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Daniel Mathew Thattil and Sarah Saju Stephen. "Religious values, attitudes towards lesbians and gay men, and gender role beliefs among young adults." World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 22, no. 1 (April 30, 2024): 451–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2024.22.1.1103.
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The study aims to examine the relationship and impact of religious values, attitudes towards lesbians and gay men, and gender role beliefs among young adults. A quantitative approach was employed in this study, utilizing self-report inventories to gather data from 300 participants aged 18-25 years in Indian cities. The questionnaires used were the Duke University Religion Index (DUREL), the Attitude towards Lesbian and Gay Men Scale (ATLG), and the Gender Role Beliefs Scale (GRBS). The results indicated that there was a positive correlation between religious values and attitudes towards lesbians and gay men, a negative correlation between religious values and gender role beliefs, and between attitudes towards the lesbian and the gay men and the gender role beliefs. The study also found that there was a gender difference in the distribution of attitudes towards lesbians and gay men and gender role beliefs between males and females but not towards religious values, and a difference in the distribution of attitudes towards lesbians and gay men and gender role beliefs based on education levels but no distribution towards religious values. The findings provide clinicians and mental health professionals with vital information with regards to the influence of religion and gender role beliefs which are important factors to consider when formulating intervention programs for lesbian or gay men.
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Jacobs, Mary Ann, and Lester B. Brown. "American Indian Lesbians and Gays." Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services 6, no. 2 (May 13, 1997): 29–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j041v06n02_04.
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Arya, Pooja. "Women in Contemporary Cinema: A Study on the Role of Lesbians in LGBTQ Films." Journal of Communication and Management 2, no. 01 (March 18, 2023): 72–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.58966/jcm20232112.
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Women across the globe, along with various feminist outfits, have been struggling to achieve gender equality in social, professional, and personal life. Media is something where women have continuously raised their issues for not getting equal status with men. But, the media is also the place where they face discrimination like getting paid lower than their male counterparts. In Indian TV serials, the role is a little different. Women are given more preference over men, but their role is shown to be restricted to the kitchen and household only. In the world of cinema, actresses are paid lesser than actors.
In many cases, their role is just to be the pillow riders of men. Somehow, the same is the case with LGBTQ characters in films. One can easily remember male LGBTQ characters like Abbas Ali of Bol Bachchan, but the role of a woman belonging to the LGBTQ community is either erotic or negligible. In this research paper, the researcher has tried to discover the prevailing gender inequality in LGBTQ films and the preference for male characters. The researcher has used content analysis to analyze the content of four mainstream Bollywood movies. The main aim of the research is to find out if female charact
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Miller, Rosemaree Kathleen, Daniel O’Neill, Deep Jyoti Bhuyan, and Frances Heritage Martin. "Sex Differences in the Attitudes of Australian and Indian Heterosexual Individuals toward Gay Men, Lesbians, Bisexual Men and Bisexual Women." Journal of Bisexuality 21, no. 3 (July 3, 2021): 332–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15299716.2021.1992328.
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Parker, Myra, Bonnie Duran, and Karina Walters. "The Relationship Between Bias-Related Victimization and Generalized Anxiety Disorder Among American Indian and Alaska Native Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Two-Spirit Community Members." International Journal of Indigenous Health 12, no. 2 (September 20, 2017): 64–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/ijih122201717785.
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit, and American Indian and Alaska Native community members share long histories of discrimination and poorer health status as compared to mainstream Americans. In particular, these groups experience bias-related victimization, a type of discrimination based on inherent traits such as race or ethnicity and sexual orientation. This cross-sectional study (N = 334) used a revised bias-related victimization measure and examined the relationship between self-reported bias-related victimization and generalized anxiety disorder, depression, and substance abuse among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and two-spirit American Indians and Alaska Natives. The results showed that 84.4% reported experiencing bias-related victimization. Those with the highest levels of bias-related victimization had 2.79 times (p = .009; 95% CI [1.30, 6.02]) the risk of reporting symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder as compared to those with no bias-related victimization, controlling for income, education, sex, age, sexual orientation, and chronic disease. There was no significant relationship between bias-related victimization and major depression or substance dependence/abuse. Our results support a potential relationship between bias-related victimization and generalized anxiety disorder for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and two-spirit American Indians and Alaska Natives. Including diverse populations in research is essential to a better understanding of the impact on health outcomes. Inclusion of bias-related victimization questions in clinical treatment may help identify at-risk patients.
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Anand, Ila Mehrotra, and Himani Oberai. "qualitative study on overcoming heterosexist harassment at work: indian cases." Independent Journal of Management & Production 13, no. 1 (March 1, 2022): 384–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v13i1.1571.
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The Purpose of this paper is to understand the heterosexist harassment faced by Lesbian and Gay employees at the workplace in an Indian context where gender stereotypes are rooted throughout society. It also aims at exploring the coping mechanisms used by these gay/lesbian employees to deal with this harassment. In-depth interviews of six lesbian/gay employees from the NCR region of India were conducted for collecting data and information through open-ended questionnaire. The samples were selected through purposive non-probability sampling technique. Each interview has been explained through a case study by identifying themes and patterns based on cross-case synthesis, pattern matching and explanation building among them. The results revealed that the Lesbian/gay employees frequently experienced bullying, unwanted jokes, discrimination based on sexual orientation, sexual assault, dismissal from the job, social ostracism and isolation. Several coping strategies were identified which help the lesbian/gay employees to deal with these heterosexist harassments at workplace. Four broad categories of coping strategies were identified as support seeking, confrontation, inaction, and quitting. It was also revealed that participants resorted to secrecy and withdrawal as a way of managing labeling and stigma and to further avoid the subsequent heterosexual abuse. The findings of the study will advance the knowledge in the heterosexist harassments and coping mechanism used by lesbian/gay employees at workplace. The results contribute to meaningful social change to build safe work environments for Lesbian and gay employees.
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Khuman, Bhagirath Jetubhai. "LGBTQ+ identities in the Indian audiovisual advertisements: A content analysis." PLOS ONE 19, no. 1 (January 18, 2024): e0294071. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294071.
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In the late 2000s, LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and others) identities began to surface in Indian audiovisual marketing campaigns. By 2021, brands had produced at least 105 advertisements featuring LGBTQ+ identities. This research conducts an analysis of these campaigns, examining aspects such as their release date, featured characters, gender identity, sexual orientation, character age, narrative usage, genre, theme, and setting. The study reveals a substantial surge in advertising campaigns since 2018, with brands strategically launching them during Pride Month, Valentine’s Day, and Women’s Day. Characters embodying gay, lesbian, and transgender identities were most prevalent. Advertisements spotlighting gay, lesbian, or both gay and lesbian characters predominantly emphasised themes of love, featuring youthful characters and urban settings. In contrast, advertisements featuring transgender characters centred on human rights, with older characters and non-urban settings. Based on these findings, it is recommended that the number of LGBTQ+ marketing campaigns should continue to rise, diversifying character identities, ages, and settings while being released throughout the year.
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Govender, Karthy. "Oratio: Address to Commemorate the 2013 Martin Luther King Day at the Law Faculty, University of Michigan." Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal/Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad 16, no. 3 (May 3, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2013/v16i3a2351.
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The paper commences by considering the similarity between Dr King, MK Gandhi and Nelson Mandela and argues that they are high mimetic figures who inspire us to be better. Their legacy and memory operate as a yardstick by which we can evaluate the conduct of those exercising public and private power over us. Each remains dominant in his respective society decades after passing on or leaving public life, and the paper suggests that very little societal value is had by deconstructing their lives and judging facets of their lives through the prism of latter day morality. We gain more by leaving their high mimetic status undisturbed. There is a clear link between their various struggles with King being heavily influenced by the writings and thinking of Gandhi, who commenced his career as a liberation activist in South Africa. King was instrumental in commencing the discourse on economic sanctions to force the Apartheid government to change and the Indian government had a long and committed relationship with the ANC. The second half of the paper turns to an analysis of how Dr King's legacy impacted directly and indirectly on developments in South Africa. One of the key objectives of the Civil Rights movement in the USA was to attain substantive equality and to improve the quality of life of all. The paper then turns to assessing the extent to which democratic South Africa has achieved these objectives and concludes that the picture is mixed. Important pioneering changes such as enabling gays and lesbians to marry have taught important lessons about taking rights seriously. However, despite important advancements, neither poverty nor inequality has been appreciably reduced. One of the major failures has been the inability to provide appropriate, effective and relevant education to African children in public schools. Effectively educating previously disadvantaged persons represents one of the few means at our disposal of reducing inequality and breaking the cycle of poverty. Fortunately, there is a general awareness in the country that something needs to be done about this crisis urgently. The paper notes comments by President Zuma that the level of wealth in white households is six times that of black households. The critique is that comments of this nature do not demonstrate an acknowledgment by the ANC that, after 19 years in power, they must also accept responsibility for statistics such as this.
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Walters, Karina L. "Urban Lesbian and Gay American Indian Identity." Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services 6, no. 2 (May 13, 1997): 43–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j041v06n02_05.
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Rupa shree, K., and N. Gayathri. "Deciphering Lesbian Relationships, Marriage and Homophobia in Abha Dawesar’s Babyji." World Journal of English Language 13, no. 5 (April 24, 2023): 443. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v13n5p443.
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Abha Dawesar’s famous novel Babyji is a real kaleidoscope of themes that touch on political tensions, caste and class issues, school atmosphere, urban life, abuse, marriage, and Indianness, all interlaced with a lesbian story of a sixteen-year-old girl. Published in 2005, the period where in India, homosexuality was still under the veils of criminalization. This essay will analyse the representation of the main character, her early lesbian relationships in adolescence, the experiences of other characters in marriage, and how straight people feel about non-heterosexuality in relation to the chosen literary stance. This article is an effort to critically examine the portrayal of lesbian identity by Dawesar which is far from the theoretical and fictional implications of other Indian as well as Indian diasporic writers. It tries to shed light on the author’s intention to re-examine the societal norms, stratification, class distinction and other factors that press women’s independence, especially their sexual autonomy.
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Paul, Newly. "When love wins: Framing analysis of the Indian media’s coverage of Section 377, decriminalization of same-sex relationships." Newspaper Research Journal 43, no. 1 (February 18, 2022): 7–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/07395329221076595.
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In 2018, the Indian Supreme Court overturned Section 377 of the Penal Code which criminalized consensual homosexual sex between adults. This study examines the Indian media’s framing of this repeal, the sources quoted and the prominence given to the issue. Findings reveal that the human/civil rights frame was most common; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) sources were most prominent, and the issue was covered prominently in most major media outlets.
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Kapur, Ratna. "Too Hot to Handle: The Cultural Politics of Fire." Feminist Review 64, no. 1 (April 2000): 53–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/014177800338963.
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This essay explores the ways in which the definition of Indian culture has become a site of contest, and how this contest played out in the controversy that erupted over the release and screening of Deepa Mehta's diasporic film, Fire, in India. I locate this controversy within the broader controversies that are taking place over culture, particularly when issues of sex and sexuality are involved. The continuous targeting of representations of sex and sexuality, betrays an underlying fear that sex is something that is threatening to Indian cultural values, to the Indian way of life, to the very existence of the Indian nation. I discuss the responses to the release of the film by the forces of the Hindu Right as well as feminist and lesbian groups and critique the uncomplicated understandings of culture that informed these positions. Contingent upon these responses rests the story in Fire and the way in which the lesbian subject, a sexual subaltern, is constructed in the cultural space represented in the film. I challenge the positions that suggest that the women are represented as victims in the film, and draw attention to the cultural, sexual and familial ruptures brought about by the main protagonists through their desire for one another. I explore the complicated understandings of agency and desire that are represented through the assertion of this relationship.
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Bose, Aratrika, Tanupriya, and Anuja Singh. "Artistic Representation of Gender Nonconforming Female Bodies in Social Media: A Study of Select Indian Graphic Artists on Instagram." QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 10, no. 2 (June 1, 2023): 70–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.14321/qed.10.2.0070.
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Abstract The study critically examines gender nonconforming female identities via their sexualized representations through artistic imagination on Instagram. Instagram representation becomes a ‘political act’ where this visual subversion allows the queer to reclaim their non-binary identity and thus articulate their choices through their body. The digital graphic art taken under study is select images from the Instagram pages of Indian artists “artwhoring,” “aorists,” and “sayartic.” The research study examines the question of an ideal hegemonic femininity perpetuated by the rhetoric of Indian heteronormative patriarchal assertions. It analyses select images that defy hegemonic femininity and gender binary by embodying an amalgamation of masculinity and femininity and lesbian desire which forms an act of subversion. The methodology of critical discourse analysis is employed to study Instagram art and the critical frameworks of the fantasy female body, and the notion of heteropatriarchal femininity. In conclusion, the study discusses the treatment of female gender non-conforming bodies, their appearance, lesbian desire, and body image. Such transgressive depiction of bodies successfully situates the female body beyond the dichotomy of masculinity and femininity.
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Mohanty, Smita, Suchitra Sahoo, Shraddha Dhal, and Sukanta Chandra Swain. "Analysis of LGBTQ+ Representation in Indian Graphic Novels: A Case Study of Kari by Amruta Patil." International Journal of Religion 5, no. 9 (May 25, 2024): 46–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.61707/r3svyk47.
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The past decade has seen the Indian graphic novel undergo a transformation, turning from a niche market into a vibrant and diverse form of storytelling. The study aims to analyze LGBTQ+ representation in Kari and place it in the overall phenomenon of Indian graphic novels. The methodology included the major theoretical concepts used to analyze the graphic novel and a blend of them: queer theory – “which involves views on this construction by examining the normalization of sexuality”; thematic analysis – a “means of conceptually organizing and structuring the narrative data obtained through interviews. It involves stripping away the details and unique aspects of the text of its read-down meaning”; and analysis of author’s interviews and reviews. The study attempts to summarize findings into gender, sexuality, and sexuality in the Indian context. The paper is an understanding of Indian culture and the changing discourse around LGBTQ+ rights and representation. The novel gives a voice to a narrative that has long been silent – the life of a lesbian woman in a conservative society – by ending the invisibility that surrounds their lives through in a traditional poetic narrative.
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DAVE, NAISARGI N. "Indian and lesbian and what came next: Affect, commensuration, and queer emergences." American Ethnologist 38, no. 4 (November 2011): 650–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01328.x.
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Qureshi, Bilal. "Elsewhere." Film Quarterly 70, no. 4 (2017): 77–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2017.70.4.77.
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FQ Columnist Bilal Qureshi reflects on Deepa Mehta's film Earth at an important moment in Indian and global history. Writing from New Delhi, he had the opportunity to speak to Mehta in person about her life and work, and that discussion is woven into this column. Since making Earth almost twenty years ago, Deepa Mehta has seen her stature grow to include film festival premieres, an Oscar nomination, and a platform as one of the rare women auteurs on the international stage. She has lived in Canada since the 1970s, but her most celebrated films are not about immigrant displacement or hyphenated identity. Rather, she has always told Indian stories. From the groundbreaking story of a lesbian relationship between two housewives in suffocating arranged marriages (Fire, 1996) to the forced exile of widows in orthodox Hindu scripture (Water, 2005), she has confronted uncomfortable social realities in Indian society. Although she has been labeled an anti-national and had sets burned and cinemas attacked by the religious right for insulting traditional values, she has taken the challenges in stride and continued making films.
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Kolmannskog, Vikram. "Right to Love: India's Decriminalization of Homosexuality Understood in Light of Contact." Gestalt Review 25, no. 2 (November 1, 2021): 178–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/gestaltreview.25.2.0178.
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ABSTRACT On September 6, 2018, homosexuality was decriminalized in India. It was the result of a rights mobilization that started almost two decades ago. From the start, Indian lesbian, gay, bi, trans (LGBT) activists tried to influence society and the judges directly, not least through contact with other judges who happened to be gay. This article is a first attempt at understanding the mobilization and decriminalization in light of contact. It is also a first attempt at combining contact theories from both gestalt and the social sciences, including Allport's (1954) contact hypothesis. It seems quite plausible that contact of a certain kind played an important role in the Indian case. Other social movements could learn from this case. Gestaltists, as contact artists could have much to contribute, especially if they also draw upon social sciences and recognize that status, social identity, and power play a role in contact.
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Nida Ansari. "Predicament of a Woman in Manju Kapur’s Home." Creative Launcher 4, no. 6 (February 29, 2020): 12–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2020.4.6.02.
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Manju Kapur is an Indian novelist. She was born on 25th October 1948. She is an archetypal representative of the postcolonial women novelists. She was a professor of English Literature at her alma mater at Miranda House College, Delhi. But she is retired from there. She joined the growing number of Indian women novelists, who have contributed to the progression of Indian fiction i.e. Shashi Deshpande, Arundhati Roy, Kamla Das, Geetha Hariharan, Anita Nair, Shobha De. Her novels reflect the position of women in the patriarchal society and the problems of women for their longing struggle in establishing their identity as an autonomous being. Her works not only gives voice to the society’s effort to improve its women population but it is for every woman’s self–consciousness in order to improve the society. She has written five novels, Difficult Daughters (1998), A Married Woman (2002), Home (2006), The Immigrant (2008), and Custody (2011). Kapur’s most memorable female characters are Virmati, Astha, Nisha, Nina, Shagun and so many others. All of them strive to assert themselves. These characters give us a rare glimpse of modernized Indian women who are in their aggression may enter into a scandalous relationship with her married neighbor, the professor or develop lesbian relationship as Virmati does in Difficult Daughters and Astha in A Married Woman. But Nisha in Home is different from her predecessors.
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Jetmarová, Jana. "“We are Indians, Whores and Lesbians, Revolted and Twined Together.” Decolonial Feminism in Bolivia." Ethnologia Actualis 22, no. 1 (June 1, 2022): 29–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/eas-2022-0010.
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Abstract The aim of the text is to analyse contemporary Bolivian decolonial feminism using Cusicanquiʼs model of cultural hybridity. Cusicanqui formulated the concept of chʼixi as an analytical tool for theorizing about the mixing of cultures that maintain distinct aspects but enter a mutual creative dialogue and create new qualities through it. In my analysis, I focus on two streams of Bolivian decolonial feminism, represented by Mujeres Creando and Mujeres Creando Comunidad movements. First, I describe historical roots of Bolivian decolonial feminism with an emphasis on the influence of anarchist ideas both on the formation of the Bolivian workersʼ movement and on strategies and practices of social and indigenous movements at the turn of the millennium. In the following discussion I analyse the ideologies and strategies of Mujeres Creando and Mujeres Creando Comunidad movements using Cusicanquiʼs model of hybridity. I conclude that both movements construct a subversive network of alternative knowledge and practices, within which seemingly contradictory experiences can coexist harmoniously and create a new, non-dichotomous qualities. According to Cusicanqui, these chʼixi spaces are the source of a new, emerging epistemology based on which a radical vision of decolonised modernity can be formulated.
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Dave, Naisargi N. "Activism as Ethical Practice: Queer Politics in Contemporary India." Cultural Dynamics 23, no. 1 (March 2011): 3–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0921374011403351.
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Why are activists, activists? In this article I address that question, as well as what it means for an ethnographer to ask it. Based on fieldwork with lesbian and gay activists in New Delhi, I argue that activism emerges as ethical practice, and that ‘ethical practice’ consists of three affective exercises: problematizing established social norms, inventing alternatives to those norms, and creatively practicing those newly invented relational possibilities. But the political institutions that activists must engage in order to effect the transformations that they seek are far from conducive to the cultivation of the ethical practice that is at the heart of activism, and this article is partly an ethnography of this tension. I study this tension by tracing a series of key movements in Indian lesbian activism from 1987 to 2008, bookended by the public revelation of two married policewomen in rural India and a Gay Pride parade in central Delhi. Through this narrative, I show how each new shift in activism demands the foreclosure of possibilities and practices that emerged before it. On a reflexive note, I draw a parallel between activism as a fraught, contested undoing and remaking of its very premises and ethnography of activism as entailing the same.
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Boyland, Lori G., Kimberley M. Kirkeby, and Margaret I. Boyland. "Policies and Practices Supporting LGBTQ Students in Indiana’s Middle Schools." NASSP Bulletin 102, no. 2 (June 2018): 111–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192636518782427.
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Principals should lead for social justice, particularly in support of marginalized and vulnerable students like lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) adolescents. This quantitative survey-based study collected data from 116 middle grade principals in Indiana to examine the implementation of antibullying policies and best practices supporting LGBTQ students. Findings suggest that utilization of research-based policies and practices may provide protection and support to LGBTQ students from bullying and discrimination at school. Implications for practice include integration of findings with essential research on bullying and LGBTQ youth.
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Kumar, Parveen. "Hero loves Hero: Understanding the Changing Rendition of Sexuality through the Movie Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan." RESEARCH HUB International Multidisciplinary Research Journal 9, no. 1 (January 12, 2022): 10–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.53573/rhimrj.2022.v09i01.002.
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In the contemporary scenario, there is a growing number of shows in films and television that include gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer characters as central figures and have a queer thematic structure. This paper intends to explore the homosexual themes in the bollywood film Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan (2020). The film is a big leap in bollywood culture of queer films being bollywood’s first mainstream film presenting the love story of a gay couple Aman Tripathi and Karthik Singh. The paper focuses on locating the specific instances where queer themes of identity, acceptance, homophobia, and same-sex love emerge. The paper also aims to capture the response of traditional Indian family and society to same-sex relationships as depicted in the film.
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Lehavot, Keren, Karina L. Walters, and Jane M. Simoni. "Abuse, mastery, and health among lesbian, bisexual, and two-spirit American Indian and Alaska Native women." Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology 15, no. 3 (July 2009): 275–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0013458.
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Lehavot, Keren, Karina L. Walters, and Jane M. Simoni. "Abuse, mastery, and health among lesbian, bisexual, and two-spirit American Indian and Alaska Native women." Psychology of Violence 1, S (August 2010): 53–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/2152-0828.1.s.53.
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Dixit, Gaurav Prakash, Mohit Shukla, and Jitendra Kumar Verma. "A Quick Overview of LGBTQIA+ in India." Journal for Peace and Justice Studies 31, no. 2 (2022): 126–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/peacejustice202231219.
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LGBT describes those who are drawn to other LGBT individuals. These individuals identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In India, homosexuality is nothing new. India is regarded as a nation that embraces and accepts all cultures and customs. However, Indian society is still conservative when it comes to tolerating homosexuality in the general population, and despite the fact that the LGBT community is widely accepted around the world, we still do not wish to embrace LGBT individuals in our ostensibly modern society. In India, sexual minorities are frequently the targets of hate crimes. They are taken advantage of verbally, physically, and sexually since they are easy prey. In order to better understand the LGBTQ community and treat them with respect and dignity rather than labelling them, this study presents a brief summary of the LGBTQ community as well as other glossaries and words of the same group. This review demonstrates social problems like stigma and discrimination, which are still widespread in our Indian society even after the passage of Act 377. It also demonstrates how stigma and discrimination cause mental health problems in people, which in turn lead to suicide because of the severity of their mental health issues.
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Boyland, Lori G., Kimberley M. Kirkeby, and Margaret I. Boyland. "Actions and Attitudes Regarding Middle-Grade LGBTQ Students: Principals’ Perspectives." Journal of School Leadership 30, no. 2 (May 20, 2019): 166–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1052684619852109.
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This study examined Indiana public middle school principals’ perceptions of school conditions and stakeholders’ attitudes regarding middle-grade lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) students. Principals’ responses revealed that inclusive school environments and caring faculty members were prominent factors in successfully providing support to middle-grade LGBTQ students, while the negative attitudes of some parents, community members, and school staff members were barriers to supporting LGBTQ youth. Principals’ self-reported attitudes toward LGBTQ students were favorable and were found to be statistically significant in predicting their reports of school stakeholders’ attitudes, especially teachers. Implications for principal preparation programs and recommendations for school leadership practice are discussed.
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Sarma, Sriya. "Representation of queerness in Ismat Chughtai’s Lihaaf." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 7, no. 1 (2022): 019–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.71.5.
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The term queer carries an uncanny feeling with itself as it attributes to those people whose sexual orientations come outside of the mainstream heterosexual society. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people fall under the umbrella of queer whose existence is neglected since time immemorial in a heteronormative society. The aim of this article is to evaluate the queer identity, its growth, the struggle queer people have gone through over the ages till the emergence of queer movement in late twenties in the context of gays in United States . Besides it also prioritizes the portrayal of queer people in Indian Literature and its acceptance by giving prime importance to Ismat Chughtai’s infamous short story Lihaaf. The homoerotic nature of its female protagonist Begum Jan and her husband Nawab Saheb is clearly seen throughout the story which makes the story controversial.
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Gilley, Brian. "Joyous Discipline: Native Autonomy and Culturally Conservative Two-Spirit People." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 38, no. 2 (January 1, 2014): 17–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/aicr.38.2.l874w4216151vp23.
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The problem driving this essay is how we, as scholars, can account for the complexities of the seemingly unified elements that make up tribally specific identity held among many gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and two-spirit (GLBTQ2) American Indians while asking them to disrupt oppressive sex and gender stabilities within the communities to which they are committed. These unified elements are the social practices, identity categories and historical depths that allow tribal peoples to know who they are and force non-Indians to know who they are not. I do not seek to problematize Native GLBTQ2 as a sexuality, sexual or gender identity. Rather, I am seeking to problematize the forms of power that come to bear on our analysis of on-the-ground identity experience; the ways we position ourselves and are positioned from uneven locations of power. Further, I seek to analyze the ways in which academic constructions of Native and GLBTQ2 identities have the potential to endorse and overinvest in certain experiences and representations.
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Jethava, Nidhi. "Representation Of LGBTQIA+ People in Selected Indian Web Series: A Study." Vidhyayana 9, si1 (December 1, 2023): 8–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.58213/vidhyayana.v9isi1.1576.
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LGBTQIA+ is an acronym for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual. These terms describe the gender identity of those who do not come into the male and female categories. Before 2018 homosexual act between adults was unconstitutional in India under section 377 but on 6th September 2018 Indian supreme court neglected this and their sexual activities or homosexuality became a legal act in India. In the whole world, the media plays a very important and fascinating role to represent any controversy. Now our media like television, OTTs, and cinema also represent the content that discusses the idea of LGBT people. Nowadays the younger generation is moving or shifting towards OTT platforms. On the OTT platform, presenting this kind of content is becoming useful. OTTS is becoming the most trending and easy to represent the difficulties, trauma, depression, raising questions for identities, gender trouble, and the bitterness of life lived by LGBTQIA+. The aim of this article is to drill the concept of representation and acceptance of third-gender people in Indian society through OTT platforms and also it will put light on myths regarding third gender. It has been more than five years since the LGBT+ community and homosexuality are becoming a legal act in India but it has given only legal acceptance. In our society and especially in a small town their acceptance and their sexual acts are still unacceptable and odd. So, media and screens have the power to bring both positive and negative change in the stereotype myths regarding queer people. This research will focus on ‘Mismatched season 2’, ‘Four More Shots Please’ ‘Made in Heaven’, and ‘His Storyy’.
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Mohammed, Azeez Jasim. "New Trends of Feminism in Anurdha Marwa’s Sarkari Feminism." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 11, no. 3 (June 30, 2020): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.11n.3p.34.
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In this paper, Indian feminism with reference to Marwa’s play “Sarkari Feminism” is the focus of study. It projects the two new trends which Marwa criticizes. The first of which is the call for a lesbian relationship as a substitute for a failed one to save woman from philandering on one hand and to give the patriarchal community a lesson to equalize woman. In the second trend, Marwa brings about a theme of incest or a rape case by a family member. As a unique solution to such a case, she suggests a way in which she counters the social conventions through giving the victimized girl the right to elope and seek shelter with whoever is able to save her even if the rescuer does not belong to the same community. “Sarkari Feminism” in its varied dimensions of countering the patriarchal dominated society shows its ability to even reverse the conventional patterns if it helps to bring about a new, independent and ‘Unwomanly Woman’.
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Łukasiewicz, Rafał. "Dane przesłaniające w akcie urodzenia dziecka w świetle najnowszego orzecznictwa NSA – potencjalne wyzwania i zmiany prawa." Prawo w Działaniu 42 (2020): 60–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.32041/pwd.4203.
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The purpose of this article is to compare legal regulations concerning fictitious parents’ particulars to legal effects of recent judgments of the Polish Supreme Administrative Court. Such data are written in a child’s birth certificate and they include invented first name and surname of an unknown parent or parents. This paper analyses two judgments of the Polish Supreme Administrative Court concerning transcription of British birth certificates in which two lesbian couples (Polish citizens) were written as parents. In addition, there is an analysis of the judgment of the Polish Supreme Administrative Court concerning the transcription of an Indian child’s birth certificate, in which only the intended Polish father’s first name and surname were stated. The aforementioned judgments could have a great impact on current legal principles of creating birth certificates in Poland. Furthermore, this article presents possible legal problems which could happen in the nearest future, as well as potential directions for changing the Polish legal system in the area in question.
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Samaha, Hasby Matlul. "The Concept of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) is seen from the Legal Norms of Indian Society." Jurnal Daulat Hukum 6, no. 1 (May 25, 2023): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.30659/jdh.v6i1.31181.
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This research is to find out that most homosexuals (Lesbian, Gay and transgender) begin to realize that they have different tendencies at a young age. Studies show that homosexual behavior and same-sex attraction are common from the age of 15, the prevalence is in men, in America 20.8%, UK 16.3%, and America 18.5%. While in the women's group respectively 17.8%, 18.6%, and 18.5%. This situation shows that the school age group is a vulnerable age to start engaging in same-sex relationships. This study uses cross-sectional (cross-sectional) with a qualitative approach. Data was collected using in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and literature review. While the decision to become homosexual mostly occurs at the age of young adults or at the age when most of them are students. Becoming LGBT is not an easy endeavor and even afterwards it is not without problems, many problems and risks arise when young adolescents start to engage in same-sex relationships, for young men the lack of knowledge about the risks of sexual relations can cause them to be easily exposed to HIV and sexual harassment from those with more experience . Ignorance of their state of self can also lead to social turmoil and depression. For young men, the lack of knowledge about the risks of having sex can make them more susceptible to HIV exposure and sexual harassment from those with more experience. Ignorance of their state of self can also lead to social turmoil and depression. For young men, the lack of knowledge about the risks of having sex can make them more susceptible to HIV exposure and sexual harassment from those with more experience. Ignorance of their state of self can also lead to social turmoil and depression.
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Gola, Swati. "One step forward or one step back? Autonomy, agency and surrogates in the Indian Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill 2019." International Journal of Law in Context 17, no. 1 (February 16, 2021): 58–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s174455232100001x.
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AbstractThe Indian government has recently introduced legislation to regulate ‘altruistic’ surrogacy while banning ‘commercial’ surrogacy amidst the criticism that India has become the ‘baby factory’. In the past decade, academic discourse has raised socioethical and legal issues that surfaced in the unrestricted transnational commercial-surrogacy industry. Most of the literature and ethnographic studies centred on the issues of informed consent, autonomy, decision-making and exploitation. With the proposed legislation, the Indian government has shown its will to regulate surrogacy, including the medical intermediaries as well as the contract between the intending parents and the surrogate mother-to-be. The present paper addresses the legal and socioethical context in which India introduced the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill 2019. It examines the extent to which the proposed law responds to the legal challenges and socioethical concerns that surfaced in the course of unregulated transnational commercial-surrogacy arrangements in India. It argues that, even though the proposed legislation addresses and responds to some of the legal and ethical concerns such as informed consent and legal parentage, it stops short of ensuring the welfare and well-being of the surrogate. Second, the legal certainty of parentage and the child's rights comes at the cost of the physical and psychological well-being of the surrogate. Finally, it argues that, by presupposing the surrogate as an autonomous agent and yet imposing the requirement of marriage, the Bill overlooks the sociocultural realities of patriarchal hierarchies entrenched in Indian society – that, in its conception of ‘family’, the focus on the ‘traditional’ family not only presents a narrow view of the heteronormative family and perpetuates the patriarchal notions of gender roles, but also fails to take into consideration maternal pluralism in surrogacy arrangements, undermines the modern family and, above all, discriminates against the single person's and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities’ right to found a family. Since many countries that served as centres for international commercial-surrogacy arrangement (such as Cambodia, Thailand and Nepal) have recently started to take steps to prohibit or limit transnational surrogacy arrangements, the analysis of Indian law in the present paper will provide a useful context within which these countries can effectively regulate surrogacy while safeguarding the surrogate's rights and interests.
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Falquet, Jules-France. "Panorama du mouvement après la sixième rencontre féministe latino-américaine et des Caraïbes." Cahiers du Genre 9, no. 1 (1994): 133–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/genre.1994.941.
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The Latin-American and Caribbean Feminist Movement after the fith international meeting. El Salvador, nov. 93. Since 1981, the Latin-American and Caribbean feminist movement has organized every three years in different countries, international meetings to evaluate and share analysis as well as to consider new perspectives. The meetings play an important role in the building of a wider and more complex movement. Fragmented and heterogeneous, as the society from which it emerges, Latin-American feminism tries to integrate its own diversity. However, ther is still a lot to do for the "others" (that is to say women from the popular sectors, indian women, black momen, lesbian, young women) to be part of the collective "us" which in fact is the "we" of the middle class, educated and healthy women who tend to be hegemonic in the movement The movement has to cope with two more difficulties : the development of efficient and different strategies in political struggles and the problems generated by its own institutionalization as far individual power and new submissions to northern structures are concerned.
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Sarkar, Dwitiya, and Dhiman Roy. "K. Vaishali K. Vaishali, Homeless: Growing up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India. Hyderabad: Yoda Press. 2023. I." Southeast Asian Review of English 61, no. 1 (July 1, 2024): 259–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol61no1.17.
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What does it mean to be dyslexic and lesbian at the same time in a dysfunctional, unsupportive family in India? How does one confront both ableism and homophobia in a complex heteronormative society that always dismisses any “unconventional” traits and behaviors as deviant? Indian-born author and LGBTQ activist K. Vaishali's narrative reveals the dark, cruel, and repressive side of society by delving deeply into these issues, without worrying about adhering to political correctness. Using life-narrative as a tool, she exposes several myths, misconceptions, and also limitations of knowledge about children with dyslexia. When people in India talk about dyslexia, she says, the image of the stereotyped child from the 2007 highly acclaimed Bollywood film Taare Zameen Par pops into their heads, since what little we know about dyslexia comes from this one cult classic, which indicates our limited understanding of the phenomenon. Moreover, she reveals how she was kicked out of her own house due to her “unnatural” sexual preference from her own home: “I told my mother about my sexuality and from a wicked curse I lost the house, job, and girlfriend- I lost my Bombay life. Since then, I’ve been living out of my suitcase, like I am a fugitive on the run” (Vaishali 5).
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Roy, Suparna, Labanya Ray Mukherjee, and Prasenjit Bhattacharjee. "Women as Marginalized Beings: A Reflection on the Intersectionality of Marginalization within Indian Literary and Social Framework." Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (JHASS) 5, no. 1 (April 29, 2023): 49–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.36079/lamintang.jhass-0501.519.
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As Elizabeth J. Meyer wrote in the book Queering Straight Teachers Discourse and Identity in Education is that, “Queer theory goes beyond exploring aspects of gay and lesbian identity and experience. It questions taken-for granted assumptions about relationships, identity, gender, and sexual orientation. It seeks to explode rigid normalizing categories into possibilities that exist beyond the binaries of man/woman, masculine/feminine, student/teacher, and gay/straight” (Meyer, 1). Among these series of complexly designed network of marginalization, which is a branched and towered regime of oppression in Indian framework, so, I select Gender and Caste as that lens to depict the narratives of marginalized identity- women. The concept of “women” as Judith Butler defines in her famous work Gender Trouble 1990- “Women are the sex which is not “one”. Within…a phallogocentric language, women constitute the unrepresentable…women represent the sex that cannot be thought, a linguistic absence and opacity” (Butler, 13). The identity of a woman gets trapped between some supposed and created links, which therefore my paper will try to discern, by the application of queer post-structuralist feminist theory, in both few selected literary texts- Mahasweta Devi’s Rudali and Breast Stories, Chitra Banerjee Devakaruni’s Mistress of Spices, Vine of Desire, and Sister of My Heart, and social context- women as subject of politics within the rape culture.
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Walters, Karina L., Pamela F. Horwath, and Jane M. Simoni. "Sexual Orientation Bias Experiences and Service Needs of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Two-Spirited American Indians." Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services 13, no. 1-2 (August 3, 2001): 133–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j041v13n01_10.
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Ramírez-Rincón, Michael Eduardo, and Gloria Susana Velasco López. "Experiencias de la disidencia sexual y la disidencia de género en colegios bogotanos: el lugar de los docentes de la población LGBTIQ y las opiniones de la comunidad escolar." Revista Educación y Ciudad, no. 43 (May 27, 2022): 71–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.36737/01230425.n43.2022.2714.
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En este artículo se presentan algunos de los resultados más representativos de una investigación doctoral desarrollada durante el año 2021. Debido a las expresiones de violencia, acoso y discriminación que aún experimentan las personas de la población LGBTIQ en los colegios bogotanos, se consideró pertinente comprender las afectaciones de las dinámicas escolares cotidianas sobre las experiencias de disidencia sexual y de género de profesores homosexuales, lesbianas y transgénero cuyos relatos biográficos se contrastaron con las narrativas grupales de padres de familia, estudiantes y docentes desde un enfoque cualitativo-hermenéutico. Los resultados indican que los discursos y prácticas escolares relacionados con la sexualidad y el género están determinados por referentes heteronormados cuyo efecto sobre las experiencias de la disidencia sexual y de género de los docentes de la población LGBTIQ al interior de los colegios bogotanos es problemático, de ahí que estos educadores, en la mayoría de los casos, prefieran mantener privada su orientación sexual diversa o identidad de género no normativa.
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Chakrapani, Venkatesan, Peter A. Newman, Murali Shunmugam, Shruta Rawat, Biji R. Mohan, Dicky Baruah, and Suchon Tepjan. "A scoping review of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) people’s health in India." PLOS Global Public Health 3, no. 4 (April 20, 2023): e0001362. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001362.
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Amid incremental progress in establishing an enabling legal and policy environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer-identified people, and people with intersex variations (LGBTQI+) in India, evidence gaps on LGBTQI+ health are of increasing concern. To that end, we conducted a scoping review to map and synthesize the current evidence base, identify research gaps, and provide recommendations for future research. We conducted a scoping review using the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology. We systematically searched 14 databases to identify peer-reviewed journal articles published in English language between January 1, 2010 and November 20, 2021, that reported empirical qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods data on LGBTQI+ people’s health in India. Out of 3,003 results in total, we identified 177 eligible articles; 62% used quantitative, 31% qualitative, and 7% mixed methods. The majority (55%) focused on gay and other men who have sex with men (MSM), 16% transgender women, and 14% both of these populations; 4% focused on lesbian and bisexual women, and 2% on transmasculine people. Overall, studies reported high prevalence of HIV and sexually transmitted infections; multilevel risk factors for HIV; high levels of mental health burden linked to stigma, discrimination, and violence victimization; and non-availability of gender-affirmative medical care in government hospitals. Few longitudinal studies and intervention studies were identified. Findings suggest that LGBTQI+ health research in India needs to move beyond the predominant focus on HIV, and gay men/MSM and transgender women, to include mental health and non-communicable diseases, and individuals across the LGBTQI+ spectrum. Future research should build on largely descriptive studies to include explanatory and intervention studies, beyond urban to rural sites, and examine healthcare and service needs among LGBTQI+ people across the life course. Increased Indian government funding for LGBTQI+ health research, including dedicated support and training for early career researchers, is crucial to building a comprehensive and sustainable evidence base to inform targeted health policies and programs moving forward.
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Dhal, Sangita. "Public Policy Discourse and Sexual Minorities: Balancing Democratic Aspirations, Political Expediency and Moral Rights." Indian Journal of Public Administration 68, no. 1 (February 3, 2022): 34–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00195561211058435.
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LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual) is an evolving issue which needs to be debated in the legislatures and political space in general to deconstruct and redefine the narratives which have been influenced by the dominant sociocultural stereotypes. This is important in the context of the changing scenario worldwide involving the LGBTQIA+ community where assertions are being witnessed to reclaim the democratic space and civil rights to give shape to a more egalitarian and inclusive civic culture. This article highlights the changing character of the public discourse on LGBTQIA+ community in India in recent times and its impact on the judiciary and the political system. In the light of the recent Supreme Court landmark verdict of decriminalising Section 377 of Indian Penal Code (IPC), the present article seeks to examine a vast array of possibilities and challenges before the LGBTQIA+ community. The legal safeguards guaranteed through judicial pronouncements by the Supreme Court (6 September 2018), however, do not ensure the creation of an enabling social environment to accept homosexuality as a ‘normal behaviour’. Hence, unless corresponding corrective measures are taken to bring about social reforms for change of perception towards the homosexuality community, no amount of judicial intervention will guarantee their inclusion in the mainstream.
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Bhardwaj, Pooja. "Moving from Fear to Freedom: A Quest for Love, Respect, Freedom and Acceptance by LGBTQ Community Through Indian Cinema." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES 13, no. 01 (2023): 353–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v13i01.029.
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The LGBT community is subject to gender-based violence and other violations of human rights since these laws are invisible to the public. Film has unquestionably been important to the LGBT movement in India. Like many contemporary movements, the queer movement in India seeks to change ingrained social mores, notably the pervasive notion that sexual orientation is merely a phase. Film is viewed as a social cycle in which audience members interpret signs or messages that are broadcast to them using their aural and visual senses. The movies have become much too popular a tourist attraction. Dramatic cinematography and sound film in an exhibition of copying not only shocks us but also holds our attention. Film has the power to captivate audiences, educate viewers, and shift the collective conscience. This huge growth of Bollywood in India and overseas is described by “Jaikumar (2006)” in his book ‘Film Towards the End of Empires’. Bollywood, an Indian film industry powerhouse, mimics and analyzes the public's credit, complexity, genuine elements, and deceptions via a variety of narrative perspectives. As a result, our worldview and general awareness are shaped by Bollywood This Research paper sets out to examine the mainstream treatment of homosexuality in Hindi films, with a focus on how the LGBT community is depicted. And how they fight for their rights for freedom, love, respect and acceptance in the society. The arrival of cinema in India's LGBT community was unquestionably a game-changer. Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender persons are all part of the sexual minority. Among the numerous nations where homosexuality is still frowned upon one is India. In colonial India, the British enacted Section 377 of the Indian Criminal Code, which still exists today and criminalises homosexuality. In this paper, we have shown Hindi cinema’s representation of the LGBTQ community in films like Badhaai Do, Kapoor & Sons, Dear Dad, Ek Ladki ko Dekha to Aisa Laga, Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan and their struggle and acceptance in the society in the 21st century.
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Rana, Amandeep, and Harpreet Kaur. "Communicating in the Third Space: A Psycho-Cultural Reading of Mahesh Dattani’s Radio Play Do The Needful." Indialogs 10 (April 12, 2023): 59–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/indialogs.227.
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Homosexuality, gay/lesbian relationships and same-sex marriage are a few bizarre issues that still raise a lot of eyebrows in our society; these people remain marginalized and uprooted in our socio-cultural setup. Mahesh Dattani’s first radio play Do the Needful focuses explicitly on some shared spaces among men, women and the third gender people in Indian society which pre-dominantly promotes the patriarchal family setup and discourages any change that challenges the established and existing structure of it. Dattani, very cleverly through the ‘thought’ technique, brings out his characters’ subconscious thoughts and their conflict with the socially constructed hegemony. They are not what society thinks of them; they are not what they want to be; they are not what they actually are; they are the inhabitants of a different world – a third space. Not only the two lead characters, Alpesh and Lata, but all characters search for ease in a third space. The ‘otherness’ that they feel in the psycho-cultural frame brings them to a common platform – Teri bhi chup, meri bhi chup. The present paper aims at testing Bhabha’s postcolonial concept of ‘the third space’ and ‘in-betweenness’ in the psycho-cultural sphere, by highlighting and analyzing the space created by various characters for themselves under the weight of repressed (homo)sexual desires, social structures and cultural constraints.
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Lew, Rod, Jaime Martinez, Claradina Soto, and Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati. "Training Leaders From Priority Populations to Implement Social Norm Changes in Tobacco Control." Health Promotion Practice 12, no. 6_suppl_2 (November 2011): 195S—198S. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524839911419296.
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The development of leadership in tobacco control has been crucial in the fight against the number one most preventable cause of death and disease worldwide. Yet today, little scientific evidence exists regarding its actual impact, particularly among priority populations. This article describes the impact of the Leadership and Advocacy Institute to Advance Minnesota’s Parity for Priority Populations (LAAMPP Institute), a major tobacco control leadership program for five priority populations: African/African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, Chicano/Latinos, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender communities in Minnesota. The LAAMPP Institute, a year-long institute with 17 days of training, focused on the core competencies of advocacy, collaboration, cultural or community competency, facilitation, and tobacco control. A logic model helped to guide and frame the institute’s efforts. The LAAMPP Institute has been effective in increasing fellows’ capacity to do advocacy, which in turn has led to increased involvement in implementing social norm–change activities. Leadership development can provide a solid foundation for training leaders and a catalyst for mobilizing key advocates and priority population communities toward the implementation and sustainment of social norm or policy changes.
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Gupta, Annie. "LGBTQIA+ RIGHTS AND SEXUAL DIVERSITY IN MADE IN HEAVEN." International Journal of Advanced Research 11, no. 09 (September 30, 2023): 245–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/17526.
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LGBTQIA is an acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (ones sexual or gender identity), intersex, and asexual/aromantic/agender. These terms are used to describe a persons sexual orientation or gender identity. The term LGBT is in use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the term LGB, which replaced the term gay in reference to the LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s. Many activists believed that the term gay community did not accurately represent all those to whom it referred. Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code is a section of the Indian Penal Code introduced in 1861 during the British rule of India. Modelled on the Buggery Act of 1533, it makes sexual activities against the order of nature illegal. On 6 September 2018, the Supreme Court of India ruled the decriminalisation of Section 377 which has led to the publics acknowledgement of the third gender in India. Time and again media have played role in creating awareness about the concerns related to the community. Many films, television shows, and OTT platforms have also shown content related to the LGBTQIA+. In recent times, majority of viewers have shifted to OTT platforms and one can witness that with benefits of OTT, it has become easy for content producers to highlight any topic of interest and relevance. Many series on famous OTT platforms are presenting LGBTQIA+ relations in an undisguised manner so that the society also recognises LGBTQIA+ communitiesall across the world, their rights, and their culture and that this be marked by a spirit of resistance and acceptance as opposed to an attitude of shameby creating an awareness in the mind of the viewers. The study aims to find out the representation of LGBTQIA+ on Amazon Prime Video and their influence on society. This is exploratory research. The content analysis of web series on Amazon Prime Video has been done to understand the type of content shown in web series and in-depth interviews have been conducted to understand the influence of such content on the LGBTQIA+ community members.
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Plymire, Darcy. "BOOK REVIEW: Edited by Dana Heller. CROSS PURPOSES: LESBIANS, FEMINISTS, AND THE LIMITS OF ALLIANCE. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997. and Edited by Elizabeth Weed and Naomi Schor. FEMINISM MEETS QUEER THEORY. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. and Edited by Bonnie Zimmerman and Toni A. H. McNaron. THE NEW LESBIAN STUDIES: INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. New York: The Feminist Press, 1996." NWSA Journal 10, no. 2 (July 1998): 143–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/nws.1998.10.2.143.
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Webster, Craig, Chih-Lun (Alan) Yen, and Sotiris Hji-Avgoustis. "RFRA and the hospitality industry in Indiana: political shocks and empirical impacts on Indianapolis’ hospitality and tourism industry." International Journal of Tourism Cities 2, no. 3 (August 8, 2016): 221–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijtc-05-2016-0011.
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Purpose Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) is a controversial bill passed by the State of Indiana and signed into law in March 2015. The purpose of this paper is to look into whether there is empirical evidence that the political shock of RFRA had a negative empirical impact upon the hotel industry in Indiana’s major city, Indianapolis, and investigate how DMOs and other organizations in the tourism and hospitality industry worked in ways to counteract the threat of a great deal of loss of business caused by the national furor caused by the passing of the original bill in March 2015. Design/methodology/approach To fully examine the impact of RFRA on hospitality business in Indiana, secondary data were used in this study. The researchers used the Trend Market report created by Smith Travel Research (STR) (2016b) with a focus on the greater Indianapolis area, which include Indianapolis South East, Indianapolis Central Business District, Indianapolis Airport/Speedway, Indianapolis North Loop, and Indianapolis small towns. In the Trend Market report, hotel operation performance results are listed including occupancy percentage, average daily rate, revenue per available room, supply, demand, and revenue. Findings The findings from this investigation illustrate that there is no empirical reason to believe that the political shock of the RFRA controversy in Indiana in 2015 had a meaningful impact upon the hospitality and tourism industry in Indianapolis, despite concerns that it would make a big and negative impact upon the industry. While event planners may have a negative perception of the city of Indianapolis and the state, these perceptions do not seem to be enough to make a difference in terms of impacting upon the hospitality industry in Indianapolis. Originality/value There are lessons that could be learned from this, as many states in the USA continue to pass similar laws to RFRA, laws that are perceived as being problematic for those in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. The most noteworthy lesson is that the passing of laws that seem to threaten people of the LGBT community will bring a national response and will likely be accompanied with threats that are economic in nature. There is a great deal of evidence to show that passing any legislation that may be interpreted as infringing upon the rights of members of the LGBT community will result in substantial responses that may be negative in nature.
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Asociación Kukulcán, Layonith Chinchilla Rodas, Miguel Landa Blanco, Maiteé Agüero, and Yarell Reyes. "Los efectos de la discriminación en la salud mental de la población LGTB+ de Honduras." Población y Desarrollo - Argonautas y Caminantes 18 (October 28, 2022): 106–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/pdac.v18i1.15040.
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El presente estudio tiene como propósito analizar los efectos de la discriminación percibida sobre la salud mental de la población Lesbiana, Gay, Bisexual, Transgénero (LGTB+) del Municipio del Distrito Central (M.D.C.) de Honduras. Como dimensiones de salud mental se incluyen indicadores sobre síntomas de depresión, síntomas de ansiedad, autoestima y satisfacción con la vida. La investigación se realizó bajo un enfoque cuantitativo, transversal, no-experimental. El estudio contó con la participación de 437 personas que se identificaron como miembros de la población LGTB+ que residen en el M.D.C. de Honduras. Los resultados indican una alta prevalencia de síntomas de depresión y ansiedad entre los y las participantes del estudio. La discriminación percibida aumenta significativamente los síntomas de depresión y ansiedad, mientras que disminuyen la satisfacción con la vida y la autoestima. Las personas que expresan abiertamente su orientación sexual y/o identidad de género tienden a reportar una mayor discriminación y ansiedad. No obstante, los síntomas de depresión, satisfacción con la vida y autoestima no muestran variación entre ambos grupos. Por otro lado, existen diferencias estadísticamente significativas en todos los indicadores de salud mental, según la clase social autoreportada. Los y las participantes que se consideran a sí mismos como clase social baja tienen los puntajes más elevados de discriminación, depresión y ansiedad; de igual forma, estos reportan los niveles más bajos de satisfacción con la vida y autoestima. Se concluye que la discriminación perjudica significativamente la salud mental de la población LGTB+.
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Tharp, G., Manisha Wohlford, and Anubhuti Shukla. "Reviewing challenges in access to oral health services among the LGBTQ+ community in Indiana and Michigan: A cross-sectional, exploratory study." PLOS ONE 17, no. 2 (February 25, 2022): e0264271. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264271.
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Objective In healthcare settings, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) populations often experience discrimination, leading to decreased healthcare services utilization. In this study we have tried to identify oral healthcare providers (OHP)’s perceptions toward LGBTQ+ patients, perceived barriers for LGBTQ+ patients in accessing oral health services, and whether they were open to inclusive oral healthcare practices. In addition, the experiences of LGBTQ+ patients in oral healthcare settings including their oral healthcare seeking behaviors and beliefs were also explored. Methods Descriptive, quantitative surveys were administered to OHPs and LGBTQ+ patients within Indiana and Michigan. Surveys contained questions about participant demographics, including gender and sexual minority status, and the presence of inclusive healthcare practices within the oral healthcare settings. Descriptive analyses and regression modeling were used to explore the distribution of participant responses and to identify predictors associated with patient comfort and OHP’s attitudes toward LGBTQ+ patients. Results Overall, 71% of LGBTQ+ patients reported regularly attending dental appointments; however, 43% reported feeling uncomfortable going to appointments and 34% reported being treated unfairly during appointments because of sexual orientation. Among OHPs, 84% reported that the healthcare settings where they practiced were welcoming for LGBTQ+ populations and 84% reported willingness to improve LGBTQ+ care. The presence of inclusive healthcare practices predicted comfort for LGBTQ+ patients (P < 0.10). Additionally, OHPs who either identified as an ally or as having a family member or close friend in the LGBTQ+ community had higher odds of feeling responsible to treat LGBTQ+ patients. Conclusion Many LGBTQ+ patients often experience discomfort in oral healthcare settings. While OHPs were largely unaware of this, evidence suggests the need for cultural competency training for OHPs.
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Trompetter, Linda, Arthur Breese, James Calderone, Grace S. Fisher, Rodrigo Gereda, Mari King, Richard Kramer, et al. "Focus Group Study of Diverse Local Populations and Their Health Care Experiences in Northeastern Pennsylvania." Californian Journal of Health Promotion 3, no. 3 (September 1, 2005): 73–126. http://dx.doi.org/10.32398/cjhp.v3i3.650.
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This investigation was conducted through the support of the College Misericordia Diversity Institute and a grant from the Blue Ribbon Foundation of Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Focus group participants were 49 adults from seven minority populations residing in northeastern Pennsylvania’s Luzerne and Lackawanna counties. Data was collected by 11 focus group leaders who were members of a Blue Ribbon Grant Core Committee at College Misericordia in 2004. The seven populations studied were African Americans, Arabic Muslims, Asian-Chinese and Korean, Gay and Lesbian, Hispanic, Jewish, and Asian Indian. A 30-question survey was used to collect data during one to two hour focus group interviews. Through content analysis, six problematic issues faced by many of the participants were identified. All of the findings were validated by a review process. The six issues faced by the 7 groups were: 1) Economics, Education, and Employment Influence Life for Newcomers, 2) Customs and Traditions Sometimes Sacrificed- The Influence of American Culture, 3) Socialization Often Limited to Same Population Group, 4) Mixed Acceptance Level from Area Natives, 5) Bilingual Challenges Impede Optimal Inclusion, 6) Health Care Access Problems. The aforementioned cross-groups study is explored in this report. The study also yielded seven other reports (one for each diverse population) which provide a description of that particular focus group’s perspective on topics such as religion, food, family, customs, and health care (see Appendices A, B, C, D, E, F, and G). Findings of this study are being disseminated in a local effort to educate health care professionals. Future research will be needed to determine if progress is being made in fulfilling the health care needs of all diverse populations living in Luzerne and Lackawanna County, as well as other parts of northeastern Pennsylvania.
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Sharma, Bimala. "Men from the Lenses of Deepa Mehta in Fire and Water." Journal of Balkumari College 9, no. 1 (July 14, 2020): 13–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jbkc.v9i1.30062.
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Movie in this era has become one of the dominant modes of disseminating perceptions. Women and their issues are vital themes of women centric movies. Stereotypically, these movies display women and their position in patriarchal society. Displaying women and their issues in women centric movies is rationally expected but how men are displayed in such movies has not been given much consideration. Customarily men in such movies are presented negative which have negative impact on their audiences too. This article sets its attention on how men are seen from the lenses of women and shown in women-oriented movies. Deepa Mehta is selected to analyze how she has seen men through her lenses and represented them in Fire and Water. Qualitative research methodology is adopted where Deepa Mehta's Fire (1996) and Water (2005) are the primary data and other resources based on it are secondary. Fire is the story of two lesbian women and Water is about widowhood. Characters like Ashok, Jatin, Mundu, in Fire and Seth, Sadananda and Narayan in Water are studied and found that they are presented as the agents of the patriarchal society. Men are exhibited with all the set masculine traits as strong, brave, bold, intelligent, assertive, aggressive, savior, ruler, educated, handsome, smart, dynamic, powerful who can construct the society as they want. Sexually obsessed men in the movies represent the existing Indian patriarchal society. Abusing woman verbally, physically, mentally and sexually is considered as men's privilege. This justifies that Mehta is unable to deconstruct the notion of masculinity as presented by men directors. She also falls in the trap prescribed by patriarchy and for this she has to present men with all positive and masculine traits and women with negative feminine traits. This kind of representation of men has a large impact on the mass because of unintentional imitation.