Institutionalized Queers: Homosexuality in house systems for People with intellectual handicaps

Sonja Dudek, Dipl.-Psych. Universitat Bielefeld

Karin Jeschke, Dipl.-Psych. Freie Universitat Berlin Email: kjeschke@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Ulrike Lehmkuhl, M.D., Dipl. Psych., Prof for Baby Teenage Psychiatry Charite-Universitatsmedizin Berlin, University Virchow-Klinikum

Abstract

This informative article talks about the topic of how homosexual actions are dealt with in German domestic companies if you have cognitive handicaps. Truly according to experimental reports from a qualitative pilot study backed with the German Ministry for Family, seniors, girls and young ones. Although homosexuality was just a marginal area in this research, it absolutely was often mentioned in interview kept with assorted worry staff. [1] The passageway on the interviews that target the home buyers’ homosexual habits, for that reason, serve as the empirical foundation involving this exploratory data. Dudek, portal link Jeschke and Lehmkuhl argue that truth be told there continues to be a knowledge shortage about homosexuality and intellectual disability in Germany, and this can be followed inside principle plus in practise. This particular article commences with a brief a review of how cognitive impairment and homosexuality are actually talked about through the particular training literary works. (more…)