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The contemporary LGBT movement has transpired into a global phenomenon, fostering an explosion of... more The contemporary LGBT movement has transpired into a global phenomenon, fostering an explosion of social and political organizing in which individuals marginalized on the basis of their sexual identities have mobilized to resist and challenge the oppressive forces of a sexually normative world. While this impressive wave of mobilization for LGBT groups has been motivated by the ferocity of external opposition, internal struggles have consistently yielded divisive and exclusionary politics that have effectively diminished potentialities for transformative change. This exploratory enterprise seeks to understand and assess the strategies of resistance and organizing that are accessed by LGBT groups and individuals, and is aimed at examining the challenges that they are confronted both within and outside of their communities. The project is designed to provide a platform for the participants to share their experiences and opinions as active contributors to the LGBT movement, and is intended to illustrate the breadth and multiplicity of the LGBT experience both globally and locally. The objective is not to contemplate on why LGBT people are oppressed, but rather to discern what strategies they enact in responding to, tolerating or challenging this oppression, and how and why these strategies are developed and deployed.
A dual approach to the education system can potentially eradicate homophobia and transphobia for ... more A dual approach to the education system can potentially eradicate homophobia and transphobia for future generation. The Gay Rights Movement, or what I refer to as the "Queer Liberation Movement", needs to immediately reprioritize its agenda to address the treatment of
The contemporary LGBT movement has transpired into a global phenomenon, fostering an explosion of... more The contemporary LGBT movement has transpired into a global phenomenon, fostering an explosion of social and political organizing in which individuals marginalized on the basis of their sexual identities have mobilized to resist and challenge the oppressive forces of a sexually normative world. While this impressive wave of mobilization for LGBT groups has been motivated by the ferocity of external opposition, internal struggles have consistently yielded divisive and exclusionary politics that have effectively diminished potentialities for transformative change. This exploratory enterprise seeks to understand and assess the strategies of resistance and organizing that are accessed by LGBT groups and individuals, and is aimed at examining the challenges that they are confronted both within and outside of their communities. The project is designed to provide a platform for the participants to share their experiences and opinions as active contributors to the LGBT movement, and is intended to illustrate the breadth and multiplicity of the LGBT experience both globally and locally. The objective is not to contemplate on why LGBT people are oppressed, but rather to discern what strategies they enact in responding to, tolerating or challenging this oppression, and how and why these strategies are developed and deployed.
A dual approach to the education system can potentially eradicate homophobia and transphobia for ... more A dual approach to the education system can potentially eradicate homophobia and transphobia for future generation. The Gay Rights Movement, or what I refer to as the "Queer Liberation Movement", needs to immediately reprioritize its agenda to address the treatment of