Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"LGBTQ+ people"”.
-
Queering Survey Research: Measuring LGBTQ+ Political Identity in the U.K.
Despite the multitude of ways LGBTQ+ people and issues appear throughout contemporary politics, there is little research within political science that engages with LGBTQ+ topics. An even smaller amount of research engages with LGBTQ+ people as research subjects. This dissertation sheds light on …
-
Are they family?: Queer parents and queer pasts in contemporary American culture
… century saw a marked increase in depictions of LGBTQ people and communities in American popular culture occurring alongside political activism that culminated in the repeal of the Pentagon's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy (2010) and the Supreme Court's overturning of same-sex marriage bans in …
-
LGBTQ Experiences with the Courts: The Role of Gender Nonconformity and Assertiveness
… lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) and non-LGBTQ participants, a pair of studies explored the influence of LGBTQ identity and gender nonconformity (GNC) in experiences of discrimination in court settings. A one-way ANOVA tested whether LGBTQ participants were more likely to …
-
News Media Framing of Gay Teen Suicide and Bullying
… bullying. The day-to-day discrimination that LGBTQ people face was rarely addressed; instead, hot-button political topics such as same-sex marriage and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" were presented as signs of social progress. This research shows the importance of media framing, particularly the news …
-
The relationship between gay community, other social networks, and HIV among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men
… the relationship between social engagement with LGBTQ+ communities, broader social networks, and HIV prevention among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) in Australia. Chapter 1 introduces what is known about social networks, community, and HIV prevention among GBMSM. …
-
Social perception of rural and urban LGBTQ+ high school students
… queer, and other gender/sexual identities (LGBTQ+) have been subjects of research throughout history, impacting the way they are perceived socially. Experiences of LGBTQ+ people vary not only by person but also by geographic area (rural, urban, and suburban). The focus of this study is the …
-
Snake in the Cooking Pot: Decoding the Colonial Origins and Social Impact of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act
… a same-sex wedding ceremony; life in prison for LGBTQ people who worked as teachers; and a three-year prison term for persons "promoting homosexuality," which was construed as activism, sex education, and provision of health care to sexual minorities. I chart the social impact of this law with an …
-
OUTnumbered: Assessing the LGBTQ Campus Climate at the University of Nevada, Reno
… Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, or Queer (LGBTQ) students at the University of Nevada - Reno (UNR). An overall campus wide assessment for LGBTQ students had never been conducted. Furthermore, there was no data to assess the LGBTQ inclusiveness of the campus at UNR. This research was …
-
XINGHUN: A "COOPERATIVE MARRIAGE" TIES CHINESE LESBIANS AND GAYS
… the mainstream of Chinese society. Chinese LGBT people endure two main sources of pressure: one is from the external and another is from the internal. From the outside, Chinese LGBT people bear the suppression made by the normality of sexual orientation and the hegemonic culture of …
-
Marketing to the New Generations of LGBTQ+ Tourists
<p>As social acceptance for LGBTQ+ people grows, it is essential to research and understand more about tourism and its important role in the lives of LGBTQ+ populations. There are tourism communities around the country that may not be familiar with this market segment and are not sure where to …
-
Experiences of LGBTQ+ Educators in the USA East Province of the Society of Jesus: A Phenomenological Study
… law are interpreted in the United States, LGBTQ+ educators in Catholic schools lack comprehensive protection from employment discrimination. Despite this risk, LGBTQ+ people have been and continue to be employed in Catholic schools across the country, though existing literature has …
-
Lesbi Honest: Barriers to Identifying and Actualizing Sexuality as a "Later in Life Lesbian"
… has produced a body of research focused on LGBTQ identity formation, while less has been discovered about subsets of this community, including later-life lesbians who were previously partnered in long-term heterosexual relationships with cisgender men. Several theories, including the Cass …
-
The curriculum of coming out: queer pedagogies, literacies, and rhetorics in LGBTQ lives
"In a meeting of Between Women, an LGBTQ support and discussion group at Centerville University, one of the participants said, “I’m here in order to get the words together.” This statement perfectly illustrates the imperative at the heart of this dissertation: people’s need to learn literacy and …
-
Proposal for a Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Curriculum in Undergraduate Medical Education at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
… issues that face their patients in these areas. LGBTQ populations are most affected by the inadequacy of training related to these topics. LGBTQ patients face unique issues in healthcare in terms of their normal development, pathology, social determinants of health, and healthcare system …
-
Towards a queer liminality: an examination of the use of space in Irish lesbian fiction 1872-2017
… nation has made ‘space’ on a symbolic level for LGBTQ+ people, but also literally as reflected in the fact that many legal changes have improved the lives of the LGBTQ+ community. <br/>This thesis examines the use of space in Irish lesbian fiction from 1872-2017. I understand space both in a …
-
An exploration of the experiences of LGBTQ+ womxn in competitive club level sport in the United Kingdom
The aim of this study was to critically examine LGBTQ+ womxn’s experiences of club level sport. Current research treats LGBTQ+ people as a homogenous group and empirical work in this area tends to focus on the experiences of gay men. Therefore, little is known about the experiences of LGBTQ+ womxn. …
-
Gay in Game: A Rhetorical Analysis of Gay Identity Through Varus and Sett/Aphelios in League of Legends
… of Legends repeat harmful worldviews about gay people; concurrently, Riot Games’ approach to gay representation with Varus and Settphelios cause the othering of gay identity by establishing queer content in the margins of the story and neglecting it from gameplay, or placing gay romance behind a …
-
Strengths in Intersecting Identities: The Experience of Being Black and a Sexual and Gender Minority
There has been a lack of inclusion of LGBTQ people of color within the psychological literature. It is important to attend to a number of diverse demographic variables in order to begin to understand a particular group's experience. The unique intersection of demographic variables or identities …
-
Precarious embodiments: Narratives of disability and belonging in Spain of the crisis (2005-2015)
… fulfilling the role of mother and caregiver and LGBTQ people not engaged in reproductive sexuality. In reading selected narratives of non-conformity, I ask how these vulnerable individuals are either included or excluded from notions of Spanishness, attentive to the manner in which their …
-
Contagious History: Affect and Identification in Queer Public History Exhibitions
For LGBTQ people, history is never simply the past, what has passed, or what is dead and gone. Uncovering neglected LGBTQ pasts has been heralded not only as a project for historians but as an explicitly political endeavour. Histories that document LGBTQ lives and cultures have not traditionally …
Page 1 of 2