The thesis focuses on the adoption possibilities for same-sex couples. The main aim is to investigate and assess which opinion is prevailing in our society. Each term related to same-sex partnerships or marriages is defined in particular theoretical parts. The subsequent chapter deals with homosexuality and family. In the empirical part, the data collected in the quantitatve survey have been analysed and interpreted. The survey has been conducted through questionnaires designated for general public as well as homosexuals.

Author: Asya Meytuv Institution: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Nám. Jana Palacha 2, 116 38, Prague 1, Czech Republic Field of Studies: Hebrew Studies, M.A. Study program Title: Gender Themes in Contemporary Israeli Cinema Supervisor: PhDr. Pavel Sládek, Ph.D. Number of pages: 64 Number of attachments: 1 Key words: Israeli cinema, homosexuality, judaism, male character, zionism, Israel Abstract Present thesis analyses the representation of sexual minorities in contemporary Israeli cinematography, concentrating especially on a manner of displaying other than heterosexual character to the audience. The depiction of a male character in early Israeli cinema will be compared to the contemporary production. The phenomenon of male homosexuality and its film representation will be researched in the context of cultural, social and religious aspects of Israeli reality. Original interpretations of several key Israeli films of the last decade pertaining to homosexual issues in specifically Israeli context are included in the present paper.

This diploma work deals with homosexually oriented persons that want to establish a family or that already have a child and raise it up. It concerns to biological parentage or "only" psychological parentage or a relationship with same-sex partner or an individual care for a child. The work specifies basic terms and contains a short overview of homosexuality in view of history, religion and medicine. The work learns the reader in history and legislation differences of the registered partnership and matrimony. It also marginally deals with possibilities and rights of homosexual persons in the world. The work also includes opinion on family, its functions and types. It describes today's possibilities of homosexuals' ways to a child. The work also focuses on issue of rising up a child by homosexuals. To clarify links, it describes here gay and lesbian relations and families, including development of a child being raised up in a non-traditional family. Aim of the work is to document subjective opinions of the homosexuals themselves to the issue of rising up children by persons with such an orientation, to find out how they evaluate attitude of the society to this topic and how these persons are interested in LGBT situation. For the survey and reconnaissance of the opinions, on-line questionnaire was...

Depuis 1976 le concours de beauté « Miss Brésil Gay » a lieu chaque année à Juiz de Fora (Brésil) et ses 36 éditions ont attiré régulièrement des milliers de touristes. La compétition se déroule entre les 27 États brésiliens représentés par des concurrentes qui ne sont pas des travestis, mais des garçons qui s’habillent en femme. Tenu comme l’un des premiers de ce genre au Brésil, il est devenu l’une des manifestations culturelles les plus représentatives de la ville et l’un des événements gays les plus connus du pays. Cette thèse discutera de l’homosexualité et des « tribus gays » pour valider l’hypothèse que le concours se rapproche d’une « effervescence postmoderne ». La première partie est basée sur la sociologie classique, la sociologie compréhensive, l’imaginaire et la sociologie du quotidien. Il y a ensuite une révision théorique des points les plus pertinents de l’ouvrage de Michel Maffesoli en relation à ce travail : tribalisme, identités, altérité, effervescences et Dionysos. Les rites et rituels de passage reçoivent une attention spéciale, en fonction de leur importance dans cette étude. La deuxième partie est une approche transdisciplinaire sur l’homosexualité à travers la reconstruction sociohistorique, les identités, les effervescences touristiques, les utilisations du corps et l’homophobie. La troisième partie est consacrée au travail sur le terrain, composé par les « histoires de vie » de cinq misses gays brésiliennes. Il s’agit d’une recherche qualitative qui utilise les méthodes de l’Observation Participante et de la Participation Observante pour arriver aux analyses de données, à la validation des hypothèses et à la vérification des résultats, répertoriées dans la cinquième partie. À travers le microcosme du Miss Brésil Gay, l’objectif est de contribuer à l’élaboration de nouvelles catégories de la pensée sociologique sur l’homosexualité et sur les fêtes « tribales », à partir d’un regard postmoderne. / Since 1976 the beauty pageant contest Miss Gay Brazil is held annually in Juiz de Fora (Brazil) and its 36 editions regularly attract thousands of tourists. The competition takes place between the 27 Brazilian states represented by competitors who are not transvestites, but men who dress as women. Held as one of the first of its kind in Brazil, it has become one of the most representative cultural events in the city and one of the country’s best known gay events. This thesis will discuss homosexuality and « gay tribes » to validate the hypothesis that the contest is approaching a « postmodern effervescence ». The first part is based on traditional sociology, « comprehensive sociology », the imaginary and « everyday life sociology ». There is also a theoretical review of the most relevant points of works by Michel Maffesoli in relation to this study: tribalism, identity, alterity, effervescence and Dionysus. The rituals and rites of passage are given special attention, according to their importance in this research. The second part is a transdisciplinary approach to homosexuality, through a socio-historical reconstruction, identities, « gay tourism », utilisations of the body and homophobia. The third part is devoted to the « field », composed by the « life stories method » of five Brazilian Gay Misses. This is a qualitative research that uses « observing participation » and « participating observation » to arrive at data analysis, validation and verification of results, exposed in the fifth part. Through the microcosm of Miss Gay Brazil, the aim is to contribute to the development of new categories of sociological thought on homosexuality and fêtes « tribales » from a postmodern point of view.

1 Abstract This thesis deals with the legal regulation of the registered partnership and focuses mainly on the current issues concerning the rights of gay people towards minors. It consists of nine chapters, which gradually discuss the various areas related to the registered partnership. The first chapter deals with the historical context and the outline of the development of homosexuality in the society. The second chapter defines the basic terms with which the thesis operates. The third chapter discusses the sources of legal regulation at the European Union and the constitutional law level. The fourth chapter talks about the coexistence of people and especially about the institute of the registered partnership and it is divided into three subchapters. The first subchapter deals with the institute of marriage, a traditional union of two persons. The next subchapter deals with the development of the institute of the registered partnership and the process of approval of the law, including some arguments that have been heard during the legislative process at the Chamber of Deputies. The last subchapter is devoted to the analysis of the valid legal regulation, with attention to some particularities of the legal regulation of the registered partnership. Two following chapters deal with the development of the...

[pt] Em tempos de modernidade líquida e sexualidade plástica, a família se reinventou. É o divórcio e não mais a morte que separa os casais. Assim, os principais componentes para se constituir uma família passam a ser o afeto e a busca pela completude. O mesmo processo se dá com a parentalidade, fazendo com que os vínculos de parentesco não mais se definam puramente por laços sanguíneos. Diante desta realidade, a cada vez maior visibilidade no cenário social brasileiro da configuração familiar dita homoparental é inevitável. Estas famílias são o objeto de nossa pesquisa: pais que se autodenominam homossexuais, após uma relação heterossexual anterior, resolvem refazer suas vidas com companheiros do mesmo sexo. Nosso foco, contudo, não são os pais, mas os companheiros desses pais. Para tanto, selecionamos três casais homossexuais masculinos, todos do interior do estado do Rio de Janeiro, com idades variando de 19 a 31 anos, com filhos de 7 a 10 anos. Entrevistamos ambos os membros do casal, a fim de procurar melhor compreender a subjetividade do companheiro sem filhos: o que pensam esses rapazes que, de repente, vêem suas vidas transformadas e passam a conviver com crianças, filhas de seus companheiros? Quais suas expectativas e angústias? O fato de observarem a paternidade de seus namorados, faz com que eles mesmos desejem também ser pais? Como funciona a divisão de tarefas domésticas ? Este questionamento nos levou a organizar um roteiro de entrevista com perguntas semiestruturadas e, através de uma análise de discurso , chegarmos às seguintes categorias: coparentalidade, desejo por um filho biológico a partir da experiência coparental, relação do casal com as crianças e preconceito. Basicamente, foi possível constatar que todos os companheiros entrevistados manifestam forte desejo de paternidade, enfatizando sempre a importância de que esta seja de forma natural, assim como parecem se preocupar bem mais com a conduta moral do casal do que os pais das crianças. O estigma da homossexualidade é bastante sentido por eles, que afirmam ser o fato de não terem constituído uma família nos padrões heteronormativos vigentes contrastante com a realidade de seus parceiros. A teoria queer, que também fundamentou nosso trabalho, sugere, de uma postura pós-identitária que se repense a constituição de identidades cristalizadas. / [en] The liquidity of modernity and the plastic sexuality have both produced the reinvention of the family. Nowadays, it is the divorce and not death that separates the couples. Thus, the main enhancements to build up a family tend to be affection and the search for completude. The same process is familiar with parenting and that s why family ties are no longer defined by blood knots alone. Therefore, the inevitable visibility within social Brazilian scenario of the gay parenting family structure is easy to be seen. These families are the object of our research: parents who call themselves homosexuals, who experienced a previous heterosexual relationship, make up their minds to start their lives from scratch with same sex companions. Nevertheless, our focus will not remain on parents, but the companions of these parents. So as to reach our aim we have selected three homosexual male couples, all of the interior of the state of the Rio de Janeiro, ranging from 19 to 31 years of age with children from 7 to 10 years old. We interviewed both members of the couple, in order to try to better understand the subjectivity of the companion without children: what do these men think, since they have had their lives suddenly transformed and start coexisting with their companions children? What are their main expectations and anguishes? Should the fact of observing their boyfriends parenthood bursts out the parenthood desire? Who is eligible for which home chores?This questioning led us to organize semi-structured interview questions and through an analysis of speech, reach the following categories: coparenting, desire for a biological son from the coparental experience, relation of the couple with the children and prejudice. The homosexuality stigma seems to crush hard on them and they state that this is due to the fact of not having constituted a family in the heterssexual standards, contrasting with the reality of his partners. The queer theory, that has also helped us in our research, suggests that cristalized identities should be re-evaluated, if you see them from a post-idenity point of view.

Often overlooked in the nineteenth century Gothic novel are the complicated social issues existing within the text. In Emily Brontèe's Wuthering Heights and Robert Louis Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae, the authors each create villains who represent the preoccupation with appropriate sexuality and conventional gender roles existing in Victorian England. Brontèe's Heathcliff and Stevenson's James Durie embody all that is immoral and non-normative in society with their depraved behavior ; however, because of the authors' craftiness with language, the authors, through their villains, manage to magnetize the other characters and subsequently emasculate those men in the text who emulate the Victorian ideal of masculinity. By focusing their novels on the plight of the Other and his disruption to the homogeneous rules regarding sexuality and gender in the nineteenth century, both authors articulate a profound understanding of the societal fears regarding these issues existing in their time. / by Dana DeFalco. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

A violência homofóbica tem ganhado destaque na produção acadêmica mundial, principalmente, por evidenciar um número crescente de adolescentes e jovens vitimizados, bem como os impactos gerados em sua saúde. Ao partir do pressuposto de que a rede e o apoio social são capazes de fortalecer os fatores de proteção que garantem os direitos de adolescentes e jovens; bem como responder melhor à complexidade das demandas trazidas pela violência; este estudo teve por objetivo compreender as experiências de violências vivenciadas por adolescentes e jovens homossexuais e a rede de apoio social, sob a perspectiva analítica Queer. Estudo qualitativo, realizado no município de Ribeirão Preto, Estado de São Paulo. O grupo de participantes foi composto por 12 adolescentes e jovens, com idades entre 14 e 24 anos, cujo interesse erótico e/ou práticas se volta para outros do mesmo sexo. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de entrevista semiestruturada e da construção de Mapas de Redes. Os dados foram analisados de acordo com os pressupostos do método de interpretação de sentidos e embasados nos conceitos abarcados pela Teoria Queer. A partir da análise dos dados foram identificados quatro núcleos de sentido: 1. Experiência de violências sofridas: \"O homossexual que aparenta ser homossexual, vai carregar o fardo do preconceito, da discriminação até a morte\"; 2. Experiências de saída do \"armário\": \"Ele disse que eu era louco, disse que eu não estava são, que eu não estava com muita certeza\"; 3. Masculinidades e Feminilidades: \"Os meninos sofrem muito mais, por ter que mostrar a virilidade, tem que exalar masculinidade\" e 4. Rede e Apoio Social: \"A maior fonte de apoio são os amigos que são homossexuais, porque a gente se identifica por passar por problemas parecidos\". Os resultados revelam que há a perpetuação de uma cultura heteronormativa e violenta, que sanciona punições aos dissidentes da norma heterossexual, e que os adolescentes e jovens que não seguem a linearidade entre sexo, gênero, desejo e práticas sexuais, quanto mais a quebram, mais serão subalternizados, sendo submetidos aos diversos tipos de violência, em espaços públicos e privados. Essas situações são reforçadas pela falta de acesso aos serviços e instituições de apoio. São as pessoas (figuras femininas, amigos e profissionais distintos), que são reconhecidos como as principais fontes de apoio social para os participantes. Os serviços de saúde, apesar de terem sido acionados por alguns participantes, não foram suficientes para o enfrentamento à violência e para a promoção da saúde. Conclui-se que houve precariedade no acesso à rede social e na efetivação do seu apoio, pois, sua composição e articulação não foi eficiente no enfrentamento da violência sofrida. Diante disso, pontuou-se a necessidade dos profissionais que irão lidar com esta população, sobretudo professores, equipes de saúde e da assistência social, estarem preparados para o acolhimento, atendimento, orientações às famílias, fortalecimento dos vínculos familiares e encaminhamento de casos de violência, favorecendo a desconstrução das posturas heteronormativas e homofóbicas em busca da efetivação dos direitos dos adolescentes e jovens homossexuais / Homophobic violence has gained prominence in the academic production world, mainly by highlighting a growing number of adolescents and young people victimized at times, as well as the impacts generated in their health. When assuming that the network and social support are able to strengthen the protective factors that guarantee the rights of adolescents and young people; as well as responding better to the complexity of the demands brought about by violence; this study aimed to understand the situations of violence experienced by adolescents and young homosexuals and their social support network, in the Queer analytical perspective. Qualitative study, carried out in the city of Ribeirão Preto, State of São Paulo in Brazil. The Group of participants consisted of 12 teenagers and youths, aged between 14 and 24 years old, whose erotic interests and/or practices involve others of the same sex. The data was collected through a semi-structured interview and the construction of Network Maps. Data was analyzed according to the assumptions of the method of interpretation and directions based on the concepts covered by the Queer Theory. From the analysis of the data four sense cores were identified: 1. experience of violence suffered: \"homosexual who appears to be homosexual, will carry the burden of prejudice, discrimination to death\"; 2. Experiences of coming out of the \"closet\": \"he said I was crazy, said I was not sane, that I wasn\'t very sure\"; 3. Masculinities and Femininities: \"the boys suffer more, you had to show your manhood, have to exhale masculinity\" and 4. Network and Social support: \"the greatest source of support are the friends who are homosexuals, because we identified with each other since we are going through similar problems\". The results show that there is the perpetuation of a hetero-normative and violent culture, that sanctions the punishment of dissidents of heterosexual norm, and adolescents and young people who do not follow the linearity between sex, gender, desire and sexual practices, the more they break it, the more they will be subalternized, being subjected to various types of violence in private and public spaces. These situations are enhanced by the lack of access to services and support institutions. They are people (female figures, friends and distinguished professionals), which are recognized as the main sources of social support to the participants. Health services, despite having been activated by some participants, were not sufficient to deal with the violence and with the promotion of health. It is concluded that there was uncertainty in the social network access and execution of their support, because, their composition and articulation was not efficient in combating the violence suffered. Given this, the need of professionals who will deal with this population, especially teachers, health teams and social assistance were pointed out, being prepared for the reception, care, guidance to families, strengthening of family links and referral of cases of violence, favoring the deconstruction of the hetero-normative and homophobic stances in pursuit of the implementation of the rights of adolescents and young homossexuals

Sandro Penna, an understudied Italian poet whose literary corpus is produced during the end period and eventual fall of Italian fascism, writes Appunti, the second volume of his major poetic corpus, from 1938-49. In it, he explicates a poetic of an unapologetic, open homoeroticism that allows one to examine the obstacles a translator faces in considering how one can remain faithful to the original poems and the identity the poet creates. Keeping in mind theoretical influences informing the creation and translation of poetry and the political choices inherent therein, my translations of these poems mediate the content and form in the target text to maintain the importance of the context in which the originals are written. This thesis and these translations aim to reexamine the importance of Penna as a poet, address the importance of translation in the establishment of foreign poets, and develop a new perspective in Translation Studies that considers the interdisciplinary applications of Gender and Sexuality Studies. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2014. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

A presente dissertação de mestrado visa responder afirmativamente a seguinte questão: existe um direito moral ao casamento homossexual? Para tanto, analisa o tema a partir da Filosofia Moral e Política, o que demonstra a necessidade de se conceituar o casamento antes de verificar se este constitui ou não um direito moral. Parte-se das concepções de casamento formuladas por John Finnis e Ronald Dworkin, analisando-as criticamente, propondo-se após uma que seja capaz de tratar o casamento enquanto um conceito interpretativo. Somente então é possível verificar se o casamento corresponde a um direito moral dos homossexuais, o que se faz primordialmente a partir das críticas desenvolvidas por Herbert Hart e Dworkin à posição de Patrick Devlin, e da concepção dworkiniana de igualdade e dignidade humana. Conclui-se que o dever do Estado de tratar os indivíduos com igual respeito e consideração implica no reconhecimento do casamento como direito moral dos homossexuais, e que a análise da questão sob a ótica da moralidade pública implica na discussão de seus limites, bem como no debate mais amplo acerca dos direitos das minorias em geral. / This dissertation aims to answer affirmatively the following question: is there a moral right to gay marriage? To do that, it analyzes the theme from the perspective of the Philosophy and Political Morals, which demonstrates the need to conceptualize marriage before checking whether it constitutes a moral right or not. It starts with the conceptions of marriage made by John Finnis and Ronald Dworkin, analyzing them critically, and after proposing the treatment of marriage as an interpretive concept. Only then it is possible to verify if marriage represents a moral right of homosexuals, which is made primarily from the critiques developed by Herbert Hart and Dworkin to the position of Patrick Devlin, and the dworkinian conception of equality and human dignity. It concludes that the state\'s duty to treat individuals with equal respect and consideration implies the recognition of marriage as a moral right of homosexuals, and that the analysis of the issue from the standpoint of public morality involves the discussion of its limits in the wider debate about the rights of minorities in general as well.