Improving the Position of Lesbians and Gay Men at Work in the Light of the Framework Directive For Equal Treatment in Employment : A German Case-Study

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Equal Treatment

Improving the Position of Lesbians and Gay Men at Work in the Light of the Framework Directive for Equal Treatment in Employment: A German Case-Study

2000 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 425-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Skidmore
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Citizenship ◽  
Council Of Ministers ◽  
Treaty Of Amsterdam

The Framework Directive for equal treatment in employment adopted in November 2000 by the Council of Ministers marks an important event for the millions of lesbians and gay men within the European Union. It follows hard on the heels of the successful lobbying to have “sexual orientation” included within an anti-discrimination article inserted into the Community treaties by the Treaty of Amsterdam, as part of the development of European citizenship.

Improving the Position of Lesbians and Gay Men at Work in the Light of the Framework Directive for Equal Treatment in Employment: A German Case-Study

2000 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 425-455
Author(s):  
Paul Skidmore
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Citizenship ◽  
Council Of Ministers ◽  
Treaty Of Amsterdam

The Framework Directive for equal treatment in employment adopted in November 2000 by the Council of Ministers marks an important event for the millions of lesbians and gay men within the European Union. It follows hard on the heels of the successful lobbying to have “sexual orientation” included within an anti-discrimination article inserted into the Community treaties by the Treaty of Amsterdam, as part of the development of European citizenship.

Is Gay Tourism More Than Tourism? A Case Study of Puerto Vallarta, MX

2021 ◽  
pp. 016059762110140
Author(s):  
Emma G. Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Gender And Race ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Gay Community ◽  
Men I ◽  
Oppressed Group ◽  
Normative Standard

The reasons gay men seek out gay travel destinations has been well established in the literature. However, less research has been published on the consequences of that travel on the destinations themselves and the effect of gay tourism on the LGBTQ+ community as a whole. I use ethnographic research in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, a popular international gay tourist destinations for American and Canadian gay men. I focus on how gay destinations are constructed as sites where members of the gay community can experience acceptance and inclusion and I ask the following questions, is this acceptance and inclusion dependent upon consumption? Are the tourist site and expectations for behavior in those sites oppressively normal? That is, does the site create a normative standard of behavior for gay tourists? Furthermore, while gay tourists may experience inclusion and a level of acceptance, how does gay tourism affect the destination site itself? Is this acceptance and inclusion problematized by larger systems of inequality such as class, gender, and race? Lastly, as members of a historically oppressed group, does and should gay tourism rise above its commodification to produce just, equitable relationships within and beyond the LGBTQ+ community including the environment?

scholarly journals Antiviral Marketing: The Informationalization of HIV Prevention

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret MacAulay
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Virus De L’Immunodéficience Humaine

Background Leveraging the affordances of technology to enhance human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention efforts has become an increasing public health priority. Grounded in a case study examining the role of networked information technologies in reshaping the HIV prevention landscape for gay men in San Francisco and Vancouver, this article proposes that HIV prevention has become informationalized. Analysis  The informationalization of HIV prevention is a convergent and participatory process where networked information technologies not only mediate but also produce HIV risk subjectivities, discourses, and practices in ambivalent ways.Conclusion and implications  This article argues that although informationalization creates many important opportunities to revitalize HIV prevention, the binary logic of data and code can unwittingly reproduce hierarchies of guilt/innocence and perpetrator/victim that pose challenges for community-based HIV advocacy efforts.Contexte  L’utilisation des dernières technologies pour contrer le virus de l’immunodéficience humaine (VIH) est devenue de plus en plus prioritaire en santé publique. Cet article se fonde sur une étude de cas portant sur comment les technologies de l’information en réseau ont modifié la prévention du VIH parmi les hommes gais à San Francisco et Vancouver. L’étude suggère que dans ces circonstances la prévention du VIH est devenue informationnalisée. Analyse  Cette informationnalisation est un processus convergent et participatif où les réseaux informationnels ne font pas que transmettre les subjectivités, pratiques et discours relatifs au risque du VIH mais aussi produisent ceux-ci de manières ambivalentes.Conclusions et implications  Cet article soutient que, bien que l’informationnalisation crée de nombreuses occasions pour améliorer la prévention du VIH, la logique binaire de « données » et « codes » peut par inadvertance reproduire certaines hiérarchies (culpabilité/innocence, agresseur/victime) qui entravent les efforts de la communauté pour prévenir le VIH.

“Lord of a Hawaiian Island”

2012 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 396-427
Author(s):  
Nicholas L. Syrett
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
White Male ◽  
Hawaiian Island ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
Male Couple ◽  
Western Imperialism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mary Louise Pratt ◽  
The 1960S

This case study of a white male couple (Robert and John Gregg Allerton) on Kaua‘i from the 1930s through the 1960s investigates how their colonization of the island has tended to be erased in accounts that highlight both the supposed acceptance of their homosexuality by the island’s residents and, in turn, the couple’s generous philanthropy. Set against this narrative of what Mary Louise Pratt has called “anti-conquest,” I demonstrate that the Allertons’ lives on Kaua‘i were actually more in keeping with the history of western imperialism than most accounts acknowledge, emphasizing also their own innovative strategies toward making the island their own. The article examines both the specifics of the Allertons’ colonizing of Kaua‘i and, more importantly, how imperialism can be misremembered when the colonizers were queer, connecting that narrative obfuscation to myths about acceptance of gay men in Hawai‘i that live on today.

The Case for the Constitutionalisation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCRs) in Botswana

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Botlhale
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Cultural Goods ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Civil And Political Rights

Abstract This paper argues that there is no hierarchy in the importance attached to the different categories of human rights. Hence, Civil and Political Rights (CPRs) and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ESCRs) are both human rights and must be placed on the same pedestal. In a democracy, it is imperative that all rights be accorded equal treatment. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether Botswana accords equal treatment to the two categories of human rights. Using a case study approach, the paper concludes that while the Constitution of Botswana provides for CPRs, ESCRs are absent from this instrument. Consequently, the provision of economic, social, and cultural goods is policy-based. The paper argues that this raises accountability and justiciability challenges because the state cannot be sanctioned for failing to provide non-rights. It recommends the constitutionalisation of ESCRs to maximise the accountability and justiciability of ESCRs.

scholarly journals Logics of Freedom: Debating Religious Freedom Laws and Gay and Lesbian Rights

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 237802311876041 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Kazyak ◽  
Kelsy Burke ◽  
Mathew Stange
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Mixed Methods Case Study ◽  
American Values ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Levels Of Support

In the wake of marriage equality for same-sex couples, many states have introduced and passed laws that provide religious exemptions for certain services and benefits for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) persons. The authors use data from a general population survey of Nebraskans as a mixed-methods case study to examine public opinion of religious freedom laws. Drawing on data from both closed-ended ( n = 1,117) and open-ended ( n = 838) questions, the authors show that opposition to religious freedom laws is quite high, as 64 percent of respondents report that they oppose laws that would allow business owners to deny services to gay men and lesbians. The authors outline how both sides rely on frameworks that are foundational to the American experience: the protection of rights and the capitalist economy. The authors argue that these appeals to broad American values underscore why these bills will continue to be introduced and seen as controversial despite low levels of support.

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