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International Law

ILGA WORLD DATABASE
WEBSITE

A unique knowledge base on laws, human rights bodies, advocacy opportunities, and news related to sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics issues worldwide

Same-sex couples and the international human right to marry
AUDIO



Prof Kees Waaldijk LLM

State-Sponsored Homophobia
REPORTS


Every year, ILGA publishes its State-Sponsored Homophobia report, a world survey of sexual orientation laws

Realizing the Right to Relate-Founders MCC
VIDEO

with Kees Waaldijk, Eric Gitari and Angeline Jackson from Europe, Africa and Jamaica, respectively

Leiden overview on SOGIESC in International Law (2022)
DOCUMENT


Introductory video/audio/reading materials

Six international legal norms on the protection of same-sex partnership have emerged (2022)
BLOG

Kees Waaldijk

The strong global trend of prohibiting employment discrimination based on sexual orientation (2021)
ARTICLE

Kees Waaldijk

Same-sex partnership, international protection (updated 2021)
ARTICLE

Kees Waaldijk

The right to marry as a right to equality (2021)
ARTICLE


Kees Waaldijk

The Declaration of Montreal
WEBSITE

International Conference on LGBT Human Rights of the 1st World Outgames on the 29th of July 2006

Bisexuality

International Bisexuality Research Conference
VIDEOS

All Zoom meetings on YouTube

Health

Everyday discrimination and alcohol use among sexual minority adults in a US national probability sample (2022)
ARTICLE




f. Kiekens, W. J., Fish, J. N., Gordon, A. R., & Russell, S. T.

Experiences and needs of sexual and gender minority young adults with a history of suicidal ideation regarding formal and informal mental healthcare (2021)
ARTICLE

h. de Lange, J., van Bergen, D. D., Baams, L., Timmerman, M. C., & Bos, H. M.

Suicidality among sexual and gender minority youth: Minority stress and mental healthcare (2022)
DISSERTATION

Jennifer de Lange

Inspirational scholars/thinkers

A Tribute to Mark McLelland
ROUNDTABLE




Mark McLelland (1966-2020) was a pioneering scholar in Japan Studies, Queer Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cyberculture Studies, and more

Margriet van Heesch over Judith Butler (in Dutch)
LECTURE

Cultuurwetenschapper Margriet van Heesch presenteert het gedachtegoed van Butler en hoe haar rigoureuze omdenken vleugels gaf aan een nieuwe generatie feministen en aan de huidige LGBTQI+-beweging

Queer Politics

The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality
LECTURE




Political theorist Rahul Rao investigates the impact and memory of the colonial encounter on the politics of sexuality and religiosity and on contemporary homophobic moral panics

LGBT+ Politics and Representation
ROUNDTABLE

Academics, politicians and activists from the US and the Netherlands draw lessons from a trans-Atlantic comparison of LGBT+ rights and representation, discuss the challenges of cracking the LGBT+ glass ceiling, and formulate strategies towards more inclusive politics

Gender & Sexuality

Gender and Sexuality Studies under Attack in Central-Eastern Europe
ROUNDTABLE

What are the historical, political, social and cultural sources of the attacks on Gender and Sexuality Studies in Central-Eastern Europe?

Queer text on sex
WEBSITE







Gert Hekma

Judith Butler: Your Behavior Creates Your Gender
VIDEO

Question: What does it mean that gender is performative?

LGBTQI+ (Web) Archives

Archivi LGBTQ e ricerca sociale
LECTURES


Chiara Beccalossi, Elena Biagini, Gianmaria Colpani

Analyzing the LGBT+ Web Archive: From Data Preservation to Preparation
BLOG

Jesper Verhoef

From Hyperlinks to Queer Histories: Uncovering LGBTQ Web Archives
BLOG

Jesper Verhoef

Levensaders van het internet. Het (LHBT+)web doorgronden via hyperlink (Dutch)
ARTICLE

Iris Geldermans & Jesper Verhoef

Migration

Family Norms in Migration Politics
VIDEO

Saskia Bonjour

Religion

Nashville-verklaring op online magazine NieuwWij (Dutch)
ARTICLE


Hoe gaan christenen om met een religieus waardeoordeel over gender en sekse?

Contested privates: The oppositional pairing of religion and homosexuality in contemporary public discourse in the Netherlands
PROJECT

prof. dr. R.R. Ganzevoort

Queer Arts & Culture

Kunst uit de kast. Queer kunst uit België door de eeuwen heen (Dutch)
LECTURE

Thijs Dekeukeleire en Jonas Roelens illustreren hoe kunst deel uitmaakt van een bredere geschiedenis van veranderende visies op gender en seksualiteit

Museums and diversities: the LGBT archive in Amsterdam
ARTICLE






Nicole Moolhuijsen

Communities and museums. A look at Amsterdam
ARTICLE

Nicole Moolhuijsen

Museums and activism: a journey to The Netherlands
ARTICLE

Nicole Moolhuijsen

Queer

Representation: Hearing Voices in the (Counter-)Archive?
LECTURE





Presentation bij Dr. Andrew Flinn

Travelling Concepts on Air: QUEER
PODCAST

Tessa Diphoorn and Brianne McGonigle Leyh discuss the concept of QUEER together with Dr. Marjolein van den Brink and Astrid Kerchman

Women

Female Sodomy
PODCAST

Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Professor Jonas Roelens

IHLIA

Gay & Lesbian Nightlife in the Netherlands

A collection of memorabilia, merchandise, flyers and advertisements from gay & lesbian nightlife venues in the Netherlands throughout history on the platform for social history: Historypin.

IHLIA’s T-shirt collection on platform Wearing Gay History





A collection of T-shirts of IHLIA on the platform Wearing Gay History

Open Up!

The history of LGBTI emancipation and development, mainly in central, east and southeast Europe.

Historical magazines



With titles such as Der Eigene en Levensrecht

Presentation digitization of magazines Dialoog, Sek, Diva, Homologie (Dutch)
LECTURE

Agnes Andeweg