This is an essay talking about the LGBT community and party affiliation, includes two specific parties within the major parties, including the Stonewall Democrats and the Log Cabin Republicans. The Stonewall Democrats are only with the Democrats because of that's the party that gets results for them while the Log Cabin Republicans are ideologically on the side of the Republicans but would like to gain more rights for the LGBT community. This is a detailed background and analysis of the two parties in terms of the LGBT community.
This issue brief discusses violence against the LGBT community in the United States as reinforced by societal norms and governmental legislation, which support hetero-normitivity and stigmatize homosexuality as the "other." In addition, this brief will also address the politicization of violence against the LGBT community as a mechanism in political campaigns.
Rad predstavlja istraživanje o stavovima LGBT populacije prema sektoru bezbednosti u Srbiji. U toku pet fokus grupa rađenih sa LGBT osobama, utvrđene su osnovne karakteristike odnosa policije prema seksualnim manjinama. Kroz odnos policije, postoji pokušaj da se odredi delovanje institucija prema homoseksualnosti. U samom istraživanju utvrđene su i razlike koje postoje među ispitanicima s obzirom na njihov status i veličinu mesta stanovanja. Rad se osvrće i na dešavanja kao što su Parade ponosa koja dovode do ispoljavanja anti-gej opcija i političkih sukoba. ; This paper presents a survey of LGBT attitudes towards the security sector in Serbia. During the five focus groups with LGBT persons, we determined the basic characteristics of police attitudes towards sexual minorities. By examining the relationship between the police and the sexual minorities, the author attempts to determine the institutional practice towards homosexuality. The study also notes the differences between respondents based on their status and the size of their place of residence. This paper looks at events such as the Pride Parade, which lead to the appearance of anti-gay factions and political conflicts.
Homophobia is present in contemporary Serbian society as a rather widespread treatment of non-heterosexuality. It is manifested through various forms of public hate speech, through the forms and cases of discrimination and violence that are caused by homophobia, and through the homophobia-caused deprivation of members of the LGBT population of their various rights, particularly the right to the freedom of peaceful public assembly. Such homophobia is mostly shown by research data recently obtained by the Serbian LGBT rights groups (such as Gay Straight Alliance and Labris) and by media reporting on the recent public events (mostly on three recent attempts to organise Pride Parades in Belgrade, in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012). The research data showed that homophobia originates mostly from a lack of knowledge and a stereotyped comprehension of the people and relations among them, while its main protagonists in Serbia are nationalists, traditionalists, conformists and those who believe that hating others is the proper and even only way to defend their national and territorial integrity, as well as a reflection of their genuine patriotism. The spheres in which it is active include all social relations, from private and family, through professional, to public, media and political relations. Research data obtained in recent years by LGBT organisations provide evidence that homophobia is still very prevalent in Serbia, in some respects somewhat more so than in 2008, when the first research of that type was conducted.
Jason Cianciotto and Sean Cahill, experts on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender public policy advocacy, combine an accessible review of social science research with analyses of school practices and local, state, and federal laws that affect LGBT students. In addition, portraits of LGBT youth and their experiences with discrimination at school bring human faces to the issues the authors discuss.
Offering a critical introduction into LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) transnational identity in the media, this book examines performances and representations within documentary and fiction oriented texts. An interdisciplinary approach is put forward, revealing new potentials for non western queer identity
In Contemporary Christianity and LGBT Sexualities rich empirical material is presented by a team of experts to constitute the first comprehensive sociological study of 'non-hetero' sexualities in relation to contemporary Christianity. It will appeal to sociologists, scholars of religion and theology as well as readers across a range of social sciences
Using data from the 2000 Census and the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth, in September 2009, the Williams Institute estimates that there are approximately 418,000 LGBT state government employees in the United States and 585,000 local government employees, totaling slightly more than 1 million state and local LGBT employees. There are just under 7 million LGBT private employees and just over 200,000 LGBT people working for the federal government.
A growing minority group in the United States, the LGBT community increasingly advocates for political rights through protest movements. While some results have been attained, the group is still not fully accepted in the United States' traditional society.