Dissertations / Theses: 'Gays'

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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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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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Watkins, Jerry T. "Underneath the rainbow queer identity and community building in Panama City and the Florida panhandle1950-1990 /." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11212008-133628/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008.
Title from file title page. Clifford Kuhn, committee chair; Michelle Brattain, committee member. Description based on contents viewed July 1, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-117).

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Barnes, Johnny L. "Don't Ask, Don't Tell: A Costly and Wasteful Policy ." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Sept%5FBarnes.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Defense Decision-Making and Planning)--Naval Postgraduate School, Sept. 2004.
Thesis advisor(s): Jeffrey Knopf. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-65, 67-76). Also available online.

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Kanuha, Valli. "Stigma, identity, and passing : how lesbians and gay men of color construct and manage stigmatized identity in social interaction /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11188.

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Day, Shelbi D. "Sexual orientation and human rights the use of human rights law to address sexual orientation-based discrimination and violence in Ecuador /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0013124.

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McDiarmid, Marney Elizabeth. "From mouth to mouth an oral history of lesbians and gays in Kingston from World War II to 1980 /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0003/MQ42664.pdf.

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Fernández, Ana María. "Asymmetries among homosexual men and women in subjective distress to sexual and emotional infidelity: A critical test of evolutionary hypothesis." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1616.

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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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Freitas, Anthony J. "Belongings : homosexuality and U.S. citizenship in the 1990s /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3036942.

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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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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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Annetts, J. "Gays, AIDS and social movement theory." Thesis, University of Reading, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.428180.

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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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Sánchez, Mosquera José A. "Democratic gays, modern gays, the construction of homosexual characters in Spanish films during the transition, 1975-1978." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0020/MQ57684.pdf.

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Sanchez, Mosquera Jose A. (Jose Antonio) Carleton University Dissertation Film Studies. "Democratic gays, modern gays. The construction of homosexual characters in Spanish films during the transition (1975-1978)." Ottawa, 2000.

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Sánchez, Mosquera José A. "Democratic gays, modern gays the construction of homosexual characters in Spanish films during the transition (1975-1978) /." Connect to this title online, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD%5F0020/MQ57684.pdf.

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Linneman, Thomas John. "Political climates, perceptions of risk, and contemporary activisms /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8850.

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Roberson, Robert Jeffrey. "Stop the carousel an aid to counseling families of homosexuals /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p062-0258.

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Hostler, Heather R. "Exploring religious experience spiritual development during attempted sexual orientation change /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Pearson, Wendy Gay. "Calling home queer responses to discourses of nation and citizenship in contemporary Canadian literary and visual culture /." Access electronically, 2004. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20060123.143327/index.html.

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Moraes, Thiago Cabral de. "O Rio de Janeiro enquanto destino turístico gay-friendly: a perspectiva dos turistas gays." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/17756.

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Mestrado em Marketing
O Rio de Janeiro é um destino turístico mundialmente conhecido e vem ganhando notoriedade como um dos destinos gay-friendly mais famosos do mundo. O turismo é uma das principais fontes de receita da cidade, o que beneficia a iniciativa privada deste ramo e também a população em geral. Com isto em mente, esta dissertação pretendeu compreender como os turistas gays se sentem em relação ao Rio e, principalmente, entender a perspectiva deles sobre o quão gay-friendly é a cidade. Através de análise de material bibliográfico pertinente, este estudo incluiu pesquisas qualitativa e quantitativa a fim de entender melhor o tema, além do desenvolvimento de uma nova escala para medição do grau de gay-friendliness de um destino turístico. Os dados foram obtidos através de entrevistas com pessoas gays e também através de inquérito por questionário aplicado a turistas gays sobre suas experiências recentes no Rio. Os resultados obtidos indicaram que aspectos são mais importantes para os turistas gays, como segurança, demonstração de identidade e sexualidade, além de estabelecer relações entre as diferentes variáveis levadas em consideração. Ficou evidenciado que a motivação varia conforme a imagem do destino e que experiências satisfatórias tendem a levar a criação de lealdade ao destino, recomendação e intenção de revisita. A partir dos resultados do estudo, constatou-se a importância do marketing turístico em proporcionar aos turistas gays experiências satisfatórias. Por fim, a pesquisa ainda propõe medidas que devem ser tomadas pelas partes interessadas de forma a atrair e reter estes turistas tão valiosos financeira e economicamente.
Rio de Janeiro is a destination known worldwide and it has been gaining notoriety as one of the most famous gay-friendly destinations in the world. Tourism is one of the main sources of income of the city, what benefits not only the private companies in this area but also the population in general. With this in mind, this dissertation intended to understand how tourists feel about Rio and, mainly, to understand their perspective on how gay-friendly Rio is. Through literature review concerning the theme, this study included qualitative and quantitative research in order to have a better understanding of the subject, besides the development of a new scale to measure the gay-friendliness of a destination. The data were obtained from personal interviews with gay people and from a survey conducted among gay tourists about their recent experiences in Rio. The results indicated what aspects are more important to gay tourists, such as security, expressing identities and sexuality openly, beyond stablishing relations between the different variables taken under consideration. It has been clear that the travel motivation varies according to the destination image and that satisfactory experiences tend to create destination loyalty, recommendation and revisit. With the results, it has been found the importance of touristic marketing in providing gay tourists with satisfactory visits. At last, the research proposes measures to be taken by the interested parts to attract and retain tourists that are so financial and economically valuable.

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Hoffman, Warren D. "Gay-valt : queer performance and identity in twentieth-century Jewish American literature, theater, and film /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3135065.

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Prior, Jason Hugh School of Sociology &amp Anthropology UNSW. "Sydney gay saunas 1967???2000 : fight for civic acceptance and experiences beyond the threshold." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Sociology and Anthropology, 2004. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/20732.

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The gay sauna played a central role in the battle for gay liberation in Sydney during the latter part of the twentieth century. This thesis examines the conjunction of social and political forces which contributed to the acceptance of the gay sauna by Sydney???s civic society. Two questions reveal this process: 1. How was an illegal and clandestine place for homosexuals, perceived as a threat to the moral standards of Sydney, transformed into an institutional entity, legally recognised as ???crucial???, and important within particular environs of this city? 2. How did the evolving public domain of gay saunas contribute to the development of gay culture in Sydney by fostering the opportunities for individual and collective expression of homosexual practices? This study is contextualised within international and Australian studies of the sexualisation of urban spaces???such as Michel Foucault???s, Manuel Castells??? and Lawrence Knopp???s???and the role of the built environment in the development of sexual identity and sexual practices???such as Gayle Rubin???s, John Ricco???s, and Joel Brodsky???s. The first part of the thesis is an empirical analysis of development applications for gay saunas in Sydney between 1967 and 2000 which reveals the play of forces within state and local government, legislative processes, the homosexual community and broader civic stakeholders through which the gay sauna achieved acceptance in Sydney???s civic society. Two principal research approaches???documentary research and twenty in-depth interviews???were used in this first part. The second part of the thesis is an ethnography that uses twenty-nine in-depth interviews to provided a unique insight into the evolving public domain of Sydney???s gay saunas and how they fostered the experiences of gay men, allowing gay men to develop individual and collective sexual identities and practices. This exploration of the interplay of built form, sexuality, civic governance, social identity and social action provide a sociological contribution which will also be of interest to gay studies, anthropology, architecture, geography and planning. Essential to an experience of the thesis is a concurrent reading of the Special Enclosures???a schematic chronology of Sydney gay saunas, plans of Sydney and architectural plans of its saunas.

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Doyle, Vincent André. "Coming into site : identity, community and the production of gay space in Montréal." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26733.

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This project explores the question of gay male identity and community formation in relation to the production of social space designated as "gay." What economic, social, political and symbolic resources are involved in the production of gay space? And how can social space be thought of as creating the conditions of possibility for the formation of specific gay identities and communities?
Using a "production of space" analysis adapted from the work of Henri Lefebvre, I examine the case of Montreal's gay village. I argue that the emergence of this space, in both material and symbolic terms, has led to a particular sense of "spatial identity" among many gay men in Montreal. I analyze the implications of these "space-based" identities for queer community formation and conclude that the Village constitutes a compromise with the dominant culture, rather than a radical form of spatial praxis.

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Vestal, Paul D. "Remember gay victims an exploration into the history, testimony, and literature of the persecution of homosexuals by the Third Reich and their effect on a queer collective consciousness /." Diss., [Missoula, Mont.] : The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05142008-150238/.

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Janoff, Douglas. "Pink blood queer-bashing in Canada /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ52091.pdf.

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McCleary, Rollan Richard. "Authority, inspiration and heresy in gay spirituality /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16546.pdf.

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Josephson, Dean Jaik Rea. "Creating accessible counselling services for lesbians and gays." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq23358.pdf.

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Domingues, Hugo Miguel Jacinto. "Prevalência e Caracterização da Violência em Casais de Gays, Lésbicas e Bissexuais." Master's thesis, [s.n.], 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10284/4949.

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Dissertação apresentada à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Psicologia Jurídica
A literatura existente acerca da violência entre parceiros íntimos é vasta, contudo escassa quando ao fenómeno entre parceiros íntimos do mesmo sexo tanto a nível internacional como nacional. Deste modo, o presente trabalho, teve como finalidade estudar a prevalência da violência e as características associadas ao fenómeno da violência nos casais de gays, lésbicas e bissexuais, tanto no papel de vítimas como de perpetradores, nas relações passadas e presentes, comparando os grupos entre si. Assim sendo, foi recolhida uma amostra online de 74 participantes que se autopercecionaram como sendo gays, lésbicas ou bissexuais. Os gays tinham uma idade compreendida entre 19 e 85 anos (M=29.88; DP= 12.38), as lésbicas entre 21 e 52 anos (M=32.36; DP= 10.32) e os bissexuais entre 20 e 39 anos (M=25.18; DP= 6.27). O instrumento utilizado foi o questionário “Violence and Abuse in Same-Sex Relationships” (Noret & Richards, 2003; tradução efetuada por Domingues, Sani & Soeiro, 2014), através do qual os dados obtidos foram sujeitos a tratamento estatístico, no sentido de dar resposta aos objetivos estabelecidos. Os principais resultados mostram congruência com o que outros estudos internacionais e nacionais têm revelado, ou seja, que a violência no seio dos relacionamentos gays, lésbicos e bissexuais, existe e merece um olhar mais atento no que respeita ao seu combate. Os três grupos revelaram prevalências semelhantes em todas as dimensões analisadas, sendo o tipo de violência mais comum, tanto recebida como praticada, é a violência psicológica/emocional. Curiosamente o comportamento de outing, conduta específica a este tipo de população, foi dos tipos de violência menos referida. Assim esta é uma população que não deve ser esquecida e com a qual se deve trabalhar promovendo políticas de intervenção e prevenção acerca do fenómeno de violência, derrubando os obstáculos encontrados por esta à revelação da problemática.
The existing literature on intimate partner violence is vast, yet scarce about phenomenon of same sex intimate partner. Thus, this work aimed to study the prevalence of violence and violent dynamics in gay couples, lesbians and bisexuals, both in the role of victims and perpetrators in the past and present relationships, comparing the groups with each other. It was taken an online sample of 74 participants who self-perception as being gay, lesbian or bisexual. Gays were aged between 19 and 85 years (M= 29.88, SD= 12:38), lesbians between 21 and 52 years (M= 32.36, SD= 10:32) and bisexuals between 20 and 39 years (M= 25.18; DP = 6.27). The instrument used was the questionnaire "Violence and Abuse in Same-Sex Relationships" (Noret & Richards, 2003; translation made by Domingues, Sani & Soeiro, 2014), in which after a literature review about the implicit concepts, we proceeded to statistical analysis in order to meet the stated objectives. The main results show consistency with international and national studies have revealed, namely that violence within relationships of gays, lesbians and bisexuals exists and worrying rates. The three groups showed similar prevalence in all analyzed dimensions, being the most common type of violence, both received as practiced, psychological/emotional. Interestingly outing behavior, conduct specific to this type of population, was the type of violence least mentioned. So this is a population that should not be overlooked and which should work promoting intervention and prevention policies about the phenomenon of violence, knocking obstacles encountered by the revelation of this problem.

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Nystrom, Nancy M. "Oppression by mental health providers : a report by gay men and lesbians about their treatment /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11164.

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Terrible, Heather A. "Workplace discrimination against gay & lesbian employees are state and local governments responding? /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 2003. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Thesis (M.P.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2003.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2963. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as 2 preliminary leaves. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-63).

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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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Lau, Hoi-leung, and 劉凱亮. "Experiencing risky pleasure : the exploration of 'Chem-fun' in the Hong Kong gay community." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/206339.

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This qualitative study purports to explore the prevailing phenomenon of ‘Chem-Fun’, i.e. the combination of drug use and gay sex in the Hong Kong gay community, with the use of in-depth interviews (March 2012 to August 2013 [n=30]), participant observation (February 2012 to July 2013 [18 months]), and textual analysis of two gay websites (March to April 2012 [2 months]). By pinpointing the two loopholes of epidemiological dominance and missing drug in the local drug and local gay literature respectively, this study adopts a cultural approach to fill the gap in which the crucial elements of agency, pleasure, and context are examined. Drawing on the three theoretical strands of postmodern intimacies, geographies of sexuality, and Foucauldian notion of power/resistance, a four-dimensional analytical model has been derived from the data to explore the four major aspects of ‘Chem-Fun’: contexts, spaces, intimacies, and subjectivities. Instead of viewing ‘Chem-Fun’ as a ‘trinity of double’, i.e. double sin (moral/ legal sin), double epidemic (drug addiction and HIV/STDs infection), and double marginalization (from straight/gay world) but rather a ‘way of life’, this study argues that ‘Chem-Fun’ should be understood as a specific form of gay choices, gay project, gay connection, and gay mastery. For contexts, the emergence, prevalence, and transformation of ‘Chem-Fun’ represent a mixture of glocalized and personalized product revolving around the community culture and individual choices, i.e. gay choices. For spaces, the ‘Chem-space’ constitutes a ‘do-it-yourself project’ for the gay men to undermine the dominations of heteronormativity, health imperialism, and homonormativity and hence reclaim their selves and uses of pleasure, i.e. gay project. For intimacies, the intimate ethics of pure eroticism or the ‘RCTF’ culture (respect, collectivity, trust, and flexibility) demonstrates the three principles of emotional democracy (egalitarianism, autonomy, and solidarity) and cultivates an alternative political agenda of gay hedonism, i.e. gay connection. For subjectivities, the refashioning of ‘Chem-Fun’ as an edgework suggests the complicated subjectivities of playmates, i.e. gay mastery. Informed by the cultural approach, these four aspects have painted an alternative picture about ‘Chem-Fun’ in contrast with the epidemiological way of understanding. They are not necessarily a passive, fixed, and pathological retreatist but an arch-inventor, sensation-seeker, and edgeworker to build their own life. Without ignoring the relevant risks, this study gives pleasure an adequate space to understand ‘Chem-Fun’. As a form of queer life, ‘Chem-Fun’ is not just about personal experiences but also collectivities that implies the possible way out of local tongzhi movement from gay pride to gay shame. In this sense, there should be ‘Chem-Fun’ stories but not story. Apart from filling the missing gay and missing drug in local drug and gay study respectively, this research contributes to the sociology of sexuality by connecting the individual intoxicated eroticism to the runaway world of social flows, engaging with the existing concepts to explore the postmodern lives and geographies in the non-Western context, enriching the telling sexual stories tradition, and serving as a methodological remedy for the inadequacy of ethnography or insider perspective in examining drug-related practices in Hong Kong.
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Gay, Wayne Lee. "Jeans, Boots, and Starry Skies: Tales of a Gay Country-and-Western Bar and Places Nearby." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28422/.

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Fourteen short stories, with five interspersed vignettes, describe the lives of gay people in the southwestern United States, centered around a fictional gay country-and-western bar in Dallas and a small town in Oklahoma. Various characters, themes, and trajectories recur in the manner of a short story cycle, as explained in the prefatory Critical Analysis, which focuses on exemplary works of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Shirley Jackson, Italo Calvino, Yevgeny Kharitonov, and Louise Erdrich.

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Higgins, Ross. "A sense of belonging : pre-liberation space, symbolics, and leadership in gay Montreal." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0012/NQ36983.pdf.

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Young, Josephine. "Attitude Functions and Political Behavior: The Issue of Gay Civil Rights." PDXScholar, 1992. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4531.

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This study explored the relationship between voters' political behavior regarding the issue of gay rights and the underlying psychological needs served by their attitudes on this issue. A telephone survey of 100 randomly selected local voters was conducted, during which Herek's (1987) Attitude Functions Inventory (AFI) was administered. Three of the four attitude function subscales (Experiential- Schematic, Social-Expressive and Ego-Defensive) were confirmed using a LISREL confirmatory factor analysis. The Value-Expressive subscale was not confirmed and showed poor reliability. Pro- and anti-gay rights behavior was measured using a Political Behavior Index (PBI) developed for this study. Regression analyses and MANOVAs were employed to test six hypotheses, all of which received some support. Pro-gay rights behavior was associated with ExperientialSchematic attitudes and a Value-Expressive item regarding civil liberties. Anti-gay rights behavior was associated with Ego-Defensive attitudes and a Value-Expressive item regarding moral beliefs. Men scored higher on the EgoDefensive function than did women. Those who knew more gay people were more likely to exhibit Experiential-Schematic attitudes and were less likely to hold Ego-Defensive attitudes. These findings imply that efforts to change anti-gay rights behavior need to address the underlying motivations of Ego-Defense and Value-Expression regarding the construct of moral beliefs. An additional implication is a potential for increasing support for the legal rights of gay people by increasing association with people one knows to be gay.

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Vinces-Guillén, Jessica-Marialaura. "Adaptación de la escala de identidad para lesbianas, gays y bisexuales (LGBIS) en un grupo de lesbianas, gays y bisexuales del Perú." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad de Lima, 2016. http://repositorio.ulima.edu.pe/handle/ulima/3285.

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La identidad de orientación sexual hace referencia a las formas tanto privadas como públicas de la auto-identificación a nivel de orientación sexual y es considerada como elemento multidimensional y central en la identidad de las personas. En este sentido, influye directamente en la toma de decisiones tanto en el ámbito personal como interpersonal. Sin embargo en el Perú no existe ninguna escala que evalué este constructo en personas lesbianas, gays y bisexuales (LGB). Por lo tanto la presente investigación tuvo como objetivo adaptar y estimar las propiedades psicométricas de la Escala de Identidad de Orientación Sexual (LGBIS) propuesta por Mohr y Kendra (2011) en una muestra de 378 personas LGB peruanas. En primer lugar se llevó a cabo la adaptación lingüística de la escala. Posteriormente, por medio del criterio de 6 jueces se hallaron evidencias de validez vinculadas al contenido. Además en relación a las evidencias de validez vinculadas a la estructura interna, se encontró un modelo multidimensional de dos factores o dimensiones diferentes a la propuesta de los autores. Las dos dimensiones encontradas fueron: Incertidumbre y preocupación por la aceptación (a ordinal = .88, EEM= 3.29) e integración de la identidad (a ordinal = .91, EEM= 1.86).En función a la nueva estructura hallada, se propuso La escala de Dimensiones de Identidad de Orientación Sexual (EDOS-LGB). Finalmente, a partir de estos resultados se puede concluir que las interpretaciones de las puntuaciones obtenidas mediante la adaptación de la EDOS-LGB presentan evidencias de validez y confiabilidad en personas lesbianas, gays y bisexuales del Perú.
Sexual orientation identity involves private and public ways of self-identification therefore it is considered as a key multidimensional element in the identity of people. Moreover, it has direct influence in making decisions in the personal and interpersonal sphere. Nevertheless, in Peru there is no scale that evaluates this construct in lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people. Therefore, this research aimed to adapt and assess the psychometric properties of the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Identity Scale (LGBIS) proposed by Mohr and Kendra (2011) on a sample of 378 LGB Peruvian people. First of all, a linguistic adaptation of the scale was done. Later, appropriate validity evidence based on test content was assessed by 6 experts in the topic. Validity evidence based on internal structure was estimated by an exploratory factor analysis which showed a multidimensional solution of two factors. Consequently, this structure differed from the original version. The two dimensions were identified as: uncertainty and acceptance concerns (ordinal a = .88, EEM = 3.29) and identity integration (ordinal a = .91 EEM = 1.86), According to these results, a new scale was proposed: “The Lesbian, gay and bisexual dimensions of Sexual Orientation Identity Scale” (EDOS-LGB). In conclusion, results showed that interpretations based on the scores obtained by adapting the EDOSLGB presents validity and reliability evidence in lesbian, gay and bisexual people from Perú.
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Garland, Kimberly J. "An exploratory study of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender veterans of recent U.S. conflicts a project based upon an independent investigation /." Click here for text online. Smith College School for Social Work website, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/1036.

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Thesis (M.S.W.)--Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Mass., 2007
Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Social Work. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-63).

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Carrasco, Caro Maritza. "¿Comunidad homosexual? Gays y lesbianas en Santiago de Chile." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2005. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/105969.

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Este estudio tiene por objeto investigar la probable existencia de una Comunidad Homosexual. Para ello, se emplea un marco teórico o conceptual que en términos generales, estará dado por el enfoque comunitario desde su perspectiva social y psico-social; de tal manera de observar en esta población homosexual – específicamente gays y lesbianas – cómo se estructuran las relaciones sociales. Se utilizarán elementos teóricos de Pierre Bourdieu como habitus, campos y capitales, además del aporte de la propuesta teórica que el autor presenta como la ‘dominación masculina’, desarrollada en el acápite correspondiente. Necesariamente esta observación de la realidad debe ser cruzada con la perspectiva de género, transversal en este estudio y con elementos desde la Psicología Social como percepción social, prejuicios y control social y el paradigma del Interaccionismo Simbólico. Se ha planteado un objetivo general que dice relación con la caracterización general de ambas categorías sociales diferenciadamente.

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Sanchez, Marcelo Hailer. "A construção da heteronormatividade em personagens gays na telenovela." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2013. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/4504.

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This research aims to analyze the construction of gay characters in narratives displayed in the range night Globo. This is to demonstrate how are strongly marked by heteronormativity, understood as the organization of male sexuality, and how the privilege of this standard becomes invisible even homosexuality in the novels overall. We hypothesized that, unlike what happens with heterosexuality, which organizes homosexuality as an opposite, heteronormativity does not include opposition or heteronomy. The gay characters as discursive device to strengthen the rules of the Matrix heteronormative. The research corpus comprises the novels America (2006), Two Faces (2007/08), Tropical Paradise (2007) and Foolish Heart (2011), to be examined from the angle of its forward or backward in relation to the representation of the body dissident gay. The base of theoretical studies of Michel Foucault about the construction of normative discourses and scholars of communication within the cultural industry such as Edgard Morin and Theodor Adorno. The methodology used and the historical survey decoupage dialog
Esta pesquisa propõe analisar a construção de personagens gays em narrativas teledramatúrgicas exibidas na faixa noturna da Rede Globo. Trata-se de demonstrar como são fortemente marcadas pela heteronormatividade, entendida como a organização masculina da sexualidade, e como o privilégio desta norma ainda torna invisível a homossexualidade nas novelas globais. Trabalhamos com a hipótese de que, diferentemente do que acontece com a heterossexualidade, que organiza a homossexualidade como um oposto, a heteronormatividade não contempla oposição ou heteronímia. Ou seja, as personagens gays enquanto dispositivo discursivo para fortalecer as normas da Matriz Heteronormativa. O corpus da pesquisa compreende as novelas América (2006), Duas Caras (2007/08), Paraíso Tropical (2007) e Insensato Coração (2011), a serem examinadas do ângulo de seu avanço ou retrocesso em relação à representação do corpo dissidente do gay. Utilizamos como base teórica os estudos de Michel Foucault a respeito da construção dos discursos normativos e com os estudiosos da comunicação no âmbito da indústria cultural, tais como Edgard Morin e Theodor Adorno. Como metodologia, utilizamos o levantamento histórico e a decupagem de diálogo

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Tureau, Zachary L. "College Student Identity and Attitudes Toward Gays and Lesbians." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4286/.

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This study investigates the relationship between an individual's attitude toward gay men and lesbians and their identity development. The sample included 440 undergraduates from a university in the northeast Texas area. Many, if not all, of the factors that are associated with negative attitudes toward gays and lesbians (i.e., restrictive gender-role attitudes, high levels of authoritarianism, perceptions of negative attitudes toward homosexuals within their peer group, little or no contact with homosexuals, and conservative religious ideologies) have a logical relation to identity development. Furthermore, the various functions that attitudes toward gays and lesbians can serve (e.g., value-expression, group membership) were hypothesized to be especially attractive for persons in specific identity statuses. Thus, the case was made that identity development may be a valuable framework in which to understand attitudes toward gays and lesbians. In the current study, attitudes toward gays and lesbians were related to identity development, though the relationship is complex. When comparing persons who were higher and lower on absolutism, attitude toward gays and lesbians were most similar in achieved identity groups, while those who were foreclosed were the most disparate. In the interaction between identity, absolutism and gender role stereotyping, some groups utilized their attitude to express values more than other groups. Clinical implications as well as limitations of the study are discussed.

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Carrasco, Caro Maritza. "Subcultura homosexual. Mundo oculto de gays, travestis y transexuales." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2002. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/135256.

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Shockey, Tracy Lee. "The issues faced by mentally ill gays and lesbians." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2119.

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This project is significant to social work because it addresses a topic that has not been given much attention. This particular population has not been studied much and we know little about the issues that are important to mentally ill gays and lesbians. Even in schools of social work this particular topic is frequently overlooked, and when it is discussed it is usually in relation to another topic.

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Fender, Marcelo Foroni. "A experiência e os desafios da adoção por pais que se declaram homossexuais." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2016. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19382.

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There is much social, cultural and academic debate on topics related to adoption by gay men. Literature on this subject refers to many variables in the formation of these families, highlighting gaps in the journey these men are taking. Bearing in mind the need for credible information, we sought to understand the process experienced by openly gay men and their adopted children in order to identify the key challenges. This was qualitative research carried out through semi-structured interviews with six men aged between 35 and 52 years old, when they adopted children aged between eight months and 14. We sought to identify different scenarios throughout the process, from the initial desire to adopt, to the necessary legal and personal preparation, as well as the daily routine of bringing up children of different ages. We identified similarities among parents who adopted children later in life, in particular their willingness to adopt children with varying profiles. These men are primary caregivers responsible for their children’s daily life and education. We also found both the decision to adopt and the process itself were carried out independently of family and friends. Men often have to deal with feelings of anxiety and fear throughout the process, as they slowly develop a closer relationship with, and support the needs of the adopted child. Changes in the parents’ daily routines, even if they were anticipated, were much bigger and difficult to cope with - as well as problems faced by single parents. It was concluded that the parents’ sexuality was less important in cases of single parent adoptions made later in life, in which parents were ill-prepared and lacked social support, highlighting the need for pre- and postadoption support
Muitas são as discussões sociais, culturais e acadêmicas sobre os temas ligados à adoção por homens gays. Ao discorrer sobre este tema, a literatura indica muitas variáveis na consolidação destas famílias, surgindo lacunas acerca do percurso vivencial que estes homens estão percorrendo. Considerando a necessidade de promover informações fundamentadas, para orientação e atendimento, buscou-se compreender o processo vivenciado por homens que se autodeclararam homossexuais e adotaram crianças ou adolescentes, identificando seus principais desafios. Tratou-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, na qual foram realizadas entrevistas individuais semidirigidas com seis homens, que quando adotaram filhos, de idade entre 8 meses e 14 anos, estavam na faixa de 35 a 52 anos. Buscou-se identificar os diferentes cenários ao longo do processo, que se inicia com o desejo de adotar, envolve a preparação jurídica e pessoal e culmina no dia a dia com crianças de diferentes idades. Identificou-se um perfil semelhante entre os pais, no que se refere a terem realizado, principalmente, adoções tardias e, para facilitá-las, terem aberto o perfil de escolha dos potenciais filhos. Esses homens são cuidadores primários responsáveis pelo cotidiano e educação. Verificou-se que tanto a decisão quanto o processo de adoção foram movimentos individuais, sem a participação da família de origem ou amigos. Os homens têm que lidar com os sentimentos, particularmente de ansiedade e medo durante todo o processo e desenvolver uma aproximação lenta juntamente com apoio às demandas do filho adotivo. Foram apontadas mudanças no cotidiano que, mesmo se antecipadas, foram muito maiores e de difícil enfrentamento, bem como dificuldades no estabelecimento da paternidade adotiva singular, superadas ao longo do tempo. Concluiu-se que o fato de estes pais serem homossexuais é menos relevante do que tratar-se de adoções unilaterais, tardias, com pouca preparação e apoio social, o que ressalta a demanda de apoio pré e pós-adoção

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Reed, Juan Y. "Living on the shorline [sic] an African American gay spirituality /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Rooney, S. Craig. "A dimensional analysis of the experiences of gay and lesbian counseling supervisees /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9974679.

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Kelly, Holli Maria. "Police response to incidents of heterosexual, gay and lesbian domestic violence." Online version, 2000. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2000/2000kellyh.pdf.

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Scoville, Diane. "A framework for exploring counselors' anti-queer biases /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7830.

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Linné, Robert Andrew. "Alternative reading lists : personal literacy histories of gays and lesbians /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Gays'

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