Journal of LGBT Youth™

The Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Practice,

Research, Policy, and Theory

Editor: James T. Sears, PhD

Get the latest international perspectives on the issues that impact LGBT students

and educators!

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Stay at the forefront of LGBT youth issues

The Journal of LGBT Youth is the interdisciplinary forum dedicated to improving of quality of life for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth. This quarterly journal (retitled from the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education to better reflect the journal’s youth focus) presents peer-reviewed scholarly articles, practitioner-based essays, policy analyses, and revealing narratives from young people. This invaluable resource is committed to advancing knowledge about, and support of, LGBT youth. The wide-ranging topics include formal and non-formal education; family; peer culture; the media, arts, and entertainment industry; religious institutions and youth organizations; health care; and the workplace.

The Journal of LGBT Youth is presented in concise, jargon-free language, discussing in detail sexual and gender identity issues while seeking effective policies, exemplary programs, and outstanding practices. Reviews and analyses of queer youth subcultures are explored through film and television, blogs and...

CALL FOR ARTICLES

Journal of LGBT Youth:

An Interdisciplinary Quarterly of

Practice, Research, Policy & Theory

Special Theme:

Millennial Teens:

International Perspectives on LGBTQ Youth

The Journal of LGBT Youth (previously entitled the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in

Education) invites scholars, practitioners, researchers, educators, lay persons, young persons, and

policy analysts to submit abstract proposals for this special theme double issue.

In 1993, The High School Journal published a landmark issue on “the gay teen,” with 19 articles

focusing on what it is like to be “a homosexual adolescent in the United States…. in school [and]

in gay culture.” Its editor, Gerald Unks (1993/94, p. 6), concluded that what was needed was “to

extend basic civil liberties to a minority of students who do not currently enjoy them.” Fifteen

years later, how far have we progressed in heading this call for individual, social, and legal

equality? Are we in a new era that is witnessing the birth of what some are calling the new gay or

post-gay teen or are these claims misleading? How has the past 15 years of critical inquiry

alongside technological...