Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 308-317).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2005. / Title from PDF title page (viewed Oct. 10, 2006). Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-258).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Alberta, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 226-260).

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Orientadora : Profª Drª. Ana Carla Harmatiuk Matos / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Jurídicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito. Defesa: Curitiba, 30/03/2017 / Inclui referências : f. 215-232 / Resumo: Na história recente do movimento LGBT brasileiro, uma contradição se enuncia. Se por um lado o direito tem figurado como importante espaço de fortalecimento e aplicação das normas heteronormativas que organizam o campo sexual, por outro ele tem se afirmado como um instrumento central nas estratégias adotadas em resistência a essa normatividade seja como discurso, ou como instituição. Como compreender essa relação entre movimento LGBT e direito? A partir de uma reflexão interdisciplinar acerca do que está em jogo quando elaboramos essa pergunta, questionaremos as identidades e discursos em permanente (des)construção quando o movimento LGBT demanda direitos. Dialogando com autores da filosofia pós-estruturalista e dos estudos culturais, bem como do campo de estudos em gênero e sexualidade, procuraremos deslocar os termos das análises comumente feitas a partir dessa relação, para propor uma visão complexa, que compreenda tanto o direito quanto o movimento LGBT como espaços sociais de disputas internas e profunda historicidade. Abandonando uma visão essencialista de ambos, propomos que essa relação só pode se mostrar em suas normalizações ou resistências no contexto cotidiano das lutas, no bojo concreto das estratégias utilizadas, nas formas fixas ou móveis a partir das quais se mobilizam identidades e discursos. O direito como instituição social exclusivamente normalizadora, ou como espaço de emancipação e resolução definitiva dos conflitos sociais, desaparece assim, para fazer surgir um direito que é ele mesmo conflito social e relações de força. Um direito que só poderá ser compreendido como paradoxo, portanto, e que só poderá emergir mediante a colocação em rasura de seus discursos e do conceito de identidade, ainda tão caro a seu funcionamento. Propomos, enfim, que o direito pode ser também espaço de deslocamentos, questionamentos e exposição da artificialidade das normas que organizam o campo sexual em termos heterossexuais, se seu uso não for reificado, mas sim se realizar de forma estratégica e no bojo de uma disputa social pela ressignificação dos termos dessas normas. Palavras-chave: Direito e movimentos sociais. Movimento LGBT. Resistência / Abstract: A contradiction is announced in the recent history of the Brazilian LGBT movement. While on the one hand law has been an important space for strengthening and applying heteronormativity that organize the sexual field, on the other hand it has been affirmed as a central instrument on the strategies adopted in resistance to this normativity - whether as a discourse or as an institution. How to understand this relationship between LGBT movement and law? From an interdisciplinary reflection about what is at stake when we elaborate this inquiry, we question the identities and discourses in permanent (de) construction when the LGBT movement demands rights. With a dialogue between authors of Poststructuralism and Cultural Studies, as well as Gender and sexuality studies, we try to move the terms of the analyses commonly made from this relation and to propose a complex vision, that includes both the law and the LGBT movement as social spaces of internal disputes and profound historicity. We try to abandon an essentialist view of each one and propose that this relationship can only be shown in its normalizations or resistances in the daily context of the struggles, in the midst of the strategies used in the fixed or mobile forms from which identities and discourses are mobilized. The law as a social institution exclusively regulatory or as a space of emancipation and definitive resolution of social conflicts, thus, disappears to raise a law that is itself social conflict and force relations. Therefore, a kind of law that can only be understood as a paradox, and that can only emerge through the erasure of its discourse and the concepct of identity, still so appreciated to its functioning. Finally, we propose that law can also be a space for displacement, inquiry and exposition of the artificiality of norms that organize the sexual field in heterosexual terms - if its use is not reified - but rather if it is carried out strategically and in the midst of a social dispute by redefinition of the terms of these norms. Keywords: Law and social movements, LGBT Movement, Resistance

Gays, lesbians,and laws that criminalise homosexuality in Africa have been the subject of heated public debate in recent times.Criminalisation and attempts at re-criminalisation of homosexuality in some African countries have generated a lot of debate on the issue.The central theme in these debates has been the justification and maintenance of sodomy laws, as against the argument for the repeal of these laws because it violates the rights of gays and lesbians. / Mini Dissertation (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa))--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Law University of Pretoria, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Masters of Law (LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa. Prepared under the supervision of Prof. Letitia Van Der Poll, Faculty of Law, University of Western Cape, South Africa. 2010. / http://www.chr.up.ac.za/ / Centre for Human Rights / LLM

Includes bibliography. / The acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is primarily a sexually transmitted disease. The majority of those infected in the First World are homosexual and bisexual men, and intravenous drug users. The study combined a literature review and a case example to explore psychosocial needs of homosexual AIDS patients with a view to presenting recommendations for mental health practitioners to help alleviate the psychosocial trauma of these patients and their significant others. The literature review focussed on the psychosocial experiences of homosexual AIDS patients; their losses, reactions of their significant others; their emotional reactions to medical treatment, and, psychosocial treatment issues and approaches. The case example was a twenty-nine- year old hospitalized homosexual male. Information was received from the patient's befriender, his lover and from the patient himself. The reactions and experiences of this patient were concomitant with many of those discussed in the literature review, namely: The patient suffered major losses: employment, income, house and household possessions as well as social status, with the primary psychosocial effect of loss of independence and control. The patient also experienced some isolation and rejection from some friends, family and hospital staff, and geographical isolation for a period of time from his lover and family. He displayed anger and denial - aspects of his personality which were evident prior to his diagnosis but exacerbated by his illness.

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Tang Wai Man. / Thesis submitted in: June 2003. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 194-196). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgements --- p.iii / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Introduction / Background / Literature Review / Methodology / The Contribution of this Thesis / The Structure of the Thesis / Personal Statement / Chapter 2 --- The Formation of the Gay Christian Identity (I) --- p.46 / Acquiring a Christian Identity vs. Acquiring a Gay Identity in Hong Kong ´ؤ A Comparison of the Processes / Case Studies - Facing the Gay Identity in the Hong Kong Context / Reasons for Entering the Liminal Stage / Chapter 3 --- The Formation of the Gay Christian Identity (II) --- p.74 / Separation / Transition / Reincorporation / Conclusion / Chapter 4 --- The Individual Expression of the Gay Christian Identity --- p.104 / Changing Attitudes towards God and their Subsequent Expression / Changing Attitudes towards Sexuality and their Subsequent Expression / Conclusion / Chapter 5 --- The Group Dynamics of the BMCF (I) --- p.132 / Maintaining the Differences with Outsiders / Chapter 6 --- The Group Dynamics of the BMCF (II) --- p.155 / Maintaining Unity in the BMCF / A Conflict between the Conservative and the Liberal in BMCF / Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.182 / Conclusion / Hong Kong Gay Christians and Modernity / Future Prospects of Hong Kong Gay Christians / Bibliography --- p.194