Addressing disparities in healthcare has been a growing concern of service providers, administrators, policy makers, and researchers for over 50 years. This dissertation is the first academic inquiry into what a particular type of organization, the LGBT community center, is doin…
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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 …
L'homme Ouvert is a thesis that focuses on the translation of a full body of work by the poet Jean Sénac. Jean Sénac was a French-Algerian poet of the mid-20th century. He was a French-speaking Pied-noir homosexual whose life and poetry revolved around the facets of his complex …
Using a survey design, this study examined the areas of conflict, maintenance behaviors, and conflict resolution strategies that have been speculated to exist in men and women in same-sex relationships, as a result of gender socialization, heterosexism and homophobia, and unique…
This study examined, in a sample of 110 Latino gay and bisexual men, the characteristics of the social networks that provide them with information and advice about HIV/AIDS, networks' influence on unprotected sexual intercourse, as well as the mechanisms underlying the associati…
Voice-Over: Violent Serene (A Novel-Essay) is an intertextual study, in narrative form, of the intimate relations between persons and such cultural objects as written and filmic works. Crossing the genres of fiction, memoir, and textual analysis, this work explores how queer fir…
The impetus for this dissertation stems from two areas of concern. The first is the quest for the recognition of the value of difference and for a discourse and practice of pluralism in Israel. The second is the struggle for gay rights in Israel. The integration of the two trans…
This thesis examines conceptions of homosexuality among lower income gay men of various ethnicities in Jakarta, Indonesia. The primary focus is on the relationship between homosexuality and conceptions of male gender, and it is argued that sexuality plays a minimal role in defin…
Despite constituting a sizeable minority ethic group and having been present for some considerable time, there is dearth of research on the lives of Chinese communities in the United Kingdom (UK), particularly those who identify as non-heterosexual. Using an intersectional frame…
Sperling Enterprises conducted a survey for Money Magazine in January, 2004 which in part examined one hundred large, medium and small metropolitan areas in the United States to determine which metropolitan areas were the most and least stressful places to reside. The Harrisburg…
This dissertation examines the awakening of homosexual libido within individual subjectivity as a means of initiating the personality to its own erotic desires and possibilities of authentic destiny. Reclaiming a vision of gay experience within the landscape and history of Imagi…
Over the past two decades, a substantial number of scholarly studies have examined the confluence of religious and sexual minority identities (Kocet et al., 2011; Love, Bock, Jannarone, & Richardson, 2005; Rodriguez & Ouellete, 2000; Schuck & Liddle, 2001). Religious identity wa…
This dissertation considers discourses bearing on the social dynamics of immigration and postcolonial diversity in contemporary France in light of their interconnections with issues of sexuality and assimilation. Synthesizing and building on recent work by anthropologists, socio…
Amore, More, Ore, Re is a collection of five short stories that focuses on a study of homosexual characters. "The Marvelous Life of a Rice Hut Showgirl" Follow an elderly drag queen in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, as she puts on her make-up for a performance and recounts her life, inc…
Recent studies have found that Internalized Heterosexism (IH) is a strong predictor of the psychological well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, questioning and same-sex attracted (LGBQ) individuals. To respond to the call for more effective interventions to address IH and its imp…
Heterosexism and other biased behavior are common in U.S. schools, but little attention has focused on the importance of teachers, staff, school clubs, and policies in combating bias. Three studies are presented that address gaps in the literature. Study 1 examined associations …
The present study assessed levels of anticipated positive and negative social support that undergraduate Latino heterosexual siblings would give to a younger brother that disclosed a gay identity. Randomly selected Latino undergraduate students (N = 179) read a vignette that dep…
The present-day neighborhoods of Silver Lake and Echo Park, historically known as Edendale, contain a significant concentration of historic resources associated with Los Angeles’ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) communities from the early to late-twentieth …
The world has a major influence on how people should live their life and what rules the people on the world should abide by. The Church has that same influence on their congregation. The specific problem is that black gay and bisexual adult males have endured abuse, violence, di…