Author's Bio and Resume

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Doug Janoff works is a senior policy advisor for the Government of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, the nation's capital. He has degrees in political science, creative writing and criminology and is a Ph.D. candidate in Canadian Studies at Carleton University. His current research interests include violence against transsexuals and transgendered people, as well as the different forms of homophobia and transphobia that occur throughout the Americas.

: From 1982 to 1995 he worked as a writer, researcher and educator in Montreal, Toronto, London, Vancouver, and Latin America. In 1992, he began his research after a gay man was brutally assaulted in Vancouver's Stanley Park. In 1995, he went to Mexico to investigate the killings of homosexuals and transsexuals in Mexico. By 2000, he had collected hundreds of cases of homophobic violence in Canada: he spent the next three years writing Pink Blood.

Doug has presented his research throughout Canada, the US, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Turkey, France, Belgium, Colombia and Jamaica: at academic conferences and human rights seminars, and for professional and community organizations. He speaks French and Spanish and a few words of Bulgarian and Tagalog. With his Balkan and Scottish ancestry, travelling is in blood: his suitcase is never quite unpacked. Although he loves to travel, he is hoping to own a dog some day when his travel schedule slows down.

Articles
In addition to his academic research, Doug has published several articles for newspapers and magazines. Over the years, these articles have covered a broad range of queer-related topics: AIDS in Brazil (1987), AIDS in Toronto (1988), gay marriage (1989), AIDS in Vancouver (1992), drag queens (1993) and homophobic violence in Vancouver (1992), Mexico (1995), and Istanbul (2004). Three of the articles listed below are available on-line, including research on the assault, torture and killing of homosexuals and transsexuals in Turkey.

• The Montreal Gazette: "How native women wind up prostitutes," January 9, 1987
• The Canadian Forum: "Squatting in Brixton," March 1987
• IDRC Reports: "Brazil’s cruzado plan," July 1987
• The Advocate: "The carnival is over," July 21, 1987
• The Globe and Mail: "Family ties," July 29, 1987
• Maclean's: "Under the AIDS shadow," July 19, 1988
• Saturday Night: "Paul marries John," December 1989; "Travelling light," June 1989
• Vancouver Magazine: "Special deliveries," May 1992
• The Vancouver Sun: "Darkness at the edge of town," September 12, 1992; "Night life," February 6, 1993
• The Globe and Mail: "Help the mother, save the child," September 18, 1993
• Xtra West: "Life under siege." October 16, 1995
• Capital Xtra: "Tales from the Turkish crypt." July 1, 2004
• Xtra West: "Stopping queerbashing." September 1, 2005
• Xtra West: "We’re our own worst enemies." September 29, 2005