the field of sexualities, such as service development; policy and governance development; clinical work; and other major contributions.
Research Award
Awarded to any professional, in the UK or Internationally, writing in relation to sexualities. Submissions should be no more than 8,000 words (including references) and must comprise an original piece of research.
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One year’s free membership to the section (BPS members only),
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He passed away today at 83.Here’s the New York Times obituary. Doubt there are many people in the world who were so plainly and simply admired as he was, and is.
And rather than to be entirely sad about the end of a life lived well and prosperously, here’s a couple of music videos for you.
Rest in peace, Leonard Nimoy. We are, will always be, your friends.
The Lesbian Lives 2015 conference is in full swing right now. Very disappointed that I couldn’t attend but am following via Twitter #LesbianLives
I wish I could do this…..
One of the most popular posts on the Thesis Whisperer is How to write 1000 words a day and not go bat shit crazy. Last year a Twitter follower brought to my attention a post called How I went from writing 2000 words to 10,000 words a day by the fiction writer Rachel Aaron.
I did a double take.
Can you really write 10,000 words a day? Well, Rachel says she can, with three conditions:
1) Know what you are going to write before you write it
2) Set aside a protected time to write, and
3) Feel enthusiastic about what you are writing
I read the post with interest. Much of what Rachel did conformed with what I suggest in my earlier post, but I couldn’t bring myself to really believe Rachel’s productivity claims. To regularly write 10,000 words: It’s the dream, right? Imagine if you could reliably…
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This looks like great event. Unfortunately I can’t make it
This looks like a worthwhile event. Plan on attending.
We’re excited to announce the first Queer London Research Forum event of 2015, which will be a talk by the Wellcome Library’s Lesley A. Hall, entitled ‘‘‘Bearded Fruit-Juice Drinkers”: the Queerness of Interwar Progressives’.
The talk will take place on the 9th of February at 18:30 in the Cayley Room (room 152-3) at the University of Westminster (309 Regent Street). The talk will be followed by a wine reception. Attendance is free, but places must be booked, please email queerlondonresearchforum@gmail.com to confirm your place.
Abstract: “There was a significant mass of individuals and organisations in Britain between the wars, concentrated in the metropolis, who were widely perceived as ‘queer’ both in the contemporary popular sense of generally eccentric and cranky and also on account of their contravention of gender and sexual norms. This paper will look at the ways this somewhat amorphous group destabilised prevalent assumptions of the day, with…
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One of the LGBT History Month events at the University of Surrey
Dr Orla Parslow-Breen 