Professor Peter A. Newman on 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusion and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Categories: Faculty, Leadership, Peter Newman
Professor Peter A. Newman wrote a piece for SDGs@UofT on the importance of both celebrating Pride and showing our solidarity in countering the ongoing hatred and exclusion of 2SLGBTQIA+ people around the world.
In the spirit of Pride, it is vital that we call out collusion—by the UN, governments, or civil society—in the erasure of sexual and gender minority communities. For hate is not only characterized by acts of commission, such as the use of explicit verbal epithets or referencing of less explicit but nonetheless stigmatizing tropes that denigrate sexually diverse and gender-diverse people.
Hate is also marked by acts of omission.
Peter A. Newman is a Professor and former Canada Research Chair in Health and Social Justice at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. His research focuses on LGBTQ+ global health and human rights, HIV prevention and social-structural challenges of vaccination and new biomedical prevention technologies. He currently leads the SSHRC Partnership, Mobilizing for a Research Revolution to Ensure LGBTIQ Inclusion in Asia (MFARR-Asia).
Read Newman’s full article via SGDs@UofT’s website.