Conference History
On 25-27 July 2025, we hosted the 4th International Conference on LGBT Studies in the amazing city of Dublin, Ireland.
Highlighted Speakers
| Name | Affiliation | Article Title | |
| Dr. Matthys Johannes Uys | North-West University, South Africa | More sins were committed than anticipated: Analysing the threat of religious zealotry in Winterson’s Oranges are not the Only Fruit (1985) |
 | Dr. Ash Stephens | University of Illinois Chicago, United States | A Missouri Case Study of Deputizing Carceral Care Through Anti-Trans Legislation |
| Prof Dr. Sylvie Berthelot-Dilk | Université de Saint-Boniface, Canada | One step forward, two steps backwards. A political queer, non-binary and trans portrait of the 2025 Canadian landscape |
 | Dr. Penny Harvey | California Institute of Integral Studies, United States | From Broken to Becoming: Queering the Politics of Infertility and Family in Medical Contexts |
| Dr. Jesús García-López | University of Murci, Spain | The effect of work discrimination to the LGBTIQ+ Spanish employees on work stress and their mental health |
| Dr. Daniele Durante | Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy | Of Jackets and Brushes: How Cross-Dressing Women Disrupted the Status and Gender Order of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan |
| Prof Dr. Eliona Kulluri Bimbashi | University of Tirana, Albania | Invisible Survivors: Strengthening Local Response to Violence Against LBT Women and Girls in Albania |
| Dr. Kianté McKinley | California Baptist University, United States | Exploring Interventions to Improve Healthcare Access for LGBTQ+ Individuals |
| Dr. Michael Lapointe | Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada | Queering Irish Nationalist Mythology in Jamie O’Neill’s Fiction |
| Dr. Dinghui Wang | Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia | Homosexuality in the Digital Age: A Feminist Sociological Analysis of Online Discourse Among the Public in Southwest China |
| Dr. Candice Roberts | New York University, United States | Queering Community: Space, Place, and Face-to-Face in the Artificial Era |
| Abubakari Iddirisu | University Of Zululand, Ghana | Homophobic and Misinformation Within the Bill of The Eighth Parliament Versus Informed and Inclusive Judiciary Process of The Fourth Republic of Ghana. |
| Oluseye Fakinlede | University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1400 R St, Lincoln, NE 68588, United States | Doctrinal Tussle; The Lambeth Conference versus the Nigerian Anglican Communion. |
| Abdoulie Wilson | Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland | The Forgotten in the Remembrance: The glaring absence of LGBTQI+ victims in The Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission. |
| Vrajishni Dumur | Middlesex University Mauritius, Mauritius | The influence of real-life proximity and parasocial interactions on attitudes towards the LGBTQIA+ community in Mauritius |
| Julie Tracey | Ulster University, United Kingdom | Experiences of parents from the LGBTQIA+ community of family health nursing |
| Jane Murphy | The University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States | Examining Differences in Self-Reported Cardiovascular Disease History among LGBTQ+ subgroups in the United States |
| Ciara Buckley | Dublin City University, Ireland | A qualitative exploration of perspectives on help-seeking for LGBTQIA+ survivors of sexual violence |
| Jolana Anna Hošková | Charles University, Czech Republic | Between Law and Real Life: How Abortion Laws Fail and Pro-Choice Activism Struggles in Central and Eastern Europe |
