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Colussi, Chiara <1993>. "Il turismo LGBT." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/14438.
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Il turismo LGBT risulta ad oggi essere un campo relativamente poco indagato nonostante le evoluzioni del panorama sociale e la necessità degli operatori del settore turistico di far fronte a un ambiente di mercato altamente competitivo lo rendano un settore del mercato dalle interessanti possibilità di sviluppo.
La presente trattazione si approccia al turismo LGBT partendo dallo studio della relativa popolazione, con riferimento all'attuale situazione socio-legislativa, per poi passare alle caratteristiche specifiche della domanda e dell'offerta del settore turistico, sia a livello globale che nel caso specifico italiano. L'ultimo capitolo prende in considerazione come case history il Friuli Venezia Giulia in quanto si sta assistendo, con il cambio ai vertici della Regione a seguito delle elezioni nella primavera del 2018, ad una inversione di rotta nell'atteggiamento verso la comunità LGBT, con conseguenze più o meno dirette anche nel settore turistico.
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Mickovski, Kiril <1992>. "LGBT RIGHTS: how politicization of LGBT issues leads to violence against sexual minorities." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18903.
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The purpose of this research is to, through examining historical occurrences and contemporary politicization of LGBT issue, identify good practices in combating the cultural and institutional violence against sexual minorities Considering its of paramount importance for discussing contemporary LGBT issues, the first chapter discusses the Stonewell movements in the 1970s, as well as prior organizations called the homophiles, which paved the way in combating issues regarding hate crime laws and sodomy laws that present a concerning elements from legislative part of many LGBT movements in the 21st century Subsequently, the second chapter continues the research on the state of sexual minorities in regards to the evolution of Europe legislature in treating instruments to tackle sexual orientation as a discriminatory offence. Furthermore, I will try to explain the complexities and the advancement of the court cases promulgated by the ECJ and ECtHR as a benchmark jurisprudence in combating discrimination based on gender or sex. My research will expose the European broad legal anti-discrimination strategy, its vagueness in relation to active and passive discrimination along with the hierarchical position of gender or sex compared to other grounds for discrimination. In the last chapter, my paper tries to make an assessment with other countries ideological struggle against LGBT rights in Russia, Poland and the Balkans when it comes these countries tendencies in particular when it comes to breaking norms in front of supranational institutions such as the Council of Europe and the ECtHR.In conclusion I will try to expose in the dichotomy of implementing European norms and legislature to aspiring countries that try to integrate into EU, but taking into account their differential cultural and social context. in the larger context of the lgbt struggle against politicization of LGBT issues Finally, I will try to answer the research question: what is the role of the LGBT activist groups and supranational organizations such as the ECJ or the ECtHR in creating precedence when in comes to combating the cultural and institutional violence over sexual minorities in regards to grounds of discrimination such as sex or gender in the EU.
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Mack, Laura. "Human Rights, LGBT Movements and Identity: An Analysis of International and South African LGBT Websites." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ohiou1125527098.
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Falkenberg, Aron, and Emma Freij. "LGBT-RIGHTS IN DECLINE - A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF THE EXPERIENCES OF LGBT-PEOPLE IN INDONESIA." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-26166.
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The aim of this study is to highlight the situation for LGBT-people in Bali with regard to the political changes in the country. Firstly, the living situation for LGBT-people have been investigated and secondly the possible effects that the newly implemented anti-LGBT policies have had on LGBT-people have been examined through interviews with six informants currently living in Bali. What has been unearthed is that LGBT-people have in the past lived in a climate of relative tolerance with discretion as a caveat; as long as LGBT-identities weren’t officially proclaimed, and same-sex relations were handled discreetly, LGBT-people haven’t been burdened with discrimination and violence. Contemporary research suggests that the current political developments regarding LGBT-rights, marked by swift and sweeping changes of a radical nature, have resulted in LGBT-people in Indonesia now facing discrimination and violence - even when LGBT-people attempt to handle their sexuality with discretion. However, this research suggests that this is not the case, and that LGBT-people aren’t as greatly affected or concerned with the political developments as have been suggested by scholars. As explained, reasons for this appear to be found in how LGBT-people lead their lives with discretion, which is a recurrent theme for many LGBT-people in Indonesia. However, another reason for this can be found in the strength of the LGBT-community, which appear to refute the negative consequences of belonging to a stigmatised and marginalised group for its members. Indeed, many LGBT-people found friendship, emotional support, improved healthcare and employment through the community.
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Outland, Pearl L. "Developing the LGBT minority stress measure." Thesis, Colorado State University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10149909.
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals face significant mental and physical health disparities compared to their heterosexual peers. Such differential outcomes are often attributed to minority stress, chronic stress that is specific to one’s marginalized status and which is distinct from normal every day life stress. Current research, which attempts to assess the relationship between minority stress and health, is stifled by lack of a uniform measurement tool to operationalize the construct. The purpose of this study was to develop a comprehensive tool that encapsulates all of the major dimensions of minority stress, as defined by Meyer’s (2003) LGB minority stress model. The final LGBT Minority Stress Measure is a 25-item self-report scale, with seven subscales: identity concealment, everyday discrimination/ microaggressions, rejection anticipation, discrimination events, internalized stigma, victimization events, and community connectedness. Results from 640 participants, including 119 of which identified as gender non-conforming, supported the psychometric properties of the scale. Additionally, consistent with existing literature, greater minority stress was associated with increased psychological distress.
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Domingues, Ana Carolina Carvalho de Souza 1993, Leonardo 1977 Brandão, and Universidade Regional de Blumenau Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento Regional. "Territórios de lazer LGBT em Blumenau." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações FURB, 2018. http://www.bc.furb.br/docs/DS/2018/364488_1_1.pdf.
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Orientador: Leonardo Brandão.Dissertação (Mestrado em Desenvolvimento Regional) - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento Regional, Centro de Ciências Humanas e da Comunicação, Universidade Regional de Blumenau, Blumenau.
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Alves, Douglas Santos. "Movimento LGBT, participação política e hegemonia." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/156328.
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A presente tese analisa a relação do movimento LGBT (Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais, Travestis e Transexuais) com o Governo Federal mediada pela estrutura de participação política centrada no Conselho Nacional de Combate à Discriminação de LGBTs (CNCD/LGBT) e nas Conferências Nacionais LGBT. A partir da abordagem teórica marxista o trabalho problematiza questões referentes aos estudos de gênero e sexualidade próprios do pósestruturalismo e da teoria queer. Articulando alguns conceitos centrais destas correntes teóricas no interior da problemática da totalidade, própria ao marxismo, e ao conceito de Estado Integral ou Ampliado de Antônio Gramsci, o movimento LGBT é considerado como processo de constituição de sujeito “para si”. No curso de seu desenvolvimento este sujeito passa a atuar na arena da sociedade política sob a lógica da parceria e colaboração com o Estado. O objetivo do estudo é avaliar se a relação entre movimento e governo, por meio da participação em espaços institucionais que atuam como aparelhos hegemônicos, é caracterizada pelo consenso ativo de quadros e lideranças LGBTs junto ao bloco que governou o país entre 2003 e 2016, constituindo-se em relação de hegemonia. A metodologia utilizada abarcou análise quali-quantitativa, tomando como base publicações da ABGLT, em particular as que trabalham com o conceito de Advocacy, entrevistas em profundidade com atores chave que ocupam posições centrais na estrutura participativa em questão e a realização de censo com participantes do V Congresso Nacional da ABGLT, constituindo banco de dados para análise estatística Os resultados do estudo indicam que o processo de institucionalização do movimento, aprofundado pela atuação nos espaços participativos, incide na sua relação com o governo de modo a afastar do campo de ação do grupo subalterno a lógica do conflito. Os espaços de participação atuam como meio de organização, mobilização e definição de pautas, canalizando para si e neutralizando insatisfações e críticas da população LGBT frente às ações do poder público. O trânsito de quadros entre espaços da sociedade civil e da sociedade política marca o transformismo de lideranças e intelectuais do movimento. Sob tais condições o governo exerceu sua hegemonia política sobre o movimento LGBT por meio dos espaços participativos criado no Estado.This dissertation analyzes the connection between the LGBT movement (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgenders) and the Federal Government mediated by the structure of political participation focused on the National Council Against the Discrimination of LGBTs and on the LGBT National Conferences. Therefore, this text, based on the Marxist theoretical approach, analyzes issues concerning gender and sexuality studies typical of poststructuralism and of the queer theory. By articulating some essential concepts of these theoretical approaches within the issue of totality, typical of Marxism and of Antônio Gramsci’s Integral or Extended State matters, the LGBT movement is considered a process of subject formation “for itself”. Throughout the development of this subject, he or she starts to act in our society’s political arena under the logic of partnership and cooperation along with the State. Thus, the aim of this study is to evaluate if this connection between the LGBT movement and the government, via the participation of the movement in institutional environments that act like hegemonic sets, is, in fact, characterized by the active consensus of LGBT leaderships that worked along with the group who ruled the country between 2003 and 2016, forming itself in a relationship of hegemony. The methodology adopted used qualiquantitative analysis, taking as its base the publications of ABGLT, specially the ones that deal with the concept of Advocacy, interviews with artists who are in important positions regarding the participative structure analyzed in this dissertation, as well as the achievement of census with participants of the V ABGLT National Congress, which constituted a data bank for statistical analysis The results of this study show that the process of the institutionalization of the movement, stronger due to its acting in participative environments, incise in its relationship to the government, thus alienating the logic of conflict from the group's acting field. These participative environments act like a means of organization, mobilization and definition of agendas, canalizing to themselves as well as neutralizing insatisfaction or criticism that might come from the LGBT population regarding the actions before the State. The transition between civil and political society environments mark the transformation of the movement's leaderships as well as its intellectuals. Under these conditions, the government carried out its political hegemony over the LGBT movement via the participative environments created within the State.
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Fredrick, Emma G., and Stacey L. Williams. "LGBT Community Connectedness and Alcohol Use." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8058.
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Of growing interest in the study of sexual minority experiences is the concept of community connectedness. Community connectedness reflects the cognitive and affective components of being affiliated with a particular community of similar others. Within the limited work that has been done, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community connectedness has typically been looked at as a predictor of positive outcomes, such as increased psychological well-being. However, there is limited evidence that LGBT community connectedness may be related to higher levels of substance use. This study aimed to explore the relationship that LGBT community connectedness has with alcohol use, taking into account a variety of potential confounding variables, including race, socioeconomic status, religiosity, and positive feelings towards one's sexual orientation. A total of 243 sexual minority participants (19.8% asexual, 29.2% bisexual, 22.2% gay/lesbian, 16.0% pansexual, and 12.8% other) were gathered through the use of targeted online social media advertising. A directed acyclic graph (DAG) was created to identify implications regarding variable covariance. Following the creation of the DAG, the implications were tested using bivariate correlations and the DAG was adjusted based on significant statistical relationships between variables. After the testing of the implications, we tested the hypothesis that LGBT community connectedness would predict alcohol use by regressing alcohol use on community connectedness controlling for the confounding variables identified using the DAG (age, LGB positive identity, race, religiosity, SES, and sexual orientation). The variables accounted for 11.37% variance in alcohol use, and higher community connectedness predicted more alcohol use (b=0.81, SEB=0.33, p=0.01). While connection to the LGBT community is typically explored as a positive form of social support, the current work found positive relationship between community connectedness and alcohol use for sexual minorities. The relationship between LGBT community connectedness and alcohol use should be explored in more depth to understand the pathways between a sense of connection and alcohol use. The work may indicate the need for non-alcohol based LGBT spaces to be more prevalent, so that community connection is not reliant on the use of alcohol-based spaces such as gay bars.
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Taques, Fernando José. "Movimento LGBT de Portugal e Espanha." Florianópolis, 2012. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/96387.
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O objetivo desta tese de doutoramento é analisar o Movimento LGBT (Movimento de Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais e Transgêneros) em Espanha e Portugal, através da atuação de Organizações Não Governamentais (ONGs) voltas para as "Questões LGBTs", ou seja, questões relacionadas ao combate contra as diferentes formas de preconceito e discriminação e à conquista de direitos. Para isso, observou-se o modus operandi das cinco ONGs pesquisadas, três em Portugal e duas na Espanha, em busca de similitudes e diferenças na atuação. Considerou-se para este estudo a produção acadêmica sobre movimentos sociais e a categoria clássica de dádiva, sendo que esta é apontada como apoio à compreensão das práticas movimentalistas e que corroboram a expressão dos Movimentos LGBTs de Portugal e Espanha. Para a compreensão do Movimento LGBT Brasileiro é utilizada a categoria cordialidade como elemento possível a ser destacado sobre o modo de expressão social deste movimento.
The objective of this thesis for a PhD degree is to analyze the LGBT Movement (Movement for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) in Spain and Portugal, through the activities of Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) turns to the "LGBT issues", in other words, issues related to investments and struggles against different forms of prejudice and discrimination and for the earning of rights. For this, we observed the modus operandi of the five NGOs surveyed, three in Portugal and two in Spain, looking for similarities and differences in their performance. It was considered for this the scientific research on social movements the classic category of gift, and this is possible to understand of political practices to support the expression of LGBT movements in Spain and Portugal. To understand the Brazilian LGBT movement is used the cordiality category as possible element to be highlighted on the mode of expression of this social movement.
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Nascimento, Daniel Braga. "Refúgio LGBTI : boas práticas na declaração do status de refugiado/a." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/173291.
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Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar boas práticas trazidas pela doutrina internacional durante o processo de solicitação de refúgio em razão de orientação sexual e/ou identidade de gênero a fim de recomendação de aplicação das mesmas no Brasil. Inaugura-se o trabalho realizando uma revisão histórica do instituto do refúgio bem com sua internalização no Brasil através da Lei 9.474/07. Além disso, o estudo a explorar como se dá a caracterização da perseguição para esse tipo de refúgio. Costura-se, por meio dos critérios de concessão de refúgio por grupo social, religião e opinião política o embasamento das decisões que vem concedendo refúgio LGBTI. Na análise da valoração das narrativas e situações imperantes sobre a situação de lésbicas, gays, bissexuais, trans e intersex no país de origem, busca-se práticas que não violem direitos humanos e garantam direitos. Utilizou-se para tanto do método de pesquisa bibliográfico, buscando-se na doutrina internacional e nacional práticas que possam vir a garantir direitos durante o processo de solicitação de refúgio. Obteve-se como resultado a estruturação de boas práticas utilizadas em outros países. Concluiu-se através do presente trabalho que o processo de refúgio por razão de perseguição por orientação sexual e/ou identidade de gênero possui atravessamentos de diversas ordens e enfrenta desafios que merecem aprofundamentos teóricos e empíricos sobre como se dá a declaração do status de refugiado.This work aims to analyze good practices brought by international doctrine during the process of requesting refugee’s status based on sexual orientation and / or gender identity in order to recommend their application in Brazil. The work is inaugurated by carrying out a historical review of the refuge institute and its internalization in Brazil through Law 9.474 / 07. In addition, the study explore how the characterization of persecution for this type of refuge occurs. Through the criteria of granting refuge by social group, religion and political opinion, the bases of the decisions that have been granting LGBTI refuge are sewn. In the analysis of the assessment of the narratives and situations prevailing on the situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex in the country of origin, practices are sought that do not violate human rights and guarantee rights. It was used for both the method of bibliographic research, researching in international and national doctrine practices that may guarantee rights during the process of requesting refuge. As a result, the structuring of good practices used in other countries has been summarized. It was concluded through the present work that the process of refuge due to persecution due to sexual orientation and / or gender identity has crosses of several orders and faces challenges that deserve theoretical and empirical deepening on how the declaration of refugee status is given.
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Herlitz, Gunnarsson Rebecka. "LGBT+ rights and the gender gap : A comparative study of LGBT+ anti-discrimination legislation in the United States." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-432117.
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This thesis seeks to examine if there is a connection between female representation among U.S. legislators at state level and support of legislation protecting LGBT+ people from discrimination in terms of adoption and foster care. Using the theories of substantive and descriptive representation, three hypotheses regarding female representation and partisanship were tested. In the analysis, it became clear that there is a positive significant correlation between female legislators and voting in favour of anti-discrimination legislation in terms of LGBT+ rights. In addition to this, the study found that partisanship also has a significant effect of the voting outcome, in fact one that is even greater than the effect of gender.
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Butler, Alan John. "Performing LGBT Pride in Plymouth 1950-2012." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/5477.
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This thesis considers how the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered communities of Plymouth have performed and signified their own culture and identities during the period 1950 to 2012. Its source materials were largely generated by conducting oral history interviews with members of Plymouth’s LGB and T communities. This resulted in the creation of an archive which included thirty-seven interviews conducted with twenty-four individuals. These interviews, in conjunction with other uncovered archival memorabilia, now form a specific LGBT collection with Plymouth and West Devon Record Office. This PhD thesis interrogates this newly created community archive accession, using theories of performance as a tool, to consider how differing narratives and histories have been constructed, reproduced, contested and maintained. Pride, as a political concept in LGBT culture, is linked to the belief that individuals should maintain and display a sense of dignity in relation to their sexual orientation or gender role as a response to the stigmatisation traditionally associated with being LGB or T. This study tests the relevance of the concept of pride for the lived experience of LGBT communities in Plymouth, concluding that it needs to be understood within personal narratives rather than as primarily manifested in outward-facing forms of performance (such as a parade or a public event). Particularly significant in this regard is the “coming out narrative”. The thesis identifies spaces which, for various reasons, came to be accepted as safe places to accommodate sexual and gender differences in Plymouth in the 1950s and 60s. These strongly reflect Plymouth's location as a port, in combination with the fact that it has played host to each of the armed forces. It considers the impact of international public displays of gay pride from the Stonewall riots in the US through to performances as protest employed by groups such as Outrage! and legislation as Section 28 of the Local Government Act in the UK. The thesis concludes by considering the author’s role in, and wider impact of, the “Pride in Our Past” exhibition, which took place at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery (April-June 2012) as part of this research project.
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Nyberg, Fredrik. "Klippbögar? : hällristningar ur ett LGBT- och queerperspektiv." Thesis, Högskolan på Gotland, Institutionen för kultur, energi och miljö, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hgo:diva-1902.
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The purpose of this thesis is to do an inventory of Swedish Bronze Age rock carvings depicting intercourse, and other sexual acts; applying gender traits on these in order to get a glimpse of what kind of normative outlook people at this time had upon sexuality.
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Gore, Maria. "LGBT affirming environments in hospice care settings." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/848.
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The documented experiences and perceptions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) patients receiving hospice or palliative care gives merit to the need for the implementation of LGBT affirming environments in hospice care settings. The guidelines for creating these affirming environments are described in this paper. Applying the Donabedian (1988) model of structure, process, and outcome this thesis project analyzes identified interventions relevant to the implementation of LGBT affirming environments in hospice care settings. Utilizing a formal PICO questioning method, a search strategy was devised and studies were identified based on established criteria. The results suggest that there is a paucity of data in relation to the implementation of LGBT affirming environments in hospice care settings. In an effort to assist in identifying existing interventions that have not been studied this project also includes a recommended survey tool to measure the active efforts of hospice organizations to implement LGBT affirming environments.B.S.W.
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Williams, Stacey L., and Emma G. Fredrick. "What’s It Like Being LGBT “Around Here”?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8079.
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Wilken, Eric M. "Authentic LGBT Leadership: Being `Out Isn't Enough'." Marietta College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marhonors1524662338719119.
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Werner, Margaret MacGregor. "INTERVENTION: (RE)ARTICULATING LGBT SOCIAL-MOVEMENT IDENTITIES." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/145279.
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In this dissertation I use rhetorical analysis and draw on articulation theory, primarily as it is conceived by Stuart Hall, to analyze the ways that LGBT social movements constitute and strategically deploy macro-level identities. This research focuses on the ways that movement identities--from the gay liberation of Stonewall through the current movements for marriage and military service--are rhetorically constructed. By tracking national LGBT social-movement organizations through such dynamic changes, my analyses reveal the ways that rearticulating the identity of a social movement can help groups change strategies and identifications when activist practices are failing. This scholarship adds to existing research on the ways that social movements constitute and reconstitute their shared sense of identity in the midst of evolving social contexts and also suggests some ways that multimodal rhetorics shape the development of movements.
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Silva, Ana Luísa Remor da. "Atenção básica à saúde da população LGBT." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2017. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/183418.
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As Representações sociais (RS) são fenômenos que permeiam as relações, muitas vezes ancoradas em morais hegemônicas, que legitimam modos de atuação social. A literatura relata que RS da homossexualidade admitem a manifestação de atitudes homofóbicas. O objetivo deste estudo, foi compreender as questões éticas que permeiam à atenção à saúde das pessoas LGBT a partir das RS dos trabalhadores da Atenção Básica à Saúde (ABS) sobre as pessoas LGBT. Nesta pesquisa, de abordagem qualitativa, foram entrevistados 15 trabalhadores da ABS - agentes comunitários de saúde (2), auxiliares ou técnicos de administração, enfermagem ou saúde bucal (5), cirurgiões-dentistas (3), enfermeiros (3) médicos (2) - do município de Florianópolis, SC. Os dados foram analisados utilizando-se a técnica de Análise Temática de Conteúdo com auxílio do software Atlas.ti®7.5.16, e interpretados a partir da sua análise fundamentada na teoria das RS; nas teorias morais e nas Bioética Cotidiana e Bioética Crítica de Inspiração Feminista. Após leitura flutuante iniciou-se a codificação, originando 74 códigos que foram agrupados em 4 subcategorias relacionadas a: RS das pessoas LGBT; Problemas éticos; Atitudes éticas; Questões estruturais, organizativas e de formação. As RS dos trabalhadores da ABS em relação às pessoas LGBT estão fortemente ancoradas nas morais religiosas e heterônomas, compreendendo: as pessoas LGBT com uma ideia de promiscuidade, risco à IST, estereótipos, entendendo sua sexualidade e identidade de gênero como incorretas, determinadas biologicamente ou antinaturais, sujeitas a uma escolha pessoal. Os principais problemas éticos estiveram relacionados a situações de intolerância; LGBTfobia; constrangimentos; silenciamento das questões de gênero e (homo)sexualidade; falta de autocrítica e reflexão ética. Ainda assim, foi possível perceber que a aproximação e maior convívio dos trabalhadores com as pessoas LGBT possibilitou repensar algumas atitudes diferenciadas para esta população. Compreender a sexualidade como uma dimensão da vida não (de)limitada a/por juízos morais (certo/errado, natural/antinatural) é uma questão ética que precisa ser articulada, sobretudo, junto aos trabalhadores de saúde. Sociedades que têm a heterossexualidade como modelo consideram qualquer outra orientação imoral, o que contribui para uma abstenção de responsabilidade do trabalhador, sustentando a invisibilidade do preconceito com posturas fundamentadas no machismo e na heteronormatividade. A consciência dos valores e desvalores presentes na atenção à saúde da população LGBT é um ponto de partida para a formação profissional em saúde e para a educação permanente dos trabalhadores da ABS. Por tudo isso, compreendeu-se que a atenção à saúde das pessoas LGBT é dificultada pela presença de diversos entraves, tais como RS que desqualificam as pessoas LGBT que acabam sustentando também problemas éticos, que em sua maioria dizem respeito à relação trabalhador-usuário. Faz-se necessário então, incluir nas discussões em saúde as questões de gênero e de sexualidade como constructos sociais complexos, para além da visão binária de gênero. A bioética pode ser um instrumento neste sentido desde que baseada em uma concepção laica e crítica em direção ao pluralismo moral de que a sociedade brasileira necessita.
Abstract : Social representations (SR) are phenomena that permeate human relations, usually anchored in hegemonic morals, which legitimize social acting. According to the literature, the SR of homosexuality allow for homophobic manifestations. The goal of this research was to understand the ethical issues involved in the health care of LGBT people from the SR held by heath care workers about the LGBT population. A qualitative method was employed, and 15 health care workers were interviewed in the town of Florianópolis, SC, including community agents (2), administration, nursing or dental health technicians (5), orthodontists (3), nurses (3), and doctors (2). Data was analyzed using a Thematic Analysis of Content, using the Atlas.ti®7.5.16 software. The data was interpreted based on the SR theory, moral theory, Everyday Bioethics and Critical Feminist Bioethics theories. Coding was conducted after initial exposure to the data, leading to 74 codes that were grouped into four subcategories related to: the SR of LGBT people; Ethical problems; Ethical attitudes; Organization, structure and formation. The SR of the health care workers related to LGBT people are strongly anchored onto religious and heteronormative morals, including: promiscuity related to LGBT people, STD risk, stereotypes, understanding gender and sexual orientation of the LGBT population as incorrect, determined biologically or unnatural, subject to a personal choice. The main ethical problems were related to situations of intolerance; homophobia; embarrassment; silencing of gender and (homo)sexuality questions; lack of self-awareness and ethical reflection. Nonetheless, professionals? proximity and familiarity with LGBT people allowed for the rethinking of some attitudes for this population. Understanding sexuality as a dimension of life that is not limited by moral judgment (right/wrong, natural/unnatural) is an ethical issue that needs to be articulated, above all, with health care workers. Societies that have heterosexuality as the norm consider any other orientation as amoral, which contributes to the workers? abstinence of responsibility, sustaining the invisibility of prejudice as postures based on sexism and heteronormativity. Awareness of the values present in the health care system regarding the LGBT population is the starting point to change the professional training and permanent education of health care workers. Therefore, health care for the LGBT population is made difficult due to many barriers, namely the SR that disqualify LGBT people, leading to and sustaining ethical issues, the majority of which refer to the worker-user relation. It is important to include gender and sexuality in the discussions of health care, beyond the binary gender understanding. Bioethics can be an instrument that can aid this discussion, based on a secular conception and towards the moral pluralism that Brazilian society needs.
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Boyd, Joni Etta. "A Multicultural and Social Reconstructionist Approach to Art Education: A Framework for Social Justice through Art Curriculum." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1304434369.
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Quartey, Nii-Quartelai. "Corporate Activism in the Age of LGBT Equality| The Promise and Limitations of the Modern Executive Champion on LGBT Rights." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10843772.
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Over the course of the last 60 years, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) rights movement in the United States has become a beacon of light around the world where LGBT persons continue to face intolerance, discrimination, persecution, and death. As this qualitative phenomenological study was being written, LGBT Americans taking advantage of their legal rights to marry, still face employment discrimination, housing discrimination, adoption discrimination, immigration discrimination, and discrimination in public accommodations including a Presidential Executive Order, state, and local legislation forcing transgender people to use the restroom that reflects their assigned gender at birth. In fact, in almost three dozen states an LGBT person could exercise their legal right to get married and still legally get fired from their job, legally get kicked out of their apartment by their landlord, and get denied an adoption simply because they are LGBT without other legal protections. Each of these issues has an effect on employee recruitment, retention, and performance and an effect in terms of creating an organizational culture where all employees can thrive without fear of retaliation, retribution, or being unaffirmed in the workplace. Affirmative corporate activism in the form of company supported LGBT employee resource groups/business resource groups, LGBT serving volunteer efforts, philanthropy, and public policy advocacy efforts combined have helped to make corporate America a critical ally in the movement for LGBT legal equality. This qualitative phenomenological study examines how LGBT employee resource group/business group leaders and executive champions influence corporate activism on LGBT issues. The rise of elected conservative leadership in the United States and around the world challenges the espoused values of corporate leaders on LGBT issues. This conservative revolution challenging the gains of the LGBT movement also creates an opportunity for corporate America to develop standards, practices, and policies. Although LGBT people outside of corporate America are likely to remain far more vulnerable to an increasingly more hostile government, corporate America has a unique opportunity to develop best practices and strategies to keep employees safe, make their customers feel welcome, while testing and learning scalable corporate social responsibility solutions.
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Gorisch, Patrícia Cristina Vasques de Souza. "O reconhecimento dos direitos LGBT como direitos humanos." Universidade Católica de Santos, 2013. http://biblioteca.unisantos.br:8181/handle/tede/1564.
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This term aims to demonstrate the evolution of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) struggle since the Stone Wall Uprising, when the LGBT people finally imposed their civil rights, making the first gay parade ¿ just to get the attention of the whole society that the LGBT people exist and should be treated as citizens. The evolution of human thought of LGBT rights knocked on the doors of the UN many years ago, but finally in 2011 ¿ the same year that here in Brazil, the Supreme Court considered same-sex couple as a family entity and the Court of Justice allowed the marriage of a pair of lesbians ¿ the United Nations issued a landmark resolution condemning discrimination on sexual orientation and gender identity. We will defend the right to sexuality as inherent human attribute and therefore linked to the right to life, making an analysis of systems of human rights protection such as global and regional as well as national, linking Brazil to this resolution because it as was one of proponents and voters. This historical Resolution, places once and for all the LGBT rights on the map of human rights.
O presente estudo visa demonstrar o desenvolvimento e o avanço da luta LGBT (sigla mais usual para LGBTTIS ¿ lésbicas, gays, bissexuais, transexuais, travestis, transgêneros, intersexos e simpatizantes) com início da Revolta de Stonewall, quando finalmente a comunidade LGBT decidiu impor seus direitos civis, fazendo a primeira parada gay ¿ justamente para chamar a atenção de toda a sociedade de que a comunidade LGBT existia e que deveria ser tratada como pessoas de direito. A evolução deste pensamento humanista dos direitos dos LGBT começou a impactar a ONU há muitos anos, quando finalmente em 2011, no mesmo ano em que aqui no Brasil, o STF reconheceu a união de pessoas do mesmo sexo como entidade familiar, e o STJ permitiu que um par de lésbicas se casassem, a ONU editou uma Resolução histórica condenando a discriminação com base na orientação sexual e identidade de gênero, e reconhecendo os direitos LGBT como Direitos Humanos. Defenderemos o direito à sexualidade como atributo inerente ao ser humano e consequentemente, atrelado ao direito à vida, fazendo uma análise dos sistemas de proteção dos direitos humanos, nacional, global e regionais, bem como do nacional, vinculando o Brasil a essa Resolução, por ter sido um dos propositores e votantes. Essa Resolução histórica pontua os Direitos Humanos LGBT no mapa dos Direitos Humanos.
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Karlsson, Rebecca. "LGBT and the universal enjoyment of human rights." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-127651.
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Bohannan-Calloway, J. Michael. "LGBT Baby Boomers' resiliency dynamics| A qualitative study." Thesis, Capella University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10240525.
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Resilience is the ability to be adaptable in times of adversity. In the past fifty years, individuals who identify as being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender have experienced the broadest spectrum from being seen as immoral degenerates to gaining equality in the eyes of the law. Limited research on LGBT resilience has placed emphasis on circumstantial, episodic contentions rather than the dynamics of resiliency experiences of sexual minorities or gender identity. Existing research is even split between quantitative and qualitative methods but does not consider lifelong resiliency dynamic experiences. Qualitatively exploring the resiliency experiences of LGBT Baby Boomers can offer valuable information for the design of sensitivity training of health professionals and amend LGBT resiliency research literature with a broader range of life experiences. Prior research established precedents of resilient self-analysis of expansive situational issues particularly in regard to aging, health, and community. Accordingly, this qualitative research study strived to gain a better understanding of LGBT Baby Boomer resilience as a concept, personal qualities to overcome adverse situations or be resilient, those resilient qualities in regard to sexual orientation or gender identity, and qualities unique not only to their sexual orientation or gender identity, but as Baby Boomers. Five themes were identified that describe resiliency experiences of LGBT Baby Boomers.
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Lucio, William. "Sharing the vision: collective communication within LGBT leadership." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32663.
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Master of ArtsDepartment of Communication Studies
Sarah E. Riforgiate
Leadership is a phenomenon studied in all cultures (Murdock, 1967), yet representation in the diversity of influential leaders is often limited (Moon, 1996). In order to understand the full breadth of leadership scholarship, it is essential that research focuses on how leadership is both enacted and communicated in underrepresented groups. A group that is currently facing marginalization from dominant culture is the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community. With no national anti-discrimination law in place to protect the individuals belonging to this community (American Civil Liberties Union, 2016) it is vital to understand how leaders within this marginalized group are motivating others to fight to enact change. While influential organizations like The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) are fighting for social justice on a national level, it is important to understand how local organizations are engaging in communicative leadership to motivate others to enact change in their own community. This study seeks to understand how leadership is communicated within a local LGBT rights organization (given the pseudonym the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Campaign, or LGBTC) and to identify the ways LGBT leaders motivate others to enact social change. Using ethnographic methodology, the researcher observed four monthly board meetings held by this group (lasting approximately an hour and a half each) and conducted a focus-group interview where the participants confirmed observations and answered follow-up questions from the ethnographic observations. A qualitative thematic analysis revealed two common themes: the first theme, cohesive communication, was exemplified through organizational procedures that allowed for collective discussion and expression of individuality by emphasizing and depending on group members’ personal expertise. The second theme, proactive communication, emerged through group members’ communication to evoke tenacious defense strategies to counter the opposition and engage in outreach with external organizations. These leadership communication behaviors resulted in two critical implications on the theoretical and practical levels. In regards to the theoretical implications, LGBT leaders, who have been typically characterized as predominantly transformational, were found to enact leadership outside of that typology, actually engaging in relational styles through shared leadership, communicating in a way that relies on interaction and emotional expression. On a practical level, other marginalized groups could benefit from inclusivity, or the mode of collective leadership this particular LGBT Rights Group engaged in. By including multiple voices and having a variety of minority representation, the LGBTC was able to successfully motivate community change. Other marginalized groups experiencing social injustice may be able to motivate others to enact change by adopting this mode of collective communication through shared leadership.
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Lewis, Christopher S. "Black Shamelessness: African American LGBT Writing, 1982-1991." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343061544.
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Rosenkrantz, Dani E. "FACTORS IMPACTING PARENTAL ACCEPTANCE OF AN LGBT CHILD." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/edp_etds/69.
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Chrisler’s (2017) Theoretical Framework of Parental Reactions When a Child Comes Out as Lesbian, Gay, or Bisexual suggests that parental reactions to having a non-heteronormative child are impacted by a process of cognitively appraising information about their child’s identity and experiencing and coping with emotional responses, both of which are influenced by contextual factors such as a parent’s value system. However, some religious values can challenge parents in the process of accepting a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) child. The purpose of this study was to test a model that examines the influence of cognitive-affective factors (cognitive flexibility, emotional regulation), religious-value based factors (religious fundamentalism, parental sanctification), and gender and sexual identity on self-reported parental acceptance. Participants were 663 parents of LGBT children who submitted responses to an online survey. A Tobit regression with a single-indicator latent variable approach revealed that religious fundamentalism, parental sanctification, the control component of cognitive flexibility, parent gender, and parent sexual identity significantly predicted parental acceptance. Lower religious fundamentalism, higher parental sanctification, and higher cognitive flexibility scores were associated with parental acceptance of an LGBT child. Participants identifying as a woman or LGB parent also significantly predicted acceptance. Implications of findings are discussed.
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Abelove, Samantha. "Coming Out of the Margins: LGBTI Activists in Costa Rica and Nicaragua." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/524.
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For decades LGBTQ rights have been approached purely by a legal strategy, in particular advocating for the legalization of same-sex marriage. However, discrimination and violence against the LGBTQ community continues to be a major issue in Latin America because of cultural values such as Catholicism and machismo that uphold a standard of and, in turn, have control over people’s sexuality. Using a human rights approach towards the politics of sexuality, LGBTI activists in Costa Rican and Nicaragua have been successful in transforming public opinion about sexuality and more importantly, sexual diversity. As a result of their egalitarian framework and efforts to educate people about sexual diversity, they have made great advancements toward achieving acceptance and equality for LGBTI people. This study focuses on how Costa Rican and Nicaraguan LGBTI activists have worked around traditional cultural values such as Catholicism and machismo that prevent people from accepting and tolerating LGBTI people. The examples of LGBTI activists in these two countries have important implications for other LGBTI activists and the strategies they use to try to achieve full equality (social and legal) for people whose sexual identity differs from the conventional.
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Crockett, Stephen "Alex", and Abbey Mann. "The State of LGBT+ Health Education: A Systematic Review of LGBT+ Curricula and Resources at M.D. Granting Institutions in the United States." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/asrf/2021/presentations/33.
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LGBT+ patients, medical students, and healthcare providers have been shown to experience significant health disparities and poor health outcomes, to less frequently seek out healthcare, and to often face discrimination in healthcare settings. Researchers suggest the lack of high quality and in-depth training on LGBT+ health and communication skills may contribute to hostile clinic cultures and reinforce implicit and explicit biases towards LGBT+ patients. Despite the growing body of research and interest in curriculum reforms, there has not been an up to date, comprehensive review of LGBT+ health trainings and resources at U.S. medical schools since 2015. We conducted a systematic review of available information on the presence of LGBT+ trainings, support groups, and resources for medical students, residents, and faculty at all M.D.-granting institutions who are part of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The systematic review was conducted between May and September 2020 through Google using pre-determined keyword search strategies. Collected information included type of programming, targeted audience, and length of training among others that was built into an easily accessible online database of LGBT+ health curriculums and resources. Similar to 2015, most U.S. medical schools (52%) do not have or do not provide easily accessible information about LGBT+ trainings for their students. Even fewer medical schools (39%) report that they require their students to take some form of LGBT+ health training, and almost no information is easily available on LGBT+ trainings for residents and medical school faculty. Our findings suggest that medical schools have made some progress in creating more inclusive curricula and training environments compared to 2015. However, there has not been a consensus in how medical students should be trained to be more aware of and to address biases, discrimination, and poor health outcomes affecting their LGBTQ+ patients and colleagues.
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Laurentino, Arnaldo Cezar Nogueira. "Políticas públicas de saúde para a população LGBT: da criação do SUS à implementação da Política Nacional de Saúde Integral de LGBT." EPSJV, 2015. https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/12194.
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Escola Politécnica de Saúde Joaquim Venâncio. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Profissional em Saúde.
A comunidade de Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais, Travestis e Transexuais veio vivenciando a escassez de ações específicas, o descaso e o fortalecimento de preconceitos na área da saúde. No âmbito das ciências sociais, a política social é entendida como modalidade de política pública, importante e necessária para o desenvolvimento de todos. Neste contexto, há a necessidade de se ampliar o debate sobre a cidadania LGBT, compreendendo a demanda da comunidade como uma necessidade e luta pelo reconhecimento. Através de revisão bibliográfica, análise de documentos oficiais, e entrevistas com servidores públicos federais diretamente envolvidos com a implementação da Política Nacional de Saúde Integral LGBT, analisou-se o processo de como esta política se relaciona com a camada populacional LGBT, que esteve ao longo das últimas décadas relegada às políticas parciais de combate ao HIV e a disseminação da Aids. A Política Nacional de Saúde Integral LGBT reconhece os efeitos perversos da discriminação e da exclusão, e devolve aos LGBT o reconhecimento de sua cidadania. A criação, e posterior implementação, desta política decorre de um processo de amadurecimento e conquista de espaços, que é cotidiano.
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Travesty and Transgender community has been experiencing a scarcity of specific actions, and also the negligence and strengthening of prejudices in the health area. In the scope of social sciences, the social policy is understood as a modality of public policy, which is important and necessary to the development of all. In this context, there is the necessity of amplifying the debate about LGBT citizenship, realizing the community demand as a need and struggle for recognition. Through a literature review, analysis of official documents and interviews with federal civil servants directly involved with the implementation of the National Integral LGBT Health Policy, it was analyzed the process of how this policy is related to the LGBT population layer, which has been over the last decades relegated to the partial anti-HIV policies and the fight against the dissemination of AIDS. The National Integral LGBT Health Policy recognizes the perverse effects of discrimination and exclusion, and gives back to the LGBT community the acknowledgment of their citizenship. The creation, and posterior implementation, of this policy derive of a process of ripening and conquest of space, that is everyday.
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Jormanainen, Jim Lars Emil. "Does Armed Conflict Affect Violence Against the LGBT Community?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-377248.
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Moreira, Maicon Gularte. "¡Trae tus colores! : a (sex)usualidade no turismo LGBT." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2017. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/2659.
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Este trabalho propõe uma problematização do segmento de Turismo LGBT, com base na análise dos mecanismos de interpelação que são responsáveis pela produção do sujeito LGBT como um turista LGBT. Para isso, assume o folheto promocional da campanha “¡TRAE TUS COLORES!” como a materialidade de onde oito sequências discursivas são tomadas para compor o corpus de análise. Esta campanha, apoiada pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Turismo (EMBRATUR), promoveu o Brasil como um destino turístico LGBT em dezembro de 2014 nas cidades de Madrid e Valência, na Espanha. A análise do folheto promocional se filia aos pressupostos teórico-metodológicos da Análise de Discurso francesa teorizada por Michel Pêcheux, que articula conceitos oriundos de três campos teóricos: da Psicanálise, do Materialismo Histórico e da Linguística. Por isso, aproxima os conceitos de sujeito e ideologia para discutir os mecanismos pelos quais a ideologia interpela esses sujeitos, autorizando alguns sentidos ao seu desejo inconsciente e desautorizando outros. Este processo, responsável por identificar o sujeito e censurar o desejo, produz deslocamentos de ordem psíquica e física, interpretados aqui como a busca pela realização do desejo através das viagens. Assume, portanto, que a impossibilidade de tomar uma posição, bem como de inscrever o desejo, é o que promove o deslocamento do sujeito, a pesquisa faz um retorno no campo do turismo. Esse último, é aproximado da noção de espetáculo (DEBORD, 1997), da qual é possível perceber a fetichização do desejo do sujeito na garantia da alienação desse sujeito de sua própria condição. Em seguida, demonstra pela análise das sequências discursivas selecionadas, o processo de produção de sentidos a partir das formações imaginárias (PECHEUX, 2014a). No caminho descrito, o trabalho sugere pensar o Turismo como um aparelho ideológico de Estado (ALTHUSSER, 2003), pois funciona como um campo de reprodução da ideologia dominante, que é a ideologia da classe dominante, responsável por regular os discursos que falam de e para os sujeitos LGBT. Discursos sobre uma sexualidade estigmatizada, inclusive através do Turismo, mobilizada em torno do significante sexo e intrinsicamente imbricada no jogo de forças ideológico de dominação desses sujeitos.Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2017-06-07T15:52:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Maicon Gularte Moreira.pdf: 2351104 bytes, checksum: 57d419cb608d6444f79becc5ed631aa9 (MD5)
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This work proposes a problematization of LGBT Tourism segment, based on analysis of the interpellation mechanisms that are responsible for produce the LGBT subject as a LGBT tourist. To do this, assume the promotional leaflet of the campaign "TRAE TUS COLORES!" as the materiality from which eight discursive sequences are taken to compose the analysis corpus. This campaign, supported by the Brazilian Tourism Institute (EMBRATUR), promoted Brazil as an LGBT tourist destination in December 2014 in the cities of Madrid and Valencia, Spain. The analysis of the promotional leaflet is affiliated to the theorical-methodological dipositive of French Discourse Analysis theorized by Michel Pêcheux, articulating concepts from three theoretical fields: Psychoanalysis, Historical Materialism and Linguistics. For that reason, approaches the concepts of subject and ideology to discuss the mechanisms through which ideology interpellates these subjects, authorizing some senses to their unconscious desire and disallowing others. This process, responsible for identifying the subject and censor the desire, produces psychical and physical displacements, interpreted here as the search for the realization of desire through travel. Assume, therefore, that the impossibility of taking a position, as well as inscribing the desire, is what promotes the displacement of the subject, the research makes a return to the field of Tourism. The latter is approximated to the notion of spectacle (DEBORD, 1997), from which it is possible to perceive the fetishization of the subject's desire to guarantee the alienation of this subject from his own situation. Then, the analysis of the selected discursive sequences demonstrates the process of production of senses from the imaginary formations (PECHEUX, 2014a). In the way described, the work suggests think Tourism as an ideological apparatus of State (ALTHUSSER, 2003), because it functions as a field of reproduction of the dominant ideology, which is the ideology of the ruling class, responsible for regulating discourses that speak of and for LGBT subjects. Discourses about a stigmatized sexuality, including through Tourism, mobilized around the significant sex and intrinsically imbricated in the game of ideological forces of domination of these subjects.
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Williams, Stacey L. "LGBT Health Disparities: Rallying Stigma and Intergroup Relations Researchers." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8090.
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Hutsell, D. W., and Stacey L. Williams. "Intragroup Attitudes of the LGBT Community: Assessment and Correlates." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8110.
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Reed, James Alexander. "Intra-discrimination in the LGBT Community: A Phenomenological Study." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1585657089817672.
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Hutsell, David W. "Intragroup Attitudes of the LGBT Community: Assessment and Correlates." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/38.
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The intragroup attitudes of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community are examined. A general overview of heterosexuals’ views about LGBT persons is considered before reviewing past research on intragroup attitudes that may exist within the LGBT community. Since little work has been done in this area, to fill gaps in the literature a study of 533 self-identified LGBT individuals was conducted to assess attitudes towards each specific subgroup (lesbian, gay male, bisexual male, bisexual female, male-to-female transgender, and female-to-male transgender) of the LGBT community. Several variables, including group identification, perceived stigma, outness, and contact, were examined as predictors intragroup attitudes. Results indicated that predictors of attitudes differed by subgroup. Implications of the results are discussed, including limitations and directions for future work.
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Agosto, David. "Improving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Care Outcomes." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6158.
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Many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals report experiencing discrimination in their health care that leads to avoidance of regular appointments with providers. Lack of regular primary care can delay diagnoses of preventable conditions and increase patient risks for chronic disease complications. A systematic review of the literature was conducted to understand LGBT cultural competencies for nursing and other health care providers. The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews and Melnyk's levels of evidence framed this systematic literature review. Articles for inclusion were limited to those published in English between 2008 and 2018. Keywords used in the literature search included LGBT health disparity, LGBT cultural competency orientation, and nursing LGBT education. The search yielded 70 article results, which were further reduced to 12 articles by critically analyzing the applicability of the literature to the practice-related questions and removing duplicate articles. Five articles met the criteria for Levels III-IV (case-control or cohort), 6 met the criteria for Level II (randomized control trials), and 1 was Level 1 (systematic review). The analysis of evidence demonstrated the importance of providing education to nurses and other health care providers regarding LGBT cultural competency. Recommendations are offered for best practice strategies regarding the inclusion of LGBT cultural competencies in nursing orientation modules. Application of the findings may lead to positive social change if knowledgeable health care providers engage the LGBT population in primary care leading to improved health care outcomes.
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Wallin, Christel, and Sara Kuutti. "Inkludera utan att markera : HBTQ-personers upplevelser i mötet med vården." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avdelningen för omvårdnad - grundnivå, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-12318.
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Background LGBTQ-persons have been treated differently in both society and health care throughout the history. Just a few years ago it was illegal to be gay. Today the attitudes have changed toward an openness and positive society, but does that mean that LGBTQ-persons get the same treatment in the health care? Aim The aim of this study is to illuminate LGBTQ-patients' experiences when encountering health care. Method A literature study method was used for this study. Results Six themes emerged, feeling of not being able to influence, feeling different, feeling offended, feeling of uncertainty, feeling welcome and feeling understood. Both positive and negative result were found. Ways to include and welcome these patients emerged. Understanding and compassionate personnel gave LGBTQ-patients a positive experience when they accepted the patient's lifestyle. Conclusion Specific LGBTQ knowledge and education among healthcare professionals is needed to encounter LGBTQ- persons with dignity.
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Spencer, Steven Vincente. "The Relationship Between School Type and Mental Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Young Adults." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2584.
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Gay-straight alliance (GSA) clubs may positively affect mental health for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBT) students, but little research has studied schools that primarily enroll LGBT students. Guided by neofunctional and sexual stigma theory, the purpose of this study was to determine if graduates of LGBT high schools have better mental health than LGBT and heterosexual graduates of mainstream high schools. A snow ball sample, of 183 graduates of high schools in the United States and 95 graduates from high schools in other countries, 80% who identified as LGBT, completed an online survey consisting of 5 short mental health assessments, measuring anxiety, depression, self-esteem, internalized homophobia, and life satisfaction. Including demographic variables as covariates, ANCOVA was used to test for significant difference in the mental health of former students who have attended high schools with GSAs (GSA+) compared with graduates of high schools without GSAs (GSA-). Research results found that U.S. graduates of GSA+ high schools had significantly higher self-esteem (p = .034) and life satisfaction (p = .026) than U.S. graduates of GSA- high schools. Graduates of non U.S. GSA+ high schools had significantly lower levels of depression (p =.016) than graduates of U.S. GSA- high schools. Students who identified as gender conforming had significantly higher levels of self-esteem (p =.004) and significantly lower levels of depression (p = .000) than students identifying as nongender conforming. The social change implications of these findings include urging school administrations across the country to support GSAs as they may improve the mental health of students who identify as LGBT or nongender conforming.
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Santos, Andressa Regina Bissolotti dos. "Movimento LGBT e direito : identidade e discursos em (des)construção." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFPR, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1884/47444.
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Orientadora : Profª Drª. Ana Carla Harmatiuk MatosDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Jurídicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito. Defesa: Curitiba, 30/03/2017
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Resumo: Na história recente do movimento LGBT brasileiro, uma contradição se enuncia. Se por um lado o direito tem figurado como importante espaço de fortalecimento e aplicação das normas heteronormativas que organizam o campo sexual, por outro ele tem se afirmado como um instrumento central nas estratégias adotadas em resistência a essa normatividade seja como discurso, ou como instituição. Como compreender essa relação entre movimento LGBT e direito? A partir de uma reflexão interdisciplinar acerca do que está em jogo quando elaboramos essa pergunta, questionaremos as identidades e discursos em permanente (des)construção quando o movimento LGBT demanda direitos. Dialogando com autores da filosofia pós-estruturalista e dos estudos culturais, bem como do campo de estudos em gênero e sexualidade, procuraremos deslocar os termos das análises comumente feitas a partir dessa relação, para propor uma visão complexa, que compreenda tanto o direito quanto o movimento LGBT como espaços sociais de disputas internas e profunda historicidade. Abandonando uma visão essencialista de ambos, propomos que essa relação só pode se mostrar em suas normalizações ou resistências no contexto cotidiano das lutas, no bojo concreto das estratégias utilizadas, nas formas fixas ou móveis a partir das quais se mobilizam identidades e discursos. O direito como instituição social exclusivamente normalizadora, ou como espaço de emancipação e resolução definitiva dos conflitos sociais, desaparece assim, para fazer surgir um direito que é ele mesmo conflito social e relações de força. Um direito que só poderá ser compreendido como paradoxo, portanto, e que só poderá emergir mediante a colocação em rasura de seus discursos e do conceito de identidade, ainda tão caro a seu funcionamento. Propomos, enfim, que o direito pode ser também espaço de deslocamentos, questionamentos e exposição da artificialidade das normas que organizam o campo sexual em termos heterossexuais, se seu uso não for reificado, mas sim se realizar de forma estratégica e no bojo de uma disputa social pela ressignificação dos termos dessas normas. Palavras-chave: Direito e movimentos sociais. Movimento LGBT. Resistência
Abstract: A contradiction is announced in the recent history of the Brazilian LGBT movement. While on the one hand law has been an important space for strengthening and applying heteronormativity that organize the sexual field, on the other hand it has been affirmed as a central instrument on the strategies adopted in resistance to this normativity - whether as a discourse or as an institution. How to understand this relationship between LGBT movement and law? From an interdisciplinary reflection about what is at stake when we elaborate this inquiry, we question the identities and discourses in permanent (de) construction when the LGBT movement demands rights. With a dialogue between authors of Poststructuralism and Cultural Studies, as well as Gender and sexuality studies, we try to move the terms of the analyses commonly made from this relation and to propose a complex vision, that includes both the law and the LGBT movement as social spaces of internal disputes and profound historicity. We try to abandon an essentialist view of each one and propose that this relationship can only be shown in its normalizations or resistances in the daily context of the struggles, in the midst of the strategies used in the fixed or mobile forms from which identities and discourses are mobilized. The law as a social institution exclusively regulatory or as a space of emancipation and definitive resolution of social conflicts, thus, disappears to raise a law that is itself social conflict and force relations. Therefore, a kind of law that can only be understood as a paradox, and that can only emerge through the erasure of its discourse and the concepct of identity, still so appreciated to its functioning. Finally, we propose that law can also be a space for displacement, inquiry and exposition of the artificiality of norms that organize the sexual field in heterosexual terms - if its use is not reified - but rather if it is carried out strategically and in the midst of a social dispute by redefinition of the terms of these norms. Keywords: Law and social movements, LGBT Movement, Resistance
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Moreno, Desirae Angela. "Bullying and victimization among out-of-home and LGBT youth." Wichita State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/5521.
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Peer bullying and victimization involving youth in out of home placement (OOH) and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth were investigated in this study, as well as how parenting, peer relationships, and school support affect a youth’s bully or victim status. Participants were high school students enrolled in Dane County schools during the 2008-2009 school year. Total sample size was 16,766 with 560 (3%) identifying as OOH, 1539 (9%) identifying as LGBT, and 113 (1%) identifying as both OOH+LGBT. Results indicated higher levels of 30 day victimization and 30 day bullying for OOH youth as compared to non-OOH
youth, LGBT youth as compared to non-LGBT youth, and OOH+LGBT youth as compared to OOH only or LGBT only youth. The impact of parenting, peer relationships, and school support on bullying and victimization was similar for all youth; however, OOH, LGBT, and OOH+LGBT youth reported significantly lower mean levels of positive support from each of these sources compared to their non-OOH and non-LGBT counterparts.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wichita State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Psychology
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Watson, Reginald G. "Nazarene Clergy Responses to Homosexuality And Interactions with LGBT People." Thesis, Regent University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3700870.
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The Church of the Nazarene asserts that homosexuality is a perversion of human sexuality, and that homosexual acts are sinful and subject to the wrath of God. The denomination also states that all people should be treated with dignity, grace, and holy love—regardless of sexual orientation—while firmly maintaining its position that a “homosexual lifestyle” is sinful and contrary to scripture. Nazarene clergy experience a tension between the denomination’s position on homosexuality and ministering to LGBT people. This qualitative study explored the lived experiences of thirteen Nazarene clergy responses to homosexuality and their interactions with LGBT people. The resulting themes offer implications for Nazarene clergy, the Church of the Nazarene, LGBT people, counselor educators, and clinical practitioners.
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Otunba, Ganiyu. "Enhancing LGBT Rights in Africa: a case study of Nigeria." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-229491.
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In the last decade several western countries have greatly enhanced the rights of sexual minorities in their societies. Same-sex marriage is now legal in most states in the United States, while about twenty three countries in Europe presently allow same-sex marriage or some form of civil partnership. Africa on the other hand is witnessing a rise in the number of countries further criminalizing sexual minorities and homophobia is rising across the continent. Homosexuality is illegal in 76 countries in the world, 38 of which are in Africa and of these 38, homosexuality is punishable by death in 4. Though a growing discourse, existing literature and scholarly papers till date have rarely focused on the impediments to LGBT rights in the African continent. The few existing literature have looked at LGBT rights in Africa from the policy perspective without taking the popularity of anti-gay laws into consideration as seen in a country like Nigeria where 98 percent of the population supports anti-gay measures. An explorative qualitative research study was used to explore the impediments to LGBT rights in Nigeria and how they can be addressed. Secondary data from verifiable sources and primary data from semi-structured, formal, open ended interviews with individuals deeply informed of the discourse in Nigeria was used for the research. Data retrieved was analysed using thematic analysis to identify recurrent themes from the interview transcripts before a comprehensive discussion and triangulation of both primary and secondary data was conducted. The research found that religious beliefs and the existence of LGBT knowledge gaps are the major impediments to LGBT rights in Nigeria. The research findings suggests that closing these LGBT knowledge gaps through enlightenment will over time repress the strong religious and ideological views held against LGBTs. With the decline of these views, the research suggests that LGBT rights will naturally emerge. The study also developed three testable hypotheses for future studies.
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Friman, Josefine. "LGBT-rights : sexual orientation, gender identity and the human rights." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-109324.
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Gonzalez, Cynthia E. "Negative Attitudes as Scapegoating and the Effects on LGBT Individuals." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10076221.
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Using hermeneutics research methodology, this thesis explores the impact of negative attitudes towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals and the importance of a positive support system to help decrease self-harm and suicidality rates among the LGBT community. This thesis investigates the negative effects long-standing rejection, discrimination, oppression, and scapegoating of the LGBT community throughout history have had. This will provide a greater understanding of how rejection and scapegoating negatively affect the LGBT community and the individuals who comprise it. This thesis also suggests ways for family, friends, and society to become a positive support system for an LGBT individual and looks at possible interventions marriage and family therapists can apply to their clients who identify as LGBT.
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Gonçalves, Gean Oliveira. "Signo da diversidade: narrativa e compreensão jornalística com pessoas LGBT." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27152/tde-07112017-152204/.
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Os embates em torno das opressões de gênero e as questões relativas à dignidade humana de lésbicas, gays, bissexuais, travestis e [homens e mulheres] transexuais (LGBT) têm redefinido os comportamentos e os diálogos sociais no contemporâneo. Nas últimas décadas, narrativas jornalísticas captam com maior intensidade o caráter humano, público e político das questões de diversidade sexual e de gênero. Todavia, é perceptível a dificuldade que jornalistas encontram para tecer relações com pessoas LGBT em virtude do aparato cultural de gênero que carregam, mas não só. Nesse contexto é que esta dissertação ensaia uma compreensão em torno do papel do jornalista (o mediador social) em tecer caminhos de compreensão, de solidariedade e de reconhecimento para com o Outro, em especial com a população LGBT. Desenvolve-se uma análise cultural da narrativa de três livros-reportagem escritos por jornalistas brasileiras: O Nascimento de Joicy, de Fabiana Moraes; Muito Prazer - Vozes da Diversidade, de Karla Lima e Entre a Cruz e o Arco-íris, de Marília de Camargo César. No eixo teórico-metodológico, inclui-se um diálogo com autoras e autores de gênero e sexualidade, principalmente com as ideias da Teoria Queer. Atravessa-se ainda contribuições da complexidade, da sensibilidade e do afeto em Cremilda Medina e outras pensadoras e pensadores da Comunicação. Por fim, ouve-se as jornalistas-autoras e elabora-se noções de alteridade, que podem vir a ser um caminho possível de encantamento, de descoberta, de curiosidade e, acima de tudo, de respeito com o Outro.Conflicts around gender oppression and the human dignity of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBT) have redefined contemporary behavior and social dialogue. In the last decades, journalistic narratives capture with greater intensity the human, public and political character of issues of sexual and gender diversity. However, the difficulty that journalists encounter in working out relationships with LGBT people because of the cultural construction of gender they have is remarkable, but not only that. It is in this context that this dissertation rehearses a knowledge about the role of the journalist (the social mediator) in creating paths of understanding, solidarity and recognition for others, especially, with the LGBT community. It was developed a cultural analysis of the narrative of three book reports written by brazilian women: O Nascimento de Joicy, by Fabiana Moraes; Muito Prazer - Vozes da Diversidade, by Karla Lima and Entre a Cruz e o Arco-íris, by Marília de Camargo César. The theoretical and methodological course includes a dialogue with thinkers of gender and sexuality studies, mostly with the ideas of the Queer Theory. There are also contributions of complexity, sensitivity and affection in Cremilda Medina and other communication theorists. Finally, the author-journalists are heard, and notions of alterity are made, which can be a possible path of enchantment, discovery, curiosity and, above all, respect for the Other.
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Lovelock, Michael. "Interrogating the politics of LGBT celebrity in British reality television." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2016. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/63063/.
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Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, reality television has been one of the most prolific spaces of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) visibility in British popular culture. Yet, in almost two decades of scholarship on reality TV, very little academic work has addressed the representation of LGBT identities within this medium, outside of a small set of makeover programmes. Where LGBT visibility in non-makeover reality shows has been analyzed, these representations have been approached as largely indistinguishable from fiction texts, their status as reality TV passing largely unaddressed. This thesis critically interrogates the relationship between reality television as a form, and the representations of LGBT identity found within reality programmes. Focusing on British reality shows broadcast between 2000 and 2014, this study explores how the generic specificities of reality television have shaped the ways in which LGBT identities have become visible within reality formats. This thesis argues that, in the figures of LGBT reality TV participants, tropes of authenticity, self-realization, celebrity and democracy bound to reality television itself have functioned as the discursive frameworks through which a series of normative scripts of LGBT subjectivity and LGBT life have been produced and circulated through British popular culture. This thesis examines the representations of LGBT identity in a range of different reality formats, including Big Brother, The X Factor and The Only Way is Essex, amongst others, alongside the discussions and depictions of LGBT participants in extra-textual media like magazines, newspapers and blogs. Through these materials, this study interrogates how different reality formats enable LGBT subjectivities to become visible in different ways, the divergent ways in which British reality television has represented different kinds of queer identities, and how British reality shows have mobilized the conventions of reality TV to construct and delineate cultural hierarchies of “acceptable” and “unacceptable” formations of queer subjectivity.
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Mann, Abbey, Kim Case, Patrick Grzanka, and Sarah Mancoll. "LGBT+ Rights at the State/Local Level: Lessons from Tennessee." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6444.
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In 2016, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signed into law the “Counseling Discrimination Bill,” which allows a licensed counselor in a private practice to use personal (i.e., religious) beliefs as an reason to terminate care or refer away LGBT+ clients, as long as they refer the client to another counselor. In that same year, the state legislature and governor defunded the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion, which had spearheaded a number of LGBT+ activities and initiatives around campus. In this interactive discussion, scholars from different Tennessee institutions (and/ or who were raised and educated in Tennessee) will discuss how their scholarship and activism has been shaped by, and is helping to inform, LGBT+ policy in Tennessee, and how these lessons might be applied in other state/local contexts. The panelists will speak to a number of questions, including: How can my scholarship inform LGBT+ policy in my state? How do I connect with policymakers, practitioners, and organizations that could benefit from my expertise? How can I contribute to local advocacy efforts, and what might be my appropriate role in those efforts? How do I get involved in this arena at different stages of my career? and How can I help interested students get involved?
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Milton, David Cole. "The Buffering Effect of Chosen Family Networks in LGBT Adults." OpenSIUC, 2020. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2715.
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I investigated the associations between perceived support from chosen family, perceived support from family of origin, resilience, and depression/anxiety outcomes in LGBTQ+ adults. I ran hierarchical linear regressions to determine whether perceived chosen family support predicted depression outcomes, a binary logistic regression to determine whether chosen family support predicts high or low anxiety, and Pearson correlations to detect significant associations between the variables. I also performed a Social Network Analysis to create a prototypical chosen family unit. The results suggest that the contribution of biological family support to mental health outcomes in LGBTQ+ people may outweigh support from chosen family, and I concluded that chosen family may not be an adequate replacement or surrogate to the support LGBTQ+ people might receive from the family of origin. The social network analysis revealed that participants feel the most support from their best friends and friends which contradicts the regression results.
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Williams, Stacey L. "Mobilizing Intergroup Relations and Stigma Researchers Around LGBT Health Disparities." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8053.
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Roark, Kendall L. "Authenticity, Citizenship and Accommodation: LGBT Rights in a Red State." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/168269.
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"Authenticity, Citizenship and Accommodation: LGBT Rights in a Red State" examines the discourse around volunteerism, exceptionalism, and queer citizenship that emerged within the context of a statewide (anti-gay) ballot initiative campaign in the American Southwest. I argue that the ways in which local volunteers and activists define themselves and their attempts to defeat the ballot initiative is tied to the struggle over the authority to represent local LGBT organizational culture and an emergent New West identity. In such a way, local debates over authentic western lifestyles that divide regional communities intertwine with intergenerational debates over gay liberation and rights frameworks, and the polarized discourse on blue and red states which have dominated the U.S. political climate of the past decade. While statewide campaign leaders with a base in Phoenix (the state capital) focused on polling data and messaging in order to stop the passage of the amendment, many Tucson activists and organizational leaders tied to the LGBT community center sought to strategize a long-term grassroots approach to change hearts and minds. Within this debate over campaign strategy and internal decision-making, both groups drew attention to the differences between the metropolitan areas. This regional example speaks to the ways in which established theoretical frameworks anthropologists utilize to understand social movements may prove insufficient for understanding the diversity that exists within the everyday processes of collective action. The internal messaging war that spilled outside of the confines of the campaign steering committee meetings into the pages of the statewide gossip and newspaper editorial sections also speaks to the ways in which official declarations of ideological stance should not be taken as the actual intent of those seeking change. One may shape one's personal story to be on message, choose to defy those constraints, or use the rhetorical strategy of the message without actually committing to the underlying premise. The broader national concerns are localized symbolically in the notion of blue and red counties, but also take on a regional flavor in the satirical call to statehood for the Southern Arizona. Here issues of authenticity emerge not only within the context of the campaign disputes around messaging, and by extension, who has the right to speak for and about the LGBT organizational community, but also in the realm of derisive banter that travels back and forth between the two major metropolitan areas over what it means to live an authentic western lifestyle. Within the southern metropolis, this discourse is framed by the notion that the western desert is a different sort of place, with a different sort of people and way of life that is threatened by snowbirds, retirees, Midwestern lifestyles and corporate interests. Often Phoenix to the north is seen as a representation of all these negative influences. In addition, Center-based activists and volunteers, describe their southern city in idealistic terms as an oasis for LGBT community, artists, activists, migrants, refugees, and all manner of progressive politics. Memory enacted through the telling of one's story at a Coming Out Day testimonial, political rallies and in dialogue with an anthropologist are shaped by these notions of difference. These notions of difference also emerge as a pattern in the narrative construction of space, violence and memory within activist life histories. These life histories in turn reveal a fragment of local LGBT organizational culture, in which the process of professionalization transforms the meaning of community, and the act of representation transforms the role of activist into that of the citizen volunteer. The community center in this sense is a memorialization of community and movement culture, and by idealizing what came before it masks material conditions at the same time that it offers up the potential of a more radical present/future. While the community center, Tucson and Pima County are coded as oases of safety, this image is continually disrupted by counter narratives, including the state-wide campaign to stop the marriage amendment; local support for the Protect Marriage and anti-immigrant amendments; and evidence of on-going violence directed against racial, ethnic and religious minorities and those who transgress hetero and gender normative expectations. These disruptions however appear to be cyclical in that they allow both professionals and concerned community members (citizen volunteers) to rally together in a show of strength and solidarity and in so doing represent the authentic, legitimate community. However, these disruptions may also allow for counter narratives to enter into public discourse, thereby offering up a more radical envisioning of community beyond the limits of LGBT organizational culture.
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