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The continued presence of homophobic attitudes in society and the workplace has been eroding the productivity and profitability of Australian businesses.
Sexual equality should not be mere letters and words in laws. Rather, people - in this case student teachers - must understand sexual equality as a lived reality.
How to make campus safer for LGBTQ students.
A scholar says bullying prevention programs fail to recognize that sexual harassment could be related to bullying.
Millions of women felt insulted by Donald Trump’s language toward women. Others overlooked it, seeing the female candidate as flawed. Here’s why this might suggest a growing health crisis for women.
States who want to keep criminalising LGBT people are trying to stop the UN from creating a way of investigating them.
Recent data on football’s homophobia problem met with both optimism and pessimism. What’s really going on?
For a global audience, the movie ‘A United Kingdom’ provides a topical account of race relations. The love story is likely to revitalize the popular viewpoint of Botswana as a national success story.
It is now recognized within public health that discrimination causes significant health problems for the LGBTQ community.
Orlando shooter Omar Mateen’s father has denounced homosexuality, while many say Mateen secretly grappled with his own sexuality. Here’s what the research says on the relationship between parents’ attitudes, being closeted and being homophobic.
Times are changing … but far too slowly.
For every advance in LGBT rights that is made in one part of the world, there are extreme regressions elsewhere.
The massacre at an Orlando gay club is a savage reminder that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people still face harsh prejudice in America and lack full equal protections under the law.
In our modern understanding of terror, Islamic extremism seems to trump everything else. This is a mistake.
It has taken the killing of 50 innocent people at an LGBT club to bring home how much homophobia is embedded in Western societies.
Enough tiptoeing around: without ending state discrimination, we have little hope of stopping HIV and AIDS.
Consensual same-sex conduct is a crime in 38 African countries. The media in those countries are very much in cahoots with their rulers. But they’re getting their comeuppance from Twitter.
Religious leaders have done little to help combat institutionalised homophobia – and some have flat-out encouraged it.
The drug-fuelled sexual practices of some gay men have increasingly become a matter of heated public debate – but there are problems with the way it is presented.
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Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Timothy W. Jones is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in History, La Trobe University
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Lecturer in Sports and Exercise Science, Swansea University
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Research fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate research scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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PhD Candidate in Law, University College Dublin
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Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Sociology, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Sociology, Aston University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
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Professor of Gender Studies, Chair in Sex Media and Sex Cultures, Linköping University
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Research Professor, Masculinities Studies, School of Education, University of Calgary
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Doctoral Researcher at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), University of the Witwatersrand
