Same-sex marriage is the site of a vitriolic debate in mainline Christian denominations in the United States. Mainline Christian denominations bring together liberal, evangelical and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) Christians who employ disparate discourses that …
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The current Islamic Republic of Iran distinguishes between homosexuals and same-sex sexual activity: the former is not recognized as an identity, while state apparatuses openly condemn the latter. Beginning in Iran's medieval period, through its current Islamic regime, this diss…
The work focuses on a chain of events that began in the London Borough of Haringey in1986. The Labour-led local council's adoption of a policy that would promote 'positiveimages' of homosexuality in local schools erupted into a conflict that led, in part, toParliament's passage …
Most Black Christian Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) do not feel affirmed or accepted by the traditional Black Church. Their experiences with faith-based sexual exclusion have led to mental, spiritual, and behavioral challenges. As an institution, the Black church is a sanctuary…
This thesis examines the representations of sex between men in the British Columbia and Washington press from 1866 to 1910. During this period, B.C. and Washington newspapers covered both local and international sex scandals involving men engaging in sex with other men or boys. …
In theory, all that are involved in same-sex practices in Islam based on the common and mainstream interpretation of the story of the people of Lut are treated the same. In reality, however, and in the Arab world today, the penetrated and penetrator are not equally abnormal and …
In this thesis, I explore Anne Lister as a Romantic writer. While much criticism has focused on Lister’s place in queer history, comparatively little has examined her writing itself. Thus, this thesis aims to place Lister’s writings within popular Romantic genres and in conversa…
This thesis is concerned with lifestyles in Japan that have hitherto remained largely unreported. The main research categories are gay men, lesbian women, single men and women, and feminist men and women. In addition attention is given to transvestites, transsexuals and hermaphr…
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…
Like many German men that were raised in the late Wilhelmine period, Heinrich Himmler was too young to enter the German Imperial Army, and thus unable to fight in the Great War. Therefore, he was unable to prove his own masculinity through a soldierly experience at a time when t…
This dissertation is a collection of poems based on my experiences interviewing African refugees from Kenya and Sudan. The critical chapters that accompany it examine the extent to which documentary poetry marks human suffering. My intent is not to supersede historical analysis …
I,metaboy is a stage play about a young homosexual couple, one a soldier and the other a writer, during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2000s and the struggles they encounter in their relationship when the soldier marries a woman to pass in the military. The story follow…
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 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 dissertation pursues the literary-historical tracks of the image repertoire of "boy-love" (amradparasti) versified for over two centuries in the Urdu ghazal. It critically engages with key positions in sexuality studies and ghazal criticism that have reduced this theme to v…
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…
This dissertation takes up the first truly Jewish homosexual identity, which Mordechai Jiří Langer (1894-1943) created in Prague during the 1920s. It is a study of the historical conditions--especially the exclusion of Jews by the masculinist wing of the German homosexual rights…
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…