Based on Foucault’s argument that the utopian spaces “represent society itself brought to perfection, or its reverse, and … by their very essence fundamentally unreal,” I venture to argue that the gay bar “The Corner’s” as well as the group affiliated to…
On December 10th, I attended the “8th Annual Big Gay Xmas Party”. It was held at one of Madison’s most popular gay bars/dance clubs, Plan B. The Facebook event advertisement read as follows: “This December make the season gay and bright with Plan B as we celebrate the holidays the only way we know how... GAY! Join us at our 8th Annual Big Gay Xmas Party featuring DJ CMK and DJ Chomper! Special performances by Karizma Mirage, Sasha Daniels, and Kimaera Mirage. Go-go dancers and more! Absolut…
Action News and lobbied Brisbane politicians from Cairns, but when Ted moved to Brisbane because of his health, and then the Brisbane branch of QAGLR took over the lobbying activities, Pat kept the home fires burning. A lifelong activist, Pat formed the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) along with three other women in 1975. Based on a strong feminist foundation, WEL aspired to empower women in crisis to take charge of their lives. The group soon identified the need for a women’s shelter to provide…
avoiding such attacks such as Intrusion Detection System (IDS) which is the most popular method of defense [29]. A defense federation is used in [29] for guarding against such attacks. Under this technique each cloud is loaded with separate IDS. The different intrusion detection systems work on the basis of information that is exchange between these systems. In case a specific cloud is under attack, the cooperative IDS alert all other components in the system. Trustworthiness of a cloud is…
make my study unique by studying how they are understood by a certain cultural group. I chose Japanese Americans because Japan and America have very contrasting views and distinct understanding on the LGBT community in society. With this, my audience based research question was the following: how are Mitch and Cam understood by the Japanese American community? To answer the question I created, I chose to interview one of my friends, Mira. Mira is half Japanese and half French. She was born in…
“Christians need to be loving… Christians should be living witnesses.” Those were two sentences I heard on the drive to the restaurant with a christian family friend. This family friend seemed to genuinely care about the lost people of this world, and more importantly the condition of their salvation. Or at least I thought so. Upon arriving to the restaurant, just as we were beginning to eat, a “gay looking” man simply minding his own business passed by our table to join his friends. Immediately…
synthetic-conventional faith Universalizing faith is Fowler’s final faith stage. It dictates that individuals lead selfless lives based on the tenants of love and justice. Many people do not reach this stage. Synthetic conventional faith, Fowler’s first faith stage, is the idea that the spiritual authority exists outside of the individual. In this stage, individuals look to religious…
Reception has been around for a long time, yet just as of late has the topic of gay appropriation risen. There are numerous vagrants on the planet, yet insufficient families or guardians to take them in. There aren't that numerous families who can and will receive youngsters, whether this is on account of they can't bolster them, they have offspring of their own, or they simply don't need kids. The final product is still an excess of stranded youngsters needing a cherishing family. There is an…
The word queer has its origin from the Proto-Indo-European word twerk. The word later turned into the word “quer” and picked up the meaning of weirdness and unconventionality. By 1500, it led to the word queer and was widely used in Scotland. The other theory for how queer came about was by William Sayers. He said its origin was from the word kue meaning a twisted thing, implicating not straight. Queer first appeared on paper in 1508 in the transcription of “The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie”.…
apologize. “He’s hurting the Conservative Party of Canada” (Smith 2017:1). He expresses his position that he had the right to say such statements about homosexuals and these comments were permissible because gays deserved the injury, since their sexual activities were not moral. This article relates to the thoughts of Scott and Lyman as they discuss in their articles under deny to injury that acts such as these are permissible since the victim deserves the injury, as they are involved in roles…