Full Description
This book provides new insights about the roles in which LGBTQ individuals contribute in society and various organizations. The literature is divided into two sections. Section one includes three chapters from higher education administrators, faculty and community activists. The chapters share personal narratives describing the life experiences of those who are often marginalized within academia. Each chapter provides personal and professional aspects of the authors' lives. Section two includes four chapters which, shares voices of people whom are normally excluded from research. Each author's identity is shared as an aspect of their research.
The authors present a broad range of issues, challenges and concerns, supported by prior literature, organized around several broad topical areas and intended to fill the gaps in our knowledge about how LGBTQ leadership is engaged across multiple types of institutions and how the experiences affect the quality of life for LGBTQ individuals throughout the academic community. Their complex identities affect their research interests, findings, and interpretations.
Contents
Introduction, Lemuel W. Watson & Joshua Moon Johnson.
Section I. Getting Personal
Chapter 1. Identity And Fluidity: Processing Sexuality, Race And Religion, Joshua Moon Johnson.
Chapter 2. Transcending Boundaries and Transforming Knowledge: Transgender leadership as a college student, mentor and educator, Shae Miller.
Chapter 3. Crossroads and Complexities: Experiences of a Queer, Desi, Hindu Man in Student Affairs, Raja G. Bhattar.
Section II. Sharing Lost Voices
Chapter 4. Everyone Is Bisexual: Updating Klein's Model For The Post-Modern World, Francesca G. Giordano.
Chapter 5. The Knowledgeable Counselor: Helping youth to deal with LGBTQ issues, Toni Tollerud.
Chapter 6. Faculty Speak: The influence of sexual orientation and spirituality on the social integration of Black scholars, Darryl B. Holloman & Stanley K. Ellis.
Chapter 7. Transgressing African-American Manhood in College: When (non-hetero) sexuality anchors multiple identities, T. Elon Dancy.
