CALL FOR ARTICLES
Journal of LGBT Youth:
An Interdisciplinary Quarterly of
Practice, Research, Policy & Theory
Special Theme:
Millennial Teens:
International Perspectives on LGBTQ Youth
The Journal of LGBT Youth (previously entitled the Journal
of Gay & Lesbian Issues in
Education) invites scholars, practitioners, researchers,
educators, lay persons, young persons, and
policy analysts to submit abstract proposals for this
special theme double issue.
In 1993, The High School Journal published a landmark issue
on “the gay teen,” with 19 articles
focusing on what it is like to be “a homosexual adolescent
in the United States…. in school [and]
in gay culture.” Its editor, Gerald Unks (1993/94, p. 6),
concluded that what was needed was “to
extend basic civil liberties to a minority of students who
do not currently enjoy them.” Fifteen
years later, how far have we progressed in heading this
call for individual, social, and legal
equality? Are we in a new era that is witnessing the birth
of what some are calling the new gay or
post-gay teen or are these claims misleading? How has the
past 15 years of critical inquiry
alongside technological...