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Elizabeth Baisley @kebaisley.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ New in Xtra! Quinn Albaugh and I present new data on LGBTQ2S+ candidates in the 2025 federal election—and consider where to go from here.

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Inessa De Angelis @inessadeangelis.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Which Canadian MPs are on Bluesky and what do they post? My new paper w/ @rohanalexander.bsky.social in @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social unpacks these questions, finding MPs use it like Twitter to discuss policy, the Ottawa bubble & constituency Read more: doi.org/10.1017/S000... #polsky #commsky #cdnpoli

What are Canadian Members of Parliament Doing on Bluesky? research note abstract

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🇨🇦 CPSA ACSP 🇨🇦 @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

JOB ADVERTISEMENT-POSSIBILITÉ D’EMPLOI #CPSA_ACSPJobs 🔴Assistant Professor - Indigenous Politics ⏰Nov 05 2025 👉 conta.cc/473uE4O @raulpachecovega.bsky.social #polisci @csnrec.bsky.social #cdnpoli #PoliSciTwitter @jonathanmalloy.bsky.social @emmettmacfarlane.com

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Quinn M. Albaugh @qalbaugh.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Trans and nonbinary candidates across parties (and, notably, in the NDP) receive substantially and significantly less money even after adjusting for not being incumbents and being nominated disproprotionately in unwinnable ridings.

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Quinn M. Albaugh @qalbaugh.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

When we break LGBTQ+ candidates apart by subgroups, we find some evidence of gender inequalities. Queer cis women raise less than expected for the Greens.

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Quinn M. Albaugh @qalbaugh.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

This isn't true for the Liberals or the NDP: LGBTQ+ candidates, if anything, do better in financing their campaigns after adjusting for other variables.

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Quinn M. Albaugh @qalbaugh.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Some of this is explained by other variables/forms of disadvantage (especially incumbency, district competitiveness). However, even after adjusting for other variables, LGBTQ+ candidates for the Conservatives and Greens raise less than their straight cis counterparts.

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Quinn M. Albaugh @qalbaugh.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Without adjusting for any other variables, LGBTQ+ candidates raise substantially less money than straight cis (non-LGBTQ+) candidates.

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Quinn M. Albaugh @qalbaugh.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Kate initially proposed looking at finance as part of an honours thesis, and we expanded upon the analysis in our work together.

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Quinn M. Albaugh @qalbaugh.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Congratulations! I'm looking forward to citing it

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

🏳️‍🌈 A pride month P&G article spotlight 🏳️‍🌈 In "Gender and LGBT Affinity" @qalbaugh.bsky.social‬ & @kebaisley.bsky.social‬ compare support for Kathleen Wynne, the first out LGBT first minister in 🇨🇦 , across voter gender and sexuality. polisky gendersky buff.ly/jq7c1z2

Research article entitled "Gender and LGBT Affinity: The Case of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne" by Quinn M. Albaugh and Elizabeth Baisley.
Abstract: "When a party selects an out lesbian as its leader, do women and LGBT people evaluate that leader more positively? And do they become more likely to vote for that party? We answer these questions using the case of Kathleen Wynne, premier of Ontario, Canada, from 2013 to 2018. We draw on four large-sample surveys conducted by Ipsos before and after the 2011 and 2014 Ontario elections. We compare shifts in best premier choice and vote choice among non-LGBT men, non-LGBT women, LGBT men, and LGBT women from 2011 to 2014. We find gender and LGBT affinity in leader evaluations. However, we find that only non-LGBT women and LGBT men were more likely to vote Liberal after Wynne became leader. This article contributes to research on affinity by examining LGBT affinity in a real-world election and the intersection of gender and LGBT affinity."

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Elizabeth Baisley @kebaisley.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

In recent research with @qalbaugh.bsky.social, we use a survey experiment to explore how gender stereotypes shape voters' perceptions of transgender and nonbinary candidates' traits. The results are not the most encouraging, but you can read more here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Quinn M. Albaugh @qalbaugh.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I'm also here and happy to talk with political science PhD applicants in this situation!

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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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Constantin Wurthmann @wurthmann.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Ipsos has just released their PRIDE REPORT. What the data tell in several aspects: Male members of GEN Z are in some regards more illiberal than the Baby Boomers. Additionally, we see a clear regress (!) in favouring LGBTQ* rights! Numbers of openly #LGBTQ* on rise! www.ipsos.com/sites/defaul...

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Jonathan Malloy @jonathanmalloy.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

It was great to attend my 30th straight Canadian Political Science Association annual conference last week and deliver my presidential address. I was especially happy to be unconventionally introduced by @mcloutier.bsky.social with a quiz for the crowd on "how well do you know Malloy and the CPSA?"

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Elizabeth Baisley @kebaisley.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

In recent work with @qalbaugh.bsky.social, we find that in 2019 and 2021 parties nominated LGBTQ2S+ candidates in districts they were over 16 percentage points less likely to win than straight cis candidates. About 2/3 of the gap is due to which parties and 1/3 is due to which districts.

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Quinn M. Albaugh @qalbaugh.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

A belated congratulations! I look forward to citing this in the future #LGBTQResearch

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Gabriele Magni @gabrielemagni.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Happy to see this article with Nathan Chan out in @bjpols.bsky.social We propose "LGBTQ+ linked fate" to explain the consistent political behavior of the LGBTQ+ community despite its internal diversity We use a sample of ∼2,000 LGBTQ+ Americans from CMPS 1/n www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Quinn M. Albaugh @qalbaugh.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I wouldn't recommend using the 2019 CES "Other gender" respondents to study nonbinary people, but you could perhaps try to use them to study trans and nonbinary people (pooled together). However, some trans men and women just won't be identified at all in the 2019 data.

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Quinn M. Albaugh @qalbaugh.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This article comes out of some problems I observed in 2020 analyzing the 2019 CES to try to study nonbinary people's voting behaviour for another project with the same team (link below). The 2019 "Other" respondents just looked weird given past data (about half straight/heterosexual, for example).

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From Gender Gap to Gender Gaps: Bringing Nonbinary People into Political Behavior Research | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core

From Gender Gap to Gender Gaps: Bringing Nonbinary People into Political Behavior Research

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Quinn M. Albaugh @qalbaugh.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Of these recommendations, I'm least confident I'd come to the same conclusion about (4) if I were analyzing open-ended responses in 2025 given the anti-trans shift in Canada. I would be delighted to see more work analyzing open-ended responses in large-sample surveys, especially about politics.

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Quinn M. Albaugh @qalbaugh.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

5. If you include an open-ended option, look at the open-ended response options to make sure you're not misclassifying men and women. A lot of people write in male or female in these options (~2/3 in the 2021 CES). It's probably better not to throw out their data and takes little time to check.

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Quinn M. Albaugh @qalbaugh.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

4. You can (probably) use a write-in gender identity response option in a high-quality online sample. These options are more inclusive for people who don't like nonbinary and aren't men or women. Very few respondents provide open-ended responses, let alone hostile responses ("attack helicopter").

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Quinn M. Albaugh @qalbaugh.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

3. A follow-up transgender identity question works better than including transgender in a single-item gender identity question, as suggested by past work.

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Quinn M. Albaugh @qalbaugh.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

2. Don't include trans or transgender alongside man/male and woman/female in a gender question, especially if you only allow respondents to select one option. Some trans men and women will select the trans option and others will select the man/woman options, and you can't know who's doing what.

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Quinn M. Albaugh @qalbaugh.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

1. Include "nonbinary" as a response option in your gender identity questions (as opposed to, say, "other"). This option appears to work for (or, at least, is legible to) most people who don't identify as men or women, and it gives them an explicit option to pick.

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

🇪🇺🚫🏳️‍🌈Hungary just became the first EU country to ban Pride events in Viktor Orbán's latest anti-LGBTQ crackdown, allowing authorities to use facial recognition to identify and punish disobedient attendees. Liberal opposition MPs (Momentum party) protested inside parliament by using smoke grenades.

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Violeta Haas @haasvioleta.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵Thread

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Williams Institute @williamsinstitute.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Our new report finds half of Black LGBTQ employees in the U.S. have faced discrimination or harassment at work due to their LGBTQ status. About 60% of Black LGBTQ workers are under age 35, identify as bisexual, and make less than $50,000 a year. Read more at bit.ly/Blackworkers

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 20/02/2025

Trump's Project 2025 included 18 specific anti-LGBTQ policy proposals. 10/18 have already been implemented and we're only a month into this. Really impressive (if depressing) work from the folks at the Project 2025 Tracker www.project2025.observer

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Yet every year at EPSA one senior faculty asks me something like “why do you still need an LGBTQ group?” This kind of marginalization reproduces itself. With less visibility and prestige, new PhDs won‘t focus on these issues, faculty positons won‘t include this profile, teaching will ignore it.

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Alex Marland @alexmarland.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I've got 3 funded studentships for oustanding applicants to join Acadia University's 12-month MA in Political Science program for 2025-26. Students will write a thesis on Canadian political leadership. Apply by February 1! #Leadership #CanadianPolitics #MAProgram #GraduateFunding #AcadiaUniversity

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Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Important piece by @jennpiscopo.bsky.social on gender research in political science’s ‘top’ 6 journals, 2017-2023. The findings for LGBTIQ research are particularly dire, coming in at only .55% (16 of 2,892 items); and less when considering full research articles.

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Still Marginalized? Gender and LGBTQIA+ Scholarship in Top Political Science Journals | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core

Still Marginalized? Gender and LGBTQIA+ Scholarship in Top Political Science Journals

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Quinn M. Albaugh @qalbaugh.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

However, Canadian parties moved away from pure caucus selection after Laurier for good reason, and contemporary norms would not make caucus selection broadly acceptable for picking permanent leaders again. At minimum, a process would need to include selectors from all ridings.

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