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Arts and Letters in Australia and New Zealand
Australian and New Zealand writers such as Frank Sargeson and Patrick White and artists such as Frances Hodgkins and James Gleeson have contributed significantly to the glbtq heritage in literature and the arts.
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Illustration: Image of Frances Hodkins painting Copyright © 2003-2004 Clipart.com. |
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Music: Women's
Women's Music is stylistically diverse and continually evolving. It has broadened over time, but remains committed to lesbian visibility and feminist values.
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Illustration: Photograph of Ani DiFranco by Danny Clin courtesy Righteous Babe Records. |
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American Television Part 2
Openly homosexual personalities such as Nathan Lane, Rosie O'Donnel, Frank Kameny, and RuPaul as well as such closeted figures as Liberace and Paul Lynde have influenced American perceptions of glbtq people.
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Illustration: Ethel Waters. |
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American Television Part 1
In the past, television dramas, news programs, sitcoms, soap operas, and talk shows have treated glbtq issues inadequately or in stereotyped ways, though there have recently been signs of improvement.
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Illustration: Photograph of Margaret Cho by Ausin Young, courtesy Ken Phillips Publicity Group. |
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Education
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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Illustration: Copyright © 2004, Clipart.com. |
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Lesbians and Sports
Lesbians and athletics have been identified with each other since long before the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion alerted mainstream straight America that there was a large queer minority in its midst. Despite that long history, many lesbians in sports continue to face homophobia and other obstacles today.
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Illustration: Babe Didrikson teeing off. |
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Autobiography: Gay Male
In its first century of existence, Gay Male Autobiography has become increasingly open, frank, and unapologetic. Gay autobiography has inspired solidarity because it emphasizes both the uniqueness and the commonalities of the coming out experience, as well as the peculiarities and the mundanities of gay lives.
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Illustration: Image of Edward Carpenter courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. |
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Gordon Babst on the FMA
Political Scientist Gordon Babst argues that the Federal Marriage Amendment savages some of the most treasured principles of the U. S. Constitution.
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Marriage and Family
While glbtq people have formed unions, partnerships, de facto marriages, and many kinds of families for generations, one of the greatest shifts in the history of the family began in the 1990s when queer families began to insist more vocally that they receive the same societal benefits as traditional families.
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Illustration: The "femme-femme" cake topper provided by gayweddings.com was photographed by Pettersen Associates. |
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Cross-Dressers: Female
Female cross-dressers assume male dress for many reasons. Often, lesbian cross-dressing has been a way to claim power in societies that limit the the social mobility of women.
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Illustration: Image of Joan of Arc courtesy Clipart.com. Copyright © 2003-2004 Clipart.com. |
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