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Coming Out For Kids: Recognizing, Respecting, And Representing Lgbtq Youth, Barbara Fedders Mar 2006

Coming Out For Kids: Recognizing, Respecting, And Representing Lgbtq Youth, Barbara Fedders

Nevada Law Journal

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Report Of The Working Group On The Role Of Sex And Sexuality, Working Group On The Role Of Sex And Sexuality Mar 2006

Report Of The Working Group On The Role Of Sex And Sexuality, Working Group On The Role Of Sex And Sexuality

Nevada Law Journal

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Human Rights And Homo-Sectuals: The International Politics Of Sexuality, Religion, And Law, Jeffrey A. Redding Jan 2006

Human Rights And Homo-Sectuals: The International Politics Of Sexuality, Religion, And Law, Jeffrey A. Redding

Northwestern Journal of Human Rights

This article argues that international human rights law does not adequately respect people's plural religious and sexual identities and, moreover, is working to ignore the ways in which both governments and individuals are increasingly reconfiguring "sexual persecution" as "religious persecution." The article uses case-studies from both and to demonstrate not only how state persecution of gays, lesbians, and homosexuals is often steeped in claims of religiosity, but also how increasing numbers of people from around the world are challenging traditional religious practices which denigrate gayness and homosexuality. Thus, when such "homo-sectuals" - to use a neologism - are persecuted, they …


Carmen Nestares's Venus En Buenos Aires: Neocolonialist Cyber-Romance, Virtual Lies, And The Transatlantic Queer , Maite Zubiaurre Jan 2006

Carmen Nestares's Venus En Buenos Aires: Neocolonialist Cyber-Romance, Virtual Lies, And The Transatlantic Queer , Maite Zubiaurre

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Carmen Nestares's novel Venus en Buenos Aires (2001) chronicles a transatlantic lesbian love affair between a Spaniard and an Argentinean that begins in cyber-space and culminates in reality. At first, the novel reads "innocently" as an uncomplicated cyber-romance fiction, but once the romance becomes physical after the lovers meet on Latin American soil, certain unsettling elements arise. Online, the Spanish and Argentinean cultures, supposedly "united" by the same language, seem to intermingle easily and graciously, but offline, they are more conflicted, as the Spanish lover adopts a neocolonialist stance. From a distance she considers Argentina a land of capitalist promise …


Cyberspace And The Cyberdildo: Dislocations In Cenicienta En Chueca , Jill Robbins Jan 2006

Cyberspace And The Cyberdildo: Dislocations In Cenicienta En Chueca , Jill Robbins

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Cenicienta en Chueca (Cinderella in Chueca) is a collection of short stories by Argentine exile María Felicitas Jaime, published by Spanish gay/lesbian press Odisea in 2003, that represent the neocolonial relations between the Americas, Spain, and the European Union in a globalized age. The stories foreground communication technologies—including type, e-mail, chats, and dialects—in order to highlight the discursive nature of sexuality and to reveal the social, ethnic, racial, nationalistic, economic, gendered tensions underlying linguistic exchange. This article focuses on the neocolonial relations between Spain and Latin America in three stories from this collection—"Chateo" (Chat), "Ejecutivas" (Women Executives), and "Cenicienta en …