Same Sex Attracted Youth (SSAY) website

Publications page

 

Download ARCSHS' reports and articles on Same Sex Attracted Youth

  Powerpoint presentations

Writing Themselves In 3 powerpont

 
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 3: 3rd national report of the sexual heallth and wellbeing of same sex attracted and gender questioning young people
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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Page maintained by: Lynne Hillier
Last Updated: 20 January, 2011