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Many
Colleges and
Universities have grown more responsive to glbtq issues during the
last thirty years as a result of the efforts of glbtq students, staff, and
faculty. While the campus climate has improved at many U. S. institutions,
some harassment persists. |
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The
field of
Cultural Studies has significance for
glbtq people because of its concern with social and sexual politics,
its focus on subcultural production and consumption, and its commitment
to progressive social change. |
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Many
Fraternities and Sororities discriminate against openly glbtq
students. Despite that discrimination, glbtq students are involved in
both traditional Greek-letter societies and in gay-oriented
fraternities and sororities. |
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Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Studies are separate but
related fields of cultural inquiry that attempt to establish the
centrality of gender and sexuality within a particular area of
investigation. |
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Gay-straight Alliances are youth-led, school- or
community-based groups designed to assist glbtq students, children from
glbtq families, and heterosexual students who want to be allies of
their glbtq peers. |
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The theory that
Gender Relations
are socially constructed categories of meaning has opened up a number
of new areas in lesbian, gay, and queer studies. |
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The
Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, established by
Alfred
Kinsey in 1947, has pioneered the study of American sexual
behavior. |
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W. Dorr
Legg (1904-1994) was a pioneer in the
American gay rights movement and in
glbtq studies. He won a landmark Supreme Court decision
establishing the right to send homosexual content through the U.S.
mail. |
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PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) is an American
organization of some 460 affiliated chapters and 200,000 members that
works to support glbtq people and their loved ones. |
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Student Organizations have grown from a handful to several
thousand during the last thirty years. Once limited to a few large
universities, glbtq student organizations can be found on nearly all
American college campuses today. |
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M. Carey
Thomas (1857-1935) was one
of the most prominent American educators of the early twentieth
century. She shared her home with another woman while serving as the
second president of the women-only Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. |
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Transgender Issues and hostility toward transgender students,
staff, and faculty were rarely recognized at secondary and
post-secondary institutions prior to the late 1990s. While transgender
people are becoming increasingly visible in educational institutions,
many school officials still do not understand their needs. |
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Women's Studies, an interdisciplinary
academic field that was inaugurated at major universities around 1970,
is now offered at every conceivable type of academic institution
throughout the world. |
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Photo
Credit: Spotlight illustration © 2004, Clipart.com. |
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