Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Cypriot Labour Market: Distastes or Uncertainty? Sexual orientation and employment bias is examined in Cyprus (Republic of Cyprus: Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca, Paphos) by implementing an experiment for the period 2010-2011. The design is aimed at answering three main questions: Do gay and lesbian people face occupational access constraints and entry wage ...

OBJECTIVES We used population-based data to comprehensively examine disability among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults. METHODS We estimated prevalence of disability and its covariates and compared by sexual orientation by utilizing data from the Washington State Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (n = 82,531) collected in 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2009. We used multivariate logistic regr...

Lesbian and gay activism now circles the globe, but it is vastly understudied. Not even the latest syntheses of contemporary social-movement theory discuss lesbian and gay movements to any significant degree (see McAdam, McCarthy, and Zald, 1996). Even the most important works on “social theory” tend to ignore sexuality (Warner, 1993: ix). A lack of activism cannot explain this deficiency, sinc...

OBJECTIVE Increasing numbers of lesbian and bisexual women are choosing to have children. This qualitative study investigated the degree to which a sample of Canadian lesbian and bisexual women were satisfied with the health and social services that they received during the process of trying to conceive, during pregnancy, and during the early postpartum weeks and months. METHODS Three focus g...

Canada Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Resource Directory [11] Canadian Human Rights Commission [12] Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives [13] Canadian Race Relations Foundation [14] Council of Canadians with Disabilities [15] Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (EGALE) [16] Human Rights in Canada: A Historical Perspective [17] Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) [18] Urban A...

Canada Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Resource Directory [11] Canadian Human Rights Commission [12] Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives [13] Canadian Race Relations Foundation [14] Council of Canadians with Disabilities [15] Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (EGALE) [16] Human Rights in Canada: A Historical Perspective [17] Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) [18] Urban A...