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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Gay Rights Movement"”.
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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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Cosmopolitanism as a measure of political tolerance : an inquiry into the acceptability of homosexuality
… attitudes may engender more success for the gay rights movement.
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Working it "Out": A Relational Understanding of Disclosure Decisions in Same-Gender Couples
"Coming out" is a unique experience for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and other sexual minority individuals (LGB+), yet it remains ill-defined within scholarship and is individually focused. This study investigates how same-gender couples negotiate relationship visibility and what motivates them to come …
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Registered Nurses' Attitudes Toward The Protection Of Gays And Lesbians In The Workplace: An Examination Of Homophobia And Discriminatory Beliefs
Discrimination and inequality encountered by gays and lesbians in the United States is profuse. A cornerstone of the gay rights movement, equality in the workplace has been a pivotal struggle for gays and lesbians. This study examined the attitudes and opinions of registered nurses (RNs) regarding …
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The Australian Football League and the closet
… thesis examines the complete absence of openly gay males from the ranksof the professional players in the Australian Football League (AFL). It seeks to explain this absence in the context of the modern gay rights movement. incontemporary Australian society. It compares and contrasts the effects …
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Gay families in the media in the age of HIV and AIDS
This thesis investigates print media discourse on gay families in the context of HIV/AIDS and the gay rights movement. Comparing and contrasting reports from the mainstream heterosexual press, the mainstream gay press, and the gay community press, revealed a moral discourse on AIDS that implicated …
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"""Happ'ly-ever-aftering"": Changing social and industry conventions in Hollywood musical adaptations, 1960-75"
… such as the Cold War, feminism, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the sexual revolution, and the gay rights movement, all impacted American society and popular culture. Furthermore, the studio system continued to break down and with it the Hollywood Production Code. Towards the …
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American Monsters: Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000
… with a backlash against feminism and the gay rights movement, media outlets often represented working women and homosexuals as dangerous to conservative idealized notions of white suburban family life. Such views were incorporated into the panic, which tabloid media reinforced through …
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The Proud Plaintiff: The Mattachine Society of Washington, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Invention of Gay Pride, 1957-1969
Histories of the early gay rights movement in America have aptly placed emphasis on the Mattachine Society of Washington (MSW), founded in 1961, and its founder, Frank Kameny. Told as part of broader social or political histories of the 1960s “homophile” movement, these narratives often recognize …
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Playing the (Policy) Fields: The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the Development of the Modernization of Benefits and Obligations Bill
The lesbian and gay rights movement in Canada has a rich history comprised of numerous groups and individuals that worked tirelessly for decades to promote lesbian and gay rights and champion for protections to the community at a number of levels. One of the primary challenges that occurred was in …
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An Analysis of Tolerance Variation Among Adherents to Feminist, Environmentalist and Gay Rights Principles
… about ideas embraced by three "new" social movements: the women's, environmental and gay rights' movements. Socio-structural and attitudinal variables were regressed on tolerance, the dependent variable, which was divided into general and group-specific indexes. Education and urbanism were …
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The state of belonging: Gay and lesbian activism in the German Democratic Republic and beyond, 1949-1989
… Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, thousands of gay and lesbian East Germans had formed a vibrant, publicly visible gay rights movement in their socialist homeland. I argue—quite in contrast to the existing historiography on the topic—that the movement was geographically diffuse and highly …