CALL FOR PROPOSALS: “INQYR Beyond Limits: The conference” invites work from community partners, practitioners, and students as well as academics and scholars
INQYR Beyond Limits: The Conference — Mobilizing innovative global social research for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth joy and resilience is a space to advance knowledge and action with and for 2SLGBTQIA+ young people.
Call for proposals: The International Partnership for Queer Youth Resilience (INQYR) invites work that challenges disciplinary, geographic, methodological, and institutional boundaries. Submissions are welcome from community partners, practitioners, and students as well as academics and scholars. Deadline: April 30, 2026
The conference, scheduled for October 2, will include a talk from Keynote speaker, Dr. Ilan H. Meyer — the originator of the minority stress model — one of the most widely cited frameworks in LGBTQ health research. Dr. Meyer’s foundational work describes how stigma, prejudice, and discrimination produce health disparities in sexual and gender minority populations, and has shaped decades of research, policy development, and legal advocacy at the highest levels, including expert testimony in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the federal case that overturned California’s Proposition 8.
Dr. Meyer’a talk, Minority Stress and the Health of LGBTQ Populations: Insights from Current Research and Future Directions, will trace the development of the minority stress model and its core elements, present findings on generational shifts in stress exposure and health outcomes, and address what persistent disparities and the current sociopolitical landscape mean for the future of this research.