Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-106).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-150). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-150). Also available on the Internet.

Lau Hoi Leung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 137-144). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / 論文摘要 --- p.ii / Acknowledgements --- p.iii-iv / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction / Chapter 1.1 --- Research Background --- p.1-2 / Chapter 1.2 --- Research Puzzle and Questions --- p.2-7 / Chapter 1.3 --- Research Objectives --- p.7 / Chapter 1.4 --- Layout of the Thesis --- p.8-10 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review and Integrated Framework / Chapter 2.1 --- Overview --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2 --- Role Division: Ralph Turner's Role Theory as an Interpretative Framework --- p.11-18 / Chapter 2.3 --- Marginalization of Sissy: Hegemonic Masculinity as an Interpretative Framework --- p.18-26 / Chapter 2.4 --- Michel Foucault's Concept of Power as an Analytical Framework --- p.26-30 / Chapter 2.5 --- Queer Theory as a Reflexive Framework --- p.30-35 / Chapter 2.6 --- Integrated Framework --- p.35-37 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Methodology / Chapter 3.1 --- Overview --- p.38-39 / Chapter 3.2 --- Participant Observation: Building Trust and Rapport in TLBC --- p.39-41 / Chapter 3.3 --- In-depth Interviews: Tracing Life Stories of Local Gay Men --- p.41-44 / Chapter 3.4 --- Documentary Analysis: Internet Message Boards as Islands of Discourse --- p.44-45 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- The Division of Roles in the Hong Kong Gay Community / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.46 / Chapter 4.2 --- The Popularity and Origin of Role Division --- p.46-51 / Chapter 4.3 --- The Three Principles of Role Differentiation --- p.51-55 / Chapter 4.4 --- The Role Making Process as a Continuum 、 --- p.55-58 / Chapter 4.5 --- The Transition or Shifting of Roles 5 --- p.8-60 / Chapter 4.6 --- The Intimate Relationship between Roles --- p.60-63 / Chapter 4.7 --- The Self-Recognition of Role --- p.63-66 / Chapter 4.8 --- Concluding Remarks: The Process of Doing Gender and Role Division --- p.66-67 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- The Marginalization of Sissy Gay Men in the Hong Kong Gay Community / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.68 / Chapter 5.2 --- Defining Sissy Gay Man as Effeminacy in a Male Body --- p.68-71 / Chapter 5.3 --- Marginalization from Within: Gay Men's Panic on Gender Nonconformity --- p.71-78 / Chapter 5.4 --- Marginalization from Within: Gay Men's Panic on Public Disclosure --- p.78-82 / Chapter 5.5 --- Diversification from Within: Gay Men's Support on the Unity of Gay Community --- p.82-84 / Chapter 5.6 --- Concluding Remarks: Hegemonic Masculinity as an Underlying Mechanism --- p.84-86 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Negotiating Heteronormative Discourse in the Hong Kong Gay Community / Chapter 6.1 --- Introduction --- p.87 / Chapter 6.2 --- The Archaeology of Heteronormative Discourse --- p.87-90 / Chapter 6.3 --- The Genealogy of Disciplinary Power over Gay Male --- p.90-95 / Chapter 6.4 --- The Technology of the Self among the Gay --- p.95-99 / Chapter 6.5 --- Concluding Remarks: Power of Body as an Unfulfilled Project --- p.99-101 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Queering the Gay Community: Gay Men's Perception on Hong Kong Tongzhi Movement / Chapter 7.1 --- Introduction --- p.102 / Chapter 7.2 --- Historical Background of the Development of Hong Kong Tongzhi Groups --- p.102-105 / Chapter 7.3 --- Past and Present Development of Hong Kong Tongzhi Groups --- p.105-113 / Chapter 7.4 --- Gay Men's Perceptions on Hong Kong Tongzhi Groups --- p.113-119 / Chapter 7.5 --- Concluding Remarks: Framing and the Mobilization of Queer Consciousness --- p.119-122 / Chapter Chapter 8 --- Conclusion and Reflection: Towards a Queering Space --- p.123-130 / Appendix --- p.131-136 / Bibliography --- p.137-143 / Chinese Bibliography --- p.144

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of New South Wales, 2004. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 17, 2005). Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-407).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of North Texas, August, 2009. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis is the product of a discourse analytic investigation of the first decade of the British lesbian magazine, DIVA, which launched in 1994. Work on mainstream women's and men's magazines has established them as sites at which (largely heterosexual) femininities and masculinities are constructed and construed, but relatively little scholarship has addressed lesbian magazines in this fashion. DIVA is Britain's only nationally sold, mainstream lesbian magazine; with this in mind, the thesis provides an analytic account of the magazine's launch, production and brand, and considers the discursive construction of lesbian community and the boundary work that that entails. The initial analytic chapters detail editorial philosophies, routines, and financial circumstances; design, front covers, and editorial content. Though the magazine has only limited resources available, those restrictions are simultaneously liberating, allowing DIVA's editors to pursue their political commitments at the same time as operating in the commercial marketplace. In considering the discursive construction of 'us', the thesis highlights a focus on community, support, and heritage. It further considers the discursive management of the boundaries of that imagined community, focusing on the 'threat' posed by bisexual women and the arguments this causes among readers. Finally, DIVA's handling of (heterosexual) others is considered, concluding that they are constructed as irrational, yet powerful, aggressors. Overall, DIVA's was a brand invested in the notion of community and in its role not only in imagining that community but also bringing members together. Though readers were at times divided over who belonged, or should belong, they were united in their belief that there was something to belong to. In the face of a hostile greater 'other', which was constructed as a constant source of threat, this belonging was incredibly important.

This thesis examines the response to the AIDS crisis in Houston and Dallas, two cities in Texas with the most established gay communities highest number of AIDS incidences. Devoting particular attention to the struggles of the Texas’ gay men, this work analyzes the roadblocks to equal and compassionate care for AIDS, including access to affordable treatment, medical insurance, and the closure of the nation’s first AIDS hospital. In addition, this thesis describes the ways in which the peculiar nature of AIDS as an illness transformed the public perception of sickness and infection. This work contributes to the growing study of gay and lesbian history by exploring the transformative effects of AIDS on the gay community in Texas, a location often forgotten within the context of the AIDS epidemic.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-89).

Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-85).