Tag: LGBT

Free Download Nancy Orel, "The Lives of LGBT Older Adults: Understanding Challenges and Resilience"
English | ISBN: 1433817632 | 2014 | 256 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) older adults have unique and varying physical and mental health needs. Yet their experiences have often been ignored in gerontological and LGBT studies.

Free Download Italian Fascism’s Forgotten LGBT Victims: Asylums and Internment, 1922-1943
by Gabriella Romano
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1350377082 | 263 Pages | True PDF | 14.1 MB

Free Download Gabriella Romano, "Italian Fascism’s Forgotten LGBT Victims: Asylums and Internment, 1922 – 1943"
English | ISBN: 1350377082 | 2024 | 264 pages | EPUB | 561 KB
This book examines the question of the repression of LGBT people through psychiatry during the fascist regime in Italy, a subject that has not been investigated until now. It draws together the substantial archival record of patients, doctors and fascist authorities to reconstruct intricate behind-the-scenes dialogue, and to document one of the ways in which the regime repressed LGBT lives in this period.

Free Download Gabriella Romano, "Italian Fascism’s Forgotten LGBT Victims: Asylums and Internment, 1922 – 1943"
English | ISBN: 1350377082 | 2024 | 264 pages | EPUB | 561 KB
This book examines the question of the repression of LGBT people through psychiatry during the fascist regime in Italy, a subject that has not been investigated until now. It draws together the substantial archival record of patients, doctors and fascist authorities to reconstruct intricate behind-the-scenes dialogue, and to document one of the ways in which the regime repressed LGBT lives in this period.

Free Download Petros Levounis, Jack Drescher, Mary E. Barber, "The LGBT Casebook"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1585624217 | PDF | pages: 327 | 2.6 mb
Even in today’s more enlightened society, it takes courage for many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals to "come out of the closet" and embrace their sexual orientation and identity. Coming out, or facing internal and societal conflicts related to sexuality, involves a great deal of anxiety that can permeate other aspects of an LGBT individual’s life-particularly when seeking psychiatric treatment. The goal of The LGBT Casebook is to help clinicians, trainees, and other mental health professionals address the mental health needs of LGBT people in the context of problems these individuals face in their everyday lives, including homophobia and discrimination.

Free Download RJ Parker Ph.D., Aeternum Designs, "Killing The Rainbow: Violence Against LGBT"
English | 2016 | pages: 152 | ISBN: 1987902106 | EPUB | 0,2 mb
Various acts of violence involving assault, torture, harassment, and sometimes even murder, have been carried out against members of the LGBT community. Homosexuals, bisexuals and transgender people have also faced constant discrimination in their everyday lives on the basis of their sexual orientation. This discrimination against members of the LGBT community stems from religious beliefs, political views, bias or even internal fear. This book depicts the history of Gay Rights Movement and several true accounts of violated men and women, including the most recent Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

Free Download Jenny Papalexandris, Fiona Skyring, "Five Bells: Being LGBT in Australia"
English | 2016 | pages: 160 | ISBN: 1620971666 | EPUB | 113,5 mb
In a country known as one of the most queer-friendly nations in the world, most Australians support LGBTI rights, federal laws protect queer people from discrimination, transgender Australians are recognized legally as their preferred gender, and the renown of Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival has reached across its borders.