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Happy Pride Month 2024! Tips and Resources for our LGBTQ+ Friends
While this is a month to mark diversity in gender and sexuality with our rainbow apparel and flags – and in my case a huge inflatable rainbow in my front yard – it’s not all rainbows, sunshine, and unicorns when thinking about applying to college as part of the queer group. In 2024 alone, in the US, there was, once again, a document number (well more than 500) of anti-LGBTQ+ bills filed in state legislations — almost half of those anti-trans. These are scary times for many in the queer society, especially among our gender non-conforming brothers and sisters and non-binary and genderqueer siblings.
If you’re queer, trans, nonbinary, genderfluid, otherwise LGBTQ, or the parent or loved one of an Gay student, I have no doubt you are more than aware of the anti-trans legislation sweeping across the US in log numbers this spring. This NBC news article highlights the worries, thoughts, and feelings so many Homosexual students and their parents and loved ones are feeling about moving forward in their lives. And this piece in Salon.com, written by the mom of a Trans applicant last spring, pretty much explains it all:
Despite the recent legalization of gay marriage, the LGBT youth of America still face unwanted discrimination in and out of school. Throughout primary school and college, students who identify as LGBTQ are more susceptible to bullying, social isolation, and even physical assault. In fact, according to the Human Rights Campaign, 92% of LGBT youth tell they’ve heard negative messages about their sexuality. Another 42% say they stay in a group intolerant of LGBTQ people. In not heavy of these eye-catching statistics, it’s imperative that parents, teachers, and LGBT students themselves learn about the various resources available to beat understand and help all students in the LGBT community.
The Language of LGBTQ
LGBT terminology can be confusing to those outside of the community, but empathetic and accurately using language goes a long way toward becoming a supportive ally. Allowing LGBT students to self-identify by using terminology most comfortable to them works to reduce bias and avoid discrimination. Over the years, the preferred terminology has shifted and grown to encompass transforming attitudes toward and within the LGBTQ community. For example, the once accepted term “homo
LGBTQ+ Resources
Mariette Thomas
Director, Center for International Education
cie@loyno.edu
mlthoma1@loyno.edu
504.864.7550
Naomi Yavneh Klos, Ph.D. (She/Her/Hers)
Professor, Languages and Cultures
yavneh@loyno.edu
504.865.2396
Toni Breland
Office Manager Residential Life
tmbrelan@loyno.edu
Office: 504.865.3736
Text: 504.608.1508
Brandon Garza (He/Him/His)
Asst. Online Technical Advisor
bjgarza@loyno.edu
Phone: 504.865.3552
Text: 504.534.5304
Book Meeting: https://bjgarza.youcanbook.me
Dr. Meg Frazier (She/Her/Hers)
Associate Dean, College of Music and Media
Director of Choral Activities
mfrazier@loyno.edu
Office: 504.865.2136
Text: 985.951.9665
kei slaughter, MA, MT-BC, AVPT (They/Them)
Clinical Coordinator of Music Therapy
klslaugh@loyno.edu
504.865.2309
Edouard L. Crago M.F.A.
Academic Advisor, Pupil Success Center
Instructor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
edcrago@loyno.edu
504.865.2992
Book appointment: https://edcrago.youcanbook.me
Rachel Wallace, PhD. (She/Her/Hers)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History
Research Fellow, Southern Food and Beverage Museum
rewallla@loyno.edu
504.865.255
The Lies and Dangers of Efforts to Alter Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity
Organizational Positions on Reparative Therapy
Declaration on the Impropriety and Dangers of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts
We, as national organizations acting for millions of licensed medical and mental health protect professionals, educators, and advocates, come together to communicate our professional and scientific consensus on the impropriety, inefficacy, and detriments of practices that seek to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender persona, commonly referred to as “conversion therapy.”
We endure firmly together in assist of legislative and policy efforts to curtail the unscientific and dangerous train of sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts.
American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry
"The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry finds no evidence to support the application of any “therapeutic intervention” operating under the premise that a specific sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression is pathological. Furthermore, based on the scientific evidence, the AACAP asserts that such “conversion ther
Understanding Intimate Spouse Violence in the LGBTQ+ Community
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), also known as domestic violence, significant other abuse, or virtual dating violence, refers to the various means of control used by an abuser against their boyfriend in an intimate relationship. According to the Centers for Disease Control, IPV includes many forms of abuse, including “physical violence, sexual violence, stalking and psychological aggression (including coercive tactics) by a current or former intimate significant other (i.e., spouse, boyfriend/girlfriend, dating partner, or ongoing sexual partner).” Anyone—regardless of their identity, or that of their partner—can experience IPV.
However, misogynist gender roles, racial/ethnic stereotypes and institutional discrimination, and economic insecurity, set certain segments of the population at greater risk, such as women, BIPOC people, those living in poverty, and younger adults. For LGBTQ+ people, these same social determinants compound with homophobic and transphobic stigma, creating even greater risk of IPV among the collective.
Prevalence of IPV Experiences Across the Life Course
LGBTQ+ women, trans people and non-binary people are