With the start of the Winter Olympics, this week I wanted to highlight another similar sporting event coming to Northeast Ohio this summer: The Gay Games. This is even more noteworthy because of the anti-LBGT laws and violence in Russia, …
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A recent article in The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law [Find it] provides a helpful outline of the issues facing transgendered people in the U.S. prison system. The article “review[s] the epidemiology of transgendered individuals …
The LBGT community in India (Known as Hijras) has a long history. The origins of Hijras go back millennia to a time when transsexuals, eunuchs and gays held a special place in society because of Hindu myths attesting to them …
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With the 2014 Winter Olympic Games taking place in Sochi in February, Russia has come under international scrutiny for its recent “gay propaganda” law. The most recent issue of The Journal of Eurasian Law [Find it] provides an English-language translation …
Whether it’s the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Windsor, or newly passed legislation in Illinois or Hawaii, it has become clear that same-sex marriage is a prominent legal issue. If you’re interested in doing research on this civil …
