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California's Proposition 8: What Happened, and What Does the Future Hold? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Analyzes the characteristics of voters most likely to have supported or opposed Proposition 8 in 2008, including party affiliation, religiosity, and age.
Kenneth Sherrill, Patrick J. Egan
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
wiley   +1 more source

Discourse and identity in a corpus of lesbian erotica [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article uses corpus linguistic methodologies to explore representations of lesbian desires and identities in a corpus of lesbian erotica from the 1980s and 1990s.
Baker P.   +27 more
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Migration, Repression and Homosexual Sociability in Francoist Spain: An Analysis of the Case Files of the Special Courts of Barcelona (1965–1975)

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Spain, under General Franco's regime, homosexuality was regarded as an antisocial and dangerous behaviour. It was thus pursued both by the police and judicial courts. The Law on Vagrants and Crooks (1954) and, subsequently, the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) constituted the legal mechanisms used by the dictatorship to
Jordi Mas Grau, Rafael Cáceres‐Feria
wiley   +1 more source

From Closet Talk to PC Terminology : Gay Speech and the Politics of Visibility

open access: yesTransatlantica, 2008
This paper examines the extraordinary complexity of sexual orientations and subcultures as expressed by “gay speech,” an idiom the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community has developed for itself.
Pascale Smorag
doaj   +1 more source

Women’s Sexual Orientation and Labour Market Outcomes [PDF]

open access: yes
This study provides evidence on the relationship between lesbian women and their hiring prospects by employing the Correspondence Test for Greece. The data analyzed supports the findings of previous experiments and indicates that hiring discrimination ...
Nick Drydakis
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Queering Institutional Milestones in Elite Higher Education: Queer Perspectives on Princeton University and Coeducation (1960–1980)

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A new archive of oral history interviews from LGBTQIA‐identified alumni, faculty and staff reveals the complex ways that queer and transgender students understood, experienced and remembered the long transition from single‐sex to coeducation at Princeton University.
Ezelle Sanford III   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dispositional mindfulness mediates the relationship between internalized homonegativity and depressive symptoms in lesbians and gay men

open access: yesCogent Psychology
Lesbians and gay men experience mental health disparities associated with minority stress. Prior research indicates that dispositional mindfulness (DM) is positively linked to mental health. The present study examined whether DM mediates or moderates the
Frank A. Sattler
doaj   +1 more source

‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

Surviving Homophobia: Overcoming Evil Environments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Thinking of the evils of homophobia and what is needed to survive them requires acknowledging a new category of evil besides the evils of individual deeds, social practices and social structures.
Card, Claudia
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