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It's Not Just Shopping, Urban Lofts, And The Lesbian Gay-By Boom: How Sexual Orientation Demographics Can Inform Family Courts, Todd Brower
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Courts today are deeply involved in matters involving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered persons. Same-sex marriage, custody disputes, conflict with religious claims and other, more routine family law cases all bring sexual orientation minorities into the judicial system as parties, witnesses, lawyers, or jurors. Like sexuality, gender and gender roles have traditionally and significantly influenced these issues. Nevertheless, judges and the legal system often have little factual information about the lesbians and gay men who appear in their courtrooms, instead relying on stereotypes of gay persons. Such reliance fails to see the real people currently present in family courts and …
Social Cognition 'At Work:' Schema Theory And Lesbian And Gay Identity In Title Vii, Todd Brower
Social Cognition 'At Work:' Schema Theory And Lesbian And Gay Identity In Title Vii, Todd Brower
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Lesbians and gay men are frequent subjects for modern news, politics, and court opinions. From marriage for same-sex couples to Congressional hearings on the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” regulation, decision-makers are setting policy based on their ideas about how gay people are and how they fit into society. But what are those perceptions and how do they interact with law? We ordinarily think of lesbians and gay men as predominantly childless, urban residents of cities like San Francisco, New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles or as inhabitants of the Northeastern or Pacific Coast states. However, data from the 2000 …