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Recognition of gay and lesbian marriage with respect to Federalism 1. Edited Book - The lesbian and Gay Movement and the state edited by Manon Tremblay, David Paternotte and Carol Johnson This books points out the growing recognition of lesbian and gay, in short LGBT, rights around the world. Despite the many obstructions with regards to researching and investigating on LGBT, this book aims to bring light on the relationship between the state and LGBT movements, focusing on two key queries:…

Multiplicity Utopia: Renouncing of Binary Gender Identities “Les Guérillères” in itself is already a conundrum that spares no time in illuminating one of the major essence of the novel, providing the reader with a glimpse into the fantasized Amazonian world in which “the women” are at war to make room for their future Utopia with the use of language, as seen in the title. Monique Wittig demonstrates a fantasy world of Amazonian women who fight for their freedom from the shackles of the binary…

years, and at times, dominated decisions that were made in regards to the LGBT community. Exactly what is homophobia? Homophobia is the negative thoughts, feelings, and behaviors an individual has in response to others who are perceived to be gay or lesbian. This concept has plagued many among the LGBT community in regards to equal rights, fair employment, and most shocking of all, personal safety. This paper highlights some studies which have been conducted in order to test different levels of…

of a deep red. In an article that she did for Hammond’s feminist magazine, Heresies, she speaks about what it is like to be a feminist lesbian painter and how she conceives and produces her work.…

identify as African-American, lower class, lesbians, factors that may seem like non factors in a case of transparent sexual harassment gone awry, but unfortunately were evidently the only factors necessary to…

that community in particular is one that is growing at rapid rates. This article gives accounts on how events in the LGBT community help people come out of the closet and actively expresses their sexual orientation and pride. The LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, and Transgender and it has become a movement in itself. In fact it is now classified…

In 1997, DeGeneres openly proclaimed herself as a lesbian on ‘The Oprah Winfery Show’ (The Famous People). Being openly lesbian was hard on Ellen. She stated “I wasn’t sure if I was going to work again, and although I was out, I was still trying to alter myself – not dressing the way I wanted to dress or wearing my hair the way I wanted to…

The Human Rights Campaign is a civil rights organization that works to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans. Equality has not come as easy for these people in America since the start of this country, but the HRC is working hard to try and achieve these basic rights in life. There have been victories along the way many coming in recent years for this campaign with the biggest to date being the Supreme Court ruling this year stating that bans on marriage…

The critique of Judith C. Brown’s Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy is meant to discuss the writing style and format, the use of evidence used to support Brown’s interpretation of events leading to Benedetta’s imprisonment, and whether or now Brown made her point. I found Brown’s writing style to be easy enough to understand. In Immodest Acts she tells the story of a nun named Benedetta Carlini who moved from her mountain home to the Convent of the Mother of God at…

This battle has gained worldwide media coverage and garnered support to help fight confront the contention and contempt felt through the community. In Africa under the apartheid homosexual acts were punishable by death and years within prison. Black lesbians were under a constant threat of being raped and activists were injured and even murdered; as was the case with David Kato. Heightened media coverage allowed for some assistance to spill into Africa organizations, nonetheless it did not…