A questão do uso das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC) pelos sujeitos-gays para a produção de novos processos de sociabilidade na contemporaneidade tem ocupado destaque nas abordagens realizadas em uma série de espaços discursivos, resultando em análises e trabalhos de inúmeras áreas e enfoques teóricos. No presente trabalho, objetivamos investigar de que modo os sujeitos-gays e os aplicativos de relacionamento voltados para eles são abordados nos discursos jornalísticos produzidos por espaços de imprensa disponibilizados on-line, contando como referencial analítico, metodológico e teórico a Análise do Discurso de filiação francesa (Pêcheux, 1997a, 1997b, 2010, 2014). Buscou-se analisar os discursos e sentidos produzidos sobre os sujeitos-gays que são usuários dos aplicativos de relacionamento apresentados em 37 textos jornalísticos, constituindo o corpus da pesquisa, publicados no período de 2010 a 2015 e provenientes de quatro espaços de notícias vinculados as grandes estruturas midiáticas do país (Folha de S. Paulo, O Estado de S. Paulo, Portal G1 e Portal IG). Selecionamos materiais que abordam os três principais aplicativos desse tipo utilizados no Brasil: o Grindr, o Hornet e o Scruff. O trabalho com os discursos jornalísticos permite observarmos que a abordagem na atualidade, sobre os sujeitos-gays e os espaços atrelados a eles, apresenta diferenças no modo como era realizada em um passado recente, em decorrência das alterações sócio-históricas do período. As relações dos sujeitos-gays com esses aplicativos são abordadas nos espaços jornalísticos e apresentadas aos sujeitos-leitores dos espaços de notícias, inscrevendo sentidos sobre o surgimento, modos de funcionamento e usos dessas tecnologias. Identificamos que os discursos jornalísticos sobre os sujeitos-gays na relação de uso com os aplicativos não estão restritos à abordagem das novas formas de sociabilidade, essa discussão é apresentada e destaca como as formas de encontro passam por alterações na sua realização, seja na procura por relacionamentos sérios, amizades ou sexo casual, mas outros pontos importantes são ressaltados, entre eles, a facilidade envolvendo a contaminação por Doenças Sexualmente Transmissíveis (DST), a importância dos sujeitos-gays para a estrutura econômica atual e modificações no espaço urbano pelo uso dessas tecnologias. Os aplicativos de relacionamento interferem no modo como os sujeitos-gays encontram e estabelecem relações, o que está ligado às atuais condições de produção da contemporaneidade, produzindo novos sentidos sobre esses sujeitos e os espaços relacionados a eles. / The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by gay subjects to produce new sociability processes in contemporary times has been emphasized in the approaches carried out in a series of discursive spaces, resulting in analyses and works of numerous areas and theoretical perspectives. In this paper, based on the analytical, methodological and theoretical assumptions of French Discourse Analysis (Pêcheux, 1997a, 1997b, 2010, 2014), we aim to investigate how gay subjects and the dating applications aimed at them are addressed in the journalistic discourses produced by the press made available online. We sought to analyze discourses and meanings produced on gay subjects who make use of such applications, in a corpus composed of 37 journalistic texts, published in the period of 2010-2015 and issued by four spaces of news associated with the countrys large media groups (Folha de S. Paulo, O Estado de S. Paulo, Portal G1 e Portal IG). We have selected materials that cover the three main dating applications used in Brazil: Grindr, Hornet and Scruff. The work with journalistic discourses allows us to observe that the current approach on gay subjects and spaces related to them differs from the one carried out in a recent past. These changes are produced as a result of socio-historical transformations in contemporary times. The relationships of gay subjects with such applications are approached in journalistic spaces and presented to reader subjects of the news spaces, inscribing meanings about their appearance, modes of operation and uses. We have identified that journalistic discourses on gay subjects concerning the use of applications are not restricted to the approach on new forms of sociability. Such a discussion is presented and highlights how the forms of encounter go through changes, either in the search for serious relationships, friendships or casual sex. Also, other important aspects are made clear, e.g. the ease involving the transmission of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD), the importance of gay subjects to the current economic structure, and modifications in the urban space through the use of such technologies. Dating applications interfere with the way gay subjects find and establish relationships, which is connected to the current conditions of production in the contemporary times, producing new meanings about such subjects and the spaces related to them.

M.A. / At about the same time as Gayspeak was developing across the Atlantic, 'coloured' and white South African gay men were also starting to use their own in-group form of communication. It became known as Gayle, a name which derives from the lexical item Gail, which means 'chat' in the language. This study will endeavour to classify the type of language variety of Gayle, as it clearly is not a separate language on its own. It will also examine why South African gay men have used, and continue to use Gayle in their everyday lives. Given what we said earlier about legitimising Gayle as an incontestable reality within serious linguistic study, and the dearth of serious research in this area, it is important that this topic take its rightful place in the field of sociolinguistics. As language is an integral part of culture, it is also important that a comprehensive lexicon of Gayle be compiled, in line with Joustra's Homo-erotisch Woordenboek, Courouve's Vocabu/aire de l'Homosexualite Masculine and Rodgers' Gay Talk: A (sometimes Outrageous) Dictionary of Gay Slang, as Gayle is an undeniable component in the history of South African culture. In the course of the empirical research component of this study, approximately 90% of respondents indicated an interest in, and need for, such a dictionary.

Cette thèse doctorale constitue le recueil de trois études. Deux d’entre elles contribuent à la littérature s’intéressant aux dynamiques et aux corrélats de la violence entre partenaires intimes de même sexe (VPIMS), par l’intermédiaire de données testant des hypothèses à l’intersection de la théorie de l’attachement et de la VPIMS. Entre la première et la troisième étude se trouve une étude de validation psychométrique d’un questionnaire portant sur la confiance dyadique, utilisé dans l’Étude 3. Globalement, le but de cette thèse est l’examen de liens proposés entre l’attachement insécurisé et la perpétration et/ou la victimisation de violence physique, psychologique et sexuelle chez les individus en dyade de même sexe. Ces liens sont bien soutenus dans la littérature théorique et empirique s’intéressant à la violence conjugale hétérosexuelle (voir Mikulincer & Shaver, 2016), mais restent à être testés de façon approfondie lorsqu’il s’agit de la VPIMS. La première étude s’intéresse à l’examen détaillé des contributions respectives des systèmes d’attachement et d’offre de soutien en matière de perpétration et de victimisation de violence physique et psychologique de même sexe. Les résultats provenant d’analyses hiérarchiques de régression soulignent des taux de variance substantiels partagés entre chacune des dimensions d’attachement insécurisé, de soutien et de VPIMS. L’évitement et la proximité se sont démarqués en apportant des contributions indépendantes au-delà des autres dimensions d’attachement et de soutien. En considérant le chevauchement important entre les dimensions d’attachement et de soutien, ainsi que les contributions indépendantes de l’évitement et de la proximité, la réduction factorielle des six dimensions d’attachement et de soutien (soit, l’anxiété, l’évitement, la proximité, la sensibilité, le contrôle et le soutien compulsif) a été tentée. Deux composantes principales ont été extraites, soit, l’hyperactivation et la désactivation. Ces dernières ont été mises en relation avec la VPIMS par le biais d’une deuxième série d’analyses hiérarchiques. Les résultats qui en découlent soulignent des variances partagées entre l’hyperactivation, la désactivation et la VPIMS, et que ces variances partagées apportent chacune leur contribution indépendante. Par soucis de rigueur méthodologique destinés à favoriser l’utilisation de questionnaires validés, la deuxième étude vise la validation psychométrique de la Dyadic Trust Scale auprès d’individus en relation de même sexe. La structure factorielle de ce questionnaire a été testée par analyse factorielle confirmatoire, afin d’évaluer si elle demeure unidimensionnelle lorsqu’elle est administrée aux individus en dyades de même sexe. Les résultats obtenus soulignent que la structure unidimensionnelle de la mesure originale a pu être répliquée avec l’échantillon recruté. La fidélité de cette mesure s’est avérée excellente. Globalement, cette mesure semble être appropriée pour évaluer la confiance dyadique chez les individus en relation de même sexe. La troisième et dernière étude propose un modèle théorique dans lequel la confiance dyadique et l’intimité sexuelle agissent comment médiateurs sériels de la relation directe entre l’attachement insécurisé et la perpétration de VPIMS sexuelle. Les résultats issus de procédures bootstrapping soutiennent le modèle proposé dans son intégralité. L’attachement insécurisé (c.-à-d., l’anxiété ou l’évitement) était directement associé à la perpétration de VPIMS sexuelle. Les trajectoires indirectes propres à la confiance dyadique et à l’intimité sexuelle étaient soutenues, et les résultats soutiennent également l’existence d’une médiation double et sérielle entre l’attachement, la confiance dyadique, l’intimité sexuelle et la VPIMS sexuelle perpétrée.

Journalists are supposed to stay neutral. But, when it comes to reporting on a viral protest against a gay conversion therapy program, young, lesbian reporter Anna Mitchell isn’t so sure she agrees with what’s neutral anymore. Gay Christian Speed Dating takes place in Iowa City, Iowa and follows Anna Mitchell, who has moved in with her parents after getting laid off from her prestigious breaking news job. When performance artist college kids go viral protesting a local gay conversion therapy program, it might be Anna’s one shot to get back in the journalism game. But Anna has conflicts of interest: a crush on the girl who is leading the protest, and, even worse, her own opinions on the subject matter that she can’t seem to keep from spilling. This contemporary new adult novel is 42,000 words in a tone of The Great Believers meets Priestdaddy. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2020. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

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Previous studies have suggested that gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals may be at increased risk for symptoms of depression and suicidality, but little empirical investigation to date has attempted to make clearer the stressors or factors that are associated with the development of symptoms. This study explores the roles of identity development as a sexual minority individual and the acculturative process in terms of the impact of interaction with heterosexual culture as predictors of depressive and suicidal symptoms. In addition, other psychosocial variable that have been previously associated with suicidality in other minority groups were tested as mediators between gay cultural identity and depressive and suicidal symptoms. Gay, lesbian, and bisexual college students were recruited for participation through social groups specific to this population. Results indicated that gay cultural identity was associated with depressive and suicidal symptoms. Furthermore, social support was shown to mediate the relationship between gay cultural identity and symptoms. Both frequency of social contact and interpersonal quality of social support were included in the analyses, with the latter showing a stronger relationship to the outcome variables. These findings emphasize the importance of research investigating points of intervention and organized efforts to provide social support to gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth that may be most effective in the prevention of depressive and suicidal symptoms. / Ph. D.

The purpose of this study is to examine domestic violence as it occurs in same-sex male relationships. Data were collected by in-depth interviews with twenty-five gay males, who were between the ages of 23 and 43, and who had previous experience being in a homosexual relationship where domestic violence was present. The major findings of this study include the respondents': 1) definitions of domestic violence and abuse; 2) the type of domestic violence or abuse personally experienced; and 3) reasons they believe domestic violence or abuse occurs in these types of relationships. This study illustrates the need for further research in this area of domestic violence and for programs or services targeted for this specific population.

In recent history, the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) persons have been in constant fluctuation. Many states criminalize homosexual behavior while other states legally recognize same-sex marriages and same-sex adoptions. There are also irregular patterns where LGBT interest groups form across the globe. With this research project, I begin to explain why these discrepancies in the treatment of homosexuality and the formation of LGBT interest groups occur. I develop a theory that the most obvious contrast across the globe occurs when analyzing the treatment of homosexuals in OECD member states versus non-OECD countries. OECD nations tend to see the gay community struggle for more advanced civil rights and government protections, while non-OECD states have to worry about fundamental human rights to life and liberty. I find that this specific dichotomization is what causes the irregular LGBT interest group formation pattern across the globe; non-OECD nations tend to have fewer LGBT interest groups than their OECD counterparts. When looking at why non-OECD nations and OECD nations suppress the rights of their gay citizens, I find that religion plays a critical role in the suppression of the gay community. In this analysis, I measure religion several different ways, including the institution of an official state religion as well as the levels of religiosity within a nation. Regardless of how this variable is manipulated and measured, statistical analysis continuously shows that religion’s influence is the single most significant factor in leading to a decrease in both human and civil rights for gays and lesbians across the globe. Further analysis indicates that Judaism plays the most significant role out the three major world religions in the suppression of civil rights for homosexuals in OECD nations.

Gay Power! A Study of Male Homosexuality and Identity Politics in the Swedish GayPress 1971–1986 In this essay, the author examines the sexual policy ideas behind the Swedish gaymagazine Revolt in order to describe one aspect of the history of ideas about male homosexuality in Sweden. In particular, the study emphasize the social and cultural creation of meaning, as well as constructions of a homosexual male subject. The author has here focused on the ideas and theories that governed and influenced the magazine in a certain direction during the examined period 1971–1986. The overall purpose has been to study the gay press's perception of homosexuality, and what values about same sex-sexuality that have emerged in the material. The author distinguishes between two kinds of directions of ideas who have affected the magazine. One was the ideology of sexual liberalism, where the ambition was to break the silence and stigma when talking about sex in general, especially homosexuality. Within the framework of sexual liberalism, the magazine has intended to depict the many facets of homosexuality in words and images. The other direction was more focused on conducting identity politics where the sexual practice was dimmed to instead give preference to issues that valued a creation of a homosexual identity. The construction of such an identity has primarily been about creating cohesion and continuity among gay men, in order to strengthen the homosexual community inwards. But the identity politics has also implied a normalization of homosexuality. Likewise, it has limited the scope for sexual variations in relation to the creation of a homosexual subjectivity. By the mid-1980s, the identity politics had become so strong that Revolt came to be a magazine for gay men specifically, and earlier liberal ideas of sexuality became almost alienated. The male homosexuality became here an object of moralizing where some sexual practices were problematized and even made incomprehensible in the light of social changes in the homosexual community and in the society in general.

Increasingly, same-sex couples are choosing to become parents. According to Patterson (1992, cited in Mallon, 1997), it is estimated that in the United States of America alone, there are between six and 14 million children being raised by gay and lesbian couples. This study explored the experiences of same-sex parents as they moved through the adoption process, and once they had become parents. Two couples (a gay male couple and a lesbian couple) were interviewed. The study used an ecological theoretical framework in order to understand the myriad influences on the individuals' and couples' experiences. The Voice-Centred Relational Method (Mauthner & Doucet, cited in Ribbens & Edwards, 1998) was used to analyse the data qualitatively. Major themes that emerged from the data include the ways in which parents negotiate roles with partners, the impact of societal reactions (and heteronormativity) on the couples, the quality of relationships between family members and the influence that these had on the couples' experience of parenting. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2007.