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As this year's Sampson Center exhibition makes clear the powerful desire to find historical inevitability in the advance toward equal opportunity for all Americans has become far more nuanced by the sometimes discomforting reminders that advances at the ballot box are neither as clear-cut nor as unconditional as we once hoped. The ancient antipathies of racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia are not so easily elided by political campaigns and elections. The pace of social consensus requires a degree of patience and continuing attention that tries the very fabric of American life while we attempt to comprehend the consequences of change wrought by our heightened understanding of the implications of diversity in American life. Table of Contents: Introduction (Selma Botman, USM President) Quiet Revolution: A Tally of Black Victories (Bob Greene, for the African American Collection) Is It Good for the Jews? Is it Good for Everyone? Maine Jewry between Civic Idealism and the Politics of Reality (Abraham J. Peck, Scholar-in-Residence for the Judaica Collection) From the Closet to the Ballot-Box: Electoral Politics and Maine's LGBT Citizens, 1970s to the Present (Howard M. Solomon, Scholar-in-Residence for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Collection) ; https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/event_catalog/1003/thumbnail.jpg

Die vorliegende Arbeit widmet sich der Frage nach den sozialen Praxen und gesellschaftlichen Bedeutungen von Schönheit bei den Karo Batak in Sumatra, Indonesien. In Tanah Karo, einer agrarisch geprägten Hochebene, säumen Aerobic- Studios und Schönheitssalon die Straßen der zwei Kleinstädte Berastagi und Kabanjahe. Weibliche Schönheit in Form von Femininität gilt als modern. Moderne Weiblichkeit, die ihren Ausdruck in einem schönen Körper findet, wird durch ein komplexes Bündel von Diskursen und Praxen lokaler, nationaler und globaler Provenienz konstituiert. Ausgehend vom Körper, der als die vermittelnde Instanz zwischen Diskursen und Praxen verstanden wird, analysiert die Verfasserin die Komplexität des Themas Schönheit und Modernität aus Perspektive der Akteurinnen. Welche Ziele verfolgen sie mit der strategischen Aneignung des Ideals der modernen Weiblichkeit? Wie strukturieren soziale Positionen die jeweiligen Aneignungsprozesse? Die Verfasserin zeigt, wie die zunehmende Bedeutung von Schönheit mit Transformationen im Bereich der Geschlechterverhältnisse, des Konsums und der sozialen Differenzierung verknüpft ist. Moderne Weiblichkeit konstituiert sich an der Schnittstelle ästhetischer, aber vor allem auch sozialer, ökonomischer, kultureller, religiöser und moralischer Diskurse. Das zentrale Motiv der Akteurinnen für die Aneignung von als modern erachteten Schönheitsidealen stellt die Erweiterung der eigenen Handlungsfähigkeit in der patrilinearen Gesellschaft der Karo Batak dar. Die jeweiligen sozialen Positionen führen zu unterschiedlichen Formen der Aneignung, die in verschiedenen Formen moderner Weiblichkeit resultieren. Am Beispiel von Frauen der städtischen Mittelschicht, jungen Frauen vom Land und waria, Menschen mit weiblicher transgender-Identität, werden diese Aneignungsprozesse und ihre gesellschaftlichen Bedeutungen vergleichend diskutiert. Die Globalisierung von Schönheit, so lässt sich resümieren, bringt – selbst auf begrenzter lokaler Ebene – verschiedene moderne Weiblichkeiten hervor. - Karya ini dikhususkan untuk pertanyaan tentang praktik sosial dan makna sosial keindahan di antara Batak Karo di Sumatra, Indonesia. Di Tanah Karo, dataran tinggi pertanian, studio aerobik, dan salon kecantikan berjejer di jalan di dua kota kecil Berastagi dan Kabanjahe. Kecantikan feminin dalam bentuk feminitas dianggap modern. Feminitas modern, yang menemukan ekspresinya dalam tubuh yang indah, dibentuk oleh kumpulan kompleks wacana dan praktik asal lokal, nasional dan global. Berawal dari tubuh yang dipahami sebagai perantara antara wacana dan praktik, penulis menganalisis kompleksitas topik kecantikan dan modernitas dari sudut pandang para aktor. Apa tujuan Anda secara strategis menerapkan cita-cita feminitas modern? Bagaimana posisi sosial menyusun proses apropriasi masing-masing? Penulis menunjukkan bagaimana semakin pentingnya kecantikan terkait dengan transformasi di bidang relasi gender, konsumsi, dan diferensiasi sosial. Feminitas modern dibentuk pada antarmuka estetika, tetapi di atas semua itu juga wacana sosial, ekonomi, budaya, agama dan moral. Motif sentral para pelaku perampasan cita-cita keindahan yang dianggap modern adalah perluasan kemampuan mereka sendiri dalam berakting dalam masyarakat patrilinear Batak Karo.Posisi sosial masing-masing mengarah pada bentuk apropriasi yang berbeda, yang berakibat pada perbedaan bentuk feminitas modern. Menggunakan contoh perempuan dari kelas menengah perkotaan, perempuan muda dari pedesaan dan waria, orang-orang dengan identitas transgender perempuan, proses apropriasi dan makna sosialnya akan dibahas secara komparatif. Globalisasi kecantikan, dapat disimpulkan, menghasilkan - bahkan pada tingkat lokal yang terbatas - berbagai femininitas modern. (diterjemahkan dengan Google Translate)

Eva Illouz, whilst discussing her text Manufacturing Happy Citizens in an interview, points out that happiness in a neoliberal economy has become a way to measure our self-worth especially as it is individualised. Being happy, thus, means to be able to strive despite the odds and yet be optimistic: to be happy in a neoliberal setup is to be resilient. Indeed, resilience means bouncing back and putting your best foot forward in the gravest of circumstances, showing strength when things are against you: to be happy despite the odds. Keeping this aspect of resilience in mind, this essay is interested in broaching a more specific question: what happens when a structurally marginalised group is called resilient—when value of the group is solely located in its capacity to bounce back and remain within and not resist status-quo? The structurally marginalised group I will be referring to is the hijra community in India and I will discuss the idea of happiness in a video produced by Y films, the youth division of one of India's biggest film production houses: Yash Raj films. The music video produced in 2016 is named 'Hum Hain Happy (We are happy)', a Hindi rendition of Pharrell William's famous song of the same name, features six hijra community members from the city of Mumbai. The essay here offers a 'friendly critique' of the video's efforts towards mainstreaming trans inclusion in representational practices which romanticise the struggle of the marginalised by valorising resilience as an inspirational response to systemic inequality. My critique, thus, does not invalidate representational practices in total but calls for looking at the dominant logics through which such representation is rendered possible. In so doing, I look at how the video's narrative serves to quell collective resistance by translating individual resilience within status quo as happiness. On one hand, the makers of the video see the oppressed as valuable and respectable only in term of their resilient happiness and relatedly, by pedestalising this resilience as inspirational, essentialise/naturalise systemic inequalities and conditions of struggle. Anything that deters from this pedestal then is naturally seen as a negative response and not aspirational/inspirational. The essay first contextualises the video in the contemporary conditions of transgender rights in India and then proceeds to analyse its content regarding the narrative of resilience which obscures the conditions of transgender struggles in India, while elevating their positive attitude as inspirational, effectively obscuring the realities and possibilities of righteous rage and resistance.

Diese Diplomarbeit behandelt die Spruchpraxis des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte hinsichtlich von LGBT-Rechten und deren Auswirkungen auf Österreich. Zunächst wird der Begriff LGBT erläutert, der für Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual und Trans (Transgender und Transsexualität) steht. In Kapitel 2 werden die für das Thema relevanten Artikel der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention dargestellt. Hierbei handelt es sich um Art 8, 12 und 14 EMRK sowie das 12. Zusatzprotokoll zur EMRK. Ebenso werden in diesem Kapitel die Wirkungen der EGMR-Urteile sowohl in Hinblick auf die Betroffenen des Urteils als auch auf die übrigen Konventionsstaaten beleuchtet. In Kapitel 3 wird der Wandel in der Spruchpraxis des EGMR hinsichtlich einschlägiger Urteile betreffend Homosexualität analysiert. Die Urteile werden nach folgenden Themengebieten aufgeteilt und behandelt: Rechtsprechung betreffend Strafbarkeit von Homosexualität (Totalverbot, Kriminalisierung, Schutzalterbestimmungen), Diskriminierungen im Arbeitsrecht sowie homosexueller Paare in den Bereichen Miet- und Sozialrecht sowie die Spruchpraxis zu den Themen elterliche Verantwortung, Adoption (Adoption durch Einzelperson, Stiefkindadoption), Ehe und registrierte Partnerschaft. Kapitel 4 beschäftigt sich mit der Spruchpraxis zum Thema Transsexualität in den Bereichen geschlechtsanpassende Operation und Kostenübernahme sowie Anerkennung der neuen geschlechtlichen Identität und Recht auf Eheschließung entsprechend des angepassten Geschlechts. Kapitel 5 beschäftigt sich mit den österreichischen Normen zu den Themen Homosexualität und Transsexualität, insbesondere in Hinblick auf die Spruchpraxis des EGMR. ; The paper at hand deals with the European Court of Human Rights? jurisprudence concerning LGBT rights and its effects on Austria. In chapter 1, an explanation of the term LGBT, which stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (Transgender and Transsexuality), is given. Chapter 2 deals with the European Convention on Human Rights, especially with the relevant articles concerning LGBT rights (Article 8, 12 and 14 ECHR and Protocol 12 to the Convention). This chapter also deals with legal consequences and effects of the jurisprudence of the ECHR for the involved parties as well as for the other member states of the Convention. Chapter 3 provides an analysis of numerous judgements relevant to the change in the ECHR?s jurisprudence concerning homosexuality. The judgements are subdivided into and discussed according to the following topics: criminal law against homosexuals (total ban criminalisation, provisions of the law concerning age of consent), discrimination against homosexuals at work as well as against homosexual couples as far as tenancy and social law are concerned, and jurisprudence concerning parental rights, adoption (single person adoption and adoption of stepchild(ren)), marriage and registration of homosexual partnerships. Chapter 4 describes the ECHR?s jurisprudence concerning transsexuals, especially in the areas of gender reassignment and assumption of costs, recognition of the new gender and the right to marry. Chapter 5 deals with Austrian law on homosexuality and transsexuality, particularly with regard to the jurisprudence of the ECHR. ; von Gudrun Reinisch ; Abweichender Titel laut Übersetzung der Verfasserin/des Verfassers ; Zsfassung in dt. und engl. Sprache ; Graz, Univ., Dipl.-Arb., 2011 ; (VLID)216673

Diane Elze is and has been an active member of the LGBTQ community in Portland, Maine for many years. Diane has spent most of her adulthood and professional life participating in activism and advocacy for LGBTQ adolescents. She was involved with the Wilde Stein club at the University of Maine at Orono, where she also founded the Greater Bangor Rape Crisis Center. After being unable to find a job in the Bangor area, Diane moved to Portland where she began working with the MLGPA, the Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and taking a leadership role with Outright, among many other organizations that she was a part of. Diane narrates many memories throughout her oral history, beginning from her childhood all the way until the present. She had been involved with most activist groups in the Portland area up until she moved back to New York. Citation Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, University of Southern Maine Libraries. For more information about the Querying the Past: Maine LGBTQ Oral History Project, please contact Dr. Wendy Chapkis. ; https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/1050/thumbnail.jpg

Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in northwest China, Casey James Miller offers a novel, compelling, and intimately personal perspective on Chinese queer culture and activism. In Inside the Circle: Queer Culture and Activism in Northwest China, Miller tells the stories of two courageous and dedicated groups of queer activists in the city of Xi'an: a grassroots gay men's HIV/AIDS organization called Tong'ai and a lesbian women's group named UNITE. Taking inspiration from "the circle," a term used to imagine local, national, and global queer communities, Miller shows how everyday people in northwest China are taking part in queer culture and activism while also striving to lead traditionally moral lives in a rapidly changing society. The queer stories in this book broaden our understandings of gender and sexuality in contemporary China and show how taking global queer diversity seriously requires us to de-center Western cultural values, historical experiences, and theoretical perspectives

In this stirring memoir by a member of the first generation of LGBTQ+ activists in Italy, Porpora Marcasciano tells her story and shares the struggles and accomplishments of her fellow activists who achieved so much in the 1970s yet suffered devastating losses during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. AntoloGaia offers an insider's look at the beginnings of the gay liberation movement in Italy and reveals how it was intimately intertwined with other forms of left-wing activism. At the same time, it powerfully conveys the queer joy of a young person from a small village first encountering the vibrant sexual minority communities of Naples, Bologna, and Rome. As Marcasciano starts to embrace her trans identity, she meets the famous anthropologist Pino Simonelli, who introduces her to Naples's unique femminielli subculture and gives her the name Porporino, which she later shortens to Porpora. In keeping with this story of gender, sexual, and political discovery, AntoloGaia is the first piece of Italian life-writing to use gender-neutral and mixed-gender language

"Sad and funny, sexy and sensitive, angry and insightful: the deeply personal stories in this book reflect a rainbow of experiences and emotions, as diverse as the storytellers themselves. Join chief editor Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli and the Australian LGBTIQ Multicultural Council for a journey of discovery through queer multicultural multifaith Australia, with more than sixty voices from across the spectrum of sexualities and genders, families and relationships. Annette Xiberras, lesbian Wurundjeri Elder with a Maltese father, provides a Welcome to Book and insights into her Indigenous-migrant family. Filmmakers Tony Ayres and Franco Di Chiera share their experiences telling stories from minority cultures on Australian screens, while Benjamin Law talks queer Asian-Australian identity, and making 'The family law' for SBS. Broadcaster Faustina Agolley talks about being 'out' as a woman of colour, and Anton Enus tells us about coming out as a 'coloured' gay man in South Africa. Entertainer Paul Capsis reflects on doing 'Cabaret' in the age of Trump while Asiel Adan talks about non-binary gender across the US border in Mexico. Meanwhile, Christos Tsiolkas imagines Ari, the protagonist of his iconic novel 'Loaded', now middle-aged, during a weekend of mass violence in distant Paris, while Patrick Abboud travels the world so he can come home. Alyena Mohummadally searches for reconciliation between her queer and Muslim identities and Tony Briffa shares a personal story of growing up with intersex variations and the rigidity of Western medicine."--