Gay Lesbian and Transgender Issues in Education

<p>Understand the challenges from the voices involvedtoday's LGBT youth AND the leading educators and scholars in the field! <p/>Gay Lesbian and Transgender Issues in Education presents LGBT youth issues through the words of the adolescents themselves along with clear up-to-date essays about LGBT youth programs policies and practices around the world. Leading international educators and scholars examine personal experiences of LGBT youth cutting-edge programs and research first presented in the international Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education. Dynamic and thought-provoking this insightful book brings together ideas and a vision vital for the future of today's LGBT youth. <p/>Invaluable for educators counselors graduate and undergraduate students and LGBT youth alike Gay Lesbian and Transgender Issues in Education is readily accessible and easy-to-read yet still provides in-depth multidimensional examinations of the LGBT youth programs and practices essential for the propagation of social tolerance acceptance and safety of our youth. The LGBT youth voices sing clear their views about the urgent need for programs and policies within educational resources to challenge the present dominant intolerant thinking. The editor presents cogent essays that reveal the complex issues of the educational programs and practices while offering strategies and hope for societal change. The book strives for the ultimate goal of reaching LGBT acceptance within society to move beyond simple toleration toward becoming completely equal regardless of sexual identity. <p/>Gay Lesbian and Transgender Issues in Education explores: </p><ul> <li> transgender college students<br> </li> <li> bullying and homophobia<br> </li> <li> research on LGBT studies in education <br> </li> <li> teaching elementary preservice teachers<br> </li> <li> multicultural school-based programs for HIV education serving transgender youth<br> </li> <li> successes and deficiencies of gay-straight alliances<br> </li> <li> race and youth programs in urban high schools<br> </li> <li> growing up lesbian in Australia New Zealand and the United States<br> </li> <li> growing up gay in Japan and China</li> </ul><p>Gay Lesbian and Transgender Issues in Education is an essential exploration of LGBT issues and an excellent educational tool for educators undergraduate and graduate students counselors social workers LGBT youth and for any professional working with LGBT youth.</p>