A sworn virgin is a traditional gender variant or third gender social role in certain Balkan cultures, consisting of people who are assigned female at birth but take a vow of chastity and live the rest of their lives socially recognized as men. #MostDiscussed #WomensHistory #GenderStudies #Albania #LGBTQStudies https://www.mostdiscussed.com/article/434629
Most Discussed 📖 - Balkan Sworn Virgins

"Fruit machine" is a term for a device developed in Canada by Frank Robert Wake that was supposed to be able to identify gay men (derogatorily referred to as "fruits"). #MostDiscussed #HumanRights #Canada #LGBTStudies #LawEnforcement #Discrimination #LGBTQStudies https://www.mostdiscussed.com/article/1148
Most Discussed 📖 - Fruit Machine (homosexuality Test)

Rebecca Ann Heineman (October 30, 1963 – November 17, 2025) was an American video game designer and programmer. #MostDiscussed #Biography #California #VideoGames #Women #LGBTQStudies https://www.mostdiscussed.com/article/412491
Most Discussed 📖 - RIP Rebecca Heineman

Republican gloats after Texas university kills LGBTQ studies

“I want to end all taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda in every single one of our public institutions of higher learning.”

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“Ur-Fascism” or “Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt” (in Italian: Il fascismo eterno, or Ur-Fascismo) is a renowned essay authored by the Italian philosopher, novelist, and semiotician Umberto Eco. #MostDiscussed #LGBTQStudies https://www.mostdiscussed.com/article/386629
Most Discussed 📖 - Ur-Fascism (Umberto Eco, 1995)

Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice

"In this first comprehensive application of Mad Studies to queer and trans experiences of mental distress, Pilling advances a broad critique of the biomedical model of mental illness as it pertains to 2SLGBTQ people, arguing that Mad Studies is especially amenable to making sense of queer and trans madness."

#LGBTQ #LGBTQStudies #MadStudies #SocialJustice

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-90413-5#about-this-book

Queer and Trans Madness

This book is the first comprehensive application of Mad Studies to LGBTQ experiences of mental distress, based on empirical data

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