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Contemporary religious movements attempting to reestablish moral supremacy have constructed homosexual & queer groups as outsiders that must be marginalized & annihilated. Current discursive practices that present homosexuality as a perversion of heteronormativity are predicted on a notion of compulsory heterosexuality that ultimately governs permissible & deviant sexuality & gender roles. Tension between the first Bill Clinton Administration & conservative religious groups over the participation of gays & lesbians in the US military is reviewed; although religious groups cited gay & lesbian inclusion as an infraction of moral responsibility, gay & lesbian activist groups suggested that the issue concerned the acquisition of certain civil rights. It is concluded that the military remains the last bastion of white, middle-class, heterosexual, & masculine hegemonic control over minority groups; a narrow & exclusivist interpretation of what defines a true American ironically dominates current discursive practices. 45 References. J. W. Parker

In November 1981, the Utah Division of Personnel Management began an intervention into the Utah Department of Public Safety which continued for a year. This article discusses the data obtained from a 1984 evaluation of this intervention, which was designed to assess long-term outcomes. The findings provide encouragement for continuing organization development efforts and point to ways in which greater successes can be gained in future interventions.

The Seneca (NY) "Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace & Justice" is discussed as an example of women organizing to pursue feminist causes & employing feminist process (eg, voluntarism, shared leadership, consensus decision making) as a means of empowering organizational participants. The Encampment is described using documents, survey evidence, & participant observation. Analysis reveals that voluntarism (especially in combination with shared leadership & open, fluctuating participation) created a "free-rider" problem, meaning that the burden of organizational maintenance was unequally shared: free riders did less maintenance work but still enjoyed organizational benefits; "suckers" did more of this work, compensating for free riders & experiencing burnout & resentment. It is concluded that the cultural feminist tendencies of the radical Encampment organizers worsened the free-rider problem; they assumed that women would not free-ride because women are "naturally" cooperative. Indeed, glorification of women's caring encouraged women to play the sucker role. It is argued that an effective response to free-riders requires rejecting the view of caring as attending first to others' needs & redefining it in terms of empowerment -- requiring, & assisting, others to empower themselves. At the community level, an effective response requires making & enforcing judgments about which differences to suppress in support of a feminist, egalitarian community. 2 Tables, 55 References. Adapted from the source document.