Lesbian activism is a recent phenomenon in Portugal. Due to the country’s specific development pattern, lesbian organisations only began to emerge during the 1990’s, usually as subsidiary of major lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual organisations. They have, nevertheless, roots in past attempts

Group Berlin) organized regular meetings, discus-sions, parties, social events, made films and lobbied the authorities for the recognition of gay and lesbian rights. Its events were attended by up to 200 people, and it attracted the attention of numerous socialist authority figures, including the police

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This paper considers the contexts and motivations as to why some social work students engage in lesbian and gay rights activism. To explain electoral and protesting modes of activism, this study utilized variables from resource, mobilizing, and framing theories of political participation to explain

Although battles over gay and lesbian rights have appeared prominently in political arenas, scholars have created few empirical studies on gay and lesbian activism. To address this absence, this quantitative study identified factors that inspired greater electoral engagement among gays and lesbians

explore these debates by comparing gay and lesbian activists ’ first experiments in electoral activism in Mexico and Brazil, both occurring in 1982. The different electoral strategies that prevailed in each country drew on the transnational arena in different ways. To explain these differences, I consider

has been used to connote both sexual orien-tation and sexual activity, and it is argued that this dual meaning illus-trates the dominance of patriarchal definitions of women’s sexuality. This article discusses methodologic issues in understanding who is a lesbian and presents various models

of the book’s second part, which zooms in on queer self-representations and the rise and fall of western-style activism which makes up the pivot of the author’s reflections. Instead of a pro-longed commitment to a political movement founded on sexual identity (e.g. a movement for lesbians and gay men), Essig

in conjunction with increased gay and lesbian activism, they are disclosing their sexual orientation to parents at an earlier stage of the family life cycle than their predecessors. Gay and lesbian youths recount stories of ejection from the home, emotional rejection, and family violence as a result of parents

Coleman, E. (1989). The developmental of male prostitution activity among gay and bisexual adolescents. In G.