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Arguing Against the Sanctioning of Gay Parenting

reason why gay parenting is wrong is that it sets up identity issues. That is not to suggest that it sets up gender identity or co...

Military and Sexual Harassment

who interview military women in any depth is that sexual harassment is pervasive and ... fundament to womens military experience" ...

Roman Catholic Church and Gay Marriage

said they had an obligation to give witness to the whole moral truth and reinforce Catholic teaching that gay sex is a sin" (Bisho...

Pre Stonewall America and Authors' Treatment of Gay Society Identity

government - harbored toward the homosexual population. Lumped together with such socially unsavory issues as Communism, Katz ill...

Second World War Jewish Stereotypes and Minority Group Perceptions Regarding Gays and Lesbians

gays and lesbians within their own ethnic group, one might readily surmise how the lack of religious tolerance is partly to blame ...

Processes of Gay Identity Development

has returned home for a visit with his mother and to reintroduce her to his lover, Wayne, who joins him at his childhood home. Nei...

Amend the Constitution to Ban Gay Marriage

It could be said that the ban, as well, could likely violate the concept of equality, which is also implied in the Constitution (T...

Supporting Gay Marriage

family rights" (Farrell 130; Stacey and Biblarz 159). In September of 2000, the Dutch parliament followed suit by also granting e...

Policy of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' and Gays in the Military

a "dont ask, dont tell" policy. This policy, however, is in reality short sited. The military must open its eyes and look to oth...

Drag Queens, Gays, and the Popularity of Marilyn Monroe

play dumb. However, she was not dumb and was essentially victimized by the media, something she was not strong enough to deal with...

The Boys Scouts in Litigation

they affirmed their intention to found a Christian nation under God.1 Historian Frank Lambert refers to these men as the "Puritan ...

Counseling Gays and Lesbians

to seek additional mental health support following his diagnosis of HIV infection. There are two different sociocultural compon...

How To Come Out

if the individual discovers that he or she has thoughts and feelings that are "very basic and very strong" with regard to others o...

Labor and Gay Rights in Australia

these issues affect the labor and gay movements in Australia. Gay and Lesbian rights The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is a ...

Views on the Social Practice of Gay Marriage

Bush Oppose Gay Marriage 14). The statement went on to pronounce heterosexual marriage as "holy, while homosexual acts go against...

Gays, Lesbians, and Domestic Violence

become intimate with other men, and found himself in trouble, that it sparked her interest (McClennen, 2003). It seems that while ...

Human Rights and Investigation of Differences II

lower crime rates, that reductions in crime must originate within individuals. Adding greater numbers of police all too often is ...

A Comparison of Anna Quindlen and Andrew Sullivan Plus an Annotated Bibliography

ailing partner; they cant file joint tax returns; there are no survivors benefits for the one left behind (Quindlen, 1992). Quind...

Issues Through Liberal and Conservative Lenses

liberal origins, the conservative had developed their own distinctive view of Social Security, which can be summed up in a single ...

Policy of a Couple That Has Two Careers

the company. Since health care benefits include spousal/partner insurance for a partner not employed at this company, the partners...

Why was I Born Gay? by David McGrinn

This essay is a book review that pertains to David McGrinn's God, Why Was I Born Gay? Biology, the Bible and the Homosexual Debate...

In Favor of Gay Marriage

and cultures claim that marriage is about creating a committed union for the sake of creating children, many people today get marr...

The Same Sex Marriage Debate and Religious Discourse

the fight against same-sex marriage being legalized is largely influenced by religious ideology in the legislative and constitutio...

Substance Abuse Counseling For Diverse Populations

and Practice, 2001). As this author said, "Cultural competency emphasizes the idea of effectively operating in different cultural ...

Gay Adoption Bans: An Ethical Look

social development of an adopted child (Averett, Nalavany, & Ryan, 2009). Averett et al. (2009) were able to determine through exp...

Self-Analysis of Automatic Attidudes

unacceptable to have negative attitudes towards different groups of people, e.g., different races. Despite the publicity and even ...

Peter Nardi on Gay and Straight Male Friendships

extremely difficult (Nardi). In other words, we can pick our friends but we have no choice about family, even when that relationsh...

Latin America and Gay Marriage

wedding is what this event implies about secularization, as a deep fear of the Catholic Church has been that secular attitudes wil...

An Essay Arguing for Gay Marriage

can be viewed as a socially constructed contract, opposition to applying marriage to homosexual unions extends from the social con...

The Stonewall Riots

and boundaries or the actual physical contact among its members, but by the mental image of affinity," which he associated with "t...