Welcome at LGBT education
GALE is a learning community focusing on education about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues. We promote the full inclusion of people who are disadvantaged because of their sexual orientation, sexual identity and their expression by identifying, enhancing and sharing educational expertise. The membership of the community is open to anyone actively involved in education about LGBT issues.
Research among Dutch school principals shows need for team awareness
June 26, 2009 - Peter Dankmeijer
More than 60% of the Dutch school directors of secondary schools does not know whether there is a basis for LGBT emancipation in their school, or they are sure there is not. The Dutch Expertise Centre on Sexual Diversity in Education, Empowerment, concludes that school principals must be stimulated and supported to create more team awareness and concrete interventions to promote gay-straight equality.
This conclusion comes from the research report “Beautiful words”, which was published yesterday by Empowerment in collaboration with a national “gay/straight” alliance of trade unions, the national network of public schools and the LGBT grass roots organization COC. Empowerment itself is also part of this alliance, which was established by Education Minister Plasterk to promote a more focussed approach to LGBT emancipation in schools.
One Day Conference Workshop on Sexualities in/of the Global South
July 03, 2009 - Nik Boersma
The One Day Conference seeks to develop connections and links for those who seek to consider these and further issues relating to sexualities and the Global South. It is designed to be supportive, so that thoughts and topics can be articulated across often segregated areas of study. In this spirit, emerging and embryonic ideas are welcome throughout the event. Read more...
Seminar LGBT Families: The New Minority?
June 22, 2009 - Nik Boersma
Call for papers for ILGA-Europe october 2009 seminar ‘LGBT Families: The New Minority?’ Read more...
Call for papers: Edited anthology on sexuality and activism in South and Southeast Asia
June 12, 2009 - Nik Boersma
Call for papers for Sexuality and Activism in South and Southeast Asia: Critical Perspectives on the Intersections Between Theory, Politics, and Action, an edited anthology premised on the need for a critical examination and analysis of the explosion of activist work on sexuality in South and Southeast Asia in the last decade. Read more...
Call for Papers for Conference - Beyond Citizenship: Feminism and the Transformation of Belonging
June 12, 2009 - Nik Boersma
Call for Papers: proposals for papers that address the questions and the broad theme of the conference. In particularly welcome are papers which explore the interface between the feminist academy and feminist activism, and which are interdisciplinary and innovative in method and approach. Read more...
LGBTs want inclusion in new Nepalese curriculum - Sexual minorities call for rights
June 11, 2009 - Nik Boersma
LGBT people face indiscriminate persecution everywhere, including schools, homes and public places. Also in Nepal sexual minorities, forming nearly 10 per cent of the population, face many problems. Yet, in a seminar on Tuesday, they demanded a unique position - that the government prepares a new national curriculum which includes different sections on sexual minorities and their rights. Read more...