scholarly journals Queering the Nigerian Cinema and Politics of Gay Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah
Keyword(s):  
Raw Material ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Critical Dimensions ◽  
Home Videos ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
Political Activist ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Gays And Lesbians ◽  
Gay Culture ◽  
Nigerian Film

The advocacy for gayism and lesbianism in Nigeria is informed by transnational cultural processes, transculturalism, interculturalism, multiculturalism and globalisation. Although critical dimensions on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) are becoming recurrent subjects in Nigerian scholarship, scholarly works on LGBT, sexual identity and Nigerian cinema remain scarce. Perhaps, this is because of indigenous Nigerian cultural processes. While Chimamanda Adichie, a Nigerian novelist cum socio-political activist, campaigns against marginalisation and subjugation of gays and lesbians and for their integration into the Nigerian cultural system, numerous African socio-cultural and political activists hold a view that is dialectical to Adichie’s. The position of the members of the anti-gay group was further strengthened with the institution of stringent laws against gay practice in Nigeria by the President Goodluck Jonathan led government in 2014. In recent times, the gay, bisexual, transgender and lesbian cultures have been a source of raw material for filmmakers. Some of the thematic preoccupations of films have bordered on questions such as: what does it mean to be gay? Why are gays marginalised? Are gays socially constructed? What is the future of the advocacy for gay and lesbian liberation in Nigeria? Although most Nigerian film narratives are destructive critiques of the gay culture, the purpose of this research is not to cast aspersion on the moral dimension of LGBT. Rather, I argue that films on LGBT create spaces and maps for a critical exploration of the gay question. While the paper investigates the politics of gay culture in Nigerian cinema, I also posit that gays and lesbians are socio-culturally rather than biologically constructed. This research adopts literary and content analysis methods to engage Moses Ebere’s Men in Love with reference to other home videos on the gay and lesbian motifs.

“Unity in Diversity”

Pride Parades ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine McFarland Bruce
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
Gays And Lesbians

Chapter Two investigates the expansive success of Pride celebrations following the initial events of 1970. After introducing the new and exciting Pride events, the phenomenon grew in size and crystallized in form within the next decade. As more and more people participated in their events, Pride organizers in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago balanced the interests of activists, entertainers, businesses, and unaffiliated gays and lesbians. Seeing successful Pride marches in these cities, community leaders in Boston, Atlanta, San Francisco, San Diego, Dallas, and Detroit held their own events. As the phenomenon grew, organizers and participants faced questions over representation, commercial influence, and frivolity that are still debated today. In this chapter, the author describes how Pride established itself in its early years as an annual parade promoting visibility and acceptance of the gay and lesbian (and later bisexual and transgender) community.

Challenging Respectability: Student Health Directors Providing Services to Lesbian and Gay Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

2018 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-44
Author(s):  
Thai-Huy Nguyen ◽  
AndrÉs Castro Samayoa ◽  
Marybeth Gasman ◽  
Steve Mobley
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Student Health ◽  
Extensive Discussion ◽  
Transgender Students ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender

Background Researchers have tended to favor scholarship that looks at institutional forms of support for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students in the context of resource centers specifically tailored to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students. Our study makes two distinct contributions to the study of gay and lesbian students of color: (1) We move away from resource centers as a focal point of support for students and attempt to explore the role of student health at 11 HBCUs; and (2) We draw attention to the ways in which health administrators challenge the influence of respectability to promote the delivery of healthcare that is attuned to the needs and experiences of sexual minorities, thereby providing evidence that pushes back against dominant narratives that reinforce HBCUs as homogenous communities of conservatism and homophobia. Research Question This study seeks to answer the following questions: (1) How do student health directors at HBCUs promote policies and practices that are attuned to the health of their gay and lesbian students? and (2) What conditions are developed to cultivate a student health center that not only addresses students’ physical health, but is also “in a position to reaffirm these students”? Participants Eleven student health directors at 4-year private and public HBCUs. Research Design The inquiry is situated within the tradition of narrative analyses. Semistructured interviews were conducted with our participants. Data Collection and Analysis We structured each interview around six broad open-ended questions that offered opportunities for us to tease out unique areas of tension during the interview and to “lead the respondent on a journey, to a frame of mind from which she will understand our ‘big’ questions.” These questions included perceptions of challenges and successes of campus inclusiveness for sexual minority students, clinical services, sensitivity training for staff, and the presence of same gender loving brochures and messaging. Findings Our data offers a narrative that illuminates the forces that shape the challenges and opportunities for student health directors (SHDs) to engender change within and outside student health centers and how that ultimately affects the provision of health services to gay and lesbian students. More importantly, it showcases how efforts are made to challenge the influence of respectability to ensure student health and well-being. The findings are organized under the following themes: (a) building trust, (b) partnerships, (c) resistance, and (d) envisioning next steps. Conclusions We provide an extensive discussion in how student health directors manage the challenges associated with dominant institutional ideologies, as well as critical implications for future research and practice.

scholarly journals The polity debate regarding gay and lesbian ordination and/or installation in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roch� F. Vermaak
Keyword(s):  
Formation Process ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
Gays And Lesbians

The paper summarises the formation process of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)�s (PC(USA)) polity regarding the ordination and/or installation of partnered gays and lesbians as officers, i.e. deacons, elders and ministers of the Word and Sacrament, in light of General Assemblies� decisions and General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commissions� ecclesiastical rulings since the 1970's.

scholarly journals How does being out at work relate to discrimination and unemployment of gays and lesbians?

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karel Fric
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Logistic Regression Model ◽  
Perceived Discrimination ◽  
Equation Modelling ◽  
Lower Likelihood ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Gays And Lesbians ◽  
The Eu

Abstract This article empirically investigates the relationships in the workplace between homonegativity, the disclosure of sexual orientation, perceived discrimination, the reporting of discriminatory incidents and an individual’s employment status. I utilize information reported by gays and lesbians in the EU lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) survey. The data was analysed using generalised structural equation modelling and the logistic regression model. The results indicate that gays and lesbians conceal their sexual orientation more in hostile workplaces. A higher level of concealment is linked with an increased perception of discrimination and with a lower likelihood of reporting discriminatory incidents. Perceived discrimination and (unlike hypothesised) also concealment of sexual orientation positively relate to the probability of being unemployed. This implies a vicious circle in which hostile attitudes force gay employees to conceal their sexuality which in turn limits their ability to confront discriminatory behaviour.

Tapping Deeper Roots: Integrating the Spiritual Dimension into Professional Practice with Lesbian and Gay Clients

1994 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. McNeill
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Spiritual Leadership ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Gays And Lesbians ◽  
The Way

Endeavors to answer how psychotherapists and counselors can help lesbian and gay clients tap into their own spiritual depths and how therapists and counselors can make their own spiritual life available as a healing resource for clients. Sketches the history of gays and lesbians and notes their contributions in the area of spiritual leadership. Identifies some of the difficult theological and ecclesiological forces which frequently stand in the way of authentic expressions of gay and lesbian growth in spiritual matters, and indicates ways in which the spiritual life of a counselor may represent a key factor in allowing the spirit to grow in the lives of gay and lesbians persons.

Financial Management and Charitable Giving in Gay and Lesbian Households

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 836-855 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth J. Dale
Keyword(s):  
Financial Management ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Charitable Behavior ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
And Bisexual

To date, most charitable giving research assumes that all households are heterosexual and that couples make giving decisions from joint financial resources. This study examines household financial management and charitable decision making among a purposeful sample of 19 gay and lesbian couples. Semistructured joint interviews were conducted and analyzed using grounded theory techniques. The study finds that same-sex couples practice financial management systems that preserve independence (independent and partial-pooling systems), in contrast to different-sex couples, who favor joint management. These systems yield more accounts from which charitable giving can occur. Same-sex couples’ giving does not always follow the household’s financial management structure, and many couples give both jointly and separately. Finally, some same-sex couples use their giving as a way to give lesbian, gay, and bisexual people visibility and recognition as supporters of mainstream (non-LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender]) organizations. Future research should consider both sexual orientation and financial management practices in understanding charitable behavior.

Resisting the Silence: The Use of Tolerance and Equality Arguments by Gay and Lesbian Activist Groups in Russia 1

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (03) ◽  
pp. 403-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Kondakov
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
The State ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Original Research ◽  
The Law ◽  
Gays And Lesbians ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Activist Groups

Abstract In the new, post-Soviet Russia, some people have been excluded from the possibility of possessing human rights based on different identity claims. Lesbians and gay men are among those who are excluded. Though in some states the mechanism of this is manifestly inscribed in the law, in Russia the mechanism is hidden in the field of silence: the field of discourse on homosexuality is full of lacunas. While the most productive speakers are certainly LGBT activists, the most passive ones are the state officials. These forces come into discursive play where rights are at stake. The purpose of this paper, based on original research on the emerging activism of gays and lesbians in Russia, is to uncover the regulative features of silence in the Russian discourse on homosexuality.

scholarly journals The spectre of the thing: The construction of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Holocaust memorial

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-40
Author(s):  
Martin Kerby ◽  
◽  
Malcom Bywaters ◽  
Margaret Baguley ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Public Meetings ◽  
Holocaust Memorial ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Gays And Lesbians ◽  
Western Side ◽  
Planning And Construction ◽  
Sydney Australia ◽  
Jewish Museum

The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Holocaust Memorial is situated on the western side of Green Park in Darlinghurst, in Sydney, Australia. Darlinghurst is considered the heart of Sydney's gay and lesbian population, having been the site of demonstrations, public meetings, Gay Fair Days, and the starting point for the AIDS Memorial Candlelight Rally. It is also very close to both the Sydney Jewish Museum and the Jewish War Memorial. The planning and construction of the Memorial between 1991 and 2001 was a process framed by two competing imperatives. Balancing the commemoration of a subset of victims of the Holocaust with a positioning of the event as a universal symbol of the continuing persecution of gays and lesbians was a challenge that came to define the ten year struggle to have the memorial built.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Gay and Lesbian Movement in Indonesia and America for the Struggle of Equality Recognition

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aprilina Pawestri ◽  
Supanto Supanto ◽  
Isharyanto Isharyanto
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Gay Liberation ◽  
Supreme Court Ruling ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
United State ◽  
Gays And Lesbians

Abstract:Studies of sexual orientation or sexual behavior in homosexual groups have been carried out from various aspects, such as religion, health, psychology, philosophy, anthropology or law. This paper aims both on conducting studies of sexual orientation in gays and lesbians, and also in its movement. This study focuses on the comparison by discussing the history of the entry of gays and lesbians in America first. United State has made a policy with the granting of same-sex marriage rights through the 2015 Obergefell Supreme Court ruling; hence, the rejection of same-sex marriage was unconstitutional action. Churches also dare to facilitate the process of same-sex marriage, by reason of following state decisions. The LGBT movement especially gays as a pioneer called the Gay Liberation Movement has a strong influence in America in fighting for equality, and has a big contribution to the granting of the right to same-sex marriage. This right is also supplemented by adoption rights. If this condition is compared to Indonesia which has lots of similar movement and becomes one of the biggest movements in Southeast Asia, in contrast, the majority of people reject the status. Meannwhile, gays and lesbians demand on the basis of human rights protection. Related to this condition, Indonesia has different views on human rights values. Human rights have universal principles, yet the actualization of human rights can be particular. Indonesia could be like America, if there are no regulations and restrictions on gay and lesbian individuals with differences in their sexual orientation, including the and lesbian movements.Keywords: Movement, Gay, Lesbian, United State, Equality Recognition

scholarly journals FOLKLORE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON HOMOPHOBIC BEHAVIOUR IN THE ZULU CULTURE: A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF UMAMBA KAMAQUBA

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
N Masuku
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
African Society ◽  
Social Discrimination ◽  
South African Society ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Gays And Lesbians

This article argues that South African society is not receptive to gays and lesbians although South Africa is regarded as the country that has the most liberal constitution, especially when it comes to gay and lesbian rights. The rejection could be ascribed to various factors such as the socialisation of individuals. Young boys and girls are raised to understand that their destiny is to get married and bear children. In Zulu society, unmarried people are stigmatised by name-calling. There is a lot of research that has been undertaken on homosexuality and lesbianism. Mkasi (2013) discussed homosexuality amongst izangoma. Ngcobo (2007) undertook this study to describe the difficulties faced by homosexual students, their perception and understanding of social discrimination. The socio-cultural theory has been applied to re-enforce the argument. This research article highlights the argument that folklore in the form of folktales are used as a conduit to socialise the growing mind to accept that everyone is destined to marry and bear children. Anybody who deviates from this set of norms should be ostracised and punished.  Such deep-rooted perceptions contribute to homophobia and violence against gays and lesbians. 

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