Calling all LGB Asian Americans

Hey all, Some friends/researchers at Western Michigan are looking for some students to participate in a study on self-identified LGB Asian Americans. See a copy of the email below for more details. Hopefully, you can help them find participants. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are excited to be launching a new research project entitled: Negotiating the complexities of being self-identified as both Asian American and lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB). This project has two parts: (1) a web-based survey that will be distributed widely through listservs and Facebook sites like this one, and (2) about 10-12 open-ended telephone interviews about students’ experiences. We need your help finding as many participants as possible across the United States! Please forward this email to students who might be interested in participating in this study. The purpose of this study is to gather some preliminary, baseline data about the breadth of the community identified as Asian American and lesbian, gay or bisexual LGB), as well as some of your/their experiences in higher education. Right now, we are looking for currently enrolled students in higher education to complete a short web-based survey (about 10-12 minutes) about their identification as Asian American and LGB and their college experiences. Participants must be between the ages of 18-24 years old, enrolled in a degree-seeking program at any level in higher education (including grad school, and professional programs). While we understand that these terms (Asian American and LGB) are far from inclusive of all the complexities and preferred self-labeling that the community embraces, we are using these terms in an effort to cast a wide net to capture the broadest group of participants. The Human Subjects Institutional Review Board at Western Michigan University, the home institution of the primary and student investigators, Dr. Donna M. Talbot and Mr. Sean Pepin, has approved this study. The third researcher on this team is Dr. Wanda Viento, an administrator in student affairs at Boise State University. All three researchers identify with or consider themselves strong allies for the social groups identified in this study. If you are interested in participating in the survey portion of this study, please click on the link below. It will transport you to a Zoomerang (web-based) survey. At the end of this survey you will have an opportunity to choose whether or not to volunteer for the interview portion of the study. More details about the study are available in the introduction of the survey. Thank you. To begin the survey, click on the link below: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB228DCWHVQVY