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Sexual Images of the Disabled: Law Aims to Protect the Legally Incompetent

Leroy Moore’s naked body is slender and sinewy, but his unsteady gait and arms that swing like the white scarf that hangs from his mouth reveal his vulnerability. A poet reads—Do you come open or do you come trapped by your own inhibitions and fears of the perfect body, the perfect erotic?—as he kneels on the ground.

In Hanoi: the 2009 IASSCS Conference

NSRC Director Dr. Gilbert Herdt often refers to the Bush years as the dark ages for sexuality. Fortunately, Americans have a new president and things are already looking brighter.

Roots of Change: NSRC overview of Transgender Global Dialogues

The rise of the Transgender movement since the early 1990s has brought into focus the needs and rights of a whole new category of people and the difficulties they face in being accepted by society. While no one knows for sure the number of people who are Transgender and precisely how the increasing visibility of this population is related to

Beginning A Global Dialogue on Transgender Rights

In April of 2008, the National Sexuality Resource Center brought together Transgender advocates from around the world to join together, discuss commonalities and differences, and strategize what human rights for transgender people might look like. The conference has resulted in the development of global policy papers, including the US version,

TransUnion liveblog: the state of transgender rights in the US

On March 30th, activists Jamison Green, Masen Davis and Dallas Denny joined NSRC moderator Joy O'Donnell for a liveblog discussion to mark the release of NSRC policy paper The State of Transgender Rights in the United States of America and in recognition of International Transgender Visibility Day. You didn't miss it! Click the replay

Journalist or Panderer? Framing Underage Webcam Sites

Teen-run Internet porn sites make young people the producers, stars and victims, as policy and discourse race to catch up with technology.

Speaker Series 2007: Marty Klein

Sex therapist and public policy analyst Marty Klein presents his talk America's War on Sex, based on his book. He discusses public policies that create moral panics and repess sexuality.

Gay Marriage Fight Still On

Protests against Proposition 8 reach a national level

Abstinence-Only a Failure, Latest Research Shows

San Francisco, September 16, 2008—As pregnant teens take the national stage and the merits of sexual education are suddenly being debated by pundits across the country, the latest research findings from the National Sexuality Resource Center’s Sexuality Research and Social Policy journal leave no room for doubt: abstinence-only

I Now Pronounce You Married

On May 15, 2008 the California Supreme Court ruled that a ban on same-sex marriages was unconstitutional. The first same-sex marriages were performed almost a month later on June 16, 2008. Bonnie celebrates with the happy couples at San Francisco City Hall.

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