Recent legal, social, and policy shifts in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people are causing educators and education researchers to address LGBTQ issues with a new sense of legitimacy and urgency. In recent years, AERA’s journals have examined many aspects of LGBTQ+ education.
The following compendium of articles, provided "toll free" here, includes AERA journal content on bullying and school safety published since 1999. This page will be updated as new articles are published.
Note: Articles are listed below in reverse chronological order of publication. Click here for the list by author's last name. Author's email addresses are current as of February 2016
Bullying Explains Only Part of LGBTQ-Heterosexual Risk Disparities: Implications for Policy and Practice Educational Researcher, November 2012 The extent to which LGBTQ youths’ higher rates of victimization can explain these youths’ greater rates of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and unexcused absences from school is explored in this article, with the authors finding that policies aimed at simply reducing bullying may not be effective. Authors: Joseph P. Robinson, Dorothy L. Espelage
GLBT Teachers: The Evolving Legal Protections American Educational Research Journal, May 2008 This article analyzes all litigation pertaining to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered (GLBT) public school educators and antidiscrimination statutory provisions in all 50 states to contribute to an understanding of the role that legal requirements play in protecting GLBT public employees. Authors: Suzanne E. Eckes, Martha M. McCarthy
Chapter 3 Queering Foundations: Queer and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Educational Research Review of Research in Education, March 2007 This chapter will first briefly examine general trends and shifts in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) and queer educational research in the past two decades, then will turn to a discussion of the place of coming out in LGBT and queer research in educational foundations. Authors: Cris Mayo
(Homo)sexualities, Organizations, and Administration: Possibilities for In(queer)y Educational Researcher, June 1999 This paper considers the possibilities for research with lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender school administrators and for the broader study of queerness in schools as organizations. Authors: Colleen Capper
Capper, Colleen - [email protected] -(Homo)sexualities, Organizations, and Administration: Possibilities for In(queer)y
Eckes, Suzanne E. - no email available -GLBT Teachers: The Evolving Legal Protections
Espelage, Dorothy L. - [email protected] -Bullying Explains Only Part of LGBTQ-Heterosexual Risk Disparities: Implications for Policy and Practice
Mayo, Cris - [email protected] -Chapter 3 Queering Foundations: Queer and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Educational Research
McCarthy, Martha M. - no email available -GLBT Teachers: The Evolving Legal Protections
Robinson, Joseph P. - [email protected] -Bullying Explains Only Part of LGBTQ-Heterosexual Risk Disparities: Implications for Policy and Practice
Bullying and Peer Victimization Among Vulnerable Populations In 2013, AERA published Prevention of Bullying in Schools, Colleges and Universities. One of the briefs in the report -- "Bullying and Peer Victimization Among Vulnerable Populations" -- focused on victimization aimed at specific groups, including LGBTQ youth.
In 2015, AERA held a Capitol Hill briefing focused on areas addressed in the AERA report, LGBTQ Issues in Education: Advancing a Research Agenda. Click here for briefing webcast, presentation slides, fact sheets, and more information on the AERA report.