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This book consists of articles from Wikia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Queer studies, Queer theologians, Queer theorists, Blanchard, Bailey, and Lawrence theory, Brudner Prize, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Corydon, Hall-Carpenter Archives, National Consortium of Directors of LGBT Resources in Higher Education, Passing, Pink money, Pink pound, Pride Library, Queer theology, Sexuality and space, Bob Goss, Cecilia Eggleston, Chris Glaser, Daniel A. Helminiak, Elizabeth Stuart, Jean O'Leary, Jim Mitulski, John J. McNeill, Justin R. Cannon, Kathy Rudy, Keshet Rabbis, Mel White, Nancy Wilson, Pat Bumgardner, Ralph Blair, Rembert S. Truluck, Sister Paula Nielsen, Troy D. Perry, Don Kulick, Gloria E. Anzaldua, Helene Cixous, Bisociality, Calvin Thomas, Coming to Power, D. A. Miller, David Halperin, E. Patrick Johnson, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Gayatri Reddy, Gender performativity, Guy Hocquenghem, Heteronormativity, Heterosexism, Heterosociality, Homosociality, Intersexuality, John Addington Symonds, John Boswell, John Boswell, John D'Emilio, Jonathan David Katz, Jonathan Dollimore, Jonathan Ned Katz, Judith Butler, Mario Mieli, Monosexism, Monosociality, Patrick Califia, Pomosexual, Queer, Queer literary interpretation, Queer theology, Robert Reid-Pharr, Samuel R. Delany, Sexualism, Sexuality and space, Tyler Curtain. Excerpt: The Blanchard, Bailey, and Lawrence theory (an informal name) is a taxonomy of gender dysphoria in biological males, including male-to-female transsexuals. It was proposed in the late 1980s by Ray Blanchard, a sexologist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (then, the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry) in Toronto. The acronym "BBL" was coined by critics of the theory and refers to Drs. Ray Blanchard, J. Michael Bailey, and Anne A. Lawrence, the developer and two prominent researchers and proponents of the theory. The term was originally used by critics in a derogatory sense, but has become more common in usage as t...
