This article addresses the relationship between the New Right and the politics of homosexuality in the United Kingdom …. It begins by outlining recent political conflicts surrounding attempts to equalise the 'gay age of consent' and to repeal … Section 28 of the Local Government Act (1988). The article then examines the New Right's relationship to homosexuality in the …

The current controversies in relation to homosexuality - which emanated from the western quarters but quickly engulfed … citizenship' of lesbian and gay Christians, is generally a western concern. The second issue pertaining to the prospect of the … than that of religious institution/tradition, the traditional religious discourse that marginalizes lesbian and gay …

Intersections between religion and sexuality are coming onto social science agendas. However, this has predominantly … traditionally hostile to lesbian, gay and bi sexualities (LGB). This article extends this by exploring identities and contestations … of sexuality within activities that have variously been described as \'New Age\' or \'spiritual\'. Considering the …

This article aims to extend the theorization of postmodernity to consider social changes in the realm of sexuality. It … frameworks for the analysis of sexuality. It then traces some of the shifts in the organization of sexuality in the second half … relations of sexuality. These queer tendencies are: queer auto-critique, the decentring of heterorelations, the emergence of …

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans populations and lifestyles. I use queer critiques to explore the creation and normalising … categories (mainly lesbian and gay) into being. Using three key research events from a large scale quantitative research study of … variables by examining; the piloting a non-normative gender question, and the re-coding of sexuality categories in the analysis …

This article is concerned with sociological conceptualisations of lesbian and gay sexualities as reflexive forms of … existence, and identifies core problems with these. Our sociological narratives about lesbian and gay reflexivity tend to be … fail to adequately account for the significance of difference and power in shaping diverse lesbian and gay experiences …

This paper highlights some thematic reflections primarily based on two empirical research projects on lesbian, gay, and …

Health researchers engaged in the project of identifying lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) health as a distinct … permeated by class and gender and how racism and heterosexism intersect in the lives of black and minority ethnic gay men and …