scholarly journals ATTITUDES TOWARDS SAME-SEX PARTNERSHIP: A SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN SPLIT (CROATIA)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 35-41
Author(s):  
Gorana Bandalović ◽  
Zorana Šuljug Vučica ◽  
Ines Uvodić
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Sex Partners ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Lgbt People

One of the current dilemmas of modern society is how to look at homosexuals, same-sex partners, forming same-sex partnerships, and raising children in such communities. Homosexuals are classified as sexual minorities and are often excluded from society, which is not new because members of sexual minorities have long been accompanied by numerous persecutions and repressions. This paper aims to examine the attitudes of young people towards homosexuality and same-sex partnership. The paper presents the results of the research conducted in 2019 using a survey method on a sample of 303 respondents aged 15 to 35 years. The results show that most young people do not consider homosexuality to be a disease and approach LGBT people in the same way as the rest of society, not paying attention to someone's sexual orientation. Respondents are predominantly open to the possibility of marriage between same-sex partners while they to a lesser extent agree with the adoption and upbringing of children by same-sex partners. They believe that there is a difference in the upbringing of children raised by same-sex partners from children raised by heterosexual partners, which can be justified by the discrimination and violence to which children of same-sex partners are exposed to. Also, young people think that homosexual parents can be good parents and provide their children with everything they need and that it is better for children to grow up in same-sex families than in homes for abandoned children. Although they state that such communities are almost equal to heterosexual communities, they are aware of their exposure to social exclusion.

Freedom’s Frontiers: The Travails of LGBT Travelers

Pólemos ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-295
Author(s):  
David Austin ◽  
Mark E. Wojcik
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
Positive Change ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Tourist Industry ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Status

Abstract This article considers the status of same-sex couples whose lawful marriage in one jurisdiction may not be recognized in another, or who may face discrimination and criminal penalties for their sexual orientation. The article surveys positive developments that promote equality for sexual minorities rather than their punishment. The degree of positive change varies across countries. While traveling across borders, sexual minorities are often subjected to strange dislocations in time and space: they can accelerate through centuries of struggle to find freedom in foreign lands, or they can be hurled back into the darkness of the closet or, worse, detained in a prison cell. The article also focuses on some of the positive developments – legal and otherwise – that have led to the growth of a gay tourist industry; some of the problems that gay travelers may potentially encounter when crossing into countries where the legal rights of sexual minorities are not safeguarded; and some potential “solutions” that will allow gay travelers to engage in cross-border travel without feeling that they are being forced back into the limiting borders of the closet’s confines.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-62
Author(s):  
Karolina Lisy ◽  
Nick Hulbert-Williams ◽  
Jane M. Ussher ◽  
Alison Alpert ◽  
Charles Kamen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Care ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Sex Partners ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Heterosexual Identity ◽  
Healthcare Environments ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
After Cancer

People identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) often experience unique issues and needs in the context of cancer care. These include experiences and fear of discrimination within heteronormative healthcare environments, assumptions of cisgender/heterosexual identity, exclusion of same-sex partners from care, and a lack of relevant supportive care and information resources. There are also unique impacts of cancer and treatment on LGBT sexuality and fertility. To provide the best possible care for LGBT people living with and after cancer, providers must understand the specific needs of LGBT people and be aware of strategies to deliver inclusive healthcare services. This chapter presents key background information to contextualize the needs of LGBT people with cancer before discussing specific challenges that LGBT people may face when accessing cancer care. We provide guidance for general cancer care, as well as specific concerns regarding the sexual health and fertility needs of LGBT patients. Finally, we outline issues for consideration by healthcare services seeking to advance LGBT awareness and improve care for this patient group.

scholarly journals Same sex families and children

Stanovnistvo ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zorica Mrsevic
Keyword(s):  
Birth Rate ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Sex Partners ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
Love Story ◽  
American States ◽  
Low Birth Rate

Introduction comprises the information on two main forms of same sex families, civic partnership (same sex partnership) and same sex marriage. Countries and various status modalities of legal regulations are mentioned. The main part of the text is dedicated to presentation of the findings of the most recent research on various aspects regarding children of same sex partnerships. It comprises presentations grouped in four main chapters: acceptance of same sex partnerships, acceptance of legal recognition of the same sex partnerships, family plans of homosexual teenagers, and raising children within and by the same sex partners. Also the real life cases mirroring legal changes through their life destinies are presented, such is e.g. the Irish way to legalization of the same sex partnerships. In addition, a love story of two women crowned by giving birth of their four children is mentioned. Reasons against and negative reactions the author puts under the title Homophobia. In the Concluding remarks, the author presents the most recent examples of legal changes happened in Norway, Ecuador, and in the American states of California and Connecticut. It was also stated that in European countries of low birth rate, the same sex families are inevitably identified as one of demographically valuable source of creating and raising children, which is worthy to be supported, rather than being hindered without reason and discriminated. Although different than a model of heterosexual family, same sex partnerships neither are harrowing to traditional family values, nor reflex of any kind of promiscuous, antisocial behavior, avoidance of parenthood, and negation of family. Quite opposite, these families are an outcome of endeavors of homosexuals not to be deprived of family, parenthood and all of other values of stabile, monogamous, emotional/sexual socially accepted and legally recognized and regulated conventional family. .

Testing a Typology of Adaptations to Same-Sex Sexual Orientation among Men

2011 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 619-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald C. Barrett ◽  
Lance M. Pollack
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
Criterion Validity ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Sexual Expression ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Sexual Exploration

Previous research has yielded important understandings of how sexual minorities adjust to living in a heteronormative culture, but scholarly critiques of assimilation and Merton's research on adaptations to deviance suggest value in examining whether there are distinct types of adaptation. Applying Merton's definition of adaptations in anomic environments suggests that different patterns can be defined depending on the importance placed on assimilation and on sexual expression. Using the 1997 Urban Men's Health Study data (n=2,585), four different adaptation patterns are defined: MSM conformist, MSM innovator, MSM nonconformist, and MSM uninvolved. To establish criterion validity, expected correlates of membership in each group are then examined. The distinct groups, each representing from 20 percent to 30 percent of the sample, largely conformed to expectations on measures of sexual self-identification, involvement in gay culture, intimacy and sexual exploration, health, and income. Scholarly and policy implications of the adaptation typology are considered.

scholarly journals Discrimination and Violence Due to Diversity of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: Explanatory Variables

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 3638
Author(s):  
Fernández-Antelo Inmaculada ◽  
Cuadrado-Gordillo Isabel
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Young People ◽  
Moral Disengagement ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Different Types ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Predictive Indicators

Knowledge of the processes of aggression and victimization in couple relationships cannot be approached through the treatment of single variables. It needs a multidimensional perspective that establishes a web of relationships between variables of different types. The objectives of the present study were: (i) to explore the interrelationships between and interdependence of empathy, moral disengagement, homophobic attitudes, and prejudice as explanatory variables of discrimination and violence towards couples due to gender issues; and (ii) to delimit predictive indicators of the manifestation of aggressive attitudes and prejudices towards homosexual couples. The sample comprised 778 young people of ages 18 to 24 years (M = 19.9; SD = 1.6). Through the use of four instruments, it was found that empathy is a strong protector against homophobic attitudes, while moral disengagement is a predictor of aggressive attitudes towards same-sex couples. The results make it possible to delimit homophobic profiles and obtain predictive indicators that will be key elements in the design of programs and measures to prevent violence towards couples for reasons of gender.

scholarly journals Differences in the legal regulation of the activities of sexual minorities in Europe and Russia

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-273
Author(s):  
M. Makhmutova ◽  
A. Cherenkov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Inheritance Law ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
The Usa

This article provides a comparative analysis of the situation of sexual minorities and their legal rights in Europe, the USA and Russia, as well as their differences, and the attitude of society to people of non-traditional orientation. In addition, the article considered the main problem of modern society is the inability of people to perceive non-traditional relations in military service, in employment at work and much more. Even many liberal countries still do not fully approve of this kind of relationship. Many same-sex couples are prohibited from adopting children, and there are real problems in the field of inheritance law. The article addressed the problem of discrimination of these relations in Russia. This article also examined court practice regarding the underreporting of the rights of sexual minorities.

MASCULINITY–FEMININITY PREDICTS SEXUAL ORIENTATION IN MEN BUT NOT IN WOMEN

2006 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 797-809 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. RICHARD UDRY ◽  
KIM CHANTALA
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Classical Method ◽  
Add Health ◽  
Adolescent Females ◽  
Sex Partners ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Nationally Representative

Using the nationally representative sample of about 15,000 Add Health respondents in Wave III, the hypothesis is tested that masculinity–femininity in adolescence is correlated with sexual orientation 5 years later and 6 years later: that is, that for adolescent males in 1995 and again in 1996, more feminine males have a higher probability of self-identifying as homosexuals in 2001–02. It is predicted that for adolescent females in 1995 and 1996, more masculine females have a higher probability of self-identifying as homosexuals in 2001–02. Masculinity–femininity is measured by the classical method used by Terman & Miles. For both time periods, the hypothesis was strongly confirmed for males: the more feminine males had several times the probability of being attracted to same-sex partners, several times the probability of having same-sex partners, and several times the probability of self-identifying as homosexuals, compared with more masculine males. For females, no relationship was found at either time period between masculinity and sex of preference. The biological mechanism underlying homosexuality may be different for males and females.

scholarly journals The Importance of Participation of Young Athletes in Youth Sports Competitions in the City of Zadar

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 1648-1651
Author(s):  
Josip Miocic ◽  
Luka Androja ◽  
Luka Hoti
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Youth Sports ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Free Time ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Young Athletes ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
The City

In modern society, there is an increasing need to organize and fill the free time of children and young people. Observing and comparing the previous research on the free time of children and young people, it is evident that physical activity determined through sports is insufficiently practiced in the free time of children and young people. Youth sports games in the City of Zadar and Zadar County have been organized and held for many years, so they have proven to be promoters of a healthy lifestyle for children and youth. For the purposes of research and examination of respondents' satisfaction with the role and status of youth sports games in the City of Zadar and Zadar County, a survey method was used, where the sample consists of 467 participants in youth sports games, aged 12 to 18 for 2019 from the City Zadar and Zadar County. The aim of the research was to determine the degree of significance of youth sports competitions for participants and to directly determine the degree of socialization of that population caused by participation in competitions. According to the results of the research, it was determined that youth sports competitions are important for the participants, whose socialization in society has improved in accordance with the mentioned activity.

Austrian Constitutional Court Somewhere under the Rainbow: Marriage Equality and the Role of the Austrian Constitutional Court

ICL Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-231
Author(s):  
Christa Pail
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Sex Partners ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Registered Partnership

Abstract In 2010, Austria introduced the Registered Partnership as the only form of legal recognition for same-sex couples while marriage is limited to heterosexual couples. In a recent judgment, the Austrian Constitutional Court decided this limitation to be unconstitutional. Due to numerous legal changes in the last years, the legal framework governing registered partnerships and marriage became nearly identical. By upholding different terms for the same kind of relationship, same-sex partners are presented unequal to different-sex couples and forced to show their sexual orientation even in situations where sexual orientation should be irrelevant. This puts them at risk of discrimination. The Court considers this as a violation of the principle of equality.

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