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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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…
The internet has generally been recognized as a particularly advantageous medium for LGBTQs, that is, lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, trans* people and/or queers. However, as I explain in this doctoral dissertation, LGBTQ Internet studies remain dominated by US scholars working on…
This thesis explores why gender hierarchy remains resilient and entrenched in contemporary political life, despite efforts to challenge and transform it. I approach this question by focussing on the reproduction of gendered subjects, which I argue is integral to the reproduction…
This master thesis explores the interactions between the Turkish LGBT community and the state, law enforcement, the military, the family and Turkish society in general. The aim was to make sense of these interactions by focusing on the social movement dimension of the Turkish LG…
In the past two decades, a significant number of revisionist literature has been published by queer Asian theologians challenging orthodox teachings on homosexuality and gender identity. The issue that the Asian American church faces today is pressure from society and culture to…
For those who subscribe to a theological worldview that prohibits homosexual practice and affirms heterosexual unions as God’s intended design, the question remains as to whether one who struggles with unwanted same-sex attractions can experience a genuine change in his or her a…
There are known issues related to religion and spirituality (R/S) among the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population, such as identity struggles, religious abuse, and internalized homonegativity. Many therapists are uncomfortable incorporating R/S into therapy, …
The objective of this study is to highlight differences in how various branches of Judaism discuss LGBTQ inclusion and acceptance. Political and public support for same-sex relationships has shifted considerably from the 1970s to the present, and prior research indicates that on…
My dissertation explores the demographics and composition of sexual minority populations in the United States, their labor market experiences, and public policy, respectively. Using a novel method of Cross-Survey Multiple Imputation (CSMI), I create a unique dataset which allows…
In this dissertation, I examine the way Seattle drag artists embody the practice of remix through live and digital performance, weaving together sound, visual references, history, politics, gender, body, and affect in creative ways that both entertain audiences and make critical…
This dissertation reports the results of a descriptive phenomenological study which explored the experiences that LGBTQ+ (queer) folks had of being immersed in their own goodness and wisdom, which are qualities used as descriptive analogues for the concept of “brilliant sanity”;…
In the past thirty years the LGBTQ community has become increasingly studied within academia. However, it is only in the past decade that their spaces and places have begun to be examined. When one narrows this down even further to New South cities, practically nothing exists. T…
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and more (LGBT+) college students have had a long and interesting history with higher education institutions. These students seek out a location on campus that provides them with a safe space where they are free to express themselves in terms …
In 2007, Singapore Government introduced the Penal Code (Amendment) Bill, which proposed significant changes to Section 377. As the government had to opt to keep Section 377A, which criminalizes oral and anal sex between two males, this led to the LGBT activists mobilizing the p…
Sexual assault has detrimental effects on victims and is disproportionally occurring among sexual minority women, with non-monosexual women and gender diverse people reporting higher rates of victimization compared to both lesbian and heterosexual women. Research provides eviden…
In 1979, Middle Tennessee saw the formation of the Student Coalition for Gay Rights (SCGR) at Austin Peay State University (APSU). The Student Coalition for Gay Rights became the first LGBT+ student organization to receive official recognition at a public institution in Tennesse…