This study examines the relationship between public sexual activity and the transformation of Paris during the Second Empire (1852-1870) and early Third Republic (1870-1940). It argues that prostitutes and male homosexuals were central to the city's everyday life. Urban administ…
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Transgender populations face substantial barriers to healthcare access, exacerbated by a lack of inclusive research. The health needs of those who are gender nonbinary or genderqueer, identifying outside the binary of man and woman, are especially poorly understood. Using a prim…
Focusing on the transnational relations produced through globalization and militarism among the United States, South Asia, and the Middle East, this dissertation explores how literal, potential, and symbolic acts of masculine suicide challenge dominant categories of race, class,…
This study explores sexual and ethnic identity development among Arab American lesbians. This population has been ignored in the psychological literature. Seven interviews were conducted and an interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used to capture the perspectives of …
My dissertation, entitled Imagining Independence Park, uses literary texts, photographs, and art installations to explore the strategies and practices that gay Israelis adopt in order to assimilate into mainstream society and to distinguish themselves from it. I analyze diverse …
In my dissertation, through looking at contemporary urban queer formations and politics, I theorize about the complex ways in which power and abjection operates in the context of Turkey's post-Empire, Westernizing nation-state formation. I argue that queer formations, subjects a…
This exploratory study investigated the experiences of sexual minority Arabs residing in the United States. This study utilized a mixed method design to investigate the experiences of Arabs with same-sex attractions, their milestone events, and the impact of the familial, cultur…
This thesis examines how people who have multiple identifications develop a sense of belonging. It focuses on those with politicized, romanticized, and stigmatized identifications which are assumed to be in conflict with one another. My particular case is that of "queer" women o…
This study examined four predictors for negative attitudes by Iranian Americans toward gay and lesbian individuals: (a) level of acculturation to the mainstream American culture, (b) gender, (c) political affiliation, and (d) religiosity. Participants were recruited using a non-…
This thesis is about the holidaymaking experiences of gay men. Whilst using the parlance of 'gay holidaymaking' and 'gay holidaymakers' as a starting point, it is the complex relationship of gay sexual cultures and spatial practices arising from the experiences of places away fr…
Often hailed as the civil rights movement of the twenty-first century, the same-sex marriage debate has swept across America. The most outspoken opposition to same-sex marriage is the Religious Right, which employs Scripture to support its argument that homosexuals are inferior …
Canada and British Columbia have legislation in place to protect gays and lesbians from discrimination based on their sexual orientation. A growing number of BC school districts have policy protecting gays and lesbians. However, some gay and lesbian teachers still hide their sex…
In this thesis, I examine the role of queerness, solidarity and movement in anti-war activism relating to the 2006 Lebanon War. I investigate two events called "Out Against the Occupation" that were organized during the summer of 2006 in response to the war. These events emerged…
Different Shadows: Gay Representation in Israeli Cinema studies the role of cinema in the rise of Israeli gay consciousness over the past three decades. One aim of this research is to map Israeli gay cinema by situating it in relation to other Israeli and non-Israeli films, the …
This project explores the changing representation of Arab men and "Arabness" in contemporary gay male pornography, before and after 9/11, investigating how evolving ideologies, social movements and technologies influence these racial constructions. The paper takes an in depth lo…
Very little has been written on female homosexuality in the Arab world. This paper is an ethnographic account of non-heterosexual women in Lebanon as presented through personal interviews and participant observations with twenty individuals who identify as non-heterosexual and a…
This dissertation concerns the experiences of Indonesian migrant domestic workers who are or have been in a same-sex relationship in Hong Kong. The timeframe of my research spans two years, from 2010 to 2012. By studying the construction of gender and sexuality in the context of…
The purpose of this research is to begin to describe various aspects of interactions with the labor market (e.g. employment status, individual income, household income) based on sexual orientation, using nationally representative data from the General Social Survey. Much of the …
Throughout the course of celluloid making, the depiction of the homosexual character has experienced countless changes effectively creating a clearly identifiable evolution. Even before silent films became a lucrative genre, the reflection of the homosexual social experience was…