Same Sex Attracted Youth (SSAY) website

Publications page

 

Download ARCSHS' reports and articles on Same Sex Attracted Youth

  Powerpoint presentations
NSW That's So Gay Conference presentation April 16th
NSW Workshop on strategies to outsmart homophobia April 16th
Powerpoint presentation "This group gave me a family"
The POSH lecture - includes WTIA research and the POSH booklet
  Reports
Writing Themselves In Again: 2nd national report on the health and wellbeing of same sex attracted young people - 2005
NEW REPORT "This group gave me a family" an evaluation of the health impacts of social support groups for same sex attracted young people

Don't ask don't tell. Hidden in the crowd: The need for documenting links between sexuality and suicidal behaviours among same sex attracted youth

internet report cover "It's just easier”: the Internet as a safety-Net for same sex attracted young people. Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society, - 2001
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Writing Themselves In: A National Report on the Health & Wellbeing of Same Sex Attracted Youth - 1998

 

Hillier, L., Matthews, L. & Dempsey, D. (1997) A low priority in a hierarchy of needs: A profile of the sexual health needs of homeless young people in Australia . National Centre in HIV Social Research, La Trobe University , Carlton

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Hillier, L., Warr, D., & Haste, B. (1996). The rural mural: Sexuality and diversity in rural youth . National Centre in HIV Social Research, La Trobe University , Carlton

  Articles and book chapters
  Duty of care: researching with vulnerable young people. in press

‘It was as useful as a chocolate kettle': same sex attracted young people and sex education in school. Sex Education, 8(2). - 2008

Building realities less limited than their own : Young people practising same sex attraction on the Internet. Sexualities. - 2007

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Mix or match? Sexual attraction, identity and behaviour in same sex attracted young women in Australia : an update. - 2006

Safe spaces: the up side of the image problem for same sex attracted young women playing Australian Rules football. - 2006

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'From the ‘moral' to the ‘safety and rights' arenas: a collaboration between research, the community and those who liaise between them. - 2004

Homophobia and the production of shame: Young people discovering the fault lines in discourse about same sex attraction. - 2004

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It made me feel brave, I was longer alone: same sex attracted young peole negotiating the pleasures and the pitfalls of the internet. - 2004

The association between licit and illicit drug use and sexuality in young women. - 2003

It's a catch 22': same sex attracted young people on coming out to parents - 2002

journal cover Gendered (s)explorations among same-sex attracted young people in Australia - 2001

I'm wasting away on unrequited love: gendering same sex attracted young women's love sex and desire.- 2001.

Whatever happened to duty of care? : same sex attracted young people's experiences of discrimination and abuse at school. - 1999

  What should be the subject of sex education ? - 1999.
 

Stories of life on the wild side: Same Sex Attracted Young People document their lives.- 1999

'The girls in our town: Sex, love, relationships, and rural life - 1999
'"When you carry a condom all the boys think you want it": Negotiating competing discourses about safe sex. - 1998
'‘Neverending love' and ‘blowing your load': The meanings of sex to rural youth - 1999
  Posters
  Haven't seen a gay student
  Say no to homophobia
   
   
 
  Booklets
POSH cover POSH booklet
book cover Safety in schools - dealing with homophobia
 
 
 

 

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Last Updated: 21 July, 2008