Constitutional Rights: Equal Protection

prohibiting any type of governmental action designed to protect lesbians and gay men from discrimination. Th e Court held that a law that imposes such a broad legal disability on a single group, in this case lesbians and gay men, can serve no legitimate state purpose, and the law was found to be invalid.¹¹

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Cass’s Model of Sexual Orientation Identity Formation

• Based on work with Gays and Lesbians in Australia. • Process of movement through stages – combines personal needs with biological (sex drive) and variables such as class and race (Evans, Forney, Guido, Patton, & Renn, 2010). • Not all individuals will progress through all stages.

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Homophobia

homophobia. Though homophobia actively oppresses gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals, it also hurts heterosexuals. Homophobia inhibits the ability of heterosexuals to form close, intimate relationships with members of their own sex, for fear of being perceived as …

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Gay and Lesbian Adoptive Parents: Resources for ...

Gay men and lesbians have always adopted, though in the past they usually hid their sexual orientation. Today, just as they are becoming visible in all other aspects of U.S. society, they are being considered more seriously as potential adoptive parents. This change has been aided by the increase in the number of gay and lesbian biological

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LGBT Issues in Jamaica - Human Rights First

Between 2009 and 2012, the Jamaican Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals, and Gays (J-FLAG) documented 231 reports of discrimination and violence based on gender identity and/or sexual orientation. Discrimination in access to housing, employment, …

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Answers to Your Questions

lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people was widespread throughout much of the 20th century. Public opinion studies over the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s routinely showed that, among large segments of the public, lesbian, gay, and bisexual people were the target of strongly held negative attitudes. More recently, public

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Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge

Enhancing Teaching-Learning Environments in Undergraduate Courses Project, Occasional Report 4 Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: Linkages to Ways of Thinking and Practising within the Disciplines

LGBT Affirmative Therapy

Definitions Ally – a member of a majority group to works to end oppression Asexual – an individual who has no significant interest in sexual activity Bisexual – an individual who is attracted to men and women Cisgender – a person who’s gender identity is in line with the gender