at Mercer before joining the news team at CNN. Her degrees are in Marketing/Business Development and in public relations. She attended University of North Carolina as well as New York University. Craft‚ C.. "The Basics to Gay Adoption for Gay and Lesbian Couples." Gay adoption basics. N.p.‚ 2009. Web. 18 Apr 2012. The article is about tips on gay adoption and how to proceed a certain way with adoption for gays. Things like the state law as
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acceptability has varied widely as well. The stigma of non-heterosexuality has faded considerably in the twenty-first century. Psychology no longer views homosexuality‚ bisexuality‚ and transexuality through a lens of pathology‚ instead recognizing that lesbians‚ gay men‚ bisexuals‚ and transgenders (collectively referred to as LGBT individuals) have particular issues related to their minority status and the ways in which they are viewed by American society (Garnets and Kimmel‚ Introduction 2). Formation
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Deeply engaging with social issues‚ The Fosters’ ideological development departs from the quotidian inclusion in The Kids Are All Right. Visibility of lesbian characters in The Kids Are All Right is both apolitical and constrains queer visibility. Whereas The Fosters‚ albeit homonormative inclusion‚ effectively criticizes the ideological system that embeds the character narratives. Specifically‚ The Fosters’ meaningfully represents a family that is diverse and challenges the tropes of kinship. To
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agree with all of their practices. On the other hand‚ the US Army has gone as far as expelling their gay and lesbian members. Background Information In the late 40 ’s‚ homosexuality was classified as a mental disorder‚ and most social scientists that paid attention to the issue at all were engaged in the development of treatments to change into heterosexuals those who expressed gay or lesbian feelings (Silverstein‚ 1991). I cannot believe that almost 70 years later‚ we‚ as a country are still so
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children among planned lesbian families. The overall aim of this research was to examine whether planned lesbian families differ from heterosexual families in desire and motivation to have a child. But‚ I did find one interesting study that focused on the desire and motivation to have children. The method of this study was that 100 lesbian couples were compared to 100 herterosexual couples. All data were collected by means of questionnaires. The results stated that lesbian parents and heterosexual
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Task Group Proposal Organization of a Gay and Lesbian Students Club at XYZ Community College (XYZ) 1. The Task Group will meet the first and third Wednesday of March‚ April‚ and May 2005. The meetings will be held from 4.30pm to 6.00 pm in Conference Room 216 on the second floor of XYZ Library. All meetings are closed to the public with the exception of the meeting scheduled for April 6‚ 2005. The public will be invited to offer input during this meeting. The group’s purpose is to: a. Discuss
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acknowledge the lesbian presence (p. 105). What she means by this is that the black female body was void of sexual desire. Related issues were raised in Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple (1985) and Cheryl Dunye’s (1997) The Watermelon
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Southern California‚ Los Angeles‚ CA 90089-2539 (biblarz@usc.edu). *Department of Sociology‚ New York University‚ 295 Lafayette St.‚ 4th floor‚ New York‚ NY 10012. Key Words: bisexual‚ development or outcomes‚ family structure‚ fathering‚ gay‚ gender‚ lesbian‚ parenting and parenthood‚ transgender. In 1999 American Psychologist unleashed a public furor when it published an article that challenged a popular discourse on the dangers of fatherlessness. ‘‘Deconstructing the Essential Father’’ (Silverstein
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children into gays and lesbians. Disney Makes LGBT Films for Gays and Lesbians MORMONS ACCUSE DISNEY OF LGBT AGENDA Sure‚ people are annoyed at how overplayed Disney’s song "Let it Go" has become; however‚ leave it to the Mormons to take it a step further. Kathryn Skaggs‚ a Mormon blogger‚ thinks that "Frozen" has an LGBT agenda. To her‚ the words "Let it Go" are not Christian friendly. They’re rebellious‚ lack moral principles‚ and will turn everyone into gays and lesbians. Skaggs goes on to say
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“Is Gay Parenting Bad for the Kids?” In the society we live in today‚ many people believe that being raised by a homosexual or lesbian couple isn’t a good thing for the children. Based on the article “Is Gay Parenting Bad for the Kids?” it seems to me that Charles C.W.Cooke (the author) and Dr. Mark Regenerus also believe that gay parenting is a bad thing. In the article‚ Cooke says that gay parenting is a bad thing because‚ “the child(ren) will end up different” or “the children are going to be
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