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Showing 1 to 20 of 1070 for “"Gay"”.
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Just Like Me: Gay Men & Gay Space
… is an ethnographic study that examines how gay men use a gay bar to located and structure identity and social interaction.
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Gay identity formation: An (auto)ethnographic look at gay volleyball
… until May of 2010, I was part of the SCVL, a gay volleyball league in Pittsburgh, PA. At the same time, I was a graduate student, working to advance my status within the Academy. In this study, I use autoethnography to talk about my experiences at the nexus of these two institutions: the SCVL …
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Is Gay Really Gay?: A Heterosexual/homosexual Quality Of Life Comparison
This study examines differences in quality of life measures between heterosexual and homosexual respondents using General Social Survey data from 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. Analyses of quality of life are performed in an effort to compare the heterosexual and homosexual population of the United …
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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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“Jewish, Gay and Proud”
… and institutional integration of the first gay-lesbian synagogue Beth Chayim Chadashim, which was founded in Los Angeles in 1972. As early as June 1974, the synagogue was admitted to the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the umbrella organization of the Reform congregations in the …
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Diary of a Gay Bride
<p><em>Diary of a Gay Bride</em> is a memoir about an artist planning her multi-cultural gay wedding in hopes her dying mother will be able to attend.</p>
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The gay rites of passage
1 PDF file (v, 88 pages)
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On Being Gay and Christian.
<p>This thesis deals with being gay and Christian in the United States, the history of the beginnings of the Gay Rights Movement, and the past thirty years since the Gay Rights Movement. In order to gain a better understanding of the subject, twelve Christian denominations were investigated to …
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Growing Up Gay and Latino
<p>This dissertation examines the experiences of LGBT students attending high school in a predominantly Latino area to determine if their experiences are different in a Latino-inflected environment than those of students in a predominantly Anglo environment. Although the experiences of LGBT …
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Public libraries' commitment to gay youth
… by providing free and equal access to lesbigay literature and/or offering programs and outreach to this group of young adults. Most previous research looked at school libraries in the United States and libraries in Canada. This study investigated selected public libraries in southern New …
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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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Leading with love and authenticity: Experiences of gay Latino and gay Black administrators in higher education institutions
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Racism in the Gay Community and Homophobia in the Black Community: Negotiating the Gay Black Male Experience
… posed the question "How does racism in the gay community and homophobia in the Black community restrict gay Black male's life chances and life opportunities?" Previous research has uncovered racist attitudes within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community as well as …
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Gay in Game: A Rhetorical Analysis of Gay Identity Through Varus and Sett/Aphelios in League of Legends
… how the company Riot Games represents gay identity in the video game League of Legends (LoL) but reifies negative frames historically associated to gay individuals. Riot Games’ history of harassment and discrimination in the workplace, as well as the gaming industry’s overall history, …
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Exploring effeminate gay men’s experiences of dating using gay dating and hook-up applications: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Background: Research indicates that effeminate gay men (EGM) experience marginalization and subordination through consistent romantic and sexual rejection amongst gay men with a preference for masculine or ‘straight-acting’ partners. Furthermore, research has found Gay Dating and Hookup …
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Documenting gay identity through the cinematic lens an investigation of representations of South African gay identities through film
This paper looks to delve into a rounded exploration of a queer cinematic culture in the post-apartheid era. Through an appreciation of South African cinematic history, the socio-political seems intertwined in the very fibre of this cinematic history; with factors such as race, class, wealth …
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Emerging identities: New subjects within gay adoption
… identity construction and subject positions of gay male foster and adoptive parents. Using late twentieth and early twenty-first century cultural texts, I apply a Foucaultian perspective to analyze how controversies over gay adoptions articulate shifts in contemporary American discourses of …
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Don't Say Gay: Love Language in Coriolanus
<p><em>Coriolanus</em> is one of Shakespeare's Roman plays, a sub-genre which also includes <em>Titus Andronicus</em>, <em>Julius Caesar</em>, and <em>Antony and Cleopatra</em>. The one element these plays have in common is the ideal Roman hero, the <em>civis romanus</em>, who meets a tragic end. …
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