The purpose of the study is to examine the AIDS epidemic based on the performative actions in gay magazines in the fight against AIDS, alongside the sexual freedom movement. Furthermore, the aim is to contribute to an increased understanding and knowledge of the social and historical context and how it affected homosexual individuals as a defined risk group for AIDS. The study was conducted using qualitative content analysis to interpret articles and published letters to the editor about AIDS in the gay magazines REVOLT and Kom Ut! between 1983–1986. Central perspectives for the discussion are both the theory of “act of speech” inspired by the historian Quentin Skinner and the perspective of “performativity” inspired by the philosopher Judith Butler.  The result of the study identified five key themes: call to action, the situation for homosexual individuals, societal reactions, reflections on AIDS, and opinions about the magazine and the organization (RFSL). These themes included performative actions aimed at changing existing perceptions and norms, though sometimes ambiguously suggesting that acceptance of homosexual individuals required their conformity to societal norms. The depictions emphasized the importance of truthful information, knowledge, and community, highlighting that much prejudice against homosexual individuals stemmed from media portrayals. Media influenced public perceptions, leading to homophobia, with public reactions being based more on emotions and ignorance than rational knowledge. The widespread uncertainty about AIDS caused anxiety and fear, with the misconception that only homosexual men were at risk creating a false sense of security, leading to stigmatization and social repercussions for homosexual individuals. The fight against AIDS was closely linked with the sexual freedom movement, as both needed to change public norms based on prejudice.

This thesis is looking at the issue of registered partnerships from the perspective of ethics and law. The main objective of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive perspective on registered partnership problematic and on other current issues related to this topic. The work is divided into two parts. The theoretical part deals with the history of homosexuality from ancient Greece to modern times, furthermore it focuses on the actual registered partnership and the regularization process of the necessary law in the Czech Republic. It covers a topic of religion perspective on homosexuality, the issue of child adoptions by homosexual couples and not least the blood donation problematic. The practical part deals with the social investigational survey, its processing and reporting the results. The aim of the social survey was to obtain a view on the homosexual minority from the society and get their opinions about the questions analyzed in the theoretical part. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The diploma thesis The Role of Travesty Show in Media Culture is concerned with a question if we can find some similarities between the way how media presents travesty show and the way how people think and talk about this kind of entertainment. As a research method I chose qualitative content analysis and questionnaire. Theoretical part focuses on explanation of technical terms, history of homosexuality, queer culture, queer theory, travesty show and history. In practical part I will create concrete codes from qualitative content analysis and from these codes I will make categories. Part of practical part is also a questionnaire. In the end of this thesis I will compare the codes from qualitative content analysis with the answers from the questionnaire. And based on this comparison I will find out if there exist any similarities between the way how media presents travesty show and the way how people think and talk about this kind of entertainment.