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The mediating role of stress in the relationship between social support and couple satisfaction among gay male couples /Matchett-Morris, Glenn A., January 2003 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-159). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Queerable spaces : homosexualities and homophobias in contemporary film : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Cultural Studies in the University of Canterbury /Demirkan-Martin, Vulcan Volkan. January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Canterbury, 2009. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 193-210). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Moral development in gay men during the coming-out processJasek, Michael Dan. January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of West Florida, 2009. / Submitted to the Dept. of Professional and Community Leadership. Title from title page of source document. Document formatted into pages; contains 0 pages. Includes bibliographical references.
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Are these queer times? gay male representation on the American stage in the 1920's and 1990's /Couch, James Russell, January 2003 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kentucky, 2003. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 7, 2006). Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 62-68).
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Male homosexuality in modern Japan: cultural myths and social realitiesMcLelland, Mark James. January 1999 (has links)
published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Japanese Studies / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy
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Reasonable trust : an analysis of sexual risk, trust, and intimacy among gay menBotnick, Michael R. 11 1900 (has links)
This thesis explores the psychosocial dynamics of sexual risk-taking in men who
have sex with men, with particular focus on the dilemmas that gay men face in
establishing trust in themselves and reasonable trust and intimacy with their
sexual partners. As well, the practical function of this study is to analyze past and
current social marketing efforts aimed at reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS, and
to offer suggestions for how to approach a strategy to reduce HIV incidence in
gay men and at the same time bolster efforts to assist men who have sex with
men (MSM) in adhering to safer sex guidelines.
In part, this thesis uses a sample of participants of the Vanguard Project cohort
(St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia), in order to explore the social
meanings attributed by MSM towards sex, risk, intimacy, and attitudes toward
HIV/AIDS. Through the use of first-person narratives, this thesis examines the
concordance or discordance of MSM beliefs and behaviour with long-standing
theoretical models of harm reduction methods concerning sexual risk.
The study reveals that, in great measure, due to past life course events, many gay
men suffer from a lack of trust in themselves, which results in a tendency to
make irrational or unreasonable decisions concerning their long-term sexual
health, and a lack of trust in other gay men. As welL through the misguided and
often untruthful health models that advocate fewer sexual partners and rely upon
the false assumption that all potential sex partners are carriers of contagion, the
sense of mistrust has been reinforced. The lack of confidence in self and others
further translates into a suspicion of the motives and/or efficacy of social
institutions entrusted with community health development and maintenance,
rendering their efforts even less effective. Moreover, traditional harm reduction
messages, especially 'fear campaigns', often act as a deterrent, rather than as an
incentive, to harm reduction. Of more appeal are supportive harm reduction
messages delivered by someone whom the recipient trusts, especially when the
social meanings of sex, risk, trust and intimacy are, for many gay men, less fixed
and more contingent than for the population at large. This means that attempts
to modify risky behaviour must acknowledge and negotiate multiple meanings,
shifting values and changing social climates, as well as routine epidemiological
concerns.
The research identifies four key themes within a problematic of trust, risk and
intimacy, and delineates the harm reduction social complexities experienced by
gay men in the study group; these recurring themes deal with family and early
sociahzation, internalized homophobia, contingency and instability of meanings
of risk, trust and sex, and the toistworthiness of the messengers of harm
reduction strategies. Out of these recurring themes come a number of
recommendations for remedial programs aimed at both mid- and long-term
reductions in HIV incidence. The recommendations are grounded in the
recognition that homophobic and/or dysfunctional social conditions are, to a
great extent, implicated in sexual risk behaviour, and therefore must be eliminated
or ameliorated before meaningful harm reduction gains can be realized. The
discussions with the gay men in the study reveal their need for positive role
models and communal social support in their efforts to combat HIV infection,
suggesting a need to rethink the meanings of what it is to be gay, a need to
redevelop and revitalize what was once a vibrant and cohesive corrimunity, and
bearing in mind the lessons of the past, a need to re-approach the task of
sternming the tide of HIV infection in ways that are sensitive to the factors that
adduce high-risk sexual behaviour.
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A sense of belonging : pre-liberation space, symbolics, and leadership in gay MontrealHiggins, Ross. January 1997 (has links)
This is a study of collective identity formation among Montreal gay men before 1970. Using a theoretical framework based on schema theory and discourse analysis, I show that the success of the gay movement after that date was founded on the efforts of men who identified as gay in the decades before gay liberation. In their daily lives, their involvement with gay friendship groups, and their participation in gay social life in the clandestine world of bars and other venues of gay sociability, these men created a complex web of knowledge in gay-specific schemata and discourse forms that provided the basis for a gay rhetoric to counter the social taboo on homosexuality. Using data from thirty life history interviews, I have documented in detail the raw's struggle to come to terms with their difference, the influence on them of family, peer groups and authoritative discourses condemning homosexuality, the ways in which they found and entered the gay world, and the processes of learning its social conventions, I have outlined the continuous growth of the institutional foundations of the gay world, especially bars, focusing on the similarities and differences between Francophones and Anglophones, as well as those between working-class and middle-class gays in Montreal I detail the social control exerted by police over gay men's lives and the growth of symbolic forms, including language and shared discursive themes, which the new gay spaces made possible and through which the collectivity was made manifest. Finally, I show that the increasing unwillingness of ordinary gay men to accept their ostracism led to the growth of a gay culture of resistance based on these shared schemata. The leadership of individual gay men in private and in public opened the way for the social, cultural and political transformations of the social organization of homosexuality after 1970.
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Narratives of constructing as gay and having relationships in contemporary South AfricaHenderson, Neil. January 2010 (has links)
This study examined how gay men construct a gay identity and have relationships within a heteronormative (Kritzinger, 2005) society in South Africa. The impact of this study is that homophobia continues to persist within different levels of society despite progressive legislation (Republic of South Africa, 1998 / Republic of South Africa, 2006 / Republic of South Africa, 2007), that gender binarisms persist in gay relationships, that power differences impact and shape gay relationships, and that resistance and transgression to heteronormativity were present in some of the narratives. The qualitative study employed a semi-structured guide with in-depth interviews. Sampling procedures that were utilised were snowball sampling in a non-probability sample. Data was collected via an MP3 player and each interview was transcribed and analysed using content and narrative analysis. I-poems using the listening guide (Gilligan et al, 2003) were constructed in six of the narratives. The sample distribution included 15 gay men aged between 20 to 46 years. Of these, 12 participants were black (6 coloured, 3 Indians, 3 African) and 3 were white.
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The sexual risk cognitions questionnaire : a reliability and validity; a portfolio of study, practice and researchShah, Deepti January 1996 (has links)
No description available.
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Character strengths and virtues in relation to well-being in gay and lesbian individualsMiller, Deborah J. 24 July 2010 (has links)
The purpose of this study was to apply concepts of virtue and positive psychology to the understanding of well-being in gay and lesbian individuals. Ninety-two self-identified gay and lesbian university students between the ages of 18 and 30 completed an online research survey to assess their well-being and character strengths. Preliminary factor analysis revealed a two-factor virtue structure underlying the 24 character strengths as outlined by the Values In Action (VIA) inventory. Participants were grouped using cluster analysis, and discriminant analysis was then performed to differentiate between group membership based on virtue factors. Results suggest that individuals with high autonomy and low overall well-being score lower in interpersonal strengths than those with balanced well-being. As social support has been identified as a key factor related to well-being for this population, further attention is warranted to study the relationship between autonomy, interpersonal character strengths, and social support in this population. / Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services
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