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learning difficulties who are gay, lesbian or bisexual” published by The Policy Press in 2005.

A current study explores the experiences of LGBT Disabled people who access social care support and is in partnership with leading, user-led campaigning organisations Stonewall and Regard. The study is funded by the National Institute for Health Research School for Social Care Research of which David is an Associate Director.

“This project will contribute to research about LGBT, disability and adult social care. It will produce a range of online resources to support LGBT-disabled people, their supporters and social care providers.”

He has published numerous peer reviewed journal articles in multiple areas, as well as contributed book chapters to seminal professional books. In the LGBT area he is author or co-author of articles which include such titles as:

– Love in a Cold Climate: Changes in the fortunes of LGBT men and women with learning disabilities? British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 43 (2), 100-105

– Nudge, nudge, wink, wink: Love, sex and gay men with intellectual disabilities – a helping hand or a human right? Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 57 (11) 1079-1087

– Still Off-Limits? Staff Views on Supporting Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual People with Intellectual Disabilities to Develop Sexual and Intimate Relationships’, Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 20 (2) 116-126

– What’s Love Got to Do with It? The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People with Intellectual Disabilities and the Views of the Staff that Support them’, Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 4 (1) 27-39

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Issues Network (LAIN); current member of NIH’s National Advisory Council on Aging (NACA). https://nursing.gwu.edu/kimberly-d-acquaviva

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Dr. Alessi recently served as guest editor for the Clinical Social Work Journal‘s first special issue on Clinical Practice with LGBTQ Populations.

He is author or co-author of a wide variety of peer-reviewed publications including “Minority stress and HERoic coping among ethnoracial lesbian and bisexual female adolescents: Intersections of resilience” (Journal of Adolescent Research); “The first year experience for sexual minority students: A grounded theory exploration” (Journal of LGBT Youth); ‘The darkest times of my life’: Recollections of child abuse among forced migrants persecuted because o f their sexual orientation and gender identity” (Child Abuse & Neglect); “Therapist correlates of attitudes toward sexual minority individuals affirmative counseling self efficacy, and beliefs about affirmative practice” (Psychotherapy Research); “Determinants of lesbian and gay affirmative practice among heterosexual therapists” (Psychotherapy); “Development of the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Affirmative Counseling Self-Efficacy Inventory-Short Form (LGB-CSI-SF)” (Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity); ). “A framework for incorporating minority stress theory into treatment with sexual minority clients” (Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health); “Gay affirmative cognitive behavioral therapy for sexual minority youth: Clinical adaptations and approaches” (Clinical Social Work Journal); “Prejudice events and traumatic stress among heterosexuals and lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals. (Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma); “PTSD and sexual orientation: An examination of criterion A1 and non-Criterion events” (Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy); “Victimization in a nationwide Internet sample of gay and bisexual men” (Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services); “Stressful events, avoidance coping, and unprotected anal sex among gay and bisexual men” (American Journal of Orthopsychiatry); and more.

His publications also include numerous book chapters relating to clinical research and practice for LGBTQ populations.

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She has published 7 books, and more than 100 articles in top-ranked peer reviewed journals pertaining to LGBTQ issues, family theories, feminist family studies, diversity, marginalized family relationships, qualitative methods, and sexuality, and is on the editorial boards of top journals as Family Relations, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Family Theory and Research, Journal of Marriage and Family, and the Journal of Sex Research. Especially notable are her leading edge book chapters pertaining to LGBTQ issues including “Navigating family breakup before the advent of legal marriage and divorce” forthcoming in A. E. Goldberg & A. Romero (Eds.), LGBTQ divorce and relationship dissolution: Psychological and legal perspectives and implications for practice, Oxford University Press; and “Family relationships of older LGBT adults” (with K. A. Roberto) in Handbook of LGBT elders: An interdisciplinary approach to principles, practices, and policies (Harley & Teaster (Eds.), Springer, 2016).

Dr. Allen served on the editorial board and authored or co-authored 8 entries in the recent classic “The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies” (2016, A. E. Goldberg, Ed.) including: Cancer and social support; Lesbian bed death; Relationships with former spouses; Social media, use for recruitment; and Trevor project.

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Transgender Research Award (2012) from the American Psychological Association for a significant and original research contribution to the field, and the Vice Chancellor’s Alumni Achievement Award (2016) from the University of Surrey for his outstanding contributions to standards and policies in international human rights and social justice.

Dr Gávi was the primary author of the first empirical study of cisgenderism to be published in a peer-reviewed journal and has pioneered the emerging field of cisgenderism studies. His published findings of cisgenderism in psychological research and guidelines for reducing cisgenderism in psychological research have been formally acknowledged as the catalysts that led to the review and change of the official World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) language policy.

Dr Gávi was a co-author of the first national study of intersex Australians, the sole author of a policy white paper that critiques data integrity gaps in Australian Standards for collecting sex and gender information, the author of national inclusive language guidelines adopted by several federal government bodies and professional peak bodies in the aged care and health sectors, and a member of the national working group that advised the Australian Attorney-General’s Department on the review of national guidelines on the recognition of sex and gender.

He has authored over 50 original policy submissions to federal inquiries; contributed to Australian federal legislative and policy changes relevant to sex, sexuality, gender, and relationships; and testified for Australian Senate Inquiries related to funding for health services, care and management of people living with dementia, and the involuntary or coerced sterilisation of intersex people. He also authored a successful application to Australia’s federal Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme to challenge new discriminatory restrictions in hormone access for consenting people of trans and/or non-binary gender and consenting intersex people.

Dr Gávi owns and administrates Ansara Psychotherapy, a non-pathologizing and person-directed psychotherapy and counselling practice that uses polycultural approaches and applies social justice principles. He is a National Executive Committee Member and Co-Chair of the NSW State Chapter of the Australian LGBTIQ Multicultural Council.

Dr Gávi has been a Researcher for the Drug and Alcohol Multicultural Education Centre (DAMEC), Australia’s only multicultural-specific drug and alcohol service. He has also been a Senior Research Consultant for Scotland’s Equality Network, where he was co-author of Equality Network guidelines on working with people of ‘LGBTIQ’ background who are refugees or seeking asylum and co-author of a guide for providing health and social care services for people with intersectional needs due to having more than one federally protected characteristic.

He is on the editorial board of Developmental Psychology, The International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, Transgender Studies Quarterly, and Journal of Behavioral Sciences. His diverse professional background includes university lecturing, crisis intervention team supervision, group facilitation, youth and family casework, leading a health research and policy unit for a national peak body, hospital-based psychosocial support, and community-based outreach.

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HIV & Psychiatry: Training & Resource Manual, Cambridge University Press); “Bereavement: Bereaved, Bothered and Bewildered”(in Levounis, Drescher & Barber, Working With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People: Basic Principles and Case Studies, American Psychiatric Publishing; and “HIV/AIDS Among Men Who Have Sex With Men” (Fernandez & Ruiz, Psychiatric Aspects of HIV/AIDS, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins).

In 2013, he was the Guest Editor of the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health for its special issue devoted to “The Black Community and its LGBT Members.”

Dr. Ashley is immediate past president of Association of Gay & Lesbian Psychiatrists. He is also a member of the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute Mental Health Guidelines Committee; the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Minority Medical Student Elective in HIV Psychiatry Faculty/Site Director; and the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Section on HIV/AIDS, and member of its Executive Council since 2012.

studies especially family-policy issues and labor-market discrimination based on sexual orientation, race, and gender. Her latest book, When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage (NYU Press, 2009), focuses on the U.S. and European experiences with marriage equality for gay couples.

She co-edited the recent book, Sexual Orientation Discrimination: An International Perspective (Routledge, 2007). Her first book, Money, Myths, and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men (University of Chicago Press, 2001), presented her groundbreaking work debunking the myth of gay affluence. She is also the author or co-author of numerous journal articles and policy reports.

Prof. Badgett’s policy-related work includes testifying as an expert witness in legislative matters and litigation, analyzing public policies, consulting with regulatory bodies, briefing policymakers, and writing op-ed pieces. https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/experts/lee-badgett/lee-badgett/

authored or co-authored over 100 articles in high-impact peer review journals, many of which focus on LGBTQ issues and related areas. He also serves a referee for numerous international research journals in the behavioral & social sciences.

Examples of recent innovative and top-tier journal articles he has authored or jointly authored
Include:

– ‘It’s a bit too much fathering this seed’: The meaning-making of the sperm donor in lesbian mother families” (Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 33, 2016)

– “Same-Sex Parent Families in Italy: Validation of the Coparenting Scale-Revised for Lesbian Mothers and Gay Fathers (European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 14, 2016)

– “Coming-out to Family Members and Internalized Sexual Stigma in Bisexual, Lesbian and Gay People” (Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25, 2016)

– “Binge Drinking and Internalized Sexual Stigma among Italian Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Young Adults” (Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 33, 2016)

– “Coming Out during Adolescence: Perceived Parents’ Reactions and Internalized Sexual Stigma” (Journal of Health Psychology, 21, 2016)

– “Attitudes toward Gay Men: Masculinity and Sexual Orientation Make a Difference,” (Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 13, 2016)

– “Homonegativity in Italy: Cultural Issues, Personality Characteristics, and Demographic Correlates with Negative Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men. (Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 13, 2016)

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and well-being of stigmatized populations, with an emphasis on ethnically diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. She has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles, many in top journals in the field of psychology. She is a Fellow of APA’s Division 44 (Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues) and was the 2010 recipient of their Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.

Dr. Balsam is currently the PI of an R01 grant from NICHD to conduct a 10-year, mixed-methods longitudinal follow-up study of same-sex and heterosexual couples previously surveyed in 2001-2 (R01HD069370, Longitudinal study of legal status, stigma, and well-being among diverse couples). She has previously been the recipient of NIH grants from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Dr. Balsam also has a 20-year history of clinical practice in a wide range of settings, including community mental health, correctional, inpatient, and most recently private practice. Her clinical interests include cognitive behavioral therapy with adults experiencing depression, anxiety, and PTSD and couples therapy with same-sex and heterosexual couples.

Dr. Balsam edited the book Trauma, Stress, and Resilience Among Sexual Minority Women (Taylor & Francis, previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies for which she was Special Issue Editor). She has authored or co-authored 10 book chapters covering such topics as affirmative LGBT psychotherapy; substance abuse in sexual minority youth and young adults; hate crimes; lesbian health; LGB siblings; affirmative cognitive behavioral therapy with LGB clients; victimization of older LGBT adults; and lesbian psychology. For further information see:
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the University of Toronto, with advanced training in infectious diseases surveillance and public health practice. Dr. Baral has also trained and is clinically licensed as a primary care practitioner.

Stefan has led epidemiological studies among key populations, including gay men and other men who have sex with men, transgender populations, and sex workers in Southern, Eastern, and Western African countries as well as in Central and Southeastern Asia. In addition, Stefan has led or supported the implementation and evaluation of HIV prevention studies globally characterizing effective combination HIV-prevention packages funded by the World Bank for men who have sex with men, female sex workers, and people who use drugs.

Stefan has also been involved in HIV epidemiology, prevention, and implementation science studies focused on the epidemiology and human rights contexts for key populations in Western and Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa with support from USAID, NIH, amfAR, and the Global Fund. Stefan acts as the Director of the Key Populations Program for the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at the JHSPH.

of Women Psychiatrists. She is member and past Chair of the Committee on LGBT Issues of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP). In addition, Dr. Barber was previously the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health (Taylor & Francis) as well as that prestigious journal’s Book Review Editor. She has authored over 30 articles and review in major top-ranked peer review journals, and co-edited with Levounis and Drescher “The LGBT Casebook” (American Psychiatric Publishing, 2012).
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psychology, and is the author or co-author of numerous peer review research articles on LGBT issues.

He recently authored a monograph entitled Violencia Homofóbica en América Latina y Chile [Homophobic Violence in Latin America and Chile].

He has also authored or co-authored numerous book chapters to monographs and textbooks in psychology, many of which are devoted to LGBT issues.

Examples include “Gay men and male-to-female transgender persons in Chile: an exploratory quantitative study on stigma, discrimination, victimization, happiness and social well-being” in Sexual Orientation and Transgender Issues in Organizations: Global Perspectives on LGBT Workforce Diversity (Thomas Köllen, Ed.) , Springer International Publishing, 2012; and “Homosexualidades y Homofobias en América Latina” [Homosexualities and Homophobias in Chile] in Psicología, Sociedad y Equidad: Aportes y Desafíos (Claudia Zúñiga, ed.), Santiago de Chile: Colección Praxis Psicológica.

Social Psychiatry, and the International Journal of Culture & Mental Health. He is on the Editorial Board or acts as Advisory Editor for more than 20 academic journals.

His commentaries on psychiatry and mental health have be published in such esteemed outlets as The Guardian, the New York Times, the BBC News Magazine, The Times (UK), The Financial Times, and many more. His research interests include topics across social and public health psychiatry. They include cross-cultural psychiatry, migrant mental health, professionalism in psychiatry, depression, psychosexual medicine, service provision, and decision-making processes. He has become an important authority on these issues, having published over 180 papers in high impact peer-review journals, 100 editorials and invited papers, 90 book chapters, and 30 authored or edited books.

In the LGBT area, Dr. Bhugra has published several key articles pertaining to sexual orientation and gender identity particularly as they relate to professional attitudes and social acceptance. He has also published key original work pertaining to sexual dysfunction and the paraphilias.

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that focus on dealing with the development of services in the leisure, tourism and hospitality sector offered to the LGBT community in Poland. These studies include both domestic and foreign tourists.

Examples of articles or book chapters he has authored or co-authored include: “Społeczność LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender) – atrakcyjny segment współczesnego rynku turystycznego” [LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community: an attractive segment of the present-day tourist market] (Studia Periegetica 2012), “Travel destinations of Polish LGBT community” (Researches Reviews of the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, 2016) and Tourist activity of LGBT [Persons] in European post-communist states: The case of Poland (Economics and Sociology 2016).

and Professor S. Golombok (University of Cambridge, UK), Dr. O. Vecho (Universite Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Defense, France) and Dr. M. Gross (Centre d’Etudes interdisciplinaires des faits, France), Dr. Bos and Dr. L. van Gelderen are working on a study of gay fathers who became parents through surrogacy. Dr. Bos is also co-investigator of the US National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (conducted by Dr. Nanette Gatrell). This study is the longest-running and largest prospective investigation of lesbian mothers and their children in the United States.

Dr. Bos has authored or co-authored over 50 articles in top-ranked peer review journals, many pertaining to LGBTQ/family life/sexuality issues. Amongst these are “Gender nonconformiteit, stigmatisering, en psychologisch welzijn van Nederlandse lesbische, homoseksuele, en biseksuele jongeren [Gender nonconformity, and psychological well-being in Dutch lesbian, gay and bisexual youth]” (with L. Baams) Tijdschrift voor Seksuologie, 38, 86-94; “Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gays Among American and Dutch Adolescents,” (with L.K. Collier, S.S. Horn S. & Th. G.M. Sandfort) Journal of Sex Research Feb 2014; and Collier, K., Van Beusekom, G., Bos, H.M.W., & Sandfort, T.G.M. (2013); and “The consequences of peer victimization related to sexual orientation and gender identity or expression: A systematic review” (with K. Collier, Van Beusekom, and T.G.M. Sandfort) Journal of Sex Research, 50, 299-317. Dr. Bos co-authored with Th. G.M. Sandfort & R. Vet. Lesbians and gay men at work: consequences of being out. In A.M. Omoto, & H.S. Kurtzman (Ed.), Sexual orientation, mental health, and substance use: contemporary scientific perspectives (pp. 225–245). London: Sage Publications (2005).

For further information, see: https://www.nllfs.org/about/henny-bos/

draws upon his training both as a clinical psychologist and as an epidemiologist in order to increase our understanding of how psychological and social factors influence health, and how these influences can be modified.

More specifically, he studies how social, psychological and contextual factors influence the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals.

For this research, he uses both social epidemiological, psychological, and socioecological models to understand the influence of stigma and discrimination on physical and mental health disparities based on sexual orientation.

He is also currently involved studies testing the efficacy of internet-based psychological interventions to increase resilience and decrease psychological distress both among different patient groups, including sexual minority adolescents and sexual minority young adults.

Richard has authored or co-authored over 40 peer reviewed journal articles in high impact scholarly periodicals. Many of these focus on LGBT issues. He has served as ad hoc reviewer for over 60 scholarly journals.

Currently, Richard is Principle Investigator for the Swedish Research Council on the research project, “Sexual orientation disparities in physical and mental health: the influence of minority stress, biomarkers of disease, and familial factors.”

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use online spaces and apps for social and sexual connections as well as for health education and service access. He has examined the impact of racism on body image among gay men of colour, and the role of resilience in indigenizing health research among Aboriginal two-spirit men living long term with HIV.

He has also examined the impact of several factors on HIV risk for gay and bisexual men including the role of a history of childhood sexual abuse, optimistic beliefs about HIV treatment. He has also examined psychosocial issues related too aging for those living with HIV. Finally, he has examined the ways in which we measure sexual orientation in population-based health studies as well as the resiliencies, strengths, and assets that gay and bisexual men have that prevent them for becoming infected with HIV.

He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in high-impact journals in his areas of interest and research expertise. Examples of articles he has authored or co-authored include: “Experience and impact of online outreach services among men who use the Internet to seek sex with other men (MISM) in Ontario, Canada.” Journal of Medical Internet Research, 17(12), e277. (2105) doi:10.2196/jmir.4503; “Men’s Sexual Orientation and Health in Canada.” Canadian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 101. No.3 (2010); “Masculinity, Muscularity, and HIV Sexual Risk Among Gay and Bisexual Men of Color.” Psychology of Men & Masculinity, (2015). https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0038725. “Never reflected anywhere:” Body image among ethnoracialized gay and bisexual men. Body Image: An International Journal of Research, 10(3), 389-398. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2013.03.006 and (2103); “History of childhood sexual abuse and HIV risk behaviors in gay and bisexual men,” American Journal of Public Health. 97(6) (2007).
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over Fifty (NYAHOF). He was the Principal Convener for GSA’s HIV/AIDS and Aging interest group, a member of the American Society on Aging’s LGBT Aging Information Network Leadership Council, and 2016 Chair of the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.

He has served as Book Review Editor for the Journal or Religion, Spirituality and Aging, and Consulting Editor for Methodology for Gerontology & Geriatrics Education. In February 2011, he was invited to be a member of the NIH Office of AIDS Research Working Group on HIV and Aging.

Dr. Brennan-Ing has been recognized for his work in the field of aging by the Hunter-Brookdale Center on Aging, Pride Senior Network, and the New York State Office for the Aging. Dr. Brennan-Ing was the lead editor on the seminal book on aging with HIV published in 2009; Older Adults with HIV: An In-depth Examination of an Emerging Population, and the 2016 volume, HIV and Aging: Interdisciplinary Topics in Gerontology and Geriatrics (vol. 42), which received a “High Commendation” from the British Medical Association. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles, chapters and books.

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Education Group, LGBT Program,  Patient Care Services, Department of Veterans Affairs; one of the first physician advisors for the Intersex Society of North America; member of the editorial boards, Journal of Homosexuality and Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health. https://www.mountsinai.org/profiles/william-m-byne

Director and Medical Director of San Francisco Community Behavioral Health Services for the San Francisco Department of Public Health.

He is Associate Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. He also maintains a small private practice of psychiatry.

Dr. Cabaj is the co-author/editor of two classic volumes, Textbook of Homosexuality and Mental Health and On the Road to Same-Sex Marriage—as well as numerous articles related to LGBTQ sexuality and mental health, substance abuse and mental health, and HIV and AIDS and mental health.

He is the past-president of both the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists and the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association.

He was honored with the Founder’s Award from NALGAP, the Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Addiction Professionals and their Allies, for his contributions to substance-abuse services for LGBT individuals and their families.

Most recently, he was appointed to the American Psychiatric Association Office of Diversity and Health Equity, Expert Panel: Current Issues for the Assessment and Care of GLBT Clients: Wellness in the Community.

He also authored the key chapter, “Gay Men and Lesbians” in the American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Substance Abuse, 5th Edition (Galanter, Kleber, and Brady, eds.).

and HIV issues. He teaches courses on LGBT public policy and global HIV policy at Northeastern University, Brandeis University, and New York University. Cahill’s policy research focuses on strategies to reduce LGBT health disparities, such as including sexual orientation and gender identity in Electronic Health Records. He also leads research projects developing best practices for reducing victimization against LGBT adults and youth in corrections settings, and promoting resiliency among LGBT youth of color.

called “Relational Accountability” and has given workshops on his approach internationally in Australia, Canada, Singapore, and Turkey during the past year. This unique approach to therapy seeks to help couples intimately apply the ethics of narrative therapy ideas in their personal lives and relationships.

He is author or co-author of over 30 peer-review journal articles. He is a member of
Editorial boards and serves as a reviewer for numerous core family therapy journals.

In the LGBT area, Tom is at the forefront of integrating affirmative LGBT interests in family therapy education, training and practice. Several of his co-authored vitally important peer-review articles in this area include:

“To refer or not to refer: Exploring family therapists’ beliefs and practices related to the referral of lesbian, gay, and bisexual client” (with C.R. McGeorge and Molly Farrell), Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 2015.
– “The state of lesbian, gay, and bisexual affirmative training: A survey of faculty from accredited couple and family therapy programs,” (with C.R. McGeorge) Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, in press
– “Assessing lesbian, gay, and bisexual affirmative training in couple and family therapy: Establishing the validity of the faculty version of the affirmative training inventory.” (with C.R. McGeorge and R.B.Toomey) Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, 2015, 41(1), 57-71.
– “The intersection of spirituality, religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity in family therapy training: An exploration of students’ beliefs and practices,” (with C.R. McGeorge, and R.B. Toomey, Contemporary Family Therapy: An International Journal, 36(4) 2014.
– “Bisexuality and LGB affirmative training: An exploration of family therapy students’ beliefs and clinical experiences” (with E.A. Nova, E. A. and C.R. McGeorge, Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, 25(4), 2013
– “Establishing the validity of the lesbian, gay, and bisexual affirmative training inventory: Assessing the relationship between affirmative training and clinical competence” (with C.R. McGuire, and R.B.Toomey) Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, 39(2), 2013.
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journals.

In the LGBTQ arena, he has researched and published on such topics as:

– sexual orientation and earnings in California
– sexual orientation, work & income in Canada
– gay and lesbian partnership
– same-sex partnership and employer-provided health benefits
– sexual orientation and earnings in the United Kingdom

Dr. Carpenter has also published multiple book chapters in book titles from established multinational commercial and university presses.

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discuss issues facing LGBTQ faculty and staff on Catholic campuses. His academic work focuses on same-sex desire in ancient, medieval, and Renaissance literature while engaging psychoanalysis and queer theory. He is the author of Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body (Notre Dame, 2003) and Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). He has published articles on Dante and the history of sexuality as well as contemporary queer literature and film. Cestaro has been the recipient of various recognitions for his contributions to queer curriculum and community at DePaul. For further information:
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as Principal Investigator for several research projects that contributed to improving the health of marginalized communities such as sexual and gender minorities, and people living with HIV. The focus of his studies among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people have been on: barriers to HIV prevention and treatment services; contextual and structural influences on HIV risk; social/sexual networks and sexual risk; stigma/discrimination, structural violence and syndemics; and impact of sexual/gender minority stigma on mental health and HIV risk, and acceptability of new HIV prevention technologies like pre-exposure prophylaxis. His additional area of expertise is evidence-based health and policy advocacy related to MSM and hiras/transgender people in India and South Asia.

He is part of Indian National AIDS Control Organization’s Technical Resource Groups on MSM and transgender people. He was the recipient of NIH Fogarty fellowship at Yale University, USA; and the Fund for Leadership Development Fellowship of the MacArthur Foundation.

Dr. Chakrapani has authored or co-authored over 30 major peer-reviewed journal articles in high impact journals, many devoted to HIV treatment/prevention and sexual/gender minority health care. He has also authored or co-authored several book chapters and reports, many dealing with international aspects of sexual health and HIV prevention/treatment, with a focus on MSM and transgender populations, and people living with HIV.

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people living with HIV/AIDS in clinical and governmental settings.
Dr. Chaney has special expertise in substance use disorders and LGBT populations, and has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles in the areas of substance use disorders, sexual compulsivity, sexual orientation, male body image, social justice and advocacy in counseling.

My work is framed within a contextual model that takes into account the unique experiences of identifying as part of a marginalized segment of society.”

Dr. Cochran is a member of the Editorial Board of the “Journal of LGBT Youth” (Taylor & Francis/Routledge). He is also a peer reviewer for at least 14 academic/scholarly journals, He is a Research Advisory Board member of The Trevor Project as well as The Rockaway Institute.

He has published in numerous peer reviewed journals, including the “Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health,” “Journal of LGBT Youth,” “Journal of Homosexuality,” “Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services,” and others in fields ranging from the addictions, mental health, counseling, and psychology. Amongst his honors was the Researcher’s Award bestowed by NALGAP (National Association of Lesbian and Gay Addiction Professionals).

Dr. Cochran has also authored or co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles and several invited chapters in professional books, as well as book reviews. Many of these focus on his interests in LGBT psychology/mental health, such as “Integrating LGBT Competencies into the multicultural curriculum of graduate psychology training programs (with J.S. Robohm) in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice.

For more information, see: https://hs.umt.edu/psychology/faculty/default.php?s=Cochran

World Professional Association for Transgender Health, World Association for Sexual Health, Society for Sex Therapy and Research, and International Academy of Sex Research. Coleman has been a frequent sexual health consultant to the World Health Organization.

He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the U.S. Surgeon General’s Exemplary Service Award for his role as senior scientist on Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Promote Sexual Health and Responsible Sexual Behavior, released in 2001. In addition, he has received the World Association for Sexual Health Gold Medal and Society for Sex Therapy & Research (SSTAR) Masters and Johnson Award.

He was given the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and the Alfred E. Kinsey Award by the Midcontinent Region of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality in 2001.

In 2007, he was appointed the first endowed Chair in Sexual Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

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homosexuality, youth and fascism became entwined in the Czech lands and produced one of the major homosexual scandals of interwar Europe. His study opens up the question of homosexuality in the context of Czech-German relations: through the homoerotic Sudeten German youth movement, through Rutha’s own conflicted sexuality, and through his mission to train a cohort of young men as the vanguard of a German national revival in Czech space. It is the only book in English which examines homosexuality in the Czech lands.

His other interests pertaining to LGBT history of central Europe involve organizing the annual Southampton Stonewall Lecture in February each year (given in 2017 by Professor Dagmar Herzog (CUNY)); and teaching a course to undergraduates about Alternative Sexualities (from Plato to NATO).

He is on the editorial boards of Austrian History Yearbook; The Slavonic and East European Review; Contemporary European History; Central Europe; Bohemia; and First World War Studies; and on the academic council of the Collegium Carolinum research center (Munich, Germany).

He has published extensively in major high-impact history journals, as well as editing several collected works on the subjects of war memory, Czechoslovakia, and the collapse of Austria-Hungary.

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Her primary specializations are: (1) the needs of sexual and gender minority youth and subsequent program development and service delivery (2) the roles and interventions used by health social workers to impact the social determinants of health (3) developing competent social work practitioners through effective social work education.

As principal investigator she has recently developed and tested several interventions for sexual and gender minority youth including Strengths-First, a resilience-focused case management program for youth at risk, ASSET, an empowering group model and funded through the Canadian Institute of Health Research, AFFIRM, an affirmative cognitive-behavioral group intervention. Funding from SSHRC has allowed Dr. Craig to further understand the influence of the media on the resilience and identity of this vulnerable population. Other projects include a HIV prevention intervention for minority youth involved with the juvenile justice system, identified the HIV testing patterns of older Latinas; HIV prevention for Latina transgender sex workers, and the use of mental health services by urban gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) youth. Dr. Craig directed an extensive community research plan, as well as developed and established a multi-million dollar comprehensive service delivery system for sexual minority youth and their families. She has also been PI of an international study of LGBTQ students in social work programs called Social Work Speaks Out (https://www.cswe.org/File.aspx?id=82833).

Dr. Craig is currently Co-Chair of the Council on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (CSOGIE) of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Additionally, In the LGBTQ arena, Dr. Craig has authored or co-authored over forty peer review journal articles pertaining to sexual minority and gender diverse individuals.

Her wealth of academic leadership activities includes manuscript reviewing for numerous peer review journals which include the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, Journal of Homosexuality, and the Journal of LGBT Youth.

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Psychologists); Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award (Division 44); the Monette/Horwitz Trust Research and Scholarship Award; and many others.

Dr. D’Augelli is one of the most prolific and recognized authors in the field LGBTQ studies. He has authored or co-authored over 150 articles/chapters either in top-ranked peer review journals or vetted book chapters from multinational professional publishers, many of them dealing with LGBTQ issues.

He is the co-editor of two outstanding volumes, the “Handbook of psychology and sexual orientation” (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013) and “The challenges of being a rural gay man: Coping with stigma” (New York: Routledge, 2013).

Dr. D’Augelli has presented hundreds of papers at various scientific meetings, many dealing with sexual minorities and forging our understanding of LGBT psychological well-being and empowerment in contemporary society.

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Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy. He was co-editor of three seminal professional volumes on LGBT inteventions: Pink Therapy; Pink Therapy Vol. 2: Therapeutic Perspectives on Working with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients; and Pink Therapy Vol. 3: Issues in Therapy with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual and Transgender Clients (all published by Open University Press). He is a member of the following international bodies: World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), World Association for Sexology (WAS), Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities (CARAS), and the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA).

In 2014 he was listed at Number 28 on the Independent on Sunday’s Rainbow List of 101 LGBT people who have made a difference to British society.
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Society of America (GSA) and past board member of the American Society on Aging (ASA) and co-chair of the LGBT Aging Issues Network constituent group. Dr. de Vries served on the Institute of Medicine’s Board on the Health of Select Populations Committee preparing the recently released acclaimed book The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding.

Dr. de Vries is former editor of Sexuality Research and Social Policy (2007-2011) and a former associate editor of The International Journal of Aging and Human Development (2000-2006); he presently serves as associate editor of LGBT Health. He has served as guest editor of Omega: Journal of Death and Dying (1997 and 2004) and as a guest co-editor of Generations (2001). He is currently guest-editing an issue of the Journal of Homosexuality. In addition, he has edited four books, including Kinship Bereavement in Later Life (1997), End of Life Issues (1999), Narrative Gerontology (2001), and Gay and Lesbian Aging (2004); he has authored or co-authored over 90 journal articles and book chapters and he has given over 100 presentations to professional audiences on grief and bereavement in later life as well as the social and psychological well-being of midlife and older LGBT persons.

HIV/AIDS; and LGBTQ issues within the social work curricula. He has contributed numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters to specialty publications on LGBTQ topics including the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, the SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies as well as LGBTQ articles/chapters in more general peer reviewed journals and scholarly collections.

Dr. Dentato is presently under contract and editing a new textbook on social work practice with the LGBTQ community with Oxford University Press.

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Standards of Care, and is overseeing the translation of version 7 into several world languages. He is working on the development of version 8. He is the author of numerous well-cited scholarly articles, and the widely-acclaimed books FTM: Female-To-Male Transsexuals in Society (2016, 1997), Lambda-Literary-Awards-finalist The Transgender Archives: Foundations for the Future (2014), and Gender Blending: Confronting the Limits of Duality (1989).

He has delivered lectures to audiences around the world, including more than 20 keynote and plenary addresses. He is a national-award-winning teacher, an elected member of the elite International Academy of Sex Research, an elected Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, and the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

He serves on the Editorial Boards the Archives of Sexual Behavior, The Journal of Sex Research, and the Transgender Studies Quarterly. In addition he has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Homosexuality and the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, as well as other major LGBT/gender/sexuality research journals.

Dr. Devor, an out trans man, is the Founder and Academic Director of the world’s largest Transgender Archives, a former Dean of Graduate Studies (2002-2012), and also Professor of Sociology, at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.

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of the Hunter College LGBT Social Science and Public Policy Center at Roosevelt House since its inception in 2008.

Amongst her LGBTQ-related articles in top-ranked peer reviewed journal are “LGBTQ Capacity Building in Health Care Systems: A Social Work Imperative” (Health and Social Work, 2011) and “Matching AIDS Service Organizations’ Philosophy of Service Provision with a Compatible Style of Program Evaluation” (Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, 2003).

Amongst the LGBTQ-related book chapters she authored or co-authored are “LGBTQ: Protecting Vulnerable Subjects in All Studies” in D. Mertons & P. Ginsberg (Eds.) Handbook of Social Science Research Ethics. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications; “Individual Practice with Lesbian Clients” in G. Mallon (Ed.) Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Persons. New York: Haworth Press; and “Social work Practice with Lesbian Couples” In G. Mallon (Ed.) Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Persons. New York: Haworth Press.

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Edward H. Willis. Magnus Hirschfeld: The Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement. Monthly Review Press, 2014 (available here).

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development for caregivers and caseworkers. She is widely recognized as an expert on pregnant and parenting foster youth and on homelessness among youth who aged out of foster care. Her most recent publications include articles about the implications of health care reform for insurance coverage and receipt of family planning services among current and former foster youth and about the parenting experiences of runaway and homeless youth. She received her Ph.D. in social welfare from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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For the past 35 years, Dr. Ehrhardt’s research has included a wide range of studies on determinants of sexual risk behavior among children, adolescents, heterosexual women and men, and the gay population, and on comprehensive approaches to preventing HIV and STD infection.

A native of Hamburg, Germany, Dr. Ehrhardt completed a doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Düsseldorf in Germany based on her pioneering work at Johns Hopkins University in the field of human gender and sexual development under the mentorship of sexologist John Money. With Money, she co-authored Man & Woman, Boy & Girl: The Differentiation and Dimorphism of Gender Identity from Conception to Maturity, a landmark 1972 book in the field of sexuality studies.

She was subsequently Co-Director of the Program of Psychoendocrinology at Children’s Hospital, State University of New York at Buffalo. Throughout this period, Dr. Ehrhardt has also been a practicing clinical psychologist, working in particular with children with intersex problems and their parents.

In recognition of her work, Dr. Ehrhardt has been presented with the Distinguished Research Leadership Award from the American Psychological Association in 1986; the Research Award “For Excellence in Research” from the State of New York Office of Mental Health in 1990; the Award for Distinguished Scientific Achievement for 1991 from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex; and the first Research Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Health Foundation in 1994. Her bibliography includes more than 300 scientific publications.

Dr. Ehrhardt was the President of the International Academy of Sex Research in 1981. She has also been a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council, the Executive Committee of the HIV Prevention Trials Network of Family Health International, the Board of Trustees of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction and completed two terms as a trustee on the Board of Directors of the Ford Foundation.

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are adolescents, first and foremost, and then they may face unique challenges, including trauma, related to societal response to their sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.”

Her chief research and scholarly interests focus on risk and protective factors for sexual minority youth; gay lesbian, bisexual and transgendered issues in service utilization; HIV prevention interventions with adolescents; and, more recently, interprofessional education and collaborative practice.

Dr. Elze has built a strong record of scholarship in the area of sexual minority issues, publishing articles and book chapters and delivering juried paper and poster conference presentations, invited keynote addresses, and invited workshops. She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, and formerly the Journal of the Society of Social Work and Research. She has reviewed articles for many academic journals.

Dr. Elze She is a past member of the CSWE Board of Directors, the CSWE Commission for Diversity and Social and Economic Justice, past co-chair of the Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression, and the Commission on Professional Development.

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and twice a John A. Hartford National Research Mentor. He received his Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio and his MSW from California State University, Fresno. He is a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers. Dr. Emlet is co-author of In Home Assessment of Older Adults: An Interdisciplinary Approach, 2nd edition, and HIV/AIDS and Older Adults: Challenges for Individuals, Families and Communities.

He has published more than 75 journal articles and book chapters and serves on the editorial boards of The Gerontologist, the Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services, and the Journal of Gerontological Social Work. Dr. Emlet is a Fellow of Gerontological Society of America and a member of the Association of Gerontological Education in Social Work (AGE-SW) and the National Association of Social Workers. His current areas of research include older persons living with HIV/AIDS and LGBT aging. He is currently a co-investigator on the National Health, Aging, and Sexuality/Gender Study (NHAS) and in 2004 received the University of Washington, Tacoma’s Distinguished Research Award. In 2013 was a Fulbright Visiting Research/Fulbright Scholar at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario, Canada and in 2016 received the University of Washington Tacoma Distinguished Community Engagement Award.

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students and residents in sexual health and maintains a primary care practice at the University of Minnesota Physicians Women’s Health Specialists Clinic.

Her many articles in top-ranked peer reviewed journals which she authored or co-authored include “HIV risk behaviors in the U.S. transgender population: prevalence and predictors in a large internet sample.” Journal of Homosexuality (2014); “Gender dysphoria in a 39-year-old man. Canadian Medical Association Journal (2014); “Updated recommendations from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health Standards of Care.” American Family Physician (2013); and “Standards of care for the health of transsexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming people, 7th version” International Journal of Transgenderism (2012).

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rural youth) and development of youth-driven interventions. https://www.cehd.umn.edu/ssw/people/profiles/FisherC.asp

the faculty and stakeholders for this interdisciplinary training program for both masters- and doctoral-level students across the United States and abroad. It covers professional practice in all applied health settings/environments, including public health, medicine, nursing, and public policy and education. Dr. Forssell is also co-director of the Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Minority Communities.

His research interests include sexuality, male couple relationships, HIV risk behaviors, same-sex romantic relationships, and the development of adopted children of gay and lesbian parents.

He is primary researcher for The Male Couples Relationships Study. This research project examines how male couples of varying sexual openness types (sexually open, closed (monogamous), and “no agreement” about sexual exclusivity compared in the quality of their relationships, psychological adjustment, communication about outside sex, and HIV prevention practices. For additional information see: https://lgbt.columbian.gwu.edu/stephen-forssell and
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Council on Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression of the Council on Social Work Education. https://socialwork.uw.edu/faculty/karen-i-fredriksen-goldsen

in families, and post-divorce fatherhood. Recently Jacqui’s ESRC-funded study was on long-term couple relationships Enduring Love? (RES-063-23-3056). This received widespread critical acclaim, with findings being reported in the national and international media, and published in academic, self-help, relationship support and educational formats.

Jacqui was Co-editor (2010-2016) of the journal Families, Relationships, Societies, and now serves as Coordinator of the International Advisory Board for this international journal published by Policy Press.

Other editorial roles include: Chair of the Editorial Board for the journal Sociological Research Online (2008-2011), Associate Editorial Board member for Sociology (2008-2010), and Editorial Assistant of Feminist Theory (1998-2001).

Jacqui’s work has been recognised by three prestigious awards: the BSA Philip Abrams Memorial prize (2009) for best sole-authored first book in Sociology, the Open University Engaging Research Award (2014), the Evelyn Gillian Research Impact Award (2016).

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and end-of-life care, psychosocial oncology, family decision-making, health disparities in later life, and health policy.

For the past 15 years, he has taught clinical practice, social welfare policy, and research methods to masters and doctoral students, social workers, and allied health professionals. Dr. Gardner has substantial experience and expertise in conducting community-based qualitative and mixed methods research and program evaluation. He has published extensively and serves on several editorial boards. His current research explores barriers and facilitators to accessing palliative care and pain management among diverse and underserved community-dwelling older adults.

Dr. Gardner’s research has been funded by the National Institute of Aging, the American Cancer Society, the John A. Hartford Foundation, the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, and the Translational Institute of Pain in Later Life. He is the National Chair of the Hartford Gerontological Social Work Leaders (HGSWL), a Hartford Faculty Scholar in Geriatric Social Work, a founding Board member of the Social Work in Hospice & Palliative Care Network (SWHPN), and a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA).

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adolescent health services, and additional areas focusing on both community and clinical aspects of health services.

He has published numerous peer-review articles in medical journals focusing on school-age health risk behaviors and sexual orientation; sexual orientation and suicide risk; risky health behaviors amongst LGBT youth related to technology, substance abuse, and psychosocial variables; and factors that underlie racial/ethnic disparities in HIV risk among YMSM (Young Men Who Have Sex With Men).

He has also authored or co-authored key book chapters in such nationally known publications as the Fenway Guide to Primary Care for the LGBT Community (American College of Physicians) and The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press). For additional information see: https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=11319

school, stigma, and discrimination) on negative psychosocial outcomes (e.g. mental health, substance use).  He has done studies that involve primary data collection regarding homeless GLBT youth in Toronto, Ontario and Milwaukee, Wisconsin and transgender youth in Wisconsin.  Currently he is a part of a research team working to determine the prevalence of human trafficking in Kentucky and Indiana.

Dr. Gattis has published approximately 13 peer reviewed articles and his research has been funded by Fulbright, the National Institutes of Health, the Wisconsin Partnership Program and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School.  His research has also been featured in media including Slate, Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin State Journal, La Crosse Tribune, Milwaukee Magazine, The Academic Minute, WORT-FM, and Our Lives. 

In the LGBTQ arena, Dr. Gattis is also an ad hoc reviewer for numerous top-ranked peer reviewed journals, including the Journal of Homosexuality; Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health; Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services; and the Journal of LGBT Youth; and the Archives of Sexual Behavior.

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social factors in health and has over 20 years experience working with marginalized populations through research and community-based HIV prevention and health promotion.

Her work has highlighted underappreciated contextual determinants of health and well-being and pathways through which social and structural factors impact health outcomes among drug users, sex workers, sexual and gender minorities, and other marginalized groups. She has a specific interest in social, housing, and neighborhood stability and its impact on public health, and is an active collaborator at the intersection of research and practice related to HIV and substance use in Baltimore. She serves on the editorial board for the journals AIDS and Behavior and AIDS Education and Prevention, and is author or co-author of numerous peer-review research articles.

(Princeton University Press, 2001); and numerous other works in German history, with special expertise related to Nazi persecution of homosexuals and same-sex homosocial issues in German society. https://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ggiles/

to End Conversion Therapy. Due in part to this effort, a report was developed in 2015 by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of HHS on conversion therapy to further President Obama’s stated goal of eliminating conversion therapy for minors. This report fills a gap in the literature on conversion therapy and alternative treatment for GICE in children and adolescents. Judith was one of the APA staff who coordinated the preparation of the freely available final report, Ending Conversion Therapy: Supporting and Affirming LGBTQ Youth.

Judith continues to do research in this area through her academic role at Princeton, and is pursuing related research and writing projects. She is also leading an effort to develop affirming CE curriculum on LGBTQ individuals across the lifespan. For additional information see Judith’s publications on Researchgate.

and adoptive-parent families. She is currently conducting a longitudinal study of adoptive families headed by female, male and heterosexual couples, which focuses in part on parents’ and children’s experiences in the school setting. Dr. Goldberg is also conducting a longitudinal study of postpartum well-being in women with diverse sexual histories.

She is the author of over 70 peer-reviewed articles and two books: Gay Dads (NYU Press; 2012) and Lesbian- and Gay-Parent Families (APA; 2010). She is the co-editor (with Katherine R. Allen) of LGBT-Parent Families: Innovations in Research and Implications for Practice (Springer; 2013). She has received research funding from the American Psychological Association, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Williams Institute, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, the National Institutes of Health, and the Spencer Foundation. She teaches courses on gender and families, diversity in contemporary families, research methods with diverse families, human sexuality, the psychology of sexual orientation, and ethics in clinical psychology.

She is on the editorial boards of 9 top-ranked peer reviewed journals, including (in the LGBTQ arena) the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity and the Journal of GLBT Family Studies. She is also an ad hoc reviewer for over 20 top journals, including
the Journal of Lesbian Studies; Journal of Homosexuality; and Journal of Gay & Lesbian Studies.

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Most recently he has co-edited Youth Suicide and Bullying: Strategies for Prevention and Intervention (Oxford University Press, 2014).

He has contributed to the professional literature related to gay men’s health, AIDS-related suicide, end-of-life issues, HIV and work, and AIDS bereavement, including two highly acclaimed books: Strategies for Survival: A Gay Men’s Health Manual for the Age of AIDS (with Martin Delaney) and Working with AIDS Bereavement (with Sarah Erickson). In 2008 he received the NCSPP Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Committee Award for his contribution to professional psychology.

In 2013 Dr. Goldblum earned the American Psychological Association’s Division 44 Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training Award. He also received, as director of CLEAR, the 2013 Presidential Citation for services to LGBTQ Psychology from Arlene Noriega, Ph.D., Division 44 President. Finally, he received the prestigious Larry E. Beutler Faculty Award (2013) “in recognition of outstanding national and international contributions to the field of psychology.” For further information: https://www.paloaltou.edu/faculty/Peter-Goldblum

research examined the impact of same-sex marriage laws on health insurance coverage among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) couples and their children. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Public Health, Pediatrics, JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine. He has published over 20 peer review articles in high impact journals.

In the LGBTQ arena, Dr. Gonzales has explored such topics as:
– health insurance disparities in same-sex households
– same-sex marriage and health implications
– health, disability and long-term care needs among older LGBT adults
– health outcomes, health behaviors, and health services utilization by sexual orientation
– access to care among transgender and gender non-conforming populations

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issues in family functioning; the impact of family relations on children’s academic achievement; psychological aspects of third-party assisted reproduction; and couple and family therapy.

He is internationally known as a leader in LGBT issues in family psychology, family therapy, and couple therapy/intervention. He is author or co-author of at least 100 professional publications, including many in high impact peer reviewed journals, book chapters, and reviews. Amongst many honors, Dr. Green was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.

Dr. Green has served on the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of Family Psychology, the Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, Family Process, Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, Cultural Diversity and Mental Health, Journal of GLBT Family Studies, and American Journal of Family Therapy. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. He previously served four elected terms on the Board of Directors of the American Family Therapy Academy and served a term as Vice-President of the American Psychological Association’s Division of Family Psychology.

Dr. Green was also co-editor of the classic text, “Lesbians and Gays in Couples and Families: A Handbook for Therapists” (Jossey-Bass).

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Student Center now sponsors an “Arnold H. Grossman Outstanding Faculty/Staff Service Award.”

He is the Principal Investigator of a research study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (2011-2017): “Risk and Protective Factors for Suicide among Sexual Minority Youth.” This four-year longitudinal research study is designed to follow a diverse sample of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth, ages 15-24, and to examine changes in constellations, magnitudes, and developmental sequences of risk and protective factors for suicidal behaviors with a particular emphasis on the major components of the interpersonal psychological theory of suicide. Simultaneously, it is documenting whether or not the risk and protective factors for suicide are uniquely related to LGBT youths’ developmental milestones.

Dr. Grossman continues to analyze data and disseminate findings as the Co-Investigator of “Challenges and Coping: The Q & A Project,” also funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. This five-year project used a longitudinal research design to investigate the mental health consequences of sexual orientation victimization of a diverse sample of gay, lesbian, bisexual youth (ages 15 to 21).

Additionally, he is disseminating findings as the Principal Investigator of four other research projects: “Transgender Youth: A Vulnerable Population”; “Caregiving among Middle-Aged and Older Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Adults;” and “Using Assessments & Program Assignments to Reduce Sexual Minority Stress & Enhance Psychological Well-Being among LGBT Youth”; and “Project DAN,” a study of hurtful and harmful experiences among sexual minority older adults.”

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(2) family, children and service system issues in domestic, older-child adoption and international adoption; and (3) child welfare workforce issues. Since 1991 he has been involved in various child welfare technical assistance, research and training projects in Romania, India, Ukraine, Guatemala & Ethiopia. In the LGBTQ arena, he co-authored “The experiences of gay men and lesbians in becoming and being adoptive parents” (Adoption Quarterly, 2009) and “Coming out of the closet: Opening agencies to gay and lesbian adoptive parents. Social Work (2004). He has also studied adoption issues involving children with HIV. West University of Timisoara in Romania awarded Victor K. Groza, PhD, the Grace F. Brody Professor of Parent-Child Studies at the Mandel School, with an honorary doctoral degree called the Doctor Honoris Causa Award. This award recognizes Dr. Groza’s significant contributions toward developing social work education in Romania, as well as his outspoken and transformative advocacy for child welfare and adoption reform in the European country.
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2018). Ardel is the author of Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity which was short listed for both the Allan Lloyd Smith and Sonya Rudikoff writing awards. Queer Others was published by University of Wales Press (distributed in the U.S. by University of Chicago Press), 2012.

Dr. Haefele-Thomas will be Guest Editor for the peer-review journal, Victorian Review, an interdisciplinary peer reviewed journal of Victorian Studies, on a thematic issue, “Trans Victorians” (due out 2019). Ardel serves as a Board member of Expanding the Circle, the influential conference devoted specifically to LGBTQ higher education. Professor Haefele-Thomas has authored numerous LGBT-related articles, book chapters and reviews in the area of the humanities, many with a special focus on Gothic studies and Victorian studies.

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sexual minorities for end-of-life care and palliative care: a systematic review,” (Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2012, Vol. 15 (5)). He is also a board member of the LGBT Advisory Group for Palliative and End of Life Care. Dr. Harding is also Honorary Professor, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, and Director of African Palliative Care, Cicely Saunders International; and Reader, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Cicely Saunders Institute. He has developed and spearheaded the African program within his Department, and is currently Director of the African Program for Cicely Saunders International. He is an internationally distinguished leader in the field of hospice, palliative, and end-of-life care, as well as HIV and related health-care areas, with over 200 peer-review journal articles to his credit, as well as multiple book chapters and book reviews. Amongst other positions held he is on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Pain & Symptom Management; editorial board member of AIDS Care; and associate editor for BMC Research Methods. He has most recently been invited as the invited speaker for the British HIV Association (“HIV and Quality of Life”).

for Psychosocial Studies in Intersex/Diverse Sexual Development (DSD).

In 2013 he published “Gentlemen’s disagreement: Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and the sexual politics of smart men” (University of Chicago Press), and in 2017 will publish From homophobia to LGBT: A recent history of lesbian and gay psychology (Routledge/Taylor & Francis).

He has authored or co-authored over 100 other publications, many related to LGBTQIA issues.

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the Department of Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University. He is also Director Emeritus of the National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC), which he directed for 10 years with major support from the Ford Foundation.
Amongst his most recent books are Human Sexuality, 1st Ed., New York: McGraw-Hill, 2014; Moral Panics, Sex Panics; Same Sex, Different Cultures; Something to tell You; and Sambia: Ritual Sexuality and Change.
Previously he has taught at Stanford University and the University of Chicago, where he was Professor and Chair of the Committee on Human Development. Herdt was the first faculty sponsor of the undergraduate LGBT alliance on Stanford campus in the early 1980s.
He founded the Center on Culture and Mental Health at the University of Chicago and received major NIMH funding to train two cohorts of pre and postdoctoral students, including many who were LGBT scholars.
Dr. Herdt has conducted major fieldwork in Papua New Guinea (1974-2010), Chicago (1986-1989), and the Bay Area of California (2000-01) on issues of sexual orientation development and policy change. Herdt’s work on the Sambia of Papua New Guinea was among the first major foundational works on sexual identity in the field of anthropology. He has published 33 books and edited scientific anthologies, monographs, and some 100 scientific peer- reviewed journal articles, chapters, encyclopedia articles, and scholarly reports
Dr. Herdt’s fieldwork on the Sambia of Papua New Guinea over a period of 19 years and 13 field trips culminated in several books and papers, notably, Guardians of the Flutes (1981), Intimate Communications (1991), Third Sex, Third Gender (1994), and The Sambia (2006). A BBC film also followed.
In the United States, he is best known for his path-breaking community based study in Chicago of self-identified gay, lesbian, and bisexual adolescents and their families, published as Children of Horizons, 1993, and Something to Tell You, 2000.
Dr. Herdt was the founder at the University of Chicago of the Center on Culture and Mental Health, and with colleagues Andrew Boxer and Bert Cohler a co-founder of the Evelyn Hooker Center for Gay and Lesbian Mental Health.
Dr. Herdt is the founding editor of Sexuality Research and Social Policy (now published by Taylor & Francis/Routledge). Previously he was general editor of a series of books at the University of Chicago Press.
Currently, he is writing The Singers Are Gone: 40 Years of Sambia Sexual Culture Change. He lives in Bali with his partner, Gede.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Herdt

relevant to LGBT experience. Within a social justice framework, she explores LGBTQ health and wellness from both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Her LGBTQ research has focused on LGBT spirituality; LGBT youth and resiliency; same-sex couples and relationship factors; internalized heterosexism and mental health factors of Russian LGBT individuals; heterosexual attitudes toward LGBT individuals and coming out in therapy; the psychological impact of anti-LGBT policies and amendments on the lives of LGBT individuals and their family members; LGBTQ parents; and, the development of international activists.

Dr. Horne has author or co-authored well over 70 articles in high-impact peer reviewed journals, book anthologies and reviews. Her articles have appeared in LGBT-focused journals such as the Journal of GLBT Family Studies, Journal of Lesbian Studies, Journal of Homosexuality, and Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of GLBT Family Studies as well as other major journals in psychology, counseling, and sexuality studies/policy. She has been awarded numerous honors for her contributions to the psychology of sexual orientation, gender roles and gender studies.

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University of Melbourne (2010-2014).

Professor Hughes has a distinguished career in substance abuse research focusing on women (total funding exceeding $20 million USD). She is well known for her groundbreaking work in the 1980s related to chemically dependent nurses, and is an internationally recognized expert in the area of alcohol use among sexual minority (i.e., lesbian and bisexual) women. Her pioneering studies on the predictors and consequences of alcohol use among sexual minority women have received continuous funding since 1999 from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and other sources and have grown into the world’s longest-running longitudinal study of alcohol use and health among sexual minority women. She has served as co-investigator on numerous other funded studies with researchers from major U.S. and Australian institutions, including the University of Melbourne and Deakin University.

Professor Hughes has more than 140 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and other scholarly papers to her credit—as well as scores of scientific paper presentations, workshops, and invited addresses at national and international research conferences. She serves or has served as consultant to many U.S. federal agencies and institutes such as the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute on Mental Health, and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and to researchers in the United States, Canada, India, Thailand, Rwanda, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

The impact of Professor Hughes’ research is evident in the myriad awards she has received from diverse organizations on local, national, and international levels. Examples of these are awards from the Oak Park Area Lesbian and Gay Association, the Chicago Lesbian Cancer Project, the Illinois Nurses Society on Addictions, the International Nurses Society on Addictions, and Sigma Theta Tau International. She has been honored as an outstanding alumna of both Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Kentucky and by induction into the American Academy of Nursing, the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame, and the University of Kentucky College of Nursing Hall of Fame. Last year she was selected to receive three prestigious awards: the 2014 Distinguished Contribution Award from the Midwest Nursing Research Society, the 2014 Inaugural UIC College of Nursing Distinguished Researcher Award, and the 2014 Betty Ford Award from the Association of Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA). She will be inducted into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in 2015.

and practices for LGBT Veteran healthcare.

Since 2004, Dr. Kauth has also served as the Co-Director for the South Central (VISN 16) Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), one of 10 VA MIRECCs. Between 1998-2015, Dr. Kauth also served as Associate Director for Education with the South Central MIRECC. The mission of the South Central MIRECC is to promote equity in engagement, access and quality of mental health care for veterans facing barriers to care, especially rural veterans.

Dr. Kauth attended the University of Mississippi and completed a PhD in Clinical Psychology and pre-doctoral internship at the New Orleans VA Medical Center. He has worked in the VA for 23 years and is located at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, Texas.

Dr. Kauth is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine. He teaches a course on LGBT Health to second year medical students. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Division of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas. He has published more than 40 journal articles, 2 books, and 14 book chapters on topics that include health psychology, LGBT veteran health disparities, sexual health, implementation of educational interventions, and the evolution of human sexual attraction.

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marginalization in healthcare service among transgender people in South Korea” (Korean J of Sociology, forthcoming); “Transgender People’s Access to Health Care in Korea” (Health and Social Welfare Review. 2015); and “LGBTQI Health Research in South Korea: A systematic Review. Health and Social Science. 2014).

Law & Public Policy, Political & Civil Rights, Property, Religion and the Law, and Taxation.

She has published classic LGBT-focused journal articles which won national awards for their importance and impact. These have included both the Dukeminier Award and Stu Walter Prize in 2010 for “LGBT Elder Law: Towards Equity in Aging” (Harvard Journal of Law & Gender); and the Friel-Scanlan Award for “Science, Identity, and the Construction of the Gay Political
Narrative” (Law & Sexuality). She also published Gay and Lesbian Elders: History, Law, and Identity Politics in the U.S. (Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.) (2011).

She has contributed key chapters on LGBT elders for internationally published Anthologies. These include “LGBT Elders: Making the Case for Equity in Aging” in After Same-Sex Marriage The Future of Same-Sex Marriage (ed. Carlos Ball, New York University Press); “LGBT Individuals Living with Dementia: Rigths and Capacity Issues in the United States” in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) Individuals with Dementia Theoretical Practical and Research Perspectives (Westwood & Price, co-editors Routledge). She served on the Editorial Board of “The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies (SAGE, forthcoming) and authored three entries.

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https://www.law.temple.edu/contact/nancy-j-knauer/
https://ssrn.com/author=359355
https://works.bepress.com/nancy_knauer/

for Transgender Health (CPATH).

She has also held leadership positions within the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health.

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Dr. Kong is now the co-editor of Sexualities, one of the most prestigious international journals in the field of sexuality; it adopts a social science research-based qualitative approach to investigate human sexualities.

His single-authored work, Chinese Male Homosexualities: Memba, Tongzhi and Golden Boy (Routledge, 2011), investigates Chinese gay masculinity, desire, sexuality, intimacy, identity, and citizenship in contemporary Chinese societies and within global culture. Dr. Kong elucidates 90 life stories of Chinese men he interviewed in Hong Kong, London, and mainland China, and extensive ethnographic field trips over ten years.

This major book shows that different gay male identities — such as the conspicuously consuming memba in Hong Kong, the urban tongzhi or “money boy” in China, and the feminized “golden boy” in London – emerge in different locations, and all become intrinsically involved in the transnational flow of queer cultures, both local and global. He has published over 15 peer-review articles as well as numerous book chapters and invited presentations on various aspects of sexuality in contemporary China, ranging from male homosexuality (e.g., gay identity, intimacy, masculinity, LGBT politics, aging) to prostitution (e.g., male and female sex workers as well as male clients of the sex industry) to Chinese sexual cultures.

He is on the editorial boards of numerous peer review journals, including the Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Sociology, and Culture & Society.

He was awarded King’s Fellowship, as well as the Social Sciences Knowledge Exchange Award, at the University of Hong Kong. He was the recipient of the Prism Award of Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in 2004 to recognize his long-term service to and research on the LGBT community in Hong Kong. For additional information, see: https://www.sociodep.hku.hk/html/ppl_teach_travis.htm

articles and chapters in books and scholarly journals.

A selection of his seminal articles in or relating to the LGBTQ arena include: “Gay Rights, Religious Accommodations, and the Purposes of Antidiscrimination Law” (Southern California Law Review, 2015); “Judging the Case Against Same-Sex Marriage” (University of Illinois Law Review, 2014); “Why Discrimination Against Lesbians and Gay Men is Sex Discrimination” (New York University Law Review, 1994)“Is Hobby Lobby Worse for Religious Liberty than Smith?”(St. Thomas Journal of Law & Public Policy, forthcoming); and many more.

Prof. Koppelman is also an occasional contributor to Salon.com and the Balkinization blog.

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https://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/andrewkoppelman/

https://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/assets/documents/cv-KoppelmanAndrewM_v2015-04-28;131026.pdf

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& Straight Education Network (GLSEN), Dr. Kull has authored studies related to LGBT youths’ K-12 school experiences, including a national study on school mental health professionals’ interventions with LGBT youth in secondary schools and a national assessment of school districts’ and states’ policy efforts to protect LGBT youth from bullying and harassment. Dr. Kull also served as a co-investigator and author of an NIH and VA funded national study examining the health/mental health issues and healthcare experiences of LGBT veterans.

Dr. Kull is the author and co-author of multiple juried papers, invited book chapters, and conference panels/symposia on LGBT-related health and mental health topics, including HIV/AIDS, STIs affecting MSM, bullying and harassment of LGBT youth, professional development, LGBT issues in education, and LGBT veterans.

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https://www.ryankull.com

reviewed journal articles pertaining to LGBT family life studies. She has also authored or co-authored numerous book chapters in established textbooks or handbooks pertaining to LGBT parenthood and family life. For further information, click here.

London. Dr Langdridge has sought to develop phenomenological methodology and existential psychotherapy, and redefine the frontiers of contemporary research concerned with the psychology of sexualities. He has conducted empirical work on a variety of topics that were hitherto on the margins of the study of sexualities, most notably on consensual sadomasochism (BDSM). His recent work on sexualities focuses on the divisive nature of political change in sexual citizenship and how the boundaries are being continually policed with ‘inventive’ new claims of threat to the established social order.

He has also played a leading role in the theoretical and practical development of affirmative therapy with sexual minority clients; queer critique of LGB coming-out models; and in producing the United Kingdom national guidelines for psychologists working with sexual and gender minorities.

Dr. Langdridge was Founding Co-Editor of the journal Psychology & Sexuality (Taylor & Francis). He is also Consulting Editor for The Humanistic Psychologist, published in association with Division 32 of the American Psychological Association, and an associate editor for a number of other journals.

Dr. Langdridge is the author or editor of numerous journal articles, textbooks and monographs pertaining to the psychology of sexuality, counseling, and psychotherapy from leading publishers.

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Getting Clean (Marlowe & Company); an author of the Experts Advisory Committee, Methamphetamine White Paper, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA); former board member of the National Committee on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues, American Psychiatric Association; former board member of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association; former psychiatric consultant for New York City’s Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition Against HIV and AIDS; former psychiatrist and mental health advisor for New York City’s LGBT community health center, the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center; member of the Experts Advisory Committee on Methamphetamine, Gay, and Lesbian Medical Association; and author of numerous textbook chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles about addiction in the LGBT community, including the recently published first edition textbook of the International Society of Addiction Medicine: Textbook of Addiction Treatment: International Perspectives.

of the Capital Region at Choices Counseling and Consulting.

Arlene has been an educator for nearly three decades. She is a lecturer, serving on the part-time faculty of the University at Albany, School of Social Welfare, where she is the Founder and Project Director of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Project (SOGI). She is also an adjunct at Empire College where she teaches Sex and Gender in a Cross-Cultural Perspective. Arlene has taught Gender Studies at Smith College School for Social Work and she also lectures at the Rockway Institute, California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University.

Arlene has served as a trainer, workshop leader, presenter and facilitator for numerous conferences, organizations and training programs locally, nationally and internationally. She is an experienced and engaging presenter.

Arlene has authored numerous journal articles and essays including authoring two books: “The Complete Lesbian and Gay Parenting Guide” and “Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and their Families,” winner of the American Psychological Association (Division 44) Distinguished Book Award, 2006.

She is co-editing with Dr. Andrew Gottlieb “Families in Transition: Parent Perspectives on Raising Gender Diverse Children” (Harrington Park Press/Columbia University Press, forthcoming).

Arlene is also the Clinical Supervisor for Center Support: Counseling Services, a low-cost therapy program at The Pride Center of the Capital Region.

Arlene is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (where she served as a committee member of WPATH’s 7th revision the Standards of Care), the American Psychological Association (Division 44) and is on the Board of the American Family Therapy Academy, where she was the 2011 Conference Chair.

She serves on the editorial Boards of the Journal of GLBT Family Studies and the International Journal of Transgenderism.

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issues in chemical dependency; dynamic approaches to psychotherapy with gay men and lesbians; and psychoanalysis and gay men. Dr. Levounis is married to actor Lukas Hassel and resides in New York City.

Dr. Levounis is an internationally renowned academician, author in addiction psychiatry, and sought-after expert speaker. His overarching interests include the psychotherapy and psychopharmacology of addiction and co-occurring psychiatric disorders, the teaching of psychiatry, and behavioral addictions. He is a Betty Ford Scholar and Laughlin Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists. From 2005 to 2009, he chaired the national Committee on Addiction Treatment of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Dr. Levounis is an ASAM fellow and a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Dr. Levounis has been interviewed by ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, The Martha Stewart Radio Show, The New York Times, The Daily News, TimeOut New York, and The Washington Post, among other media outlets.

Dr. Levounis has authored/edited nine books, including the self-help paperback Sober Siblings: How to Help Your Alcoholic Brother or Sister—and Not Lose Yourself (Perseus, 2008), the textbook Substance Dependence and Co-Occurring Psychiatric Disorders (Civic Research Institute, 2010), Motivation and Change (American Psychiatric Publishing, 2010), Office-Based Buprenorphine Treatment of Opioid Dependence (APP, 2011), the award-winning and translated LGBT Casebook (APP, 2012), The Addiction Casebook (APP, 2014) based on the DSM-5, and The Behavioral Addictions (APP, 2015), an innovative book that includes re-enactment video clips played by Rutgers NJMS medical students. He is currently working on the American Psychiatric Publishing’s Pocket Guide to Addiction Assessment and Treatment, which is expected to be available in early 2016.

as an Assistant Professor of social work at Augsburg College. Dr. Lewis was recently appointed to a three-year term on the Council on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression, an organization within the Council on Social Work Education.
His research and clinical interests also include multi-cultural adoptive youth living in gay/lesbian-headed households; disclosure practices among adopted youth with gay and lesbian parents; and the stigmization processs of LGBT black folk within historically black churches. For further information see: https://www.cswe.org/File.aspx?id=81521

and psychotherapy, and gender identity and sexual orientation. He has published widely on these topics, as the author of several books in Italian and of many international articles. His studies and researches in the LGBT arena are published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, Attachment and Human Development, Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Endocrinological Investigation, Journal of Sex Research, Human Reproduction, Reproductive BioMedicine, Sexuality Research and Social Policy, Studies in Gender and Sexuality.

In the LGBT arena, of historic note, he co-authored in 2004 the seminal paper, “Psychoanalytic attitudes towards homosexuality: An empirical research” in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. This paper was awarded the Ralph Roughton APA Paper Award with the following commendation:

“We believe [this] paper is deserving of the award because it targets the very uncomfortable subject of the mostly unacknowledged but widespread current bias against homosexuality among our international colleagues. The fact that this data comes entirely from Italian Psychoanalytic Institutes offers the American psychoanalytic community a helpful mirror, into which we can look and reflect.”

He is the author of “Citizen gay: Affetti e diritti [Citizen gay: Affections and rights. Milan: il Saggiatore, 2016], and of the Italian Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Psychotherapy Guidelines [see: Lingiardi, V., Nardelli, N., Drescher, J. (2015). “New Italian lesbian, gay and bisexual psychotherapy guidelines: A review.” International Review of Psychiatry, 27(5), pp. 405-415.] With Jack Drescher is co-editor of the monograph, “The Mental Health Professions and Homosexuality: International Perspectives” (Taylor & Francis, 2003). He wrote the chapters: “No maps for uncharted lands. What does gender expression have to do with sexual orientation?” In Lemma, A., Lynch, P. (2015) (Eds), Sexualities: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives. New York: Routledge (pp. 101-120); and, with N.Nardelli, “Partner Relational Problem”. In Levounis P., Jack Drescher J., Barber M. (2012) (Eds), Working With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Basic Principles and Case Studies. American Psychiatric Publishing, Washington, DC, pp. 259-268. With N.Nardelli is co-author of the chapter: “Psychodynamic Practice and LGBT Communities” in the forthcoming manual Contemporary Psychodynamic Psychotherapy edited by J.S. Ogrodniczuk and D. Kealy (Academic Press, Elsevier).

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techniques of contemporary living standard measurements to the past as a means of deriving consistent estimates of well-being over time. Most of his historical work uses historical household surveys, but also includes some new data to look at topics such as the returns to education in the early twentieth century, the formation of tastes, and the allocation of resources within the household.

He is, or has been, on the editorial boards of such prestigious academic journal as Social Science History, Journal of Economic History, and Demographic Research. He is a referee for at least 20 additional high impact journals, and has published numerous peer review articles in disciplines ranging from economics to sociology to history.

In the LGBTQ/gender studies arena, Dr. Logan is a leading international authority on male sex work economics. He published the seminal papers “Personal Characteristics, Sexual Behaviors, and Male Sex Work: A Quantitative Approach,” (American Sociological Review, Vol. 75, No. 5, 2010), and together with Shah Manisha, “Face Value: Information and Signaling in an Illegal Market,” Southern Economic Journal, January 2013.

His new book from Cambridge University Press, is just being released: “Economics, Sexuality, and Male Sex Work.” According to Dr. Christopher Carpenter at Vanderbilt University, “Logan offers a groundbreaking and comprehensive analysis of this poorly understood market. This book should be required reading for a broad class of social scientists at the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality.” According to Rene Almeling of Yale University, “Trevon D. Logan takes the reader on a fascinating deep dive into the American market for male sex workers. Through a series of careful analyses, he reveals that the inner workings of this understudied market are profoundly shaped by the intersecting social dynamics of masculinity, sexuality, and race.”

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leisure, tourism and hospitality sector offered to the LGBT community in Poland. These studies include both domestic and foreign tourists.

Examples of articles or book chapters he has authored or co-authored include: “Leisure activities of LGBT singles: Tourist behavior in the context of individual attributes (K. Adamczyk (ed.) Singlehood from individual and social perspective. Cracow: Libron, 2016; “Travel destinations of Polish LGBT community” (Researches Reviews of the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, 2016) and Tourist activity of LGBT [Persons] in European post-communist states: The case of Poland” (Economics and Sociology 2016).

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has influenced major changes in policy and practice concerning LGBTQ youth within the child welfare system.

Dr. Mallon is the author of the book, We Don’t Exactly get the Welcome Wagon: The Experience of Gay and Lesbian Youth in Child Welfare Settings (1998), which was the first systematic investigation providing empirical data on LGBTQ youth in foster care. His more recent books and edited volumes include Social Work Practice with LGBTQ People (2008); Social Work Practice with Transgender and Gender Variant Youth (2009); Child Welfare for the Twenty-First Century, Second Edition (co-edited with Peg McCartt Hess, 2015); and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Foster & Adoptive Parents: Recruiting, Assessing, and Supporting Untapped Family Resources for Children and Youth (2015). These works have made a significant impact on the study of child welfare and LGBTQ children, youth, and families. He is the author of these amongst 24 books in total along with over 100 articles in high impact peer reviewed journals, book chapters, and other papers.

Mallon was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare in 2014. He received that same ear the NYS Citizens Coalition for Children Award and the Family Equality Council’s Holstetter-Habib Award. In 2012, Mallon was given the Louisiana Adoption Advisory Board’s Award of Distinction. In 2011, Mallon received The Judge Richard Ware Award from the Louisiana Children’s Trust Fund as well as the Family Focus Adoption Agency’s Child Welfare Advocate Award. Mallon’s publications have also earned additional distinctions. He received the Academic Book of the Year award from the American Library Association in 2006 and 1999; was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award in 2010; and was nominated for the American Library Association’s GLBT Roundtable Book of the Year award in 1999.

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a leader in social work theory, research, practice and policy having to do with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) populations. His research and areas of expertise include the history and construction of LGBTQ identities; social and economic justice issues; and health and mental health disparities among LGBTQ populations. He has particular interests in the impact of sociohistorical changes on identity and development; victimization and other social and economic justice issues among LGBTQ populations; and special issues in research methods with these populations.

In the MSW program at New York University’s Silver School of Social Work, he teaches the elective course Contemporary GLBT Issues and also has taught most of the required Practice and Research courses. In the School’s PhD program he has taught Introductory Statistics and the Dissertation Proseminar. Dr. Martin’s most recent studies examined victimization and coping among gay and bisexual men, and the treatment of LGBT issues in American social work education. Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, Dr. Martin was Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he co-founded Lambda Faculty and Staff. Previous to entering academic life, he maintained a private clinical practice in Chicago, specializing in practice with lesbian and gay clients, and he led Hartgrove Hospital’s Department of Social Work.

Dr. Martin is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services and the Journal of Homosexuality, as well as other major national social work journals.
He has produced more than 40 publications–many of them focusing on LGBT social work research, theory, and practice–including articles in high impact peer review journals, book chapters, monographs, and bibliographies. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of research with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations (New York, NY: Routledge, 2009), as well as Research methods with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender populations (Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press, 2009), which was simultaneously published as the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, 15(1-2), 2009. Previously, he co-authored Lesbian, gay, and bisexual youths and adults: Knowledge for human services practice (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998).
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school districts, police departments, businesses, and human service organizations serving constituents of all ages. At the time of this writing she is President of Division 44 of the American Psychological Association (Society for the Psychological Study of LGBT Issues). She is associate editor of the Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling.
 
She has recently been serving on a statewide work group with the Pennsylvania Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to improve access to culturally competent care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and intersex consumers across the state and on the Cultural Competence subcommittee of the Clinical Standards committee with the Pennsylvania Department of Health Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Programs. She is currently also the Managing Partner of New Perspectives, LLC, which provides consulting and training services for human service organizations, educational institutions, health-care facilities, and communities in order to help them respond effectively to changing cultural landscapes, especially with respect to sexual orientation and gender variance.

She has published numerous peer-review articles pertaining to LGBT issues covering a rich array of topics including LGBT addiction studies, LGBT disabilities, and LGBT counselor education. She is the author of the key chapter “Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals” in the new handbook from Springer, Addiction Medicine: Science and Practice (B. Johnson, editor), and has presented at numerous national and international conferences on LGBT issues in mental health and human services. For additional details see https://newperspectivesforyou.com/MatthewsCV.pdf and also https://newperspectivesforyou.com/publications.php.

 

He is Head of Clinical Services at the Tavistock Center for Couple Relationships, and is employed in the National Health Service as a Consultant Family and Systemic Therapist in the Department of Child and Adolescent Mental Health. He has co-edited The Practice of Counseling in Primary Care (Sage) and Systemic Supervision: A Portable Guide (Jessica Kingsley). He has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters related to affirmative LGBT psychotherapy theory and practice. For further information:
https://www.pinktherapy.com/ClinicalAssociates/tabid/67/ctl/ViewPractice/mid/425/_UserId/73/language/en-GB/Default.aspx

reviews, and book chapters relating to LGBTQ mental health.

Downstate faculty since 2009, was named its founding Vice President. Dr. Merlino is a psychiatrist with special interest in individual development, team based leadership, and system transformation. Before joining Downstate, Dr. Merlino was Deputy Executive Director of Kings County Hospital Center responsible for the Behavioral Health Service Line and largely credited with the team that led the successful transformation of the service.

Dr. Merlino and his Office are responsible for Downstate’s faculty development programs including the seminar series, interest groups, and formal mentoring programs. The Faculty Affairs Office is committed to a Campus culture that nurtures successful careers and work-life integration.

Dr. Merlino is a member of the Editorial Board of several major academic journals in the area of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, including the “Journal of Psychiatric Administration & Management.” He is a member of the Publications Board of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) and is an “Ambassador Fellow” of the New York Academy of Medicine.

“Journal of Homosexuality, ““25 Years On: The State and Continuing Development of LGBTQ Studies Programs.” This publication marks the 25th anniversary of the 1993 landmark “JH” special issue on “Gay & Lesbian Studies.”

Dr. Merryman has been active in the Expanding the Circle Conference: LGBTQ in Higher Education. She co-authored with Ken Valente “Queering the Academy: A Case Approach to LGBTQ Studies” (Expanding the Circle: Creating an Inclusive Environment in Higher Education for LGBTQ Students and Studies, John Hawley, ed., SUNY Press, 2015).

Dr. Merryman’s sociological pursuits focus on ethnographically-based film studies. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Video Ethnography, and serves as well on the Board of the International Visual Sociology Association.

Her focus on marginalized groups has included a unique film short on a diverse gayborhood assimilated within Highland Square, a unique township area with a population of less than 10,000, and is located in the heart of the Rust Belt in Akron, Ohio.

Clips, drafts, excerpts, and complete showings of “Highland Lives” have been shown world-wide, including the nationally distributed United Kingdom LGBTIQ cable program “Tales from the Margins.”

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both published by Columbia University Press. She also has published 13 articles, along with numerous book chapters, teaching modules, and monographs, over the last 15 years. She was the recipient of the 2006 Distinguished Contemporary Contributions in Undergraduate Social Work Award from the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors (BPD), along with several teaching awards. https://uncw.edu/swk/faculty-lorimessinger2.html

research on LGBT health disparities by identifying the mechanisms by which social stressors impact health and describing the harm to LGBT people from prejudice and stigma. The model was cited by the Institute of Medicine as one of four cross-cutting perspectives (the only one stemming from LGBT scholarship) recommended for the study of LGBT health. For this work, Dr. Meyer received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Meyer is co-editor with Mary E. Northridge of The Health of Sexual Minorities: Public Health Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Populations (Springer, 2007).
https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/ilan–h-meyer/

Studies Program, Director of the Institute for Global Understanding, and advisor to the Sociology Club. Outside of Monmouth University, Dr. Mezey has served in numerous capacities with the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), including as the Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors. Dr. Mezey is also a returned Peace Corps Volunteer where she served in Mali, West Africa from 1988-1990. In 2010, she received the Monmouth University Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award.

In the LGBTQ arena, Dr. Mezey is author of a rich array of monographs and texts as well as book chapters including: GLBT Families. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, an imprint of Sage Publications, Inc.; New Choices, New Families: How Lesbians Decide about Motherhood. The Johns Hopkins University Press; “How Lesbians/Gay Men Decide to be Parents or Remain Childfree” in LGBT-Parent Families: Possibilities for New Research and Implications for Practice, edited by Abbie E. Goldberg and Katherine R. Allen (New York: Springer Publishing Company); “Deciding Whether to Parent” in The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, edited by Abbie Goldberg (20160 Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

For further information, see: https://www.monmouth.edu/school-of-humanities-social-sciences/nancy-mezey.aspx

is an ethnography of men who sell sex in several cities in Brazil (University of Chicago Press, 2016). “Tourist Attractions” received an Honorable Mention for the Ruth Benedict Prize for monographs from the American Anthropological Association.

His second book (currently underway) is tentatively titled 40,000 Missing Girls: Moral Panics, Sporting Events, and the Spectacle of Sex Trafficking. It examines police violence against female sex workers during periods preceding mega-events like the World Cup and the Olympics. In particular, it explores the overlapping interests of evangelical Christian groups, radical feminist organizations, neoliberal business developers, and corrupt state security apparatuses. This book uses ethnography, including interviews with sex workers, politicians, activists, policy makers, and intelligence officials to examine nationalistic spectacles deployed during such events.

His research has been published in GLQ, Brasiliana: A Journal of Brazilian Studies, PLURAL (Universidade de São Paulo-Sociology), American Ethnologist, Journal of Popular Music Studies, and The Wagadu Journal of Transnational Feminist Studies, as well as in several edited volumes in Brazil and the United States. Recent and upcoming lecture venues include Harvard University, McGill University, Oberlin College, Amherst College, University of Denver, UC-Santa Barbara, UT-Austin, University of Wyoming, Rice University, Northwestern University, and Cambridge University.

He holds his PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, from which he also received a PhD Certificate and served as a Mellon Fellow in Gender Studies. While there, he also received the Presidential Fellowship and membership in the Society of Fellows, that university’s highest honor for doctoral researchers. He also holds a Masters in social science (focusing on Cultural Anthropology) from the University of Chicago. He also holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from Illinois State University.

Gregory has received awards from the NSF, Ford Foundation, and three times from American Anthropological Association. He also received the Lila Heston Award for Performance Studies and an award for outstanding graduate research from the National Professional Association of Communication Arts & Sciences. In 2010, he was inducted into the prestigious Faculty Honor Roll for excellence in teaching at Northwestern.

At Williams, students awarded him a 2015 Faculty Accessibility Award. Current and past courses include Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies, Introduction to Sexuality Studies, Performing Masculinity, Queer of Color Critique, Sexual Economies, Global Sexualities, and Ethnographic Methods.

Prior to entering the academy, he worked in public policy development for the Chicago Board of Education and also in domestic and family violence intervention services.

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masculinity and homosexual identity in European Modernism, and Thomas Mann’s late work; and dictatorship and literature. He is multilingual and researches original sources in French, Italian, English, German, and modern Greek. Dr. Morgan is also a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. For further information see: https://sydney.edu.au/research/opportunities/supervisors/1058

and the development of queer liberation theory.

Dr. Mulé has published numerous articles on LGBTQ issues and topics in high-impact peer review journals. He has also co-edited two important anthologies, “Queering Social Work Education” (Vancouver, BC: UBC Press), and “LGBTQ People and Social Work: Intersectional Perspectives” (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press). He has contributed numerous book chapters in professional books pertaining to LGBTQ issues, education, and professional practice.

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(with William Rubenstein, Carlos Ball, and Jane Schacter) (5th ed. West 2014). His recent scholarship includes “Conscience Wars: Complicity-Based Conscience Claims in Religion and Politics,” 124 Yale Law Journal 2516 (2015), with Reva Siegel; “Before Marriage: The Unexplored History of Nonmarital Recognition and Its Relationship to Marriage,” 102 California Law Review 87 (2014); “Constitutional Change, Courts, and Social Movements,” 113 Michigan Law Review 877 (2013); “Marriage Inequality: Same-Sex Relationships, Religious Exemptions, and the Production of Sexual Orientation Discrimination,” 100 California Law Review 1169 (2012); “Winning Through Losing,” 96 Iowa Law Review 941 (2011); and “Lawyering for Marriage Equality,” 57 UCLA Law Review 1235 (2010), with Scott Cummings.

NeJaime is a two-time recipient of the Dukeminier Award, which recognizes the best sexual orientation legal scholarship published in the previous year. He is also the 2014 recipient of UCI Law’s Professor of the Year Award and the 2011 recipient of Loyola Law School’s Excellence in Teaching Award.

NeJaime has provided commentary on issues relating to sexual orientation and same-sex marriage to numerous press outlets, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, NPR, and NBC News.

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and community mobilization.

Dr. Nel’s academic citizenship, community engagement and related advocacy efforts increasingly are focused on the discipline of Psychology. As of 2007, he co-represents the Psychological Society of SA (PsySSA) on the International Psychology Network for LGBTI Concerns (IPsyNET). A member of the PsySSA Council since 2008 and on the Executive Committee since 2011, he was chair of the Sexuality Division of the Scientific Committee of the 30th International Congress of Psychology that was co-hosted by PsySSA in Cape Town in July 2012. In this context, he also serves as leader of a project aimed at positioning PsySSA as regional hub towards the promotion of the well-being and human rights of LGBTI persons on the African continent. This initiative was instrumental in the establishment of the PsySSA Sexuality and Gender Division (SGD) and the adoption of its Position Statement on Sexual and Gender Diversity, both during 2013.

Since its inception Juan has been a member of the SGD Executive Committee where he now serves as Vice Chair. In 2013, Juan was elected as President Elect of PsySSA, served as PsySSA President in 2014 – 2015 and PsySSA Past President in 2015 – 2016.

was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Health and Social Justice in 2008. He received the Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation in 2007. He is a former National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellow in HIV/AIDS Research at University of California at Los Angeles, where he received the Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research, and a National Institute on Drug Abuse Pre-doctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan Substance Abuse Research Center. Dr. Newman has received substantial external funding for his global research program on HIV prevention, healthcare access and discrimination, with a focus on vulnerable populations. His research includes collaborations with community organizations serving women of color, gay and other men who have sex with men, transwomen, male and female sex workers, and injecting drug users.

As principal investigator of the Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative Team in Social and Behavioral Research on HIV Vaccines, Newman is engaged in research and training collaborations with investigators and trainees in Canada, India, South Africa and Thailand. He is a member of the Psychosocial Studies Group and the International Scientific Working Group of the International AIDS Society’s Towards an HIV Cure Initiative. He has also served on the U.S. National Institute of Health’s expert review panels for the AIDS International Training and Research Program and International Clinical, Operations and Health Services Research Training Award for AIDS and TB, and the NIH Division of AIDS Behavioral Science Working Group.

Dr. Newman’s work also addresses LGBTQ challenges in social work research and education, and peer victimization of LGBTQ youth. Dr. Newman’s teaching interests include qualitative and mixed methods research, HIV and AIDS, structural intervention and sexuality. His practice experience includes over two decades in HIV services and ongoing research consultation and training in North America and South and Southeast Asia.

Dr. Newman has authored or co-authored over 100 major journal articles in top-ranked, high impact peer reviewed journals. Many of them are grant-funded Open Access so that the results of his result can be accessible to the widest possible readership. A detailed descriptive of Dr. Newman’s critically important international HIV and HIV-related research is described in more detail on the Canadian Association for HIV Research Website.

His studies in outside cultures is not without challenges. “We can’t dictate what products are out there,” Dr. Newman notes, “…but we try to make information that we garner available at the grassroots level to inform advocacy efforts on the part of communities and policies to support how you might implement new prevention tools in a way that would be the most socially acceptable and user friendly.”

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Zealand. Stephen has a strong clinical background in gerontology and has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as supervising graduate students undertaking masterate and doctoral theses.

Stephen’s research interests relate to the health and well-being of communities, particularly marginalised populations’ encompassing sexual minority groups and older citizens, as well as health workforce development. He is the Co-Director of the AUT Centre for Active Ageing. The dissemination of research outputs are in quality assured forums including refereed journals and conferences. He is the current President of the New Zealand Association of Gerontology and is a Fellow and life member of the College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ).
Stephen has published over 65 peer-review articles in high-impact journals, as well as numerous book chapters and editorials. In the LGBT area, he has published a wealth of clinical and applied research papers dealing with such diverse topics as:
-factors influencing condom use in gay and bisexual men;
-views about HIV/STI and health promotion amongst gay & bisexual men
-coming out narratives of older gay men
-perceptions of LGB persons in residential care
-promoting condom use amongst men who have sex with men (MSM)
-LGBT drinking cultures
-gay men’s perception of aging
-internet-based HIV prevention for gay and bisexual men
-sexual minority identification satisfaction over the life course
-promoting LGBTI health and well-being

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on gay customers’ service recovery evaluations” (Journal of Business Research); “Service recovery evaluations: GLBTG versus hetero customers” (International Journal of Hospitality Management); and many more now under review. His research, presentations and projects have included such topics as gay-friendly hotels and implications for hospitality organizations; gay and lesbian customer discriminatory service experiences; typology of “Pride” sponsorships; and subtle discrimination toward gay and lesbian customers in the lodging industry.

The symposium attracts numerous academics and scholars representing primary researchers in all branches of LGBTQ social and behavioral science research. She is one of the most prolific authors and researchers in the area of LGBT studies. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of GLBT Family Studies, and was previously on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Lesbian Studies. She is a member of numerous other editorial boards in or related to family studies, including Family Relations and the Journal of Family Theory & Review. She is on the Advisory Board of the instantly classic “SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies” (Sage Publications, winner of the Division 44 Book of the Year (2016). She has authored or co-authored over 40 peer review articles and reviews in top-ranked scholarly journals. Dr. Oswald guest-edited a special issue of the “Journal of Family Theory & Review” on “LGBT Parent Families.” She edited the monograph, “Lesbian Rites: Symbolic Acts and Power of the Community” (Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2003). She is currently amongst many other professional activities a member of the Elections Council of the National Council on Family Relations. She was elected a Fellow of the National Council on Family Relations in 2015.
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mental health. For example, one line of his research examines the psychosocial consequences of concealing one’s sexual orientation in various contexts and across formative years of development. Another seeks to examine the longitudinal effects of migrating to urban areas on young gay and bisexual men’s health. He draws upon his training as a clinical psychologist to translate the results of these studies into psychosocial interventions to improve the health of the LGBT community. One of these intervention projects, for example, seeks to promote resilient coping among young gay and bisexual men to counter the negative mental health effects of stigma.

One of the primary goals of his research is to apply formative studies to psychosocial interventions to improve the health of the LGBT community. One of these interventions has shown preliminary evidence for helping young gay and bisexual men cope with early and ongoing stress to reduce their depression, anxiety, substance use, condomless sex, and sexual compulsivity. Its efficacy was established in the first randomized controlled trial of an LGB-affirmative mental health treatment.

His collaborative research also examines the efficacy of similar LGB-affirmative interventions delivered via novel technologies (e.g., smartphones), in diverse settings (e.g., Eastern Europe), and with diverse segments of the LGBT community (e.g., rural youth). He has a longstanding interest in psychotherapy process research, including determining what psychological interventions work for whom and the reasons explaining why psychological interventions work in the first place.

His research has been featured in national and international media outlets, such as The New York Times and Time. This work has also been cited in several amici curiae briefs in cases related to LGBT stigma and discrimination before state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

Dr. Pachankis teaches an interdisciplinary class called Stigma and Health at the Yale School of Public Health that examines stigma across multiple levels (e.g., societal, psychological) and across numerous stigmatizing conditions and identities to understand stigma’s full impact on population health.

Dr. Pachankis has published numerous peer reviewed articles in major and highly cited journals in psychology, LGBT studies, and HIV/AIDS. He has authored or co-authored major chapters in numerous books pertaining to these same areas.

He is a Consulting Editor for the journal Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (Division 44, American Psychological Association), and ad hoc reviewer for such journals as AIDS and Behavior; Archives of Sexual Behavior; Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Sex Research, Psychology of Men and Masculinity; Psychology & Sexuality; Sex Roles; and Sexually Transmitted Infections.

the title of Lifelong Honorary Patron of PFLAG Victoria.

In 2003, Maria was invited to become a Founding Member of AGMC (Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council), an umbrella organization supporting culturally and religiously diverse GLBTIQ communities, services and organizations in Australia, and which has been recognised as a member of FECCA (Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia).

Apart from her teaching and supervision (at both undergraduate and postgraduate level), research and writing, Maria is regularly called upon to act as a consultant in educational, workplace, youth services, health services and community service settings. Winner of two US Lambda Literary Awards, Maria is regularly invited to speak at diverse community, educational, organizational and other functions and conferences, and in various media such as television, radio and newspaper.

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(ecstasy, cocaine, methamphetamine). CHEST projects are based on theories of health behavior change and are designed to reduce the spread of HIV and/or to improve the lives of persons with HIV (for details, see https://www.chestnyc.org/research-active.html). He is editor-in-chief of the internationally known journal Sexuality Research & Social Policy (Springer), is on the editorial boards of numerous research journals in HIV and LGBT studies, and is author or co-author of numerous peer-review research articles in these fields.
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The author or editor of many professional books and articles, she has also won a number of distinguished awards. She recently served as a member of the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Issues and Research Gaps convened by the U.S. Institute of Medicine. Their report, entitled “The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding,” was released in March, 2011 (free pdf copy: https://iom.nationalacademies.org/Reports/2011/The-Health-of-Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-and-Transgender-People.aspx).

She was co-editor with Dr. A. D’Augelli of the Handbook of Psychology and Sexual Orientation; Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities in Families: Psychological Perspectives; Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities Among Youth: Psychological Perspectives; and Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identities over the Lifespan: Psychological Perspectives. All of these volumes were published by Oxford University Press.

Amongst her numerous awards were the American Psychological Association (APA) Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy, the Outstanding Book of the Year Award from APA’s Division 44 (Society for Psychological Study of LGBT Issues), for Handbook of Psychology and Sexual Orientation; the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, also bestowed by APA Division 44; the Laura Brown Award for Outstanding Contributions in Advancing Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Psychology from the Society for the Psychology of Women (APA Division 35); and the Carolyn Attneave Diversity Award from APA Division 43 (Family Psychology) for contributions that advance the understanding of and integration of diversity into family psychology. For further information: https://people.virginia.edu/~cjp/

Archives of Sexual Behavior and Suizidprophylaxe [Suicide Prevention]. He has also served as ad hoc/guest reviewer for American Journal of Preventive Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, BMC Psychiatry, BMC Public Health, Crisis, International Review of Psychiatry, Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Lesbian Studies, Lancet Psychiatry, Pediatrics, PloS ONE, Psychiatric Research, and Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.

Dr. Plöderl is a Certified Trainer for Suicide Prevention in Austria. He is an active leader in several suicide research and prevention groups. Amongst these he is a member of the Expert Group for the Development of the Austrian Suicide Prevention Program (SUPRA).

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people in Baltimore, co-authored a recent meta-analysis examining the burden of HIV among transgender women worldwide, and is lead author of an article on HIV among transgender sex workers in “The Lancet HIV and Sex Workers” series.

Her current projects address the role of intersectional stigmas and systemic oppression on the health of LGBT communities. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Poteat provides medical care for people living with HIV in the Bartlett Specialty Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Tonia is the Vice President of Education for GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality and serves on the editorial board of LGBT Health. She has been an ad hoc reviewer for many top-ranked academic journals including Epidemiologic Reviews; Lancet HIV; Global Public Health; Drug and Alcohol Dependence; Social Science & Medicine; Journal of the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS; Culture, Health & Society; and AIDS Education and Prevention.

She has published over 25 peer-review articles in highly cited journals.

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intersection of HIV risk behaviors, substance use, sexual identity, and gender identity among MSM and transwomen.

Dr. Reback has authored or co-authored more than 65 peer-review journal articles pertaining to or relevant to MSM and transwomen on HIV health care, mental health, and community services, as well as numerous book chapters in these areas. The significance of Dr. Reback’s research has been the application of research in community settings, the early integration of biobehavioral approaches to substance abuse and HIV prevention, the application of technology as a novel real-time intervention, and the coupling of quantitative and qualitative methodologies.

Dr. Reback was one of the first researchers in the country to link the rise in HIV infection among gay and bisexual men to sexual risk behaviors engaged in while using methamphetamine and she was one of the first researchers in the country to identify co-factors for HIV acquisition and transmission that contribute to the disproportionate HIV disease burden among urban transwomen.

In 1997, Dr. Reback served as the co-investigator on the first epidemiological study in Los Angeles to assess health risks among transwomen. Foremost in the design and implementation of her research studies has always been the formation of long-lasting community-research collaborations. She has an extensive background in conducting community-research collaborations, evaluating behavioral treatment therapies, designing and implementing street-based intervention programs for out-of-treatment substance users, and managing large-scale HIV prevention and intervention programs. Dr. Reback collaborates with local community-based organizations to adopt, tailor, and transfer evidence-based interventions into public health and community settings. Dr. Reback’s commitment to community research has led her to become a sought-after collaborator. She has served as principal investigator or co-investigator on ethnographic, intervention, biomedical, mHealth, and epidemiological studies funded by NIDA, NIMH, HRSA, CSAT, CDC, CHRP (formerly UARP), California State Office of AIDS, the County of Los Angeles, and the City of Los Angeles.

In addition to her research experience, Dr. Reback has also designed and taught numerous courses in social research, sexuality and society, modern society, society and individual development, sociology of the family, principles of sociology, professions and work, and emotions in society.

Dr. Reback has current or past membership on the Los Angeles Transgender Task Force; Transgender HIV Youth Consortium; Los Angeles County PEP and PrEP Work Group; Los Angeles County HIV Prevention Planning Committee; HIV Drug and Alcohol Task Force of the HIV Commission on Health Services; Los Angeles County Methamphetamine Work Group; Center for Substance Abuse Treatment LGBT Work Group; Los Angeles County LGBT Health Advisory Group; and numerous other local and national HIV/AIDS and substance abuse task forces and advisory committees. Dr. Reback was awarded the City Council Appreciation Award from the City of West Hollywood (2001), the HIV Warrior Award from the City of West Hollywood (2003), the Spirit of Hope award from Being Alive (2005), the Distinguished Community Service Award from California State University at Northridge (2013), and the Outstanding Service Organization award for her work with transgender women from the City of West Hollywood (2014).

HIV Management.

Dr Rebe is an honorary senior lecturer in the Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town. He has a particular interest in sexual health and wellbeing, especially among populations of men who have sex with men. Aside from his clinical role, Dr Rebe undertakes MSM-related research particularly in the fields of HIV prevention in key populations and has published widely on diverse aspects of HIV. He is an examiner of the South African College of Medicine for the Higher Diploma in Sexual Medicine and HIV qualification.

His more recent focus has been on HIV prevention activities and Dr Rebe is a PI on the South African PrEP Demonstration Project for MSM. He was a lead author of the South African HIV Clinicians Society Guidelines for the Safe Use of PrEP and is a member of the National Department of Health’s workgroup that is scaling up PrEP in the country.

prioritize transgender public health research, practice, and policy (Reisner et al., Lancet, 2016). This landmark paper was published in the first ever special issue of a peer-review medical journal dedicated to transgender health.

More broadly, Dr. Reisner is an international leader in multiple areas pertaining to LGBT health care. He is a social and psychiatric epidemiologist whose overarching research goal is to understand and improve the health and wellbeing of traditionally marginalized and underserved patient populations. His research focuses on: (1) health disparities and inequities, especially in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) populations with specialization in local, national, and global transgender and nonconforming health; (2) epidemiology of HIV infection and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), with biobehavioral intervention design and development for high priority populations; and (3) psychiatric epidemiology concentrating in mental health and substance use/abuse risks and resiliencies in adolescents and young adults.

Dr. Reisner has published over 100 peer-review articles, most in top-ranked high impact journals and many pertaining to LGBT health research. He has also contributed chapters to at least three major edited works including HIV Prevention: A Comprehensive Approach (Elsevier); Trans Bodies, Trans Selves (Oxford University Press); The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies (SAGE Publications).

Dr. Reisner is Research Associate Editor for the Open Access journal Transgender Health. He is also an ad hoc reviewer for numerous high impact journals pertaining to LGBT/HIV research including AIDS Care, AIDS and Behavior, Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, AIDS Patient Care and STDs, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS), Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Sex Research, Archives of Sex Behavior, LGBT Health, and more.

Dr. Reisner routinely offers clinical competency trainings/courses in transgender health as an advisory board and faculty member of The National LGBT Health Education Center at Fenway Health, including recorded webinar sessions available for CMEU credits. He regularly lectures at Harvard and in the Boston area at local universities, He mentors students, fellows, and research staff in the application of epidemiologic methods to study “hidden” populations. As a mentor, he takes a collaborative approach to nurture student interests, helping mentees to cultivate the skills needed to propel their interests forward.

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https://fenwayhealth.org/staff/sari-l-reisner/

University. At the latter, he was the recipient of a university-wide Outstanding Faculty Award.

Dr. Ricco is an art historian and queer theorist whose interdisciplinary research, teaching and writing draws connections between late-twentieth-century and contemporary art and architecture; continental philosophy; and issues of gender and sexuality, bodies and pleasures, pornography and eroticism.

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Society’s 2001 Award for Promoting Equality of opportunity through his research in the U.K. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the British Psychological Society and the U.K.’s Academy of Social Sciences.

He is the author of Homophobic Bullying: Research and Theoretical Perspectives (2011, Oxford University Press) which has now been translated in Italian (2015, Il Saggiatore). He is also the lead author of Bullying: A Handbook for Educators and Parents (Greenwood/Praeger, 2007) and co-author (with Sheri Bauman, University of Arizona) of Mental Health in the Digital Age (2015, Palgrave). In 2011, Ian served on two U.S. Federal expert panels to develop a uniforms definition of bullying for public health surveillance and to better understand the link between bullying and suicide.

Ian has authored well over 100 articles in high impact peer review journals, many of which focus on LGBT and/or related concerns. He is co-editor and contributor to numerous core LGBT books, including: “Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ageing: Biographical approaches for inclusive care and support” (London: Jessica Kingsley Press); and “Out of the ordinary: Representations of LGBT lives,” (Newcastle- Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing).

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therapeutic community. In 1983, with Bruce Burnett, Simon helped establish the AIDS Support Network, which later became the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. While a master’s student at Auckland University, he trained the first AIDS buddy volunteers in his country.

In 1986, Simon moved to Australia to complete a Ph.D. in the effects of AIDS education on male homosexual behavior. On the strength of his research, he was awarded an Australian Commonwealth Scholarship, and in 1989, the first Ph.D. in HIV prevention research in the Southern Hemisphere. In 1990, Simon immigrated to Minnesota. In 1992, he completed his postdoctoral clinical/research fellowship at the University of Minnesota’s Program in Human Sexuality, and in 1997, completed a Masters in Public Health in epidemiology. Clinically, he specialized in the treatment of unsafe sexual behavior, HIV mental health, sexual orientation and religious identity conflicts, sex offending, and general sexology concerns.

In the first book to evaluate the effects of AIDS education on male homosexual behavior, which was awarded an “Outstanding Academic Book” award by the American College Library Association’s journal, Choice. His other books include Gay Catholics Down Under (Praeger, 1991); with Michael Wright and Onno de Zwaart, he edited New International Directions in HIV Prevention for Gay and Bisexual Men (Haworth Press, 1998); with Michael Ross and Lorna Channon-Little, he wrote Sexual Health Concerns: Interviewing and History Taking for Health Practitioners (F.A. Davis, 2000); and with Julie Endersbe, was expert consultant for Homosexuality: What Does It Mean? (LifeMatters, 2000): a book for high risk teens.

In 1993, he developed the Man-to-Man: Sexual Health Seminars, a comprehensive human sexuality program for homosexually active men. In 1994, under a grant from the Swedish Institutes of Health, he trained Swedish HIV prevention workers in this initiative. From 1994-1998, he served on the Minnesota Health Commissioner’s Task Force on HIV/STD Prevention. From 1998-2004, he collaborated with the Pan American Health Organization, World Health Organization, to provide advanced training to HIV prevention workers who work with Latino men who have sex with men. Since 2001, he has served as a reviewer for the National Institutes of Health; and since 2016 as chair of the Behavioral and Social Science Prevention of HIV/AIDS Study Section. He is an elected full member of the International Academy for Sex Research, fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, and also fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 44).

Simon is a prodigious researcher as evidenced by five books and approximately over 150 peer reviewed publications. His major areas of research include HIV/STI prevention, unsafe sexual behavior, male homosexuality, religious and sexual identity formation, Internet-sex, effects of internalized homophobia, prostate cancer and sexual health promotion. From 2000-03, he was a visiting researcher in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):in Atlanta, studying HIV prevention in 13 rural states. He has served as principal investigator or co-investigator on multiple NIH, CDC, and state funded studies. Currently, he teaches two graduate courses, PubH6010 Public Health Approaches to HIV/AIDS and PubH6000 Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Health.

Publications and current projects can be found at www.prismresearch.org. Dr. Rostosky teaches Professional Issues in Counseling Psychology. The Internship Preparation Seminar, and Advanced Practicum Seminar. She is a Full Member of the Graduate Faculty and a Licensed Psychologist in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Dr. Rostosky co-authored with Dr. E.D.B. Riggle two major books: Happy together: Thriving as a same-sex couple in your family, workplace, and community. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association (2015) and A positive view of LBGTQ: Embracing identity and cultivating well-being. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield. The latter work was recipient of the 2012 Distinguished Book Award, American Psychological Association, Div 44: Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues). Dr. Rostosky has authored or co-authored almost 70 peer review articles in top-ranking, high impact journals, many of which are in LGBT or LGBT-related fields. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of GLBT Family Studies and also the Journal of Lesbian Studies, and is ad-hoc reviewer for dozens of national or international journals in the fields of psychology, sociology, health, and other fields.
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Lesbian Studies and Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society. Dr. Rothblum was awarded a Kellogg Fellowship that focused on travel to Africa to study women’s mental health. She has also received a National Science Foundation grant to travel to the Antarctic in order to focus on women’s stress and coping. She has been a Visiting Lecturer at the Flinders University in South Australia and is also a Life Member of Clare Hall, a college of Cambridge University.

Dr. Rothblum is a Fellow of seven divisions of the American Psychological Association: Division 1 (General Psychology), Division 2 (Teaching of Psychology), Division 9 (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues); Division 12 (Clinical Psychology), Division 29 (Psychotherapy), Division 35 (Psychology of Women), and Division 44 (Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Issues).

Regarding her research on lesbian issues, Dr. Rothblum is former chair of the Committee on Lesbian and Gay Concerns of the American Psychological Association and Past President of Division 44 (Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Issues) of APA. She has edited over 20 books, including Lesbian Friendships (New York University Press, 1996), Preventing Heterosexism and Homophobia (Sage Publications), Boston Marriages: Romantic But Asexual Relationships Among Contemporary Lesbians (University of Massachusetts Press, 1993), Lesbians in Academia (Routledge, 1997) and Loving Boldly: Issues Facing Lesbians (Haworth Press, 1989).

Guest Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education (now entitled Journal of LGBT Youth), for which he has also served on its Editorial Board.

Stephen recently co-authored with Jessica Fish a seminal literature review article, “Mental Health in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Youth” in the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology (2016). He has published over a dozen LGBT peer review journal articles amongst almost 100 articles in total in all areas of his expertise.

“I study adolescent development,” notes Dr. Russell, “… with an emphasis on adolescent sexuality, LGBT youth, and parent-adolescent relationships. Much of my research is guided by a commitment to create social change to support healthy adolescent development. I am most proud of my research that has been used to shape local and state policies and laws for school safety, and my most rewarding work is with trainees: I work with an amazing group of postdoctoral scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, and I find supporting their development and learning from them to be the most satisfying part of my job.

“I have been involved in community and professional organizations throughout my career, including as Human Relations Commissioner in several cities (Durham, NC; Davis, CA; Tucson, AZ), and currently as chair of the Board of Directors of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS). I have been an elected board member of the National Council on Family Relations (2005-2008), and am Past-President of the Society for Research on Adolescence.”

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with a particular focus on gay and lesbian adoption issues and related child welfare/family issues. He is the Editor of the Adoption Quarterly (Taylor & Francis/Routledge). Dr. Ryan is a sought-after presenter at numerous local, national and international conferences pertaining to child and family concerns.
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relationships and environments can foster resilience among marginalized youth, including: lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer (LGBTQ) adolescents, runaway and street-involved youth, sexually abused/sexually exploited teens, immigrants and refugees, and Indigenous youth in several countries. She was lead investigator for the first federally funded Canadian Trans Youth Health Survey in 2014, and is a Canada co-investigator on the multi-country Health Behavior of School-Age Children. She regularly provides consultation on adolescent health to national and international governments and agencies, including the World Health Organization. She has been named a Fellow in the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and in the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Saewyc has authored or co-authored over 100 refereed articles in high impact scholarly journals in numerous health and health-related fields.

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At Fenway Health he led behavioral science research at the Fenway Institute, focusing on psychosocial (mental health and substance use) comorbidities related to HIV prevention and treatment in both domestic and international settings.

His current specific areas of research interest include adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV treatment; primary and secondary behavioral HIV prevention and intervention for MSM (particularly among men who have sex with men); antiretroviral therapy for prevention; treatment as prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PreP) in national and international populations; and more.

As of mid 2016 he is the author or co-author of over 250 juried/referred journal articles, as well as author or co-author of six books to date in areas ranging from cognitive behavioral therapy with LGB individuals, ADHD, and coping with chronic illness and depression. Several of his books have been translated into foreign languages.

In the LGBTQ arena, Dr. Safren was coauthor of one of this field’s first premier classic textbooks, “Cognitive behavioral therapy with gay, lesbian, and bisexual clients” (Guilford Press, 2003). This was winner of the Book Award sponsored by Division 44 of the American Psychological Association (Society for the Psychological Study of LGBT Issues), where Dr. Safren is also a Fellow.

He has been Chair of the GLBT Special Interest Group of the Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy (formally the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy).

His scholarly articles include research on mental health among LGBTQ individuals, clinical training, HIV medication adherence, sexual health, cognitive-behavior therapy, adherence to HIV antiretroviral medication, mental health in HIV positive gay and bisexual men, HIV prevention strategies, crystal methamphetamine use in and MSM, polysubstance use and HIV patients, Latinos and HIV/AIDS, transactional sex and HIV risk, and more.

Dr. Safren is the Editor of Cognitive and Behavioral Practice (term ending 2016), an Associate Editor of Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, and on the Editorial Boards of AIDS & Behavior; AIDS Education and Prevention; and several other core journals in his field.

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Research Program “Diversity, Lifestyles and Health” at the former Netherlands Institute of Social Sexological Research (NISSO). Since his time as a graduate student Theo Sandfort has been involved in numerous basic and applied empirical investigations in the field of sexuality and health. He has worked as interviewer, research assistant, principal investigator and project leader. In terms of research methods he is skilled in both quantitative and qualitative approaches. He was involved in large as well as small-scale studies, aimed at surveying sexual behavior and attitudes, identifying determinants of health behavior, needs assessments, evaluating mass media and small-scale health interventions, and identifying the epidemiology of mental disorders. Both in the Netherlands and the U.S.A., he was the recipient of numerous research grants, including from the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Sandfort has authored or co-authored well over 175 journal articles in top-ranked peer-reviewed Journals. He co-edited several books including Lesbian & gay studies: An introductory, interdisciplinary approach (2000; London: Sage), From social silence to social science: Perspectives on same-sex sexuality, gender and HIV/AIDS in South Africa (2009; Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council), and Boldly Queer: African Perspectives on Same-sex Sexuality and Gender Diversity (2015; The Hague: Hivos).

He is on the Editorial Board of several academic journals, including AIDS Care, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Culture, Health and Sexuality, International Journal of Sexual Health, Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, LGBT Health, Sexualities, and the Journal of Sex Research. He served as President of the International Academy of Sex Research and the Dutch Society of Sexology. In 2008, he received the John Money Award from the Society of the Scientific Study of Sexuality for his research work.

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international organization devoted to principles of equality, social justice and human dignity fostered by the social work profession and its allies.

He has published numerous articles in both social work and nursing journals devoted to LGBT issues, including several unique studies focusing on LGBT patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

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taught at Harvard University, Trinity University, Indiana University, Penn State University, the University of South Carolina, and he lectures throughout the world. He has been a research fellow at the University of Queensland, a research fellow at the University of Southern California, and a research consultant for the Brazilian government.

In addition to serving as Principal Investigator for the Florida/Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Center grant, she has been the principal investigator of seven other federally funded research grants, including the current project titled: Intervention to Assist MSM Disclose HIV Status to Casual Sex Partners. Dr. Serovich has been studying HIV disclosure and issues related to the lives of lesbian, gay, and bisexual persons for over 20 years.

This work has resulted in over 60 book chapters and peer reviewed publications. Many of her scholarly contributions in areas relating to LGBT child and family relations and HIV are in such top-ranked, high impact journals such as AIDS Education & Prevention, AIDS Care, Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, Family Relations, and the Journal of Homosexuality. She is a member of the Editorial Board of AIDS Education & Prevention, Journal of GLBT Family Studies, ISRN AIDS, as well as other journals. She has been an ad hoc reviewer for numerous other high impact journals.

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published several key publications relating to LGBTQ youth and especially trans youth. Amongst these are juried journal articles/book chapters pertaining to providing for one’s own community; librarians and social workers working together for a LGBTQ youth; and transgender youth homelessness.

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“Why and how to study queer inheritance and will-writing?” for the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, and has contributed to a multitude of high-impact scholarly journals across various disciplines, many pertaining to LGBT/queer studies.

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author of “Gay Tourism” in “Tourism Insights” (London: Visit Britain, 2009); co-author with P. Fallon of “LGBT Tourism” in Robinson, P., Heitmann, S. & Dieke, P.U.C. (Eds) “Research Themes in Tourism” (Oxford: CABI,2009).

among key populations for HIV. In addition, Susanne focus on sampling methods for populations without a sampling frame, particularly Respondent Driven Sampling and Web-based methods. Susanne has also worked on the evidence based systematic review performed to inform development of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) guidance on HIV and STI prevention among Men who have Sex with Men that was launched 2015. Susanne has authored or co-authored numerous peer-review journal article in top-ranked medical journals, many of which focus on HIV/AIDS research. She has also consulted with the World Bank Global HIV/AIDS Program, and the World Health Organization (HIV Prevention Guidelines for Sex Workers).

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organizing devices in the mobilization of the modern conservative movement and its “family values” agenda, and also shows the failure of modern liberalism to adequately respond to reactionary sexual politics. His second, Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression, arrived in 2013 from the University Press of Kansas, and won the 2014 Langum Prize in Legal History/Biography.

Strub’s articles have appeared in such venues as the Journal of the History of Sexuality, Journal of Women’s History, American Quarterly, Radical History Review, Salon, and Journal of Social History. His work highlights the productive nature of battles over obscenity and pornography as analytical windows into such topics as racial politics in Memphis, heteronormativity and also resistance through gay erotic expression in Los Angeles, and divisive issues with serious consequences in modern feminist activism.

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abuse epidemiology, smoking, aging, mental health, and housing as health care. He works with high-risk HIV populations. He received an award for excellence by the Centers for Disease Control, was elected to the rank of Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation, Huddersfield, United Kingdom. He has been listed as one of the ISI [now Reuters] Highly Cited Researchers, a listing of the top 250 most cited researchers in the world for contributions to the social and behavioral sciences.

psychosocial and psychosexual development and their relationships within their families and with their peers. The research has both theoretical and practical applications to inform the debate about new family forms. I have used both quantitative and qualitative methodologies in my research… My current research involves a study of gay and bisexual fathers and their sons and daughters. I have also been involved in research with lesbian mothers and their children and research on children born to single heterosexual mothers and in post-divorce heterosexual families. I also have research interests in family and systemic psychotherapy with lesbians and gay men and their families…”

Dr. Tasker is co-editor with Dr. Jerry Bigner of “Gay & Lesbian Parenting: New Directions” (Taylor & Francis, 2007). She is author or co-author of over 50 articles in top peer review journals, as well as many substantial book chapters. Sample titles pertaining to LGBT content include:

“Why Adoption? Gay, Lesbian and Heterosexual Adoptive Parents’ Reproductive Experiences and Reasons for Adoption”

“Adoptive gay father families: Parent-child relationships and children’s psychological adjustment”

“‘I always have the idea of sin in my mind’: Family of origin, religion, and Chilean young gay men”

“Gay, Lesbian and Heterosexual Adoptive families: Family Relationships, Child Adjustment and Adopters’ Experiences”

“Developmental Outcomes for Children Raised by Lesbian and Gay Parents”

“Lesbian co-mothers’ experiences of maternity healthcare services”
Lesbian and gay parenting post-heterosexual divorce and separation.

“Working with LGBT Parents”

“Children’s views of family relationships in lesbian-led families.”

“’Coming out tales’: Adult sons and daughters’ feelings about their gay father’s sexual identity.”

“Same-sex parenting and child development: Reviewing the contribution of parental gender”

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the author of Warm Brothers: Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe (University of Pennsylvania Press) and Doctor’s Orders: Goethe and Enlightenment Thought (Bucknell University Press), as well as the co-editor of A Song for Europe: Politics and Popular Culture in the Eurovision Song Contest (Ashgate Press), and the editor of “Global Freud,” a special issue of Psychoanalysis and History. He is a former president of the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association.
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experience includes positions with the United Cerebral Palsy Association, Kidspeace National Centers for Kids in Crisis and The Center for the Homeless in South Bend, Indiana. Dr. Walls teaches courses in multicultural social work practice, disrupting privilege, and in research.

Dr. Walls has authored or co-authored over 50 articles in top-ranked scholarly/academic journals. He has served as a reviewer or ad hoc reviewer for dozens of prestigious high-impact journals in social work, psychology, sociology, and related fields.

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Dr. Warren served on the senior management team of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of New York City, where she was the inaugural Director for the Center’s behavioral health programs and as Director for Planning, Research and Government Relations was responsible for the Center’s local and national health and public policy initiatives.

In 1990, Dr. Warren founded the Center’s groundbreaking Gender Identity Project, one of the first transgender peer counseling and peer support programs in the country. As a consultant she has worked with city, state and federal agencies including the New York State Department of Health, the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, the Federal Centers for Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance Abuse Treatment and, as the first Community Co-Chair of New York City’s HIV Prevention Planning Group, with the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is principal author of SAMHSA’s training curriculum, A Provider’s Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals.

NoHomophobes.com, which has been featured across the world in more than 50 publications including the Economist, Atlantic, Independent, and Guardian.

Dr. Wells is a frequently invited national and international speaker on sexual and gender minority youth issues. He has served as an expert scientific consultant to the Federal Government of Canada, Canadian Senate, Canadian Museum of Human Rights, Canadian Teachers’ Federation, RCMP, Public Health Agency of Canada, UNESCO, World Health Organization, and many provincial and municipal governments across Canada.

Currently, Dr. Wells serves as the Co-Editor of the International Journal of LGBT Youth, which is the world’s leading research publication on LGBT youth. His early career work has been recognized with over 50 scholarly and community awards and recognitions including the Alberta Teachers’ Association’s Public Education Award, University of Alberta’s Alumni Horizon Award, and an Alberta Centennial Medallion.

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I co-authored the psychosocial interventions guidance and LGBT specific guidance in project NEPTUNE (Novel Psychoactive Treatment: UK Network). This was the first expert guidance on the treatment of novel psychoactive substances or club drugs… My experience extends from providing specialist substance use treatment for individual gender and sexual diversity clients, helping services reach GSD clients and tailor interventions accordingly and influencing local and national policy and standards for treatment of long standing and emerging trends in substance use among GSD people… I am a Director of Scott Whiteley, a clinical psychology practice and clinical associate with Pink Therapy, the UK’s largest independent therapy organization working with gender and sexual diversity clients.”

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Much of Professor Woodford’s work examines the relationship between campus climate and the health and academic success and engagement of LGBTQ university students, as well as socio-ecological factors that can protect students from the negative effects of a hostile climate. He also studies LGBTQ youth empowerment, attitudes toward LGBTQ people and LGBTQ civil rights, and HIV/AIDS prevention among men who have sex with men and among other vulnerable groups.

In 2010, Dr. Woodford was Guest Co-Editor of a special issues of the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services devoted to “Recognizing Same-Sex Relationships: Contemporary Reflections and Developments,” with Peter Newman and S. Brotman. He has authored or co-authored over 50 refereed journal articles in high impact periodicals, many dealing with LGBT research, theory and practice.

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