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Selected viewpoints on the Gay Rights Movement
Greenhaven Press's American Social Movements series examines the development of specific trends in American history from the perspective of a particular social movement."The Gay Rights Movement" follows the progression of this particular movement from its historical roots with Henry Gerber's short-lived Society for Human Rights in 1924 to its most recent efforts and concerns in gaining legal recognition.Jennifer Smith's volume brings together selected and edited viewpoints drawn from the movement's leading advocates, as well as scholarly interpretations and reports that can provide high school students with the basic tools for writing research papers and reports.Smith introduces each selection with a concise summary of the article's main ideas and biographical information about the author.There is also an introductory essay that provides students with a general overview of the topic, covering the uprising at the Stonewall Inn and unity created by the AIDS epidemic.Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 9-12 - Sociology    2. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    3. Gay Studies    4. Gay liberation movement    5. Gay rights    6. Human rights    7. Social Issues - Homosexuality    8. Social Problems (General) (Young Adult)    9. Social Science    10. Social Situations - Homosexuality    11. Sociology    12. United States    13. 21st century    14. Equal opportunities    15. Gays & Lesbians    16. Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000    17. Social history    18. USA   

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As a social work program director for 22 years, I have been concerned at the number of homophobics who want to be social workers. "Strange," I think, "don't these people understand that theywill have homosexual clients." I explain to our applicants, "youcannot escape from seeing homosexual clients." The homophobics whowant to become social workers are faced with two enigmas. First, as socialworkers, they must anticipate that some will be homosexual and areethically bond must treat them as any other client. Second, would-be socialworkers must respect the legal and social rights of homosexuals to becomesocial workers.Read more

Subjects:  1. Civil Rights    2. Constitutional    3. Gay rights    4. Gays    5. Law    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Legal status, laws, etc.    8. Reference    9. United States    10. Citizenship & nationality law    11. Civil rights & citizenship   

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a excellent guide to helping your loved one and/or yourself
With profound compassion and wonderful insight, Mr. Kessler teaches the livng and the dying how a person can make this transition as conscious andhealing an experience as possible....I used this book with the recentpassing of my own father and found it to be the greatest tool I had inhelping my father as well as our whole family....what a blessing this man'swork is....easy to read, easy to follow and very genuineandloving...Important conversations that before filled me with dread, I foundflowed easily and now, I am so grateful that I had them. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Death    2. Death, Grief, Bereavement    3. Family relationships    4. Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction    5. General    6. Psychological aspects    7. Psychology    8. Self-Help    9. Terminally ill   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Discrimination    3. Gay Studies    4. Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction    5. Great Britain    6. Homosexuality    7. Law and legislation    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Lesbian Studies    10. Moral and ethical aspects    11. Political And Civil Rights    12. Social Science    13. Civil law (general works)    14. English civil law: general works    15. Gay & Lesbian studies    16. Human rights    17. USA    18. United Kingdom, Great Britain   

Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. Civil rights    3. Gay liberation movement    4. Gays    5. General    6. Homosexuality    7. Law and legislation    8. Sociology    9. Sociology - General    10. Gay & Lesbian studies    11. Social groups & communities   

Subjects:  1. Gender & the Law    2. Legal Reference / Law Profession    3. Reference   

Subjects:  1. Civil Rights    2. Family Law - Marriage    3. Gay rights    4. Homosexuality    5. Law and legislation    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Political And Civil Rights    8. Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights    9. Political Science    10. Politics and government    11. Politics/International Relations    12. Popular Culture - General    13. Same-sex marriage    14. United States    15. Civil rights & citizenship    16. Gay & Lesbian studies    17. Marriage    18. Social Science / Women's Studies   

Subjects:  1. Ethics & Moral Philosophy    2. Gay rights    3. Human rights    4. International Relations - General    5. Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights    6. Political Science    7. Politics / Current Events    8. Politics/International Relations    9. Women's rights    10. Gender studies    11. Political Science / International Relations    12. Politics | International Studies | Human Rights   

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Do TV shows define your life?
While Berlant is quite definatly a good cultural theorist, the type of work she does is problematic. This book regularly tries to define a national mindset in relation to the productions of a small number of people. While one might be able to analyze any number of the texts mentioned in this book, Berlant insists on saying that these texts relate to a particular way of thinking that are shared by at least a majority of our population (enough to elect republicans to the presidency). She repeatedly uses really loaded/offensive terms, which can be fun if you politically agree with her (for instance patriotism=infantile citizenship, heterosexuality=dead sexuality), but if you disagree even slightly with her they seem mostly like bullying. While I'm rather left leaning, the core of her arguement, that right leaning people vote more based on emotions rather than well thought out ideas, I find to be mostly baseless (I think a misunderstanding of economics and international politics are the reason people vote republican... or immense wealth). Since most of the textual examples she uses I don't think can ever adequatly stand for the majority of the people she claims they represent, and are more caricatures of poltical discourse (which of course most political discourse is) rather than actual personal poltics, her work comes across as being based on a confusion of aggressiveness and refrences to Lacan with strong theorizing.
One of the best Cultural Studies books I've read
It needs to be acknowledged that this underrated book will not please the reader who has done no serious engagement with the scholarship on a) popular culture, or b) sexuality and gender. It is evocative and deeply insightful, but precisely because it is methodologically sound it is not really as accessible to the casual reader as popular "non-fiction". I hope this - rather than knee-jerk cultural conservatism - accounts for the negative reviews on the site.
No evidence? Maybe you should learn to read.
If you want a better critique of the kind of anxiety this book can inspire in its critics, then read the book itself which of course fully anticipates and explains overly negative panic responses to its arguments and its extensive archive.
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Subjects:  1. Citizenship    2. Conservatism    3. Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights    4. Political Sociology    5. Political culture    6. Political participation    7. Sex Relations    8. Social Science    9. Sociology    10. Sociology - General    11. United States    12. Anthropology    13. Family & relationships    14. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    15. Sexual behaviour    16. Gay and Lesbian    17. Feminist Theory   

Subjects:  1. Civil rights    2. Gay liberation movement    3. Gay men    4. Gay rights    5. Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction    6. Handbooks & Manuals    7. Handbooks, manuals, etc    8. Homosexuality    9. Reference    10. U.S. - Political And Civil Rights    11. United States    12. Gay & Lesbian studies    13. Political structure & processes    14. Reference works    15. USA   

Subjects:  1. Communism & Socialism    2. Communism and sex    3. Gay Studies    4. Gay liberation movement    5. Great Britain    6. Homosexuality    7. Lesbian Studies    8. Marxism (Political Theory)    9. Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism    10. Politics - Current Events    11. Politics / Current Events    12. Politics/International Relations    13. Social Science    14. Gay & Lesbian studies    15. Human rights    16. Political ideologies    17. United Kingdom, Great Britain   

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Letting the hot air our of the "religious right"
Mr. Redmond does an excellent job of reminding the reader of the terror, double-talk and ridiculous fears surround the gay rights movement, in particular gay marriage. Although this may not convince your Rush Limbo-supporting uncle that gays should marry, it offers solid, fact-based arguments that any open-minded individual can swallow and adopt. By comparing gay marriage and gay rights issues to black oppression of the 60's and feminism of the 70's, Redmond makes very real comparisons. He also spends much needed time letting the hot air out of the religious right's opinionated and factually wrong ideas about homosexuals. As pointed out in the book, homosexuals are a small portion of the population. Their numbers have not grown in size as members have become more visible. The majority is working; thriving, loving members of society who only wish have equal rights. It challenged my though process about gay marriage. It's simply amazing how much false, right-wing, negative slander about homosexuals permeates our culture. Much of the false information is presented as scientific study, when it is mere religious propaganda. Redmond gets through the muck and to help us see the humans who are deprived real freedoms in our country. Humans whose only difference is how they have sexual intercourse. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Gay Studies    2. Gay rights    3. Gender Studies    4. Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights    5. Same-sex marriage    6. Social Science    7. Sociology    8. Civil rights & citizenship    9. Gay studies (Gay men)   

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Entheogens: Professional Listing
"Interpreting the Free Exercise of Religion" has been selected for listing in "Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments: An Entheogen Chrestomathy." ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Church and State    2. English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh    3. Freedom of religion    4. Gay & Lesbian    5. Literature - Classics / Criticism    6. Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights    7. Politics/International Relations    8. United States    9. English    10. Literary studies: 19th century   

Subjects:  1. Coming out (Sexual orientation    2. Coming out (Sexual orientation)    3. Gay Studies    4. Gay men    5. Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction    6. Homosexuality    7. Life skills guides    8. Men's Studies - Masculinity    9. Social Science    10. Sociology    11. United States    12. Gay & Lesbian studies   

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Definitely NOT an immigration manual.
As the American half of a Yank-Aussie binational relationship, I am pleased to see another entry in the small but growing library of books on LGBT immigration (especially to Australia, as my partner and I are pinning our entire future on Australia's just and humane approach to same-sex immigration).
Fluff and nonsense
Lets start by being brutally frank. Gays are not normal and any attempt to persuade others that theirs is a legitimate comparison with ordinary people is airhead tripe. Having said that the author dives into his matter with a a priori commitment to his result. His bias is overwhelming and leads to the usual 'gay is okay''why 'just because it is!' He singularly fails to tackle the issue as to why immigration policy should be rewritten so that the 1% of the population that is bent should be accommodated. He totally ignores the obvious health hazards of letting gays immigrate into to Australia leaving the taxpayer with the health cost burden and then couches his chapters in anecdotes of nonsense. A poorly written and argued diatribe that skirts ( no pun intended ) the issues, arrives at the predictable politically correct conclusion ( well what else ) hiding behind the much parroted howls of discrimination and cult of victimology bandwagon. Poor researched, poorly argued but will be praised by sheer virtue of its political correctness. This may make the bathouse library top 10 but it is very shallow scholarship on an molehill of social priority. Very disappointing.

Sensitive, Warm Look at Australia's Gay Immigration Policy
With sensitivity for the individual human dramas involved, London-born University of Sydney sociologist Dr. John Harte has penned a movingly personal and often wry look at Australia's extraordinarily bold gay immigration policy. Since the mid-1980s, gay and lesbian Aussies have had their government's blessings to sponsor their overseas lovers as immigrants to Australia. They have come in droves: From Europe, from the Americas, from Africa and from Asia. Their stories, based on interviews during more than 15 years of research, form the basis of this candid book. Some relationships broke up before the ink was dry on the immigration forms. Others ended in tragedy due to the scourge of AIDS. Oftentimes the expectations were naive. Very often, male ego-oriented career expectations proved the downfall of male-male relationships. Many failed over the longterm, prompting the author to reflect on the issue of gay monogamy. Hence, his subtitle: "Together Forever?" Yet there are success stories, including the touching tale of two elderly men now able to spend their remaining years together thanks to Australia's pioneering immigration policy. Academics expecting a dense, scholarly tome will no doubt look down their noses scoffingly at Harte's book, dismissing it as being too personal. But the author warns on the first page of the introduction that he has written a highly subjective book aimed at outlining Australia's gay immigration policy as he saw it come into being first-hand during the 1980s and '90s. There are some startling revelations, such as the fact that a top government official in the early days of the program blatantly encouraged gays and lesbians to bring their foreign lovers into the country on tourist visas in order to present immigration officials in his own department with a fait accompli - in effect circumventing immigration regulations so that the fledgling gay immigration program might succeed. Through it all, and with amazing candor, Harte interweaves the story of his own 30-year primary gay relationship with a now-naturalized Aussie. That makes this book a labor of love - in the truest sense of the word. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Australia    2. Case studies    3. Emigration & Immigration    4. Emigration and immigration    5. Emigration and immigration law    6. Gay Studies    7. Gay rights    8. Immigrants    9. Lesbian Studies    10. Social Science    11. Sociology    12. Sociology - General    13. Gay studies (Gay men)    14. Immigration & emigration   

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A Much Needed Survey
This is an excellent and much needed survey of attitudes among various denominations toward homosexuality. As increasing evidence bears out the genetic and biological origin of homosexuality, religious groups are beingconfronted with interpretational difficulties reminiscent of the oldBiblical justifications for slavery, etc. Not all religions are anti-gay,furthermore. This is a bit stilted academic writing, but an important stepin a somewhat taboo direction.

Prejudice by any other name
Despite the effort at "balance," the book caricatures the position of the world's religions on sexual morality.The crucial difference between sexual orientation and sexual action is destroyed.Ananti-religious screed disguised as a prim anthology. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Christianity    2. Christianity - Theology - General    3. Church And Society    4. Comparative Religion    5. Gay Studies    6. Gay rights    7. Homosexuality    8. Judaism    9. Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights    10. Religion    11. Religion - Church History    12. Religious aspects    13. Gay & Lesbian studies    14. Human rights    15. Law / Human Rights    16. Religion & Theology | American    17. Religion: general    18. Religious social & pastoral thought & activity    19. Sex & sexuality    20. USA   

Subjects:  1. Equal opportunities    2. Gay & Lesbian studies    3. Gender studies    4. Human & civil rights    5. Sex discrimination    6. Sex education & the facts of life    7. Work & industry / world of work    8. Work & labour