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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"LGBT Community"”.
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Parental and peer support in the LGBT community
… by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students are putting pressure on parents, teachers, and school psychologists to find potential solutions. The purpose of this study is to examine variables that have the potential to decrease levels of depression and bullying victimization …
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The LGBT Community and Public Space: A Mixed Methods Approach
… space. The goal of this research is to explore LGBT feelings in public spaces in St. Louis, MO. There are three components including a survey, interviews, and hand mapping of emotional associations within the city. Overall, feelings in public space were found to be dependent on an individual's …
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Outlaw, outcast, and Obergefell: an analysis of the United States Supreme Court’s ideology in cases that impact the LGBT community
… Court decisions concerning the liberties of the LGBT community. An analysis of the rhetoric from these cases for both the majority and dissenting opinions is conducted. These artifacts include Lawrence v. Texas (2003), United States v. Windsor (2013), and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015). The purpose …
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Place, Race, and Religion in the Local Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community and Movement of Memphis, Tennessee
… study observes the role of place in the local LGBT community and movement of Memphis, Tennessee. I gathered information from fifteen interviews, including LGBT Memphians, activists, preachers, and public figures to show what aspects of place have been the most significant in shaping the nature …
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Communicating for Equality: How Inclusive Communication Affects Political Participation within Local Communities
… among inclusive communication, sense of community belonging, and political participation within local communities. Communication from organizations such as local advocacy and local, mainstream media that contains content acknowledging relevant topics for lesbian, gay, bisexual and …
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¿Qué significa ser LGTB en televisión estadounidense actual? estudio de cuatro personajes LGTB
This research seeks to observe LGBT characters created in recent years on American television that show a new type of representation for each part of the LGBT community, one that is closer to the way people identify themselves, less offensive and more diverse.
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Effect of Targeted LGBT Media on Body Image Perception Of Gay College Men
… improves in the United States, the prevalence of LGBT media increases as well. From homoerotic advertisements to LGBT social media, the images are more common today than during any other time in U.S. history. Currently, there is a limited understanding of how such images affect LGBT people, …
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A review of suicide, suicidal ideation and preventative interventions in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community
… paper analyses the levels of suicidality in the LGBT (and QIA+ population where relevant) and examines how to prevent or diminish suicidal ideation, planning, attempted and completed suicides. The research is valuable as the rates of suicidality are significantly higher in the LGBT community than …
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Lived Experiences and Training Opportunities of Nurses Caring for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Patients
The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community faces many challenges and barriers when accessing healthcare. Research pertaining to LGBT healthcare access has noted that members of the LGBT community experience worsening health and substandard care as the result of their gender and …
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Claiming Identity through Space: LGBTQ+ Community Building via Commercial Development in West Hollywood and Palm Springs
… identity and urban space, this thesis focuses on LGBT+ commercial real estate and its role in community building. Through the cities of West Hollywood and Palm Springs in California, it explores historic, contemporary, and forward-looking narratives of LGBT+-oriented commercial development, with …
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Preferred Symbols by Gay Men Utilizing the Arrington Visual Preference Test: A Jungian Based Construct
… of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community. Following an art-based quantitative research design, the research project sought to answer the question: What are the preferred symbols of gay men based on the Arrington Visual Preference Test (AVPT) a Jungian construct. Thirty-one …
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Tales of the Gayborhood: Mediating Philadelphia's Gay Urban Spaces
… Gayborhood justifies the presence of LGBT individuals in the city by linking LGBT lives to economic activity and "positive" urban change. This dissertation reads media texts about Philadelphia's Gayborhood against participant observations of everyday life and events in the Gayborhood, …
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Camouflage Romance: Same-Gender Romantic Relationship Quality and Effects on Military Commitment
… Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community connectedness influences these associations among sexual minority military personnel in same-gender romantic relationships.</p> <p>Study 1 leveraged archival quantitative cross-sectional self-report survey data from a subsample of …
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Public perceptions on LGBT issues in modern Vietnam
… the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community. I have collected data from opinions and comments on different means of social media as representation of public opinion toward LGBT, which seem to most expressed in three aspects: lack of knowledge, stereotype, and prejudice; the …
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Denying Queer Realities: Scripting the Normative Homo.
… the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement further marginalizes some queer individuals in the pursuit of legitimacy from the dominant heterosexist culture. This study uses qualitative content analysis to examine the Web sites of four social movement organizations that claim to …
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THE ONE EXHIBITION THE ROOTS OF THE LGBT EQUALITY MOVEMENT ONE MAGAZINE & THE FIRST GAY SUPREME COURT CASE IN U.S. HISTORY 1943-1958
… anti-gay persecution and the genesis of the LGBT equality movement. The study begins during World War II, continues through the McCarthy era and the founding of the nation’s first gay magazine, and ends in 1958 with the first gay Supreme Court case in U.S. history.</p> <p>Central to the story …
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For the Love of God?! Is there a place for Gay Christians between Faith and Fundamentalism?
… between the Religious Right and members of the LGBT community often results in the isolation and rejection of those who would define themselves as gay Christians. This thesis explores the role of the Bible as it informs and catalyzes this war and other foundational beliefs used as weapons in …
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Sexual Fluidity And Women's Bisexual Identity Development
… the participant samples. Data was collected from LGBT centers, women's centers, bisexual interest listservs, and sexual minority internet groups. This study examined: the relationship between a measure of fluidity in attractions, the Sexual Fluidity Grid (SFG) and a measure of sexual orientation, …
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Post-Obergefell v. Hodges: How LGBT Contact Can Alter Public LGBT Policy Positions in the U.S. and Arkansas
… specifically examine how we form our opinions of LGBT-identifying individuals, the LGBT community, and LGBT policies more generally. However, further evidence is still needed from the CT literature surrounding how this form of contact interacts with individuals’ social identities to determine and …
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Capturing the Chimera: Ideology and Persuasion in the Rhetoric of Soulforce
… and subsequently garner their support for LGBT individuals. This level of persuasion is particularly difficult due to the fact that religious ideology is so strongly held and protected in American society. To evaluate the persuasive rhetoric of Soulforce, I conducted an ideological …
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