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Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried couples at a significant disadvantage for obtaining coverage. Data from married and unmarried couples in the Current Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners...
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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 …
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This article looks at the local–global nexus of sexuality and human rights, but moves on to examine social … diversity. Although liberal attitudes towards sex and sexuality run parallel to conservative, homophobic and religious views … influence on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender concerns in other countries. The article examines developments and setbacks to …
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Despite international support for adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and rights (SRHR) (for example, the 1994 International Conference on Population in Development), young people consistently face high levels of unmet need for contraception, unplanned pregnancies, unsafe...
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There is strong consensus in the research literature that adolescent and adult men who report same-sex sexual orientations, identities, and behaviors are at higher risk for suicide. Recent studies of general adolescent suicide risk have identified developmental trajectories that peak during the...
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insufficient attention to diversity of workers (Rank, 2009). As invisible minorities, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT …
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Debates about the diversity of the judiciary in the UK have been dominated by gender, race and ethnicity. Sexuality is … gay bisexual and transgender networks in the legal services sector, with the JAC’s approval, used their questionnaire and … for the first time asked lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lawyers about the perceptions and experiences of barriers …
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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 …
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><i>lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender </i></em>(LGBT) identities as an example, it establishes that identity, as it is lived and …
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