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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"GLBT Studies"”.
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Revisioning Popular Narratives of Trans Lives, 1952–1976
… the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies at the University of Minnesota, and the Transgender Collection at Yale University, “Revisioning” argues that the texts that trans readers collected, exchanged within communities, and engaged with in their own writing and scrapbooking …
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Reading Material: Literary, Picturing, and Representational Strategies in the work of Carol Laing, Sue Lloyd, Andy Fabo, Sharon Switzer, Jane Buyers, and Allyson Clay
To employ a critical process that draws upon the network of relations and associations between works of art and literature, that generates different ways of reading and viewing that are inclusive and meaningful, and that introduces new strategies for visualizing what is possible, requires breaking …
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Queer Performance in the Post-Millennial Scramble
… space between queer and feminist performance studies. Thinking within the rubric of the queer performance scramble means thinking differently about performance and timewhile always keeping the art at the very centre of the investigation and always returning to it for guidance.
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Exploring Sapphic Discourse in the Belle Epoque: Colette, Renee Vivien, and Liane De Pougy
The end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century in Paris was a time of social upheaval that witnessed the appearance of a new style of Sapphic novel in Paris, that of women writing about their lesbian experiences. Although men had written prolifically on the subject …
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The Leadership Role of the High School Principal in Providing a Supportive Environment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students
This study has provided some insight into the actions, experiences, attitudes, beliefs, and values of a small purposive sample of supportive high school principals. Further study with larger sample populations covering a broader geographic area would enhance understanding of this issue and provide …
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Queer-Diva Collaboration in 20th Century Pop Music
… two pivotal Queer-Diva collaborations as case studies, both of which reflect and broadcast the repercussions of watershed moments in LGBTQ politics. The first case study examines Grace Jones’s music video to 1986’s “I’m Not Perfect (But I’m Perfect for You),” directed by Jones and Queer …
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Drag Across Borders: Negotiating 2SLGBTQ+ Refugee/Migrant Being and Belonging Through Drag Personas
… The study adds to queer/trans migration studies that centre the everyday lived experiences of 2SLGBTQ+ refugees and other migrants before and after conflict/arrival. By focusing on the experiential in and continuity of (queer/trans) refugee/migrant lives, this research contests the …
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Parched: The Queer Alcoholic on the Modern American Stage, 1940-1970
"Parched" mines the rich correlation between queerness and alcoholism on the modern American stage. It explores the peculiar seductions of the queer alcoholic via readings of six plays from American dramatic literature: Eugene O’Neill’s "The Iceman Cometh" (1946) and "Long Day’s Journey Into Night" …
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Visualizing Transgender Narratives Through Oral History and Design
The goal of this project is to gain a trans feminist oral history (Hill 2007) perspective on the lived experiences of transgender (more specifically gender non-conforming) individuals and the emotions they feel. I explore how to visualize and materialize individual experiences that “also connect to …
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From Death Sentence to Disappearance: The Invisibility of West Asian LGBTQ Refugees
West Asian queer refugees face severe oppression, such as moral exclusion, denial of existence in their home countries, and multi-marginalization in Canada, making them invisible and one of the most understudied populations. I believe the invisibility of vulnerable populations is one of the highest …
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Constellations of Elsewheres: Queer and Trans* Youth Lives in Suburban Toronto
Loneliness, isolation, and suicide are endemic among queer and transgender youth, especially for those who live in the suburbs, where queer and trans* social infrastructure is scarce. This thesis explores how queer and trans* youth negotiate the cisheteronormative social infrastructure of suburban …
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Lesbian coaches: Personal perspectives on being out
This research project attempted to identify and describe the essence of the experience of being an out lesbian in elite coaching. Through the use of a feminist epistemology, a phenomenological methodology, and in-depth interviews with eight high performance coaches who identify as lesbian, it was …
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A qualitative inquiry exploring out college students' experiences with queer content in secondary schools
This study is in line with a growing body of educational research that seeks to investigate the complexities queer or questioning youth experience in their middle and high school environments regarding access to academic and support structures that address a spectrum of queer identities. The …
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"I Have a Sense that Gay is Diluting Significantly." Gay Nostalgia in a Post-Gay World and the Intergenerational Transitions of Toronto's Church-Wellesley Village (1973-2023)
Understandings and/or experiences of being gay in Toronto have changed over the past 50 years and are now at risk of being revised or forgotten. There is a diminishment of gay villages, spaces, and organizations across North America, Western Europe and Australia. A post-gay period has emerged in …
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The matter of sex and gender: A dialogue between trans bodies and feminist theory
Despite significant social and political gains derived from gender theory, feminist scholars, progressive thinkers, and those in the transgender community do not critically examine the pre-supposed meanings of sex in gender theory. Instead, they simply assume its significance, thus erasing its …
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Adolescent sexual orientation and parent-child relationship quality
<p>The literature on gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) young people commonly assumes that GLB adolescents have difficult relationships with their parents, due to their parents' difficulty accepting their sexual orientation. However, research tends to show that the family experiences of GLB …
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Breaking through the binary, shifting the conversation: A multi-perspective conversation on gay marriage and queer equality
The dominant conversation of gay marriage legalization is currently centered on a limited "for or against" debate which places the Queer community and its allies in favor of legalization and everyone else in opposition. This limited "movement/countermovement" dynamic obscures and denies the …
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The Breakup Project: using evolutionary theory to predict and interpret responses to romantic relationship dissolution
<p>The formation and maintenance of romantic pair bonds is a well-represented topic in human evolutionary sciences. This extensive body of work, drawn mostly from the field of evolutionary psychology, has proposed mechanisms for attracting a mate (e.g., resource display, physical cues), attaining a …
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Martyrdom and American Gay History: Secular Advocacy, Christian Ideas, and Gay Assimilation
Martyrdom and American Gay History: Secular Advocacy, Christian Ideas, and Gay Assimilation" is an analysis of gay martyr discourses from the 1970s through 2014. In particular, the dissertation examines the archives, narrative representations, memorials, and media depictions of Harvey Milk, Matthew …
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The Futility of Conformity: The Danger of Gender Constructs In the <em>Sound and theFury</em>
This thesis focuses on William Faulkner's novel <em>The Sound and the Fury</em> and the role sexuality plays in Quentin Compson's construction of identity. I propose that Quentin is incapable of reconciling his potential homosexuality with the expectations his family, friends and elite Southern …
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