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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"LGBTQ+ rights"”.
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Sonic landscapes: The environmental choral music of R. Murray Schafer and John Luther Adams
… Composers have taken on such topics as civil rights, suicide prevention, LGBTQ rights, women’s issues, as well as other current affairs. One of the sub-genres of this socially conscious repertoire is choral music that focuses on the ecology and the growing concern of environmental issues. …
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New Latinx Feelings: Race, Affect, And Form In Queer Latinx Literature
… from colorblindness and the mainstreaming of LGBTQ rights. Through analyses of queer(ed) literary production of a post-1990s Latinx MFA generation, I argue that literary form registers feelings of racialization in narratives about sexuality, positioning both form and feeling as new metrics of …
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The Effect of the Education Realignment on Party Position Taking in the United States
… theory using three different issue areas: (1) LGBTQ+ rights; (2) environmental protection; and (3) economic regulation. Party position taking is measured as the positions taken by both parties' members in the U.S. Congress; and I use data from congressional scorecards produced by interest …
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Political Liberalism and LGBTQ+ Citizens
… and equality have still not been secured for LGBTQ+ citizens in liberal societies. This thesis identifies several areas in which LGBTQ+ citizens still face injustice, in both the law and the family. It leverages the theoretical resources of political liberalism – a substantive normative ideal …
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Examining the interconnection between queer women's resistance and their social worlds in South Africa from 1980 to 2010
… social exclusion and oppression both towards the LGBTQ+ community, and within the community itself, the experiences of women have been underexplored in this body of literature. The research draws on eleven in-depth interviews conducted with LBTQ+ individuals from around South Africa who at some …
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Maricas de etiqueta: identidad gay en el cine reciente de España y el Cono Sur
… toward democracy, and major strides for LGBTQ-inclusive legislation. I examine the representation of MSM in these contexts through three genres/themes seldom present in films from these countries before 2000. My first chapter addresses coming-of-age gay films; the second deals with films …
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The successful diffusion of gender-affirming care bans in the U.S.: how partisanship functions as a mechanism of policy diffusion
… identity, as states have sorted ideologically on LGBTQ+ policies. This finding is further evidence against the idea that states function as laboratories of democracy; instead, as states become sorted along partisan lines, transgender minors and adults find their rights and freedoms limited by what …
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LA DIMENSIONE COSTITUZIONALE DEL DIRITTO ALL'ORIENTAMENTO SESSUALE
… of homosexuality and on the configuration of LGBTQ+ rights. The second chapter examines the constitutional foundations of the protection of sexual orientation, focusing on the fundamental principles of the Italian Constitution, such as the primacy of the individual, equality, and …
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The experience gay males face in the obtaining and maintaining of their positions in educational leadership
… such as legal, political, individual, and LGBTQ activism since the late 1960s, were explored in order to create an understanding of how conservative institutions such as schools and political institutions have been influenced in order to create space for the possibility of openly gay male …
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Street Queens and Clean Teens: Melodramatic Approaches to AIDS in Young Adult Literature and Popular Culture
… of moral issues and material harm, such as LGBTQ+ rights and HIV/AIDS. Focused on the development of queer representation, I argue that melodrama deserves more attention from children’s literature scholars as a barometer of the field’s ideological work, yielding its own aesthetic conventions …
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Deconstructing China's family law for LGBTQ non-traditional families through a comparative lens of sexuality
… legal environment regarding LGBT people’s rights in the family and to predict the future of LGBT non-traditional families by deconstructing China’s family law and exploring family regulations in China. Due to the ambiguity of China’s law regarding LGBT non-traditional families, the …