A law banning therapists in California from attempting to change the sexual orientation of same-sex attracted youths was tested in the courts this week. At issue were the rights to professional free speech…
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Homosexuality
Displaying 161 - 180 of 183 articles
Some people are ignorant. There are no cases, however, of ignorance being listed as the cause of death on someone’s death certificate. On the ABC’s Q&A program on Monday night, Archbishop Jensen agreed…
Alan Chambers, president of the world’s largest “ex-gay” organisation, Exodus International, recently renounced the group’s long-held position that homosexuality can be “cured” – that gay people can become…
AUSTRALIA BY NUMBERS: The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released the first batch of its 2011 census data. We’ve asked some of the country’s top demographers and statisticians to crunch the numbers…
It may seem surprising, but the number of queer characters in videogames has increased dramatically over the last decade. A key influence of this is “media convergence”, that is, the flow of subject matter…
In the last few years, several laboratory studies have shown that, to some extent, we can tell whether someone is gay or straight, just by glimpsing their face. When asked to categorise male and female…
A group of 150 doctors, called Doctors for the Family, have made a submission to the Senate inquiry into gay marriage which argues that children of same-sex parents suffer poorer health and well-being…
George Orwell’s mordant satire of politics and bureaucratic doublespeak famously featured the slogan that “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”. Watching the brouhaha about…
“[T]he evidence is clear that children who grow up in a family with a mother and a father do better in all parameters than children without.” That’s according to the Doctors for the Family’s submission…
It’s been decades since electroshock therapy or other psychiatric interventions were routinely employed to “treat” homosexuality. These days, reparative therapy is more popular. It involves a combination…
Homophilia, a term once used to define “unnatural” relations between same-sex people in the early- to mid-20th century has been given a makeover. Urban gay communities around the world are using homophilia…
People raised by authoritarian parents, particularly fathers, show a tendency to express homophobic opinions and conceal…
Nearly 80% of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) Australians suffered at least one episode of intense anxiety in the past year, and more than 25% were diagnosed with, or treated for, an anxiety…
The two black and white photographs used in the Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) anti-gay marriage advertisement were sourced online from a stock photo aggregator. The photographs are taken by a Paris-based…
You may have read the British Government is being petitioned to grant a posthumous pardon to one of the world’s greatest mathematicians and most successful codebreakers, Alan Turing. You may also have…
Straights, gays, and those vacillating somewhere on the periphery, have equally demonstrated a penchant for the game. Sitting back, stroking one’s chin and speculating on sexuality. Who’s gay? Who’s confused…
Gay men are 40% less likely to be offered a job interview than their straight counterparts in some parts of the United States…
The second Stephen Fry mentioned Grindr on Top Gear of course its popularity surged. Not only did the app – designed to help homosexual blokes hook up with those geographically convenient – surge in popularity…
A study into zebra finches shows same-sex pairs of birds are just as faithful to each other as opposite sex pairs. The research…
So Penny Wong, our finance minister, is going to be a mum. Sophie Allouache, Wong’s long-term partner, announced on Tuesday that her IVF-conceived baby will arrive in December. While many commentators…
Top contributors
-
Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University
-
Timothy W. Jones is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in History, La Trobe University
-
Reader in Human Rights Law, Manchester Metropolitan University
-
Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
-
Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
VC Fellow LaTrobe University, La Trobe University
-
Honorary Senior Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
-
Associate Head, School of Psychological, Social & Behavioural Sciences, Coventry University
-
Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
-
Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
-
Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
-
Professor Emeritus, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
-
Jenny Graves is a Friend of The Conversation.
Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
-
Senior Lecturer of Media Studies and Digital Media, University of Sussex
-
Professor of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University
-
Professor of Law and Society, Northumbria University, Newcastle
