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What does social science research tell us about homosexuality? Does this knowledge affect public policy? Despite scholarly research, homosexuality continues to be the subject of an intense, and often bitter, debate. This volume summarizes academic knowledge about homosexuality and its relevance for public policy. Topics addressed include the nature and causes of sexual orientations; the reasons homosexuality is not an illness; the ethics of various mental health approaches to homosexuality; the effects of social and legal discrimination; newer biological and psychological understandings of

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. Birth and Beginnings -- 2. Becoming an Instant Icon -- 3. Historical and Intellectual Context of Tearoom Trade: The 1960s and Washington University -- 4. Published Criticism and Use of Tearoom Trade -- 5. Upward Professional Mobility and Continuing Activism -- 6. The Long (and Rapid) Road Down -- 7. The Legacy of Laud: Politics, Substance, and Professional Ethics -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Laud Humphreys's Vita -- Appendix B: Laud Humphreys's FBI File -- Appendix C: Poster from the Washington University Bulletin Board -- Appendix D: Systematic Observation Sheet -- Appendix E: Data Sources and Methods -- References -- Index.

ObjectiveThis article examines the determinants of perceptions of the United States and of President Obama among global citizens.MethodsThe 2013 Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes surveys covering countries from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, the Americas, and Africa with diverse socioeconomic and religious backgrounds are analyzed by using multilevel estimates.ResultsFindings reveal that attitudes toward homosexuality systematically shape opinions toward the United States and toward Obama's handling of foreign affairs. We also find the significant impact of religious and economic variables on perceptions of the United States and of Obama above and beyond other explanatory variables.ConclusionThis research demonstrates the relevance of cleavages regarding social values. It also contributes to larger debates about sources of anti‐Americanism, and, more generally, about the role of ideology and social values in international relations.

Intro -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Homosexuality and Religion -- Thai Buddhism Has No Clear Teachings on Homosexuality Hakan Jakob KosarThai Buddhism does not have a -- In Israel, Orthodox Rabbis May Allow Some Options for Homosexual MenAnshel PfefferOrthodox rabbis in -- In Israel and the United States, Conservative Synagogues Are Split over Gay RabbisBeth Schwartzapfel -- Islam Is Morally Conflicted About HomosexualityTheReligionofPeace.comIslamic teaching strongly oppos -- The Russian Orthodox Church Is Opposed to HomosexualitySpiegel in an interview with Metropolitan Kyr -- Catholic Spirituality Can Embrace HomosexualitySebastian MooreThe Catholic Church has a tradition of -- The Catholic Church Rejects HomosexualityCourageThe Catholic Church condemns homosexual acts as dama -- In Nigeria, Anglicans Support Imprisonment for HomosexualityFaith J.H. McDonnellThe archbishop of th -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Attitudes Toward Homosexuality -- Homophobia Is Worsening in MalaysiaWalter L. WilliamsIn Malaysia persecution of homosexuals has wors -- In India, Homosexuality Is Treated with Benign NeglectSudhir KakarIn India homosexual acts have trad -- Depictions of Gay Men in Japanese Comics for Women Are Not HomophobicWim LunsingBLB and yaoi manga-J -- IWestern Evangelicals Have Encouraged Homophobia in UgandaJohn MooreThree Evangelical Christians hav -- In Latin America, Homophobia Hinders Anti-AIDS CampaignsUNAIDS Latin American laws do not prosecute -- Chapter 3: Homosexuality and the Law -- A Strong Law Against Homosexuality Is Being Proposed in UgandaAgnes AsiimweChristian and Muslim Ugan -- In Nigeria's Laws Against Homosexuality Violate Human RightsHuman Rights WatchA proposed Nigerian la -- In Iran, Homosexuals Are Not Forced to Become TranssexualsHossein DerakhshanHomosexuals are not forc

In this paper the legal institutional practices whereby refugee statuses are determined is subjected to examination through the vehicle of cases where homosexuality has been the basis of the application for refugee status. What emerges in this article is a narrative of homosexuals being excluded from and eventually included in refugee status in the United Kingdom. This narrative is played out within the discursive context of a particular definition of refugee status, namely, that of being a member of a persecuted social group. It is through the analysis of refugee case law in the United Kingdom and internationally that homosexuality is presented, as providing specific problems for refugee law in terms of whom, and in what circumstances, should be included in the 'social group' category. In this paper it will be demonstrated that homosexual cases are significant in relation to the attempt to overcome 'exclusive definitions' of 'persecuted social groups' in refugee law. This is evident, most particularly in terms of the increasing connection between International Refugee Law and International Human Rights Law in the consideration of the persecution experienced by homosexuals in the cases analysed in the paper.

The article examines the far-right idea of a Jewish-led 'conspiracy of homosexualisation' between the 1970s and the late 1990s. To this end, it primarily scrutinizes the monthly magazine Instauration, edited by Wilmot Robertson. Embedded in a broader narrative that claimed that a Jewish-led regime of 'liberal-minority racism' would discriminate against white people in general and White men in particular, white nationalists and white supremacists such as Robertson imagined sexual politics as an important field of anti-white oppression. In addition to feminism and 'miscegenation', the promotion of 'homosexual rights' and the spread of homosexuality were conceived of as another means of Jews to undermine the white patriarchal family, which white nationalists and supremacists idealized as the backbone of the nation's well-being. Conceiving of homosexuality as a threat to white people and 'white reproduction', white nationalists and white supremacists claimed that the alleged struggle for 'homosexual rights' constituted a strategy used by Jews to maintain their supposed social, cultural and economic power and dominance.

A fascinating exploration of how the law--as viewed and decided by the courts--often embodies fear and prejudice against homosexuality, and thereby, becomes the instrument for discrimination. This valuable book covers a wide range of subjects, illustrating the extent to which the lives of gay persons are touched by these laws and providing a highly critical examination of the response by the American judicial system to our claims for equal protection under the law. Leading law professors and practicing lawyers address the important legal issues and court decisions relevant to male and female h