The Ontario Public Interest Research Group & Titles Bookstore present:
Book Launch -
Breaking Free: Sexual Diversity and Change in Emerging Nations
Edited by Robert Mizzi
Thursday, February 12th, 2009, 7-8:30 pm
Titles Bookstore
379 George St, Peterborough, Ontario
Light refreshments will be served
Guest Speaker: Robert Mizzi, Editor
Breaking Free is an original collection of chapters written by
local and international community educators who have written
from their lived experiences of trying to make positive changes in
social attitude and legal recognition in some of the most
challenging and homophobic situations. Significantly, the
chapter authors offer a candid look into successes, failures and
shortcomings that affect the change processes, and suggest what
kind of community work is needed in order to cement rights and
respect. Breaking Free is ideal from any perspective: from a local
community organizer looking for new ideas for projects, curious
global citizens wanting to learn more about what (un)blocks an
agenda for mutual respect and dialogue, or for the policy-maker,
looking to inform him/herself on sexual/gender minority issues
from an international development standpoint.
October 2008
106 pages
eBook 978-0-9810801-0-9
For every $25 donation made to Queer Peace International, you
will receive a free copy of this book, and a free copy will be sent to a
LGBT organization in a developing country.
Please visit www.queerpeace.org for more information.
Contents:
Introduction. Introducing
Sexual/Gender Identity Themes in Challenging Contexts, Robert Mizzi;
Chapter 1. Women who have Sex with Women (WSW): Strategies for HIV Prevention in International Settings, Anne Brisson, Nabila El-Bassel, and Jalila Aybar;
Chapter 2. Closing the Gap in Africa, Travis Sherer;
Chapter 3. Sexuality and the Politics of Development in Lebanon, Rasha Moumneh;
Chapter 4. Cuba: Silent Closet or Collective Community?, Marc Colbourne;
Chapter 5. Outreach: A Look into Local and International Perspectives in
LGBT Movements, Darren Vella;
Chapter 6. Needs for Education about LGBT Issues
by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Organizations, Peter Dankmeijer.
“In an age of globalization, amid the rapid spread of Western
values, this book offers a succinct but well-documented account of
the many types of experience and models of change that sexual
minorities contend with, every day, in emerging countries. In its
many-layered approach to difference, it reminds us that first-world
assumptions and expectations concerning gay rights—and human
rights, in general—are not to be taken for granted, anywhere.”
--Marina Castañeda, Mexican psychotherapist, author of La
Experiencia Homosexual, El Machismo Invisible and La
Nueva Homosexualidad.