Fewer LGBTQ2S+ people hold positions of political power in Canada, and those who do represent a narrower range of political perspectives, according to research by @qalbaugh.bsky.social and @kebaisley.bsky.social.

LGBTQ2S+ representation in Parliament is declining. What can we do? | Xtra Magazine

Research shows fewer queer and trans people hold political power in Canada, and those who do represent fewer political perspectives

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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ New in Xtra! Quinn Albaugh and I present new data on LGBTQ2S+ candidates in the 2025 federal election—and consider where to go from here.

Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 11mo ago

With MPs heading back to the House of Commons today, we need to talk about the decline of LGBTQ2S+ representation in Parliament.

Which Canadian MPs are on Bluesky and what do they post? My new paper w/ @rohanalexander.bsky.social in @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social unpacks these questions, finding MPs use it like Twitter to discuss policy, the Ottawa bubble & constituency Read more: doi.org/10.1017/S000... #polsky #commsky #cdnpoli

How should we identify LGBTQ2S+ candidates? In new research with @qalbaugh.bsky.social , we compare 3 methods for identifying LGBTQ2S+ candidates in 🇨🇦 federal elections (2019–2021).

Identifying LGBTQ2S+ candidates: comparing three approaches

In this research note, we compare three approaches to identifying LGBTQ2S+ candidates: candidate surveys, published lists of LGBTQ2S+ candidates, and systematic searches of each candidate running. ...

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JOB ADVERTISEMENT-POSSIBILITÉ D’EMPLOI #CPSA_ACSPJobs 🔴Assistant Professor - Indigenous Politics ⏰Nov 05 2025 👉 conta.cc/473uE4O @raulpachecovega.bsky.social #polisci @csnrec.bsky.social #cdnpoli #PoliSciTwitter @jonathanmalloy.bsky.social @emmettmacfarlane.com

I'm delighted to share a new article at Politics & Gender with @kebaisley.bsky.social and Kate Burke Pellizzari examining whether LGBTQ+ candidates face challenges financing their campaigns: doi.org/10.1017/S174....

🏳️‍🌈 A pride month P&G article spotlight 🏳️‍🌈 In "Gender and LGBT Affinity" @qalbaugh.bsky.social‬ & @kebaisley.bsky.social‬ compare support for Kathleen Wynne, the first out LGBT first minister in 🇨🇦 , across voter gender and sexuality. polisky gendersky buff.ly/jq7c1z2

In recent research with @qalbaugh.bsky.social, we use a survey experiment to explore how gender stereotypes shape voters' perceptions of transgender and nonbinary candidates' traits. The results are not the most encouraging, but you can read more here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

I'm also here and happy to talk with political science PhD applicants in this situation!

Tom Hollenstein@tomhollenstein.bsky.social · last yr.

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Ipsos has just released their PRIDE REPORT. What the data tell in several aspects: Male members of GEN Z are in some regards more illiberal than the Baby Boomers. Additionally, we see a clear regress (!) in favouring LGBTQ* rights! Numbers of openly #LGBTQ* on rise! www.ipsos.com/sites/defaul...

It was great to attend my 30th straight Canadian Political Science Association annual conference last week and deliver my presidential address. I was especially happy to be unconventionally introduced by @mcloutier.bsky.social with a quiz for the crowd on "how well do you know Malloy and the CPSA?"

In recent work with @qalbaugh.bsky.social, we find that in 2019 and 2021 parties nominated LGBTQ2S+ candidates in districts they were over 16 percentage points less likely to win than straight cis candidates. About 2/3 of the gap is due to which parties and 1/3 is due to which districts.

Melissa R. Michelson @melissamichelson.bsky.social · last yr.

Day 10: Are LGBTQ candidates sacrificial lambs? @kebaisley.bsky.social‬ & @qalbaugh.bsky.social‬ find, well… yeah. “Wrong Place or Wrong Party? LGBTQ2S+ Candidates and District Competitiveness.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to see this article with Nathan Chan out in @bjpols.bsky.social We propose "LGBTQ+ linked fate" to explain the consistent political behavior of the LGBTQ+ community despite its internal diversity We use a sample of ∼2,000 LGBTQ+ Americans from CMPS 1/n www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our newest LGBTQI+ Community Survey results are live! You can read the full report here: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The LGBTQI+ Community Reported High Rates of Discrimination in 2024

New survey findings show that the U.S. LGBTQI+ community experiences high rates of discrimination, challenges in accessing health care, and more.

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I'd like to share a new article with @allisonharell.bsky.social, Peter Loewen, @dktrdr.bsky.social, and Laura Stephenson in the PS special issue on #LGBTQPolitics #Polisky. We make practical recommendations for gender questions in surveys based on the 2019 & 2021 Canadian Election Studies (CES).

🇪🇺🚫🏳️‍🌈Hungary just became the first EU country to ban Pride events in Viktor Orbán's latest anti-LGBTQ crackdown, allowing authorities to use facial recognition to identify and punish disobedient attendees. Liberal opposition MPs (Momentum party) protested inside parliament by using smoke grenades.

New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵Thread

Our new report finds half of Black LGBTQ employees in the U.S. have faced discrimination or harassment at work due to their LGBTQ status. About 60% of Black LGBTQ workers are under age 35, identify as bisexual, and make less than $50,000 a year. Read more at bit.ly/Blackworkers

Trump's Project 2025 included 18 specific anti-LGBTQ policy proposals. 10/18 have already been implemented and we're only a month into this. Really impressive (if depressing) work from the folks at the Project 2025 Tracker www.project2025.observer

Yet every year at EPSA one senior faculty asks me something like “why do you still need an LGBTQ group?” This kind of marginalization reproduces itself. With less visibility and prestige, new PhDs won‘t focus on these issues, faculty positons won‘t include this profile, teaching will ignore it.

Phillip Ayoub@payoub.bsky.social · 2y ago

Important piece by @jennpiscopo.bsky.social on gender research in political science’s ‘top’ 6 journals, 2017-2023. The findings for LGBTIQ research are particularly dire, coming in at only .55% (16 of 2,892 items); and less when considering full research articles.

I've got 3 funded studentships for oustanding applicants to join Acadia University's 12-month MA in Political Science program for 2025-26. Students will write a thesis on Canadian political leadership. Apply by February 1! #Leadership #CanadianPolitics #MAProgram #GraduateFunding #AcadiaUniversity

Phillip Ayoub@payoub.bsky.social · 2y ago

Important piece by @jennpiscopo.bsky.social on gender research in political science’s ‘top’ 6 journals, 2017-2023. The findings for LGBTIQ research are particularly dire, coming in at only .55% (16 of 2,892 items); and less when considering full research articles.

Important piece by @jennpiscopo.bsky.social on gender research in political science’s ‘top’ 6 journals, 2017-2023. The findings for LGBTIQ research are particularly dire, coming in at only .55% (16 of 2,892 items); and less when considering full research articles.

It's cool to see this editorial in The Globe and Mail engage with my work published in the Ottawa Law Review. I agree with some of points made here, but not all.

The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · 2y ago

New Working Paper: Teenage boys and girls in Norway are more ideologically polarized than ever. Using data for 130,000 high-schoolers over 34 years, I find that a surge in anti-feminism among boys is driving much of the recent trend.📈 Read: osf.io/preprints/os... Findings 🧵👇

An interview just up in Polity, in which I explain how I ended up as a political scientist, that discipline's avoidance of "the political," the necessity of trans studies. Sadly, it's paywalled, but if anyone wants a copy, just DM. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

"I realized that centering concepts like sex, gender, or the state gets in the way of understanding what’s actually happening in the local, micro, and particular sites where public authority is exercised"

Paisley Currah@paisleycurrah.com · 2y ago

An interview just up in Polity, in which I explain how I ended up as a political scientist, that discipline's avoidance of "the political," the necessity of trans studies. Sadly, it's paywalled, but if anyone wants a copy, just DM. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...