Queer Diplomacy in 2025: The Pendulum Swings Back
Posted on December 22, 2025 | Academic research is often derided as insular and disconnected. Intimately linked to the question of real-world relevance is accessibility – getting critical social studies into the hands (and minds) of the populations social scientists are analyzing. In 2005, I hit the road on a ...
Queer Diplomacy at the University of London
Posted on October 12, 2024 | Check out this YouTube video, filmed on May 2, 2024, when I had the pleasure of speaking about my book Queer Diplomacy at the University of London! Many thanks go to Dr. Corinne Lennox and the Human Rights Consortium for hosting this event, which took place ...
Reflecting on my Queer Diplomacy speaking tour!
Posted on October 12, 2024 | Last year, I spoke about my book Queer Diplomacy to over a hundred people at five universities and a bookstore – in the US, Canada, Sweden and the UK. After years of incubating these ideas, it was so satisfying to set them free to circulate the ...
Queer Diplomacy European Tour 2024!
Posted on April 12, 2024 | This year I will be embarking on a six city speaking tour engaging scholars, policymakers, and peers about my book Queer Diplomacy: Homophobia, International Relations and LGBT Human Rights.BELFAST Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Queen’s University Belfast, Canada Room, University Road, ...
Listen to a CBC interview with Douglas Janoff about Queer Diplomacy
Posted on February 8, 2024 | Janoff marched to the United Nations in New York to demand international LGBTQ rights. 35 years later, he became a Canadian diplomat – and started pushing for change from within. He reflects on the struggle for global LGBT rights, both as an insider and ...
Queer Diplomacy Panel, Ottawa
Posted on October 13, 2023 | Diplomats have become increasingly assertive in their promotion of the rights of sexual and gender minorities, both in their bilateral relationships and within multilateral bodies such as the UN ...
Reading & Discussion at Glad Day Bookshop
Posted on October 13, 2023 | Join us to celebrate the publication of Queer Diplomacy: Homophobia, International Relations and LGBT Human Rights (Palgrave Macmillan 2022), by, Douglas Victor Janoff, Ph.D. Drawing on interviews with diplomats, queer activists and human rights experts, the book demonstrates how Western efforts to combat homophobic and transphobic ...
Welcome to my new website
Posted on October 22, 2022 | Thank you for checking out my new website douglasvictorjanoff.com, a platform that will allow me put out the occasional blog. To kick things off on a high note, consider the image on the right, taken in Dubai in 2019 in the shadow of in ...