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The article offers the author's insights on the queer representation on television in North America, Great Britain, and Australia. Topics discussed include the importance of representation for the recognition of gays and lesbians, the evidence of increased social justice and equity, and the cultural politics of representation.

An introduction is presented in which the authors discuss various reports within the issue on topics including the use of queering analytic as a way of rereading and recognizing place, understanding young people's arts practice as a mode of civic participation, and queer television.

The article examines the history of developments in concepts about sexuality and education in Victoria. It explores an interdisciplinary methodology to the teaching of sex and sexualities education which highlights the historical curriculum content and questions the shifts in sex and sexualities education since 1979. It utilizes the Foucauldian techniques of analysis to analyze the emergence of health or student wellbeing as the vital discursive form wherein sexuality is directed as the proper work of schools. It discusses the contemporary pedagogical practices in the field of Australian sexualities education which have arisen out of specific historical challenges in Australia for gay and lesbian human rights and for anti-homophobic schooling.