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Search results for "gays and lesbians" ...
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Corrective Rape
This story by ESPN highlights the notion of "corrective rape" in South Africa, where "men rape women to 'cure' them of their lesbianism." The 2008 rape and murder of former soccer player Eudy Simelane spurred an entire investigation into the practice of "corrective rape" in and around South Africa. The country continues to struggle with "sexual violence and homophobia."
Tags: Lesbian and Gay Equality Project; homosexuality; gay; lesbian; rape; South Africa
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The Lavender Scare
After leaving the NSA in 1960 to work in Russia, codebreakers Bill Martin and Bernie Mitchell were the men behind what is called the worst internal scnadal in NSA history. The Pentagon labels the men as being homosexuals who betrayed their country, yet NSA files with over 450 coworkers and friends show that neither man is in fact gay.
Tags: hacker; Soviet Union; Cold War; Lesbian; National Security Administration
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"Pride & Prejudice"
Six Morgan Hill, Calif., teens brought a lawsuit against their school district, saying the administration had failed to protect them from abuse and harassment. Most of the plaintiffs were gay, but one was a friend who was harassed because of her association. Alana Flores, the only plaintiff named, said students repeatedly left nasty messages and pictures in her locker and taunted her daily. The story includes anecdotes from other gay teens who were harassed, from teasing to beating. Some sources in the story blamed the size of Live Oak High School (more than 2,000 students in grades 10-12) for cliques that had formed and subsequent rejection and taunting.
Tags: gay; lesbian; homosexual; homosexuality; teens; teenagers; high school; school; harassment; abuse; lawsuit
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To Be Poor and Transgender
The Progressive looks at the stigma that follows the transgender people, "this latest American identity group," in their everyday lives. "From employment to health services, transgender folks, particularly those in low-income environments, face enormous barriers when navigating even the most basic aspects of life-all because of their gender transgressions." The analysis finds that one of the major problems is "the need for accessible counseling and medical supervision..."
Tags: gays; lesbians; prostitution; minorities; gender; sexuality; social issues; low-income; poverty; health insurance; medicine
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The Sexual Evolution
Atlanta Magazine examines how the appearabce of AIDS in 1981 has changed the sexual patterns in today's society. The story criticizes the "misplaced American prudery," which prevents a realistic diologue about AIDS prevention, and looks at the "smiling pharmaceutical ads [that] downplay the disease's devastation and lull the HIV-negative population into a false sense of security." The analysis reveals that gay's community infection rates have started to surge again in the beginning of 2001, and cites estimates that 10 percent of the homeless population is infected.
Tags: medicine; health; sex; homosexuals; pharamaceuticals; drugs; gay; lesbian; condoms; HIV; African-Americans
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The Internet Filter Farce
Nunberg likens internet blocking software to airport security metal detector that miss 40 percent of concealed handguns and beeps at a third of the metal hangers in passengers' suitcases. In this article Nunberg writes how blocking software employed in homes, schools, libraries, and the workplace aren't able to work as promised. He even points out that in many cases blocking software screens out non-offensive or objectionable material such as websites on HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, the gay and lesbian community, and online sex offender registries. Nunberg writes that some of the problems with blocking software is that the software companies themselves filter sites with negative information about their service and that they aren't required to post a list of filtered words and sites, letting people know just how inadequate the software is.
Tags: Internet; blocking software; filters
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Family Outing
Boston Magazine looks at gay parents, the normalities of having children but also the never ending criticisms of outside people. While many gays and lesbian parents quietly live out their lives, many heterosexual people still have problems when issues such as sexuality are brought up in area schools. In addition, critics argue that living with gay parents "normalizes" homosexuality. Gays and lesbians both agree however, that "there is nothing controversial about us". . . they are simply "too busy being parents" to care.
Tags: homosexual; children; Domestic Partnership Bill; Defense of Marriage Act; schools; sexuality
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Queer on Death Row
The Village Voice looks at how sexual orientation can - and often does - sway a jury's verdict. "No one knows how often gayness is raised by prosecutors as a snide implication, an unfounded assertion, or a fact that may or may not be relevant to the case. But it comes up with such frequency and in such predictable ways that the allegations of antigay bias cannot be dismissed."
Tags: Justice system; law; death row; death penalty; gays and lesbians; murder trials
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The Progressive reports on Exodus International, a coalition of Christian ministries based in San Rafael, Calif., dedicated to helping men and women who struggle with homosexuality to find change from their "broken sexual orientation and sexual sinful behaviors" through the transforming powers of Jesus Christ. (November 1995)
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Military Marriages
American Journal reveals the practice of U.S. troops engaging in bogus marriages to garner increased benefits; the practice is particularly common among gay and lesbian troops because of the added benefit of throwing off investigators trying to drum them out of the military.