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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"gay male"”.
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Revisiting the queer : theory, literature and gay male studies
… this homophobic view were needed for the gay community. This required an investigation into the academic debates aoout homosexuality: mainly the social constructionist versus the essentialist debate.
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Gay male performances in American confessional documentary and reality television.
This thesis examines the performance of gay males presented in American confessional documentary and reality television, and relates this to the construction of homosexual identity. It specifically focuses on the representation of social actors involved in performance, as well as contextualising …
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Addressing the Inequities in Access to Reproductive Healthcare for Gay Male Couples
… laws creates a discriminatory impact for gay male couples based upon geographic location. Thus, gay male couples who seek to become parents whe re one of the intended fathers is biologically related to the child , may be unable to do so depending on the laws that govern reproductive …
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"""I'm Not Dead Yet"": Gay Male Narratives in the Age of AIDS"
"For the purposes of this dissertation, I began my study by narrowing the focus to the years between and including 1985 to 1994, a seemingly arbitrary decision, though one which, upon reflection, makes sense to me. Few works existed prior to 1985 on the topic of AIDS and thus earlier works were …
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#BLACKQUEERLIVESMATTER: Understanding the Lived Experiences of Black Gay Male Leaders in Los Angeles
<p>The Black community and the gay community have historically experienced marginalization from society, public and private institutions, federal government agencies, and law enforcement. Black gay male leadership is not a conversation within leadership academia. This phenomenological study focuses …
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A phenomenological enquiry into gay male domestic abuse victims’ experience of engaging with psychotherapy
… professional support, such as psychotherapy. Gay men can face specific help-seeking challenges and there is a seeming absence of qualitative in-depth research into gay men’s experiences of engagement with psychotherapy. In this context, this research project used Interpretative …
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“No One to Show Us the Way:” Assessing the Contemporary Relevance of the Gay Male Bildungsroman
<p>The gay male bildungsroman can trace its origins to E.M. Forster’s posthumously published <em>Maurice</em> (1971) and Edmund White’s <em>A Boy’s Own Story</em> (1982), among other examples. While nested under the umbrella category of the queer bildungsroman (and, more broadly, the …
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Gay Comics and Queer Male Comics in America: History, Conventions and Challenges
This thesis is focused on American gay male comics and queer alternative comics. I argue that the field of gay male comics' production is dominated by two key genres: gay porno comics and gay ghetto comics. The conventions and characteristics of these genres help to construct and reinforce a …
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‘I used to be subversive, but now I’m gay’: representations of queer identities on the American stage from the postwar to the 1990s
… constraints that shaped the manifestations of ‘gay’ male identities on the American stage from the postwar to the 1990s, I will offer extended analysis and close reading of selected texts. I will examine Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), …
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Out of sight : re-imagining Graaff's pool
… my masters exhibition: the representation of the gay male body and architectural space and site. The latter concerns both my strategies for the re-modelling of the gallery space, and my approach to the representation of the specific site of Graaff's Pool, on the Sea Point Promenade in Cape Town. I …
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Truly An Awesome Spectacle: Gender Performativity And The Alienation Effect In Angels In America
… in America uses stereotypical depictions of gay men to deconstruct traditional gender dichotomies. In this thesis, I argue that Kushner has created a continuum of gender performativity to deconstruct these traditional gender dichotomies, thereby empowering the effeminate and disempowering the …
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Sexual Orientation: A Peripheral Cue in Advertising?
Although advertising featuring gay male and lesbian models can be an effective means of targeting the significant gay and lesbian market, few empirical studies examine how consumers respond to gay-themed advertisements. To address the absence of message-processing research dealing with heterosexual …
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Theorising lesbian and gay affirmative psychotherapy : a grounded analysis
… qualitative research study exploring lesbian and gay affirmative psychotherapy. The participants comprised two sets of people. The first are lesbian and gay male clients, the second are lesbian, gay male and heterosexual female therapists. These therapists are accredited Clinical and Counselling …
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The experience gay males face in the obtaining and maintaining of their positions in educational leadership
… rejection, violence, and hatred experienced by gay men (Hershberger, Pilkington, & D’Augelli, 1997; King, 2004; Rasmussen, 2004). Despite these findings, political, legal, and social changes that began in the late 1960s have created a different political and legal landscape in many areas of …
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Clinical judgment bias in response to client sexual orientation and therapist heterosexuality identity development
… error displayed when working with lesbian and gay male clients. It was hypothesized that psychologists’ clinical decisions will differ as a result of client sex, client sexual orientation, and client gender role when therapist heterosexual identity development status is controlled for, with …
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Attitudes towards rape as a function of the victim's gender and sexual orientation
It is well documented that female rape victims are blamed to some extent for their assault. However, there is a lack of research investigating attitudes towards other types of sexual assault, such as sexual assaults on adult males, or sexual assaults committed by women. This thesis aimed to extend …
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