Queer Research and Queer Youth

Autor/in	Talburt, Susan
Titel	Queer Research and Queer Youth
Quelle	In: Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, 3 (2006) 2-3, S.87-93 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1541-0889
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Sexual Orientation; Homosexuality; Victims of Crime; Researchers; Sexual Identity; Intervention; Adolescents + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexuelle Orientierung; Homosexualität; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Researcher; Forscher; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher
Abstract	D'Augelli and Grossman's article offers an eloquent account of a complex longitudinal, interview-based study that surely has the potential to offer nuanced insights into the lives of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) youth. The authors' copious efforts to recruit, retain, and involve youth while avoiding potential dangers to them offer future researchers resources to draw on as individuals seek to conduct ethical and meaningful empirical work with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth. D'Augelli and Grossman's work to document and understand youths' experiences of and responses to what they call "sexual orientation victimization" (SOV)--or intimidation, harassment, and violence--that puts youth at risk, undoubtedly will enhance future scholarship at the same time that it informs practice and the provision of services to LGB youth. Implicit and explicit in D'Augelli and Grossman's research are several premises. First, victimization, or oppression, is integral to understanding LGB youth. Second, development is knowable through research. And, third, research can inform practice in addressing issues of victimization in order to enable healthy development. While there is arguable "truth" in each of these premises and although there are certainly long research traditions that are sustained by and sustain each, these points are, at the very least, debatable. However, the author's goal is less to debate them than to suggest that researchers not limit individuals' understandings of queer youth to these premises. In other words, the author wishes to encourage an expansion of thinking about research related to queer youth with an awareness that asking what it means to put together the terms "research," "queer," and "youth" is a complex task. Based on the premise that acknowledgement of sexuality as a meaningful element of the political and social is central to queer politics, research, practice, and education, the author offers suggestions rather than priorities that might inform queer research related to queer youth. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10