LGBTQ issues and rights have emerged as a major public and political focus over the last decades. Most attention – both in public discourse and in scholarship – has been on the urgent vulnerabilities that characterize the lives of many LGBTQ youth and adults. Yet, in the context of important disparities that demand our attention, most LGBTQ youth grow up to be happy, contributing members of their communities. In this presentation, Dr. Stephen Russell presented a collection of new studies that identify and document the role of structural, interpersonal, and personal resources that create and support resilience in the lives of LGBTQ young people. He considered the implications of these findings for efforts to create social change for social justice.
This presentation was given at the Curry Research Lectureship Series for the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and Human Development. Video courtesy of Youth-Nex Talks.