Gender and Sexual Minorities In The World Gays-Lesbian-Homosexual-Sexual Diversity-Transsexual-Transgender-Bisexual

A long time has elapsed since notions and concepts of gender and mainstreaming gender perspectives were introduced in the field of international development cooperation and peace studies.
However, while international organizations are enthusiastic in their mission toward promoting gender mainstreaming, the concept of gender--what they are really mainstreaming--has gone unquestioned.
Considering what gender perspectives originally meant to be, there should be the need for assessing inclusiveness and diversity of the existing framework of gender. As the current effort for gender mainstreaming takes heterosexual context for granted, who is left out is the population of gender and sexual minorities--gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals, transgenders, and any other individuals who do not fall into the conventional "heterosexual" category.
This thesis explores, first, what gender mainstreaming is aiming for by those organizations via content analysis of current documents and publications. Second, it shifts focus to explaining those organizations' attitudes toward the issues of gender and sexual minorities by conducting survey interview.