Cette thèse porte sur une période qui va de la mort de Franco, en 1975, à la légalisation du mariage homosexuel en 2005. Sa source essentielle est la presse, notamment deux journaux aux orientations idéologiques opposées, à savoir El País et ABC. Le but du premier chapitre est à la fois de montrer ce qu’il en fut du rejet et de l’acceptation des réalités homosexuelles en Espagne, entre 1975 et 2005, aussi bien dans les textes que dans la vie quotidienne et d’expliquer pourquoi l’évolution de ces deux derniers n’est que partiellement comparable nonobstant leurs interactions en raison - en partie - des limites de la dichotomie « rejet et acceptation » sur un tel sujet, dans un tel pays et durant une telle période. Ces limites constituent l’objet du deuxième chapitre consacré justement aux faits à propos desquels il est difficile de dire clairement s’ils relèvent du rejet ou de l’acceptation - parce qu’ils témoignent d’un simple intérêt pour la question, d’une représentation réductrice des réalités homosexuelles faute - parfois - de connaissances suffisantes en la matière. Aussi le troisième chapitre consiste-t-il à expliquer comment cette aporie peut être surmontée en prenant en compte la dimension linguistique et ontologique des problématiques qui sont au cœur de cette thèse, notamment dans un pays comme l’Espagne qui traversa, entre 1975 et 2005, une période de transition en termes de relations avec l’homosexualité et qui donna lieu à une sorte de guerre des essences dans la cadre de laquelle l’existence de l’homosexualité ne fut plus - très tôt - en jeu. / This thesis covers a period which begins at the death of Franco, in 1975, and finishes at the legalization of the homosexual marriage, in 2005. Its principal source is the Spanish press, first of all two newspapers whith opposite ideological leanings : El País and ABC. The aim of the first chapter is both to show which forms the rejection and the acceptance of the homosexual realities took in Spain between 1975 and 2005, in the texts and in daily life and to explain why the evolutions of these two aspects of the topic can only be partially comparable in spite of their interactions partially because of the limits of the dichotomy “Rejection and Acceptance” about such a topic, in such a country and during such a period. These limits are the object of the second chapter particularly dedicated to the facts for which it’s difficult to say if they are part of the rejection or part of the acceptance - because they can just show an interest in the topic, a simplistic representation of the homosexual realities sometimes in absence of a sufficient knowledge of them. Consequently, the third chapter consists in explaining how this aporia can be surmounted taking into consideration the linguistic and ontological dimension of the issues of this thesis, first of all in a country like Spain which went through a period of transition, between 1975 and 2005, in terms of relations to the homosexuality, provoking a sort of war of the essences which, rapidly, didn’t concern any longer the existence of homosexuality itself.

The development of criminal punishment for homosexual activity and sodomy in the Czech republic This thesis deals with the development of the criminalization of homosexual intercourse and sodomy in the Czech Republic. The aim of this work is to monitor the development of decriminalization of homosexual intercourse and, marginally, sodomy with an emphasis on the period from 1852 to the present. The work is conceived as an analysis of criminal provisions applicable during the period and at the same time monitoring the circumstances that led to decriminalization. The following are examples of punishments for homosexual conduct and sodomy as stated by selected decisions of the courts. The work is divided into an introduction, followed by the monitored period into four parts, and these parts are divided into sections and subsections, followed by a conclusion. The first part follows the historical period from antiquity to 1852, where each time period is described very briefly, with emphasis on the relevant provisions of penial laws for homosexual intercourse and bestiality. The second part follows the period between 1852 and 1961. This period is already examined in detail, with emphasis on the period of the First Republic, where there were efforts to decriminalize homosexual act and where they conducted...

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Much research has been done on Chrysostom’s life, work and character. He is extensively quoted in debates on homosexuality, ( Feinberg, J.S. (1996, c1993). Ethics for a Brave New World. Wheaton, Ill: Crossway Books.) textual criticism, ( Robertson, A. (1997). Word Pictures in the New Testament, Vol. V c1932, Vol. VI c1933. Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems) homiletics and exegesis. (MacArthur, J. (1997, c1992). Rediscovering Expository Preaching (p. 44-45). Dallas: Word Pub.) The information important in this research, focussed on aspects of honour and shame in Chrysostom’s preaching, as well as his theological focus points with regards to the letter of Paul to the Romans. It is clear from Chrysostom's preaching that he regarded his individual congregants very highly. He placed a high value on the ability of every individual to make informed and correct choices. ( Landman, C. (2001). John Chrysostom as Pastoral Counselor. Acta Patristica et Byzantina, Volume 12. Department Antieke Tale (Ancient Languages), Pretoria: Universiteit van (University of Pretoria.)) In keeping with this aspect of his work, the research noted a divergence in the homilies with regards to a more recent concept of individuality. A recent conception of individuality maintains that an individual’s need for identity does not have to be embedded in his or her role and function in society. It is rather seen as a need to know himself or herself, and to know his or her place in society as a free and unbound individual, gifted with choice. (Meyer, W.F., Moore C.&Viljoen H.G. (1997). Personologie. Van Individu tot Ekosisteem (bl. 185). Johannesburg: Heinemann.) This is in stark contrast with both the view of Chrysostom and the New Testament, which rather works with a diadic concept of who a person really is, and moves it to a subjective experience of a person as unique. Initially the researcher focussed on exposing information on specific remarks on “honour” and “shame” within the corpus of Chrysostoms Homilies on Romans. It soon became clear that Chrysostom placed other values on the same concepts. Where he diverged from the conventional view of what “honour” and “shame” is, it was mainly to justify the choices that the new community of believers were making to leave the old ways and start anew. By doing so, he was justifying a change in worldview, departing both from the Jewish as well as gentile ways of determining honour and shame. By changing the rules of the game, Chrysostom first of all gives his congregants justification of their faith, and thereafter provides them with a new means by which they can decide what is the honourable life to live. In this process the time-honoured way in which honour and shame was determined, is changed. The specific impact of Chrysostom’s perspective is then taken as an explanation of subtle changes to individual faith-experiences. The categories in which the research is compiled, include the hearers’ reaction to the Gospel message, humility, the practice of a just life and the law, steadfastness in adverse times, interaction across cultural boundaries, homosexuality and unrelated examples of honourable behaviour. <ul> <li>Honour: Denotes leadership, good family, ritual cleanliness correct behaviour.</li> <li>Shame: Denotes propriety, sense of humility, correct behaviour. </li> <li>Homiletics: The science and theory of preaching.</li> <li>Exegesis: The analysis and explanation of parts of the Bible.</li> <li>Congregants: Individual members of a church, congregation.</li> <li>Subjective: As experienced by a single person</li> <li>Individuality: A sense of Self as experienced in likes, dislikes and function in society.</li> <li>Diadic: Established through interaction between several people.</li> <li>Textual Criticism: Judging and measuring the worth of certain texts, specifically the Bible.</li> <li>Worldview: A shared set of values, beliefs and cultural practices.</li> </ul> / Dissertation (MA (Ancient Languages and Cultures Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Ancient Languages / unrestricted

Much published work has pointed to the need for the development of a sound operational definition of sexual orientation in order to enable the research in this area to progress. To contribute to this process the current research set out to develop two measures of sexual orientation and examine their psychometric properties. In order to develop relevant tools historical, conceptual and operational definitions of sexual orientation were critically examined and standard questionnaire development techniques applied. The first scale consisted of 32 items and was administered to a total of 835 adolescents, comprising three sub-groups (189 Grade 11 Scholars, 547 First Year and 99 Third Year Psychology Students). A Cronbach alpha coefficient of 0.85 was calculated indicating that this instrument had very good internal consistency reliability. Similar factors emerged in each of the sample sub-groups when factor analyses were performed suggesting that this instrument has good external and construct validities. These factors each had respectable Cronbach alpha coefficients indicating their own internal consistency. The four factors which consistently emerged were Same Sex Responsiveness, Opposite Sex Responsiveness, Previous Month’s Same Sex Responsiveness and Previous Month’s Opposite Sex Responsiveness. The second scale consisted of 16 items and was administered to 646 adolescents, comprising the latter two sub-groups referred to above. A Cronbach alpha coefficient of 0.82 was calculated indicating that this instrument also had very good internal consistency reliability. Once again similar factors with generally good internal consistency emerged in factor analysis suggesting that this too was a valid instrument. The factors that emerged from the second scale were Same Sex Responsiveness, Unattractive Opposite Sex Responsiveness, Attractive Opposite Sex Responsiveness and Attraction. Future developments, adjustments and applications of the instruments as well as implications for the arena of sexual orientation research are discussed. In the light of the dearth of information with regard to the sexual orientations of South African adolescents the current study also briefly explored and presented the sample’s responses in terms of the dimensions of each questionnaire as well as how each emerging factor related to the demographics (education level, gender, sexual orientation self-label and age) of the sample.

This dissertation describes practices among men who desired men from 1910 to 1945 that combined mobility, eroticized leisure practices, and non-urban spaces in cultivating nascent sexual subcultures. It contains four case studies that detail how vacillations between "productive" labor and recurrent "drifting" allowed men to simultaneously perform normative gender identities while conveying their sense of sexual difference with respect to white bourgeois manhood. Each case study explores institutional linkages between mobility and stigmatized male sexualities, and analyzes autobiographies, correspondence, visual culture, and fictional works in which men who desired other men imagined their ambivalent relationships to labor as a means of expressing their discomfort with the sexual and gender constraints of modern commercial centers. This study suggests that the eroticization of laboring male bodies and "natural" leisure spaces were vital in cultivating subcultures based on non-heterosexual desire. Moreover, while the historiography of male homosexuality prior to World War II has largely focused on urban experience, this discussion illuminates a decidedly anti-modern bristling against city life and commercialism that also motivated the movements of men who desired men in this period. The first two chapters trace the development of queer "tramp" identities. By the 1920s, socioeconomic changes and American folklore perpetuated tramp nostalgia in which writers portrayed wandering homeless men as romantic dreamers wary of marital confinement, rather than economically marginalized laborers. Analyses of sociological records involving working-class gay men in Chicago and the career of tennis champion Bill Tilden demonstrate that this tramp epistemology enabled white men to cultivate non-heterosexual identities through their desires for mobility and their challenges to prevailing distinctions between work and pleasure. The final two chapters describe the queer spatial and temporal potential of non-urban spaces (specifically waterways and beaches) among artists and working-class men. In fantasies contained in paintings and archived correspondence, sailors embodied mobility, erotic "masculine" physicality, and sentimentalized vulnerability. At the same time, artists and writers saw in their tourist practices the potential to attain queer intimacies. Their depictions of beach leisure allowed them to mobilize fantasies of same-sex relationalities that evaded both the capitalist privileging of "masculine" productivity and modern sexual categorizations.

Thesis (M. A. (Clinical Psychology)) -- University of Limpopo, 2016 / A qualitative study was conducted to investigate challenges faced by gay and lesbian students at the University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus). Semi-structured interviews were used for data collection. Purposive sampling (snowball sampling) was used to find participants for focus groups. Data were analysed using Thematic Content Analysis (TCA). The results of this study gave an insight into challenges faced by lesbian and gay students at the University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus). It also indicated the impact of these challenges on their psychological, emotional and academic functioning. Results indicate that gay and lesbian students face a multitude of problems on campus environment which includes among other things bullying, discrimination, victimisation, abuse, academic disruption and derogatory remarks from their peers (heterosexual students) and staff members. KEYWORDS: Homophobia, LGBTI, Discrimination, Prejudice, sexuality.

MA (Psychology) / Department of Psychology / The study aimed to explore societal attitudes towards homosexual individuals in the Thulamela Municipality of the Vhembe District Municipality. The objectives of the study were to identify societal attitudes towards homosexuals in Thulamela Municipality, to explore challenges posed by society towards homosexual people in Thulamela Municipality, and to describe societal perceptions of homosexual individuals. The study was qualitative in nature and purposive sampling was used in the study. A semi-structured interview guide was used. A minimum of 12 non-homosexual people were interviewed. Thematic content analysis was used to analyse data. Different ethical issues were taken into consideration before the study was conducted. The findings of the study show that society is still conservative when it comes to homosexuality. However, it discourages harsh negative attitudes towards homosexual people. Society needs to develop more accepting and tolerant behaviors towards homosexuality. The study found that age, sex, race, ethnicity, social background, level of education and religious affiliation were consistent factors in determining attitudes towards homosexuality. This study recommends that training workshops on sexual orientation should be intensified for teachers, police officers, nurses and other public service employees as well as school administrators to inform them of current trends of homosexuality in the schools. It is also recommended that student accessibility to appropriate and accurate information regarding students’ sexuality should be increased at early stages through library and Internet resources, as well as workshops and forums. / NRF

In recent times, the texts of Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, has attracted the attention of Old Testament scholars, clergy and the laity alike. In my view, such an attention has been inspired by the readers’ quest to the possible light which the text can shed on the subject of homosexuality. The latter topic is one of the burning issues raised in present day South Africa. It thus comes as no surprise, that interpreting texts such as Leviticus18:22 and 20:13 becomes pertinent in our context. This research aims at coming up with a constructive dialogue between the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (hereafter referred to as MCSA)’s readings of this text, scholars’ interpretation of the same and the Xhosas’ reception of homosexuality in the Republic of South Africa. Through the use of methodologies such as the Literary, Textual, Canon, Composition and Redaction Criticism, as well as Socio-Scientific Criticism, Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, will be brought to bear with its MCSA’s readings and Xhosas’ readings with a view to making a necessary contribution to African biblical hermeneutics. / Dissertation (MA(Theol))--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Old Testament Studies / unrestricted

Bibliography: leaves 50-54. / For many years psychodynamically oriented research into homosexuality has been a topic for controversy. The "gay" community as well as many more sociologically oriented researchers see any investigation of the psychodynamics of this orientation as implying pathology and therefore contributing to stigmatization of homosexuals. More recently, however, psychoanalytic writers have questioned traditional assumptions and pointed to a need to look at the diversity of homosexual adaptations. Of interest in a more recent perspective is Socarides' (1979) classification, distinguishing between pre-oedipal and oedipal types of homosexuals. This paper argues that while generalization about "homosexuals" is impossible, a psychodynamic approach is useful in looking at the meaning and adaptive function of the homosexual orientation in each individual client and thus understand it in relation to personality organization and behaviour. A brief summary of psychoanalytic theory of male homosexuality is given with an emphasis on Socarides' classification. Two case studies are presented in an attempt to illustrate the usefulness of a psychodynamic approach and of the oedipal - pre-oedipal distinction. It is suggested that this distinction be seen more as a continuum of varying levels of ego-functioning.