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Michniewicz, Kenneth. "A Gay Savior: Reducing Anti-Gay Feelings with Gay Male Kindness Following Ostracism." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3246.
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Social scientists have extensively examined ways of reducing negative feelings toward minority groups. However, no research has examined the ability for passive ostracism, the implicit exclusion of an individual by one's peers, to reduce such negative feelings despite evidence that such exclusion can yield similar positive benefits. The present study sought to address this deficit in the literature by exploring whether or not implicit ostracism by one's peers can cause a kind gesture by a stigmatized minority group member (gay men) to improve general perceptions of the associated group. A sample of 211 undergraduate students from the University of South Florida played a modified version of the online game Cyberball in which they were randomly assigned to be either included or excluded by ostensible partners. Subsequently, they were randomly assigned to play a second game in which they either cooperated with a gay male partner, cooperated with a straight male partner, or had no partner. Results indicated that, contrary to hypotheses, feelings toward gay men did not vary as a function of the Inclusion x Partner interaction. Exploratory results, however, suggest that ostracism may operate differently according to other individual difference variables. Suggestions for future research and limitations are discussed in light of these exploratory findings.
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Blyth, Craig. "Disabled gay men and Manchester's gay village : the socially and spatially constituted gay body." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2009. http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:78259.
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The aim of this study is to critically examine the experiences of disabled gay men who have accessed Manchester's commercial gay space known locally as the 'Village'. The thesis provides an initial exploration of how, in recent years, there has been an increasing rejection of the dominant medical and deficit based conceptualisation of disability. Many academics researching in this area have proposed a model of 'thinking' about disability that explicitly rejects the notion that it arises from any essentialist biological origin and have sought to highlight how it is society that disables people and not their bodies. This change of focus from the body to society has led to the development of the specific academic discipline that is today called 'Disability Studies'. Concentrating on this discipline, the thesis critically explores the dominant model for understanding disability; 'the social model of disability' and suggests that, in relation to disabled gay men, this model may only provide limited conceptual usefulness. Following on from this, an alternative conceptualisation of disability is provided that seeks to 'propose an embodied, rather than disembodied, notion of disability' (Hughes and Patterson 1997:326). Adopting such an approach, the research, through an interpretative analysis of narratives provided by 12 disabled gay men who have spent time in Manchester's commercial gay space, explores how the participants have come to understand the space and their positions within in it. The findings of the research indicate that these men viewed the Village as a space that they are both explicitly and implicitly denied access to. The participants discuss what they see as the bodily attributes that men are required to possess in order to gain access to the space. They go on to describe how a form of 'gay obsession' with bodily perfection, youthfulness, physical prowess and sexual imagery all act as regulatory agents enforcing what many perceived to be the unattainable 'entry requirements' of the space.
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Fimiani, Roberta. "The Role of Gay Spaces for a Gay Destination : Gay Tourism in Gran Canaria." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Turismvetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-14031.
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This thesis has the aim to evaluate the role of gay spaces in Gran Canaria as a gay tourists destination with particular reference to gay exclusive resorts. The validation of the gay identity is a key motivation for homosexuals to travel, in order to connect with other homosexuals and experience the gay life that they might not be able to experience at home. Gay spaces have been defined both as liberated areas as well as ghettos, where the homosexuals are, in a way, restrained. The method chosen, a small number of semi- structured interviews with managers of gay exclusive resorts in Maspalomas, the hub of gay life in Gran Canaria, where major LGBT events are held, there is a gay friendly environment, a thriving gay scene and many gay exclusive resorts. In the case of Gran Canaria the gay-specific offer is complementary to the ‘regular’ tourism offer, as they coexist, complement and at times overlap. Nevertheless the gay centric holiday is still predominant amongst gay men, and it is likely to continue to be according to the informants. This is because gay tourists seek freedom and a sense of inclusion that they would not be able to find in mixed environments.
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Braun, Shawnee Dove. "Gay fathers with children adopted from foster care understanding their experiences and predicting adoption outcomes /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1280150331&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Pash, Diana M. "The lived worlds of gay co-father families narratives of family, community, and cultural life /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1566562871&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Hanna, Jonathan A. "Closet Space: Investigating Gay Identity through Advertising in Gay Media." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3667.
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The objective of this research was to examine advertising in gay media publications, namely, The Advocate, in order to assess how advertising corresponds with gay identity formation. This study differed from previous inquiries in that the application of hegemony theory formed the basis of the project and was used as a tool to explicate the preponderance of certain images in gay media advertising and what they signify for gay men. Likewise, a phenomenological method of analysis was applied to the advertisements in order to render them more accessible as aesthetic and literary mediums. Classifying the advertisements according to their notional basis resulted in the partitioning of the ads into groups or "parables" of advertising, a method of classification which mimics historical categories recognized in American history and culture. The sum of the project emphasizes the hegemonic structures that characterize gay male images within a broader GLBT sociocultural framework.
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McFadyen, Kenneth Marshall. "Unique experiences of being gay and being a gay father." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2006. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2709/.
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The first chapter of this thesis examines the factors that assist and impede disclosure of homosexuality. Factors have been divided into intrapersonal, interpersonal and societal/environmental categories for convenience of reporting. However, it is recognised that these factors do not exist in isolation of each other. The second chapter investigates the experience of gay fathers who have disclosed their homosexuality to their children. Analysis of interviews carried out with gay fathers suggests a model of disclosure where fathers achieve a realisation of their homosexuality followed by a desire to be honest about it. Fathers then disclosed their sexuality to their children. The effects on the child, on the father and on the father/child relationship are discussed. The impact of supportive others who are important in the lives of the father and children seem to be paramount to a successful outcome. Clinical implications of this study are discussed along with the study’s limitations and ideas for future research. The third chapter examines the experience of a gay man who became a father via donor insemination. Salient factors related to this method of fathering, being gay, and being later contacted by the child are discussed. The final chapter contains the authors’ reflections on a personal experience that impeded disclosure of his own homosexuality. The author entered reparative therapy holding the belief that he did not want to be gay. Following therapy failure, the author reached a position of self acceptance. Implications for clinicians are discussed.
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Mueller, Mark A. "Understanding gay cultures." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4100.
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Thesis (M.F.A) University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (June 30, 2006) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Yip, Andrew. "Gay Christian partnerships." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1995. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/668/.
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Pereira, Ronielyssom Cezar Souza. ""Gay-macho", "Travesti"." Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, 2017. http://tede.unioeste.br:8080/tede/handle/tede/457.
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Mellgard, Lin. "Gay on Screen." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22250.
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In this essay masculinity and gender is examined and analyzed in movie posters forfour different movies: “A Single Man”, “Brokeback Mountain”, “Tom at the Farm” and “I Killed my Mother”. They all share themes which include the lead male role being sexually attracted to men.The theories focus on gender, stereotypes and sexuality in media with methods regarding semiotics and representation applied on the analysis - through a gender perspective. The study shows that the majority of the leading characters have typical masculine traits and attributes, which an exception for “Brokeback Mountain” which shares some of Fischers definition of gay portraits. John Fiske concludes that it is the people who control media and its design, not the other way around, which can be applied to some, but not all of the posters in this study. Fiske also claims that the media portrait is based on a patriarchal system, depicting men according to a masculine gender, in line with the results of this study.
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Van, Somer William Jared. "A hint of pink : the realities of being queer from the perspective of a mother and a son." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=81256.
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This paper explores the reality of a queer individuals life and the reality of a mother of a queer individual, where the author himself and his mother are the subjects. The paper seeks to explore these person's experiences/realities using both an autoethnographic approach and a life history approach. Coming from a postmodern and feminist position the author delves into such issues as power, oppression, social construction, personal voice, and identity. Personal narratives and academic literature within this paper are going to display queer realities and the broad range of oppression (such as heterosexism, homophobia and gendering) that they face (in educational, familial, and religious settings) and the experiences of a mother who has a queer child (such as emotional reactions, lack of resources/information).The methodologies used within this paper also seek to explore and expand the use of alternative forms of academic research, focusing on the autoethnographic approach. Personal narratives, emotions and experiences take center stage within the body of this paper and seek to represent the realities of queer youth and their families to the reader, and hopefully, expose the need for more queer awareness, education, and advocacy.
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Dzara, Kristina. "IS GAY REALLY GAY?: A HETEROSEXUAL/HOMOSEXUAL QUALITY OF LIFE COMPARISON." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3329.
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This study examines differences in quality of life measures between heterosexual and homosexual respondents using General Social Survey data from 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. Analyses of quality of life are performed in an effort to compare the heterosexual and homosexual population of the United States. The three main areas which are explored in the analysis are physical health, general happiness, and life excitement. Few differences were found in subjective life satisfaction between heterosexuals and homosexuals; however, some control variables differed. Directions for future research regarding homosexuality and quality of life are discussed.M.A.
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Arts and Sciences
Applied Sociology
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Darbyshire, Kevin John. "Being gay, being straight : an anthropological critique of Manchester's 'Gay Village'." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2008. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/28970.
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This thesis is an ethnographic study of an area in Manchester known as the 'Gay Village'. It explores the history and changes in the meaning of this term for the people who live and work in the Village, as well as for those who visit it for leisure. The Village was originally created by gay activists who emphasised being gay as the basis for having a separate gay community. However, since being incorporated into Manchester City Council's culture-led regeneration strategy the area now attracts large numbers of heterosexual male and female users. For many heterosexual Village users being gay attaches as much to 'things' that they feel able to engage with in the making of themselves, as much as what it attaches to persons through the way they define their sexuality. Within the Village previous assumptions about the authenticity of the categories 'gay' and 'straight' have been subjected to much debate. The aim of the thesis is therefore to subject current understandings of contemporary gay and straight sexuality to critical analysis and to explore how ideas about sexual identity may be changing in Britain in the first decade of the 21St century.
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Roberts, Simon Peter. "Exploring how gay men manage their gay identity in the workplace." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2014. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8603.
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In the UK, as in many western nations, there have been a number of progressive pieces of legislation enacted with the intent to eradicate discrimination on the basis of sexuality in the workplace. The pace and scale of acceptance of gay equality laws has been relatively rapid in recent years. To cite an example, in 2004 gay marriage was only legal in Belgium and Holland, whereas in 2013 it is legal in 11 countries (The Guardian, 2013). Up until this legislation came into force, the focus of previous research probably unsurprisingly has been predominately around two strands; sexual minorities’ experiences of discrimination in the workplace and the issue of disclosure/non-disclosure of a gay identity. There has been little exploration ‘beyond the closet’, in how gay men manage their identity post anti-discrimination laws combined with more liberal attitudes towards homosexuality. In particular, there has been a paucity of research on the ways gay men challenge, negotiate and conform in the two way process of managing their identities; this thesis aims to address this gap. Data were gathered from forty-five semi-structured in-depth interviews with self-identified gay men in a wide range of occupations and ages working in a seaside resort on the South coast of England. A qualitative methodology was used in order to obtain a deeper understanding of the ways gay men manage their gay identity in their interaction with others. Furthermore, by using reflexivity this thesis aims to show how the sample of respondents had modified and changed the ways they presented their gay identity throughout their working lives. In particular, the thesis aims to uncover critical incidents based upon their sexuality that respondents confronted in their interaction with others. The key findings that emerged from the data include; the identification of a range of strategies gay men deployed in how they managed their identity and dealt with discrimination from confrontation to conformity; the multiple constraints and opportunities that impacted upon the ways gay men both managed and disclosed their gay identity; the perceived incongruity around positions of authority, professionalism and a gay identity; and finally how silence was used as a form of exclusion creating significant barriers in the ways gay men could make themselves visible and use their voice within organisations. These findings considerably extend our understanding of the pervasiveness of heteronormativity in the workplace; the impact of contextual influences on managing a gay identity, and gay men’s experiences against a back drop of post-anti-discrimination laws in the U.K. The thesis will aid HR practitioners in giving them a better understanding of the dilemmas gay men face in their interactions with others in the workplace.
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Sköldqvist, Caroline. "Tjej & gay bland tidningsställ (Girl & gay among magazine racks)." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21057.
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The purpose of this essay is to examine the relationship between visual communication and female homosexuality within the field of magazine design. As the creative part of the project I have chosen to make a redesign of Lotus magazine, the very first Swedish magazine with lesbian and bisexual girls as the target audience. The questions of which the project is based on are: Which stereotypes, differences and similarities can be found in visual communication addressed to a heterosexual versus a homosexual target audience? What kind of design attracts non-heterosexual girls and how can I create a design for Lotus magazine that is appealing to lesbian and bisexual girls and yet still makes it possible to compete with traditional girls’ magazines?In order to examine my research questions I have done literature studies within the field of gender and sexual identity in relation to visual communication. Additionally, I have analysed the design of competing magazines on the market and conducted a survey among representatives of the target audience of Lotus magazine.
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Sewell, Shaun Erwin. "Public sexuality a contemporary history of gay images and identity /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-01212005-212501/.
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Webster, Travis Allan. "Pray the Gay Away: Rhetorical Dilemmas of the American Ex-Gay Movement." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1217868518.
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Krutzsch, Brett. "Martyrdom and American Gay History: Secular Advocacy, Christian Ideas, and Gay Assimilation." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/319669.
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"Martyrdom and American Gay History: Secular Advocacy, Christian Ideas, and Gay Assimilation" is an analysis of gay martyr discourses from the 1970s through 2014. In particular, the dissertation examines the archives, narrative representations, memorials, and media depictions of Harvey Milk, Matthew Shepard, Tyler Clementi, and AIDS. The project's primary focus is to investigate the role of religious rhetoric in facilitating American gay assimilation. Discourses of gay martyrdom reveal that secular gay advocates habitually employed Protestant Christian ideas in order to present gay Americans as similar to the dominant culture of straight Christians, a strategy that became increasingly prevalent by the end of the twentieth century after gays were blamed for spreading a national plague through sexual licentiousness. In turn, discourses of gay martyrdom expose the recurrence of Christian ideas in promoting, while concurrently foreclosing, the parameters of gay social inclusion. "Martyrdom and American Gay History" also questions the politics of martyrdom and analyzes why some deaths have been mourned as national tragedies. Milk, Shepard, and Clementi, the three most commonly-invoked gay martyrs, represent a narrow fraction of gay Americans that only includes white, middle-class, gay men. The dissertation demonstrates that discourses of gay martyrdom have promoted assimilation, not diverse sexual freedoms or capacious possibilities for queer lives. Ultimately, Protestant Christian dominance in the United States has been obfuscated whenever Christianity has been depicted primarily as an antigay monolith. Discourses of gay martyrdom reveal the role of Protestant Christian dominance in secular gay advocacy, and the ways in which Christian ideas have shaped and foreclosed possibilities for acceptable gay American citizens.
Temple University--Theses
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Cove, Jeff. "Gay men's sexual problems." Thesis, University of East London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532393.
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Stephens, Kerri. "Intersectionality and Gay Rights." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/566258.
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Background/Purpose: This study aims to better understand attitude formation since attitudes influence behavior. I explore opinion on gay marriage, the gender gap in regard to this issue, and trends in attitudes toward gay marriage. I also explore how gender intersects with other identities in forming these attitudes so that we can better understand the opinions of men and women. Methods: I start by using simple percentages for men's and women's attitudes to determine if there is a gender gap and examine whether these gender differences exist within different subgroups. From there, I use multivariate equations to discover reasons for these gender gaps. Results and conclusions: People's attitudes in support of gay marriage versus support for civil unions or no legal recognition are shaped by gender and a host of other demographic traits and attitudes. A small but consistent gender gap exists, with women being 6 percentage points more likely to support gay marriage, while men fall slightly more often in the other two categories. I found evidence of intersectionalities between gender and other demographic traits. One intersectionality exists between gender, race and religiosity. Black women's opinions on gay marriage are split, falling both in greater support for gay marriage and greater opposition. The religiosity of black women accounts for this split. I also found evidence of intersectionality with regards to education, but here it appears that it is men's attitudes that are shaped by this factor. As education levels increase, the gender gap in support of gay marriage disappears as men's attitudes become more similar to that of women.
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Holmes, Jason Kenneth. "Inside a gay world : a heuristic self-search inquiry of one gay man's experience of a 'cultic' gay male friendship group." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33072.
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This thesis is a Heuristic Self-Search Inquiry (HSSI) that explores the personal experience of one gay man's participation in a gay male friendship group whose culturally constructed sense of being gay, characterised by specific places, customs and practices the researcher considers 'cultic'. The study is undertaken through the researcher who found himself outside a closed group of emotionally intimate gay friends, which represented an entire world. Using the HSSI model created by Sela-Smith (2002), this profoundly personal qualitative study considers the researcher's internal experiencing as the primary source of knowledge. Material from online images, academic papers and personal writing of the inquirer's lived experience of the research topic provided for periods of contemplative incubation and illumination, typical of HSSI. The output was the depiction of six emergent themes that highlight the qualities and nuances of the topic: pain, frustration, mistrust, joy, disgust and confusion. The other main findings are: this gay male friendship group developed characteristics of a symbolically enclosed cultic institution; that gay men are susceptible to forming cultic relationships; and a depth of distress experienced when intimate friendships between gay men fail. The findings finish by offering a creative synthesis, which captures the resultant integrated understanding of the experience in the form of a short story. Recommendations are made for counselling professionals to trouble their understanding of gay male friendship groups, and for public and third sector organisations working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) identifying peoples to begin discussing interpersonal issues inside LGBTQ populations.
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Lee, Te-Yang. "The Entrepreneur Experiences of Gay Business Owners in Madrid’s Gay Neighborhood Chueca and its Degaying Process in the Post-Gay Era." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Centrum för mångvetenskaplig forskning om rasism (CFR), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-416611.
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This master’s thesis is an interdisciplinary research on the ‘degaying’ process of Madrid’s gay neighborhood, Chueca, in the post-gay era and gay business owners’ entrepreneurial experiences. It strives to fill a gap in the literature in LGBT tourism studies, gender studies and entrepreneurial studies by giving voice to the LGBT community and creating contemporary knowledge and observation. The investigation involved conducting 11 qualitative semi-structured interviews with gay business owners in Chueca. The aim of this research was to shed light on the owners’ motivations in opening their businesses and to explore the challenges and changes they noticed throughout their time in the neighborhood, reviewing if Chueca has entered the post-gay era and is experiencing a degaying process. It also discusses other aspects of the district such as the marginalization of certain groups within it, its market economy and the city government’s role in gay tourism. The results of this study show that breaking the lavender ceiling is not one of the main motivations of owners in starting their businesses. Moreover, while the gay market is a profitable niche market, it is wiser for business owners to target both heterosexual and LGBT markets if possible. Lastly, Chueca has entered the post-gay era, although it is unlikely that the neighborhood will face dissolution due to its historical meaning and the fact that many people still feel more comfortable in Chueca than in other parts of the city.This thesis has been graded: VG
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Hettinger, Vanessa E. "Influence of Misperceptions About Gay Affluence on Support for Pro-Gay Legal Reform." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1657.
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The deleterious impact of negative stereotypes toward gays has been established, but less thoroughly examined are the potentially harmful effects that positive stereotypes may carry. Gay Americans lack multiple legal rights enjoyed by heterosexual citizens, yet many people do not see gays as a genuinely disadvantaged group. One possible reason for this is the popular misconception that gays are wealthier than the average American. Drawing on previous research regarding popular support for underdogs, it was predicted that, to the extent people endorsed the conception of gay affluence, they would be less likely to support legal reform benefiting gays. This hypothesis was supported: after controlling for overall homophobia and religiosity, perceiving gays as wealthy negatively predicted support for gay rights. This project also explored what emotional or cognitive mechanisms might influence the predicted relationship. Support was found for both resentment and system justification motivations as potential contributors to the effect.
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Hattingh, Christiaan. "A typology of gay leisure travellers : an African perspective." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2718.
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Thesis (DTech (Tourism and Hospitality Management)--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017.Over the last two decades, academic literature, various market research studies, and media reports have widely contributed to the belief that the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) market, and more specifically the gay male sub-segment, display favourable characteristics for the tourism industry. As recently as 2017, gay travel was regarded as one of the fastest-growing markets in the international travel industry. It is thus clear that the importance of this market, whether accurate or not, has been well documented over the years and is well known by the tourism industry; however, despite an increasing trend where tourism destinations promote themselves as ‘gay friendly’ in an attempt to attract gay (homosexual) travellers, a segment of the LGBT travel market, these travellers are perceived to be a homogeneous market segment or a niche market as a result of the assumption that gay men and women lead similar lifestyles and because they are homosexual, indicating that sexual orientation is used as the principal distinguishing characteristic of this population. This assumption is problematic and rather simplistic as it conceals many other important variables, and may hinder effective destination marketing. In order to correctly harness the existing potential within this segment, there is a need to overcome the challenge of correctly understanding and adapting the tourism offering to the preferences and needs of gay travellers; hence this research aimed to develop a typology of gay leisure travellers, by segmenting gay travellers into homogeneous sub-segments in an attempt to contribute to the gap in literature regarding this market’s heterogeneity. A web-based electronic survey was completed by 506 gay travellers, and attribute-based benefit segmentation was carried out by applying a hierarchical cluster analysis using Ward’s procedure with Euclidean distances. The typology is based on the push and pull framework; the motivations of travellers were assessed both in terms of their socio-psychological motivations and destination attributes of Cape Town. A number of conclusions can be drawn from the suggested typology of gay leisure travellers. First, the typology suggests four unique gay travel sub-segments ranging from Passive Relaxers on the one end to Wildlife Explorers, Culinary Enthusiasts/Foodies and Gay-Centric Travellers on the extreme end, which empirically proves that gay travellers are not homogeneous as there are sub-segments of gay travellers with different consumer behaviours. Therefore, these sub-segments may be referred to as niches as individuals within these sub-groups are homogeneous in certain characteristics. Second, there are two sub-segments in which travellers’ behaviour is not influenced by their sexuality, while the sexuality of travellers in the two other sub-segments influences their travel behaviour to varying degrees. Third, there is evidence that the gay traveller is integrating with other larger mainstream market segments and that the literature on gay travel may soon find itself outdated as fewer gay individuals, as the typology shows, base their travel decisions solely on gay-related issues, possibly owing to an increasing societal acceptance of homosexuality and the insignificance of a ‘gay identity’ to many of the post-modern gay generation. Fourth, the typology shows that only a distinct sub-segment, the Gay-Centric Traveller, can be described as a gay tourist and that not all gay travellers or activities by these travellers can be labelled as gay tourism. Fifth, the typology may serve as a framework for relating the destination attributes (pull motivations), to the important push motivations that influence tourist decision making and travel behaviour, and is therefore useful to the destination in developing product and promotional strategies. Consequently, the identified sub-segments, each with its own set of motivations, could help the destination refine its target-marketing strategies and may assist in understanding the different opportunities each sub-segment presents.
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Prior, Jason Hugh. "Sydney gay saunas, 1967-2000 fight for civic acceptance and experiences beyond the threshold /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/%7Ethesis/adt-NUN/public/adt-NUN20050629.094446/.
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Zernentsch, Sheri. "Gay families in the media in the age of HIV and AIDS." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0001/MQ39432.pdf.
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Jone-Wild, Rachel. "A gay nuclear family? : how do gay men and lesbians experience and conceptualise family." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.531733.
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Kasten, Gerald. "Food choices amongst gay men." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7629.
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Studies of food choice have been conducted predominantly with women, rarely with men and sexual orientation has not been ascertained. Gay men are at risk for a number of nutritionally-related adverse health outcomes, and learning more about their food choice processes will enable health services providers to offer more informed care.
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the food choice processes of gay men in Vancouver. Data and recipes collected from 13 men via semi-structured, audio-taped interviews were analyzed using iterative process methods. Queer Theory and Constructivist assumptions were used as resources for analysis.
Three main themes were identified, all incorporating aspects of gender performance: body weight and body image; food choices; and food work. Participants talked about restrictive eating and assumed a discourse that gay men limit or avoid foods in order to control body size and achieve a societally-constructed objectified body. Some participants contested this discourse. The men choose gendered foods without regard for those constructions and recognized that making such choices could be critical of the masculine hegemony. Sensual appeal of foods was prioritized but balanced with choices to enhance health.
Participants used food to nurture others and were more likely to cite spending time on preparation when preparing foods for others rather than solely for themselves. Several participants learned to cook at an early age. This was assessed as outside of appropriate gender roles and received negative feedback. Such cooking may be an example of early life cross-gendered behaviour.
Participants in this study spoke of preparing foods to achieve both excellent taste and exceptional presentation, particularly when entertaining other gay men. This use of food as performative of one’s being gay would be a unique aspect of the participants’ food-related behaviours.
Broadly put, the process of coming out freed participants to question gender constructions. They chose foods and did food work without much regard for the gendering of food or tasks. The practice implication is that providers need to question if men they are working with may be gay, learn about and provide culturally competent care.
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Coyle, Adrian Gerard. "The construction of gay identity." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1991. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/771286/.
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Drawing upon the work of McAdams (1988) and Breakwell (1986) on identity, gay identity can be conceptualised as a personal narrative that individuals construct in an attempt to impart meaning, coherence and purpose to the experiences they have had in relation to their same-sex sexual preference, and to boost their self-esteem and sense of personal continuity by forging connections between these experiences and imposing causality on them. With the aim of accessing the gay identity narratives of a sample of gay men, a structured multiple-choice-type questionnaire which examined experiences relating to the formation of a gay identity was distributed to 204 self-defined gay men in Greater London. The 146 completed questionnaires that were returned were first subjected to frequency analysis. One of the main findings to emerge was that respondents reported having constructed their gay identity formation narratives against a background of internalised negative societal ideas about homosexuals and homosexuality, which rendered problematic the admission of a gay identity to their overarching identity and the attribution of a positive evaluation to this gay identity. Data were also subjected to multiple regression analysis, the major outcome of which was that contact with the gay subculture appeared to have facilitated the development of a gay identity that individuals could regard as personally advantageous by challenging the negative images of homosexuals and homosexualityaccess to a subcultural narrative in which the development of a gay identity is construed as a worthwhile task. Respondents' accounts of their gay identity formation experiences were generally interpreted on two levels, i. e., as reflecting the actualities of the events they described and, importing concepts from work on autobiographical memory, as reconstructions of those events within gay identity formation narratives designed to boost the narrator's self-esteem and sense of personal continuity. internalised during socialisation and by allowing individuals
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Frankenberg, Kelly M. "Diary of a Gay Bride." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1588.
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Merrell, Chad. "Be Gay, Do Crime: Stories." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1616607644034077.
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Flanary, Johnny Ray. "On being gay and Christian." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2001. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0208101-212222/restricted/FLANARYJ.pdf.
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Pedro, Roberto Cardoso. "O preconceito no discurso gay." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ALDR-6SJGPB.
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Ce travail a pour objectif d´investiguer l´existence ou non de préjugé, en matière d´orientation sexuelle, dans le discours gay. Comme instrument d´analyse, pour la conduite de la recherche, nous prenons comme support : la théorie de l´argumentation de Chaim Perelman, la théorie polyphonique de l´énonciation d´Oswald Ducrot et la théorie des agents vérificateurs de vérité d´Alain Berrendonner. Pour traiter du problème spécifique de la désignation, nous nous appuyons sur Kanavillil Rjagoplan. Au départ, nous présentons un parcours historique sur l´homosexualité, de manière générale ; se focalisant sur l´histoire de celle-ci dans notre pays. Ensuite, s´appuyant sur la Psychologie Sociale, nous expliquons les thermes préjugé, stéréotype et discrimination. Nous discutons ensuite, comme une première forme de préjugé, le cas de la désignation. Par la suite, nous définissons ce que nous appelons discours gay. Dans l´analyse proprement dite du corpus, nous commençons à identifier l´auditoire du discours gay et, après, les valeurs qui soutiennent l´argumentation dans ce discours. En identifiant les voix qui se font entendre dans le discours gay, nous proposons une association entre les concepts d´auditoire et polyphonie. Enfin, nous analysons l´existence des différents types de préjugés qui sont véhiculés par les voix qui se font entendre dans le discours gay.Este trabalho tem por objetivo investigar a existência ou não do preconceito, acerca da orientação sexual, no discurso gay. Como instrumento de análise, para a condução da pesquisa, tomamos como suporte: a teoria da argumentação de Chaïm Perelman, a teoria polifônica da enunciação de Oswald Ducrot e a teoria dos agentes verificadores de verdade de Alain Berrendonner. Para tratar do problema específico da designação, buscamos suporte em Kanavillil Rjagoplan. Inicialmente, apresentamos um percurso histórico sobre a homossexualidade, de modo geral; com ênfase na história da mesma em nosso país. Em seguida, subsidiados pela Psicologia Social, explicamos os termos preconceito, estereótipo e discriminação. Discutimos, em seguida, como uma primeira forma de preconceito, o caso da designação. Posteriormente, definimos o que chamamos de discurso gay. Na análise propriamente dita do corpus, começamos identificando o auditório do discurso gay e, posteriormente, os valores que sustentam a argumentação nesse discurso. Ao identificarmos as vozes que se fazem ouvir no discurso gay, propomos uma associação entre os conceitos de auditório e polifonia. Por fim, analisamos a existência dos diversos tipos de preconceito que são veiculados através das vozes que se fazem ouvir no discurso gay.
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Flanary, II Johnny Ray. "On Being Gay and Christian." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2001. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/148.
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This thesis deals with being gay and Christian in the United States, the history of the beginnings of the Gay Rights Movement, and the past thirty years since the Gay Rights Movement. In order to gain a better understanding of the subject, twelve Christian denominations were investigated to analyze their positions on homosexuality, gays in the church, same-sex marriages, and their willingness to allow gays to be ordained as Priests, Ministers, or to hold offices in the church.
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Patterson, Davis G. "Kin, kith, and same-sex couple quality /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8844.
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Johnston, Dawn Elizabeth B. "Sites of resistance, sites of strength the construction and experience of queer space in Calgary /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0020/MQ47950.pdf.
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Aronson, Joyce M. "Relationship stability : a qualitative psychological study of long-term gay male couples." Thesis, Boston College, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1756.
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Thesis advisor: Bernard A. O'BrienThis study investigated factors associated with stable relationships among twelve gay male couples who had been together for a minimum of fifteen years and had not reared children together. Each partner of the participating couples was interviewed separately in a semi-structured retrospective interview that assessed the impact of selected factors during the beginning phase (the first 5 years), the middle phase (years 5-10), and the most recent phase (beyond 10 years) of the relationship. The interpersonal dynamics between the partners and the influences of several sociocultural factors were explored
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 1996
Submitted to: Boston College. School of Education
Discipline: Counseling Psychology
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Marchesani, Charmaine. "The attitudes of Australian heterosexuals to same-sex parenting." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2003. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/164913.
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Soares, Leonardo Antonio. "O discurso gay na televisão: uma análise das representações gays nas novelas." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/LETR-8T9RJ9.
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The aim of this thesis is to investigate the gay discourse in the soup operas produced by Globo Televison. Firstly, I made a micro analysis, linguistic analysis, using the Functional Grammar proposed by Halliday as basis. I focused on the notion of Ideacional, Interperpessonal and Textual metafunctions. After this analysis I made a macro analysis, social analysis, based on the theories of Foucault (power relations in
society, discourse and sexuality), Fairclough (hegemony, power relations and discourse, media studies), Connell (masculinities), Moita Lopes, Hall and Goffman (identity analysis) and Baruman (communities in the globalization era).
Before I start the corpus analysis, I presented a brief history of homosexuality in different cultures and social contexts, including Brazil since colonial period until nowadays. Then, I presented the history of soap operas in Brazil and the hegemony of Globo Televison in the production of the genre. After that, I began to analyse the corpus
with a small resumé of the two soap operas and the corpus analysis was made through senteces extracted from the soap operas .
Finally, I made the macro analysis with the aim to discover if the gay discourse presented in the soap operas contribute or not to the construction of the gay identity in Brazil.Este trabalho tem por objetivo investigar o discurso gay nas novelas da Rede Globo de televisão. Para realizar a investigação, parti de uma micro-análise, análise lingüística, que teve como suporte a Gramática Sistêmico-Funcional (GSF) proposta por Halliday, de onde trabalhei com a noção de metafunção Ideacional, Interpessoal e Textual. A partir da micro-análise foi possível fazer uma macro-análise, ou seja, uma análise social que teve como base as teorias de Foucault (as relações de poder na sociedade e as questões referentes ao discurso sexual), Fairclough (hegemonia, relações de poder e discurso da mídia), Connell (estudos sobre as masculinidades), Moita Lopes, Hall e Goffman ( questões referentes à identidades) e Bauman (as comunidades no mundo globalizado). Porém, antes de proceder a análise lingüística e social, apresentei um percurso histórico da homossexualidade, analisando-a em diferentes culturas e contextos sociais, incluindo o Brasil colônia até os dias atuais. Em seguida, apresentei a história da novela brasileira, seu surgimento e a hegemonia da Rede Globo na produção do gênero. Na análise do corpus, propriamente dita, fiz um pequeno resumo das duas telenovelas a serem analisadas e procedi a análise do discurso gay a partir de orações retiradas dos capítulos selecionados e, por fim, passei à macro-análise, cuja função foi averiguar o papel do discurso gay apresentado nas novelas na construção da identidade gay brasileira. Tal análise foi possível a partir dos elementos obtidos na micro-análise. Os resultados apontaram que houve mudança significativa entre o discurso gay apresentado nas duas novelas, podendo ele contribuir para a construção da(s) identidade(s) gay(s) brasileira(s).
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Plummer, Mary Dianne. "Sexual racism in gay communities : negotiating the ethnosexual marketplace /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9181.
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Goshorn, Jeremy R. "Gay Identity In Emerging Adulthood: Testing The Interaction Between Relational Satisfaction, Outness, And Gay Identity." W&M ScholarWorks, 2020. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1593091884.
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This work explored the ways in which the theoretical constructs of gay identity development, relational satisfaction, and outness interact in gay-male emerging adults. Informed by the literature on these constructs, the researcher developed a structural model to evaluate the interactive and mediating roles within the model. Three instruments were selected to assist in measuring these theoretical constructs. The Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identity Scale (LGBIS) measured gay identity development, the Gay and Lesbian Relationship Satisfaction Scale (GLRSS) measured relational satisfaction, and the Nebraska Outness Scale (NOS) measured outness. A sample of 206 cisgender gay men in Emerging Adulthood (ages 19-29) were recruited from LGBTQ+ Community Centers, Post-secondary Pride Centers, and electronically through the MTurk crowd sourcing platform. Data gathered from these participants was evaluated via Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to examine the relationship between the variables and understand how outness (NOS) and relationship satisfaction (GLRSS) mediate gay identity development (LGBIS). Results of confirmatory factor analysis of all three measures show considerable concerns. This study was unable to confirm author supplied factor structures for any of the instruments used in this work. Results of this study should be considered with extreme caution as the instrumentation used may be flawed and may not have actually measured the intended theoretical constructs. Discussion, consideration of findings, limitations, and areas for future research are given with caution.
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Mayfield, Wayne A. "The relationships among narcissistic vulnerability, gay identity, masculinity ideology, and psychological adjustment in gay men /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9962546.
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Mendez, Christopher. "EXAMINING GAY BLACK MEN’S EXPERIENCES OF RACISM FROM THE LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/948.
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To my knowledge, few studies have investigated the effects of ingroup prejudice. Study 1 assessed the relationship between experienced ingroup prejudice and wellbeing. Results indicated that experiencing racism from the LGBT community was related to poor wellbeing amongst Black men (N=99). Partial correlations indicated that while controlling for other sources of prejudice, racism from the ingroup (i.e., LGBT community) continued to relate to the wellbeing of gay Black men (GBM); however, the relationship between racism from the outgroup (i.e., Whites) and wellbeing was lost. Thus, ingroup and outgroup racism may affect GBM’s wellbeing differently. For Study 2, (N=264) I once again, evaluated the relationship between ingroup prejudice and wellbeing amongst gay Black men. Findings demonstrated that effects of prejudice on wellbeing of GBM were not dependent upon ingroup and outgroup prejudice. However, racism from the LGBT community was more impactful than any other condition. GBM reported lower self-esteem when racism stemmed from the LGBT community versus sexuality prejudice from the Black community. This may be due to GBM finding bias from the LGBT community as more unexpected compared to all other sources of bias. When bias stemmed from the LGBT community compared to all groups, GBM reported lower self-esteem and lower perceived control. Mediation analyses demonstrated that bias expectations mediated the relationship between the difference of racism from the LGBT community from all other groups and wellbeing. Moreover, GBM identified less with their ingroups when they read about ingroup prejudice.
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Mao, Limin. "Gay Asian and Caucasian men in Sydney : cultural, social and cognitive factors associated with sex practices /." Connect to this title online, 2002. http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~thesis/adt-NUN/public/adt-NUN20030303.112942/index.html.
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Talley, Jodie. "A Queer Miracle in Georgia: The Origins of Gay-Affirming Religion in the South." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07312006-142224/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.Title from title screen. Duane Corpis, committee chair; Cliff Kuhn, committee member. Electronic text (168 p.). Description based on contents viewed Apr. 30, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-168).
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Paterson, Sarah B. "Gay and Lesbian Human Rights: An Exploration of Attitudes on a Northeastern University Campus." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2008. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/PatersonSB2008.pdf.
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Zaki, Mohamed. ""And they say there aren't any gay Arabs ..." : ambiguity and uncertainty in Cairo's underground gay scenes." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2013. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/927/.
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This thesis explores issues of subjectivity, collective identity, relatedness and class among young men on Cairo’s underground gay scenes. My thesis, based on 18 months of ethnographic research (November 2009-March 2011) among in Cairo, focuses on the diversity of ways in which ‘gay’ identities are embraced, questioned, and critiqued through the day to day activities of life in the city, and the construction of spaces in which the men move. The thesis analyzes various forms of instability and ambiguity relating to men’s sexuality both on the individual and scene levels. I argue that while a sense of precarity and ambiguity permeates the scene because of security concerns, the elusiveness of recognition both in relation to the state and the family, as well as internal fragmentation along class lines, it allows for a certain creativity as men cultivate and continually invest in the sociocultural maintenance of a ‘gay scene’. Through an examination of performance styles that are heavily influenced by a scene-specific form of camp aesthetics as well as scene-level narratives, I argue that such efforts are attempts at creating a sense of collective identity and permanence on a scene that is all too often experienced as unstable and ephemeral. While this project addresses the very real difficulties men face as homosexuals in Egypt (prosecution, social ostracism and harassment) it illustrates how men take hold of the liminal positions they occupy and experience, and in the process raise important questions about articulations of sexuality, class, and national positioning vis-à-vis a global imaginary.
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Köllen, Thomas, and Szabolcs Lazar. "Gay Tourism in Budapest: An Exploratory Study on Gay Tourists' Motivational Patterns for Traveling to Budapest." Scientific & Academic Publishing Co, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5923/j.tourism.20120103.01.
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In contrast to East European cities, West European cities have increasingly targeted gay and lesbian travelers as part of their tourism campaigns. In order to exemplarily analyze the potential of international gay tourism for Budapest, nineteen semi-structured, in-depth interviews with non-Hungarian gay travelers, about their motivation to come and their experiences, were conducted in different gay establishments in the city. One result of the study is that their motivations for travel did not differ from "mainstream tourists"; while their expectations about gay life in the city were negative, their experiences were mixed. Implications for Budapest's city-marketing are discussed. (authors' abstract)
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Ferreira, Renata Costa. "O gay no ambiente de trabalho : uma análise dos efeitos em ser gay nas organizações contemporâneas." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2007. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/3329.
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Este estudo teve por objetivo analisar o gay no ambiente de trabalho, destacando os efeitos de ser gay nas organizações contemporâneas. A pesquisa foi direcionada a quinze gays homens, empregados de empresas públicas, privadas e de economia mista em Brasília, Brasil, tendo sido desenvolvido, validado e aplicado instrumento de pesquisa com 20 questões relacionadas aos diferentes aspectos que envolvem o gay no ambiente de trabalho e na vida social, dando-se ênfase aos impactos percebidos e vividos por eles por serem assumidos ou vistos como gays. A análise identificou os efeitos decorrentes da revelação (ou não) da orientação sexual no ambiente de trabalho, destacando que a decisão de tornar pública a orientação sexual depende do contexto organizacional ao qual o indivíduo pertence e, neste ponto, mesmo diante de iniciativas sociais, a discriminação e a intolerância contra esse grupo minoritário ainda existem, sendo elas refletidas em ações homofóbicas, em barreiras no tocante à ascensão profissional e à dificuldade de relacionamento. __________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT
This study had as objective to analyze gay in the workplace, being detached the effects of being gay in the contemporaries organizations. The research was directed to fifteen gays men, workers of public, private and of mixing economy companies in Brasilia, Brazil, having been developed, validated and applied an instrument of research with 20 questions related to the different aspects that involve gay in the workplace and the social life, giving emphasis to the impacts perceived and lived for them for being assumed or seen as gays. The analysis identified the decurrent effects of the revelation (or not) of the sexual orientation in the workplace detaching that the decision to become public the sexual orientation depends on the organizacional context which the individual belongs and in this point, exactly ahead of social initiatives, the discrimination against this minority group still exists, being reflected in homophobic actions, in barriers in moving on to the professional ascension and the difficulty of relationship.