1st Edition

Protection of Sexual Minorities since Stonewall Progress and Stalemate in Developed and Developing Countries

Edited By Phil C.W. Chan Copyright 2010
392 Pages
by Routledge

392 Pages
by Routledge

392 Pages
by Routledge

The Stonewall Riot in New York in 1969 marked the birth of the sexual minority rights movement worldwide. In the subsequent four decades, equality and related rights on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity have been enshrined in many African, Asian, Australasian, European and North American countries, thanks to better informed discourses of the natures of sexual orientation, gender... Read more

Foreword  Desmond M. Tutu  Preface  Frank Barnaby  1. Protection of sexual minorities since Stonewall: their lives, struggles, sufferings, love, and hope  Phil C.W. Chan  2. Psychosocial implications of homophobic bullying in schools: a review and directions for legal research and the legal process  Phil C.W. Chan  3. Fighting to fit in: gay–straight alliances in schools under United States jurisprudence  Matthew T. Mercier  4. Cumulative jurisprudence and human rights: the example of sexual minorities and hate speech  Eric Heinze  5. Challenging hate speech: incitement to hatred on grounds of sexual orientation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland  Kay Goodall  6. Gay male rape victims: law enforcement, social attitudes and barriers to recognition  Philip N.S. Rumney  7. Criminal law, public health, and governance of HIV exposure and transmission  Alana Klein  8. Shared values of Singapore: sexual minority rights as Singaporean value  Phil C.W. Chan  9. Keeping up with (which) Joneses: a critique of constitutional comparativism in Hong Kong and its implications for rights development  Phil C.W. Chan  10. Sexual minorities and human rights in Japan: an historical perspective  Mark McLelland and Katsuhiko Suganuma  11. Blackmail in Zimbabwe: troubling narratives of sexuality and human rights  Oliver Phillips  12. Lost in transition: transpeople, transprejudice and pathology in Asia  Sam Winter  13. From discretion to disbelief: recent trends in refugee determinations on the basis of sexual orientation in Australia and the United Kingdom  Jenni Millbank  14. Bisexuals need not apply: a comparative appraisal of refugee law and policy in Canada, the United States, and Australia  Sean Rehaag  15. Independent human rights documentation and sexual minorities: an ongoing challenge for the Canadian refugee determination process  Nicole LaViolette  16. Same-sex marriage and the Irish Constitution  Aisling O’Sullivan

Biography

Phil C.W. Chan is currently Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Otago Faculty of Law, while completing his doctoral thesis on China and international law for examination at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. He has held visiting research positions at universities including Cambridge, Keele, St Andrews, ANU, Ottawa, Toronto, Freiburg and Vanderbilt.