An analysis of college applications reveals that 3% of US students use pronouns other than the traditional “he” or “she” binary.
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Around two in every 100 people have sex characteristics between the male-female binary definitions. Training for doctors and other health workers needs to reflect this.
Why do men identify as straight if they have sex with other men? And why would a straight man have sex with another man in the first place?
The age of ‘artificial intimacy’ is upon us. What does it mean for the way we love, have sex and build friendships?
We spoke to a number of young LGBTIQA+ people from all over Australia and from a variety of cultural backgrounds about their experiences during the pandemic.
Aliens arrive in Lagos in Nnedi Okorafor’s celebrated sci-fi novel Lagoon – and with them they bring a future free of restrictive gender norms.
Minority sexual identities are on average less satisfied with their lives — but being accepted is crucial to this.
Homonormativity, like heteronormativity, privileges certain lives over others.
If we’re keeping him, it’s time to reinvent James Bond for the digital post-Weinstein age.
MeToo drew attention to sexual harassment in the workplace. But we are still overlooking other forms of discrimination and the insidious impact of sexual harassment on women’s identities.
‘LGBTIQA+’ is a term often employed to be inclusive – but it runs the risk of being so inclusive it loses all meaning.
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Scientia Professor of Evolutionary Ecology; Academic Lead of UNSW's Grand Challenges Program, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
VC Fellow LaTrobe University, La Trobe University
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Director, Stonewall Center, UMass Amherst
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Professor, Medical Sciences, UNSW Medicine & Health & Co-Director, UNSW Scientia Education Academy, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Psychology, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor, biological anthropologist and anatomist, Flinders University
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Lecturer in digital counter/publics, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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PhD Researcher in Sexual Orientation and Well-being, Swansea University
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Senior research fellow, Western Sydney University
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Associate professor of Medical Sciences, University of Wollongong
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Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
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Researcher, Western Sydney University
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Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney
