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- Creator:
- Padmanabhan, Chitra Vijay
- Description:
- This ethnographical research is geared towards understanding the lived experiences of South Asian LGB persons, residing in the United States. The thesis proposes that a strong LGBT cultural competency framework is needed to overcome challenges faced by South Asian sexual minorities. With this idea, the research delves into core aspects of South Asian culture using Geert Hoefstede’s cultural taxonomy. Also, the paper engages in in- depth identity construction of South Asians from macro, meso and micro factors. The scope of the research also includes immigration, group dynamics of South Asian diaspora and individual-level standpoint in ethnic South Asian social spaces. To achieve this the study, uses Harry Wolcott ethnographical methodology for data collection and analysis. Finally, the research sums-up on all cultural factors that affect integration of South Asian LGB persons into mainstream society as well as in-group South Asian circles. The larger aim is to bridge the gap in cross-cultural study, which is deeply rooted in western traditions of thinking.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- East Bay
- Creator:
- Noh, Miguel
- Description:
- A compilation of poems, The Deviant and the Divine is an explorative piece from a single, queer speaker scrutinizing the relationship between Catholicism and self-identity. Being born and raised int the Catholic Church condemning homosexuality, the speaker continuously questions the role of God in his life while struggling to bridge his identity as part religious and part gay. The speaker's deep childhood involvement within the church informs the poetry pieces, as they develop from an arduous past into a state of self-spirituality. There's continuous friction between sexual indulgence and holy scriptures; the work challenges how God can be perceived through the lens of a devout Catholic whose queer community is often marginalized. Although the wok investigates if a male can identify as gay and Catholic, it also sheds light into divinity and investigates the flaws within it. It is not a collection showcasing the hypocrisy, pitfalls, or weaknesses of Catholicism, but coming to terms with how the divine and the church are accessible because they are flawed. The speaker continuously searches for weaknesses within scriptures, within teachings, and within believes, and expands or correlates them to previous experiences drawing a comparison that aberrant natures and divinity are closer than previously thought. While thematically align, this exploration of experimental poems also focuses on form and how such forms relate to the individual poetic pieces. There are various physical structure found throughout the collection, and each structure is in consequence of the individual themes within the poem. The collection suggest that the form of the poem is important to create more meaning than just the written text, and adds another layer of context allowing readers to decipher such meaning as they see fit. While form is not the main driving force of the poetry, it does inform on the communicative property between poem and reader, where the poem can give more context through its formation. Just as Catholics ingest the body of Christ to be one with the church, so too the poems offer their body as a consumable for the reader to interact closely with the collection as a whole.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Zapata, Abraham
- Description:
- The idea for the play Borracho: Spanish for Drunken Bum was sparked by a promotional image of the 2018 Broadway revival of Mart Crowley's play The Boys in the Band. In this image, seven White men stood next to one Black man and one Puerto Rican man. The addition of the Puerto Rican actor was meant to be the big 2018 update that would give a small modernization to a play written in the 1970s. While this needed addition gave a Puerto Rican actor an opportunity to be on Broadway, the framework that these men of color existed in was still from a gay White male point of view. The importance of Boys was that the work came out before the AIDS crisis and gave a snapshot into the lives of gay men during the 70s and did not steer away from issues of alcoholism, body image, and self-loathing. For Borracho, I wanted to create a modern-day snapshot into 2019 dealing with issues of Queer Latinx men ranging from machismo, colorism, and the restrictions of a binary that reduces gay men into masculine and feminine. Synopsis: Miguel invites a select group of friends, including an old high school crush, over for his friend Gerardo's 35th birthday. His plans for the night are quickly derailed as the alcohol flows, surprise visitors show up, and secrets revealed. The group must then face their unresolved issues surrounding race, sexuality, and feelings towards one another.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Madrigal, Tanyx
- Description:
- Purpose: This study seeks to evaluate LGBTQ training initiatives' effectiveness in improving LGBTQ competency pre and post training. Methods: Convenience sampling was used as the researcher depends on the data that was obtained from Penny Lane. Sample size was 73. Results were analyzed with SPSS t-test to compare pre- and post-test scores. Results: Based off the findings illustrated in the tables, there are some indications that the sub sections of the QYCC scale are heavily correlated with the overall QYCC competency scores and correlated with training competency as well. Certain questions that asked participants to take a more active role in fighting bias and being an ally to the LGBTQ community as well as the allyship actions subscores yielded significant results post training. Discussion and Implications: QYCC subsections were heavily correlated with the overall QYCC competency scores and training competency. This serves as further validation that this training may influence LGBTQ competency because the higher training score, the higher the QYCC score and suggests that trainings do improve LGBTQ competency. The specific questions that yielded significance highlight a need for more action-oriented accepting behaviors, addressing homophobia and heteronormativity, being an ally to the community.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Social Work
- Creator:
- Weaver, Douglas
- Description:
- Qonvicts, Queers and Qripples is a collection of short stories that explores not simply the underclass of American society, but people who find themselves at the extreme margins of the underclass: They are all part of the LGBTQ community, they're all drug addicts, most have AIDS. They are also, to varying degrees, members of the criminal class of citizen. The stories in this collection, instead of furnishing meaning from utilizing a traditional linear, character-driven cause-and-effect sense of narrative, Qonvicts, Queers and Qripples relies instead on techniques that include a focus on voice and a spiraling digression - or a deferral of meaning -- to ultimately provide, through ambiguity and suggestion, what meaning there is to be found.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Cervantes, Paola
- Description:
- Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine how sexual orientation/gender identity related to perceptions of school-based sex education in high school within the United States. Methods: Researcher conducted and online survey questionnaire that contained sixty-nine questions that measured perceptions of sex education within public high schools in the United States, and opinions about school-based sex education. Results: The study consisted of 111 participants, with participants identifying as Heterosexual adults (n=87), and LGBQ (n=24). The study intended to also look into gender identity with Woman (n=103), Man (n=7), and Non-binary (n=1). Discussion: School-based sex education in high schools in the United States has shown to be inadequate for both Heterosexual adults and LGB adults. Sex education further excludes content of LGBQ people, which further stigmatizes Queer identities. These results can help aid how sex education can improve in the United States to further educate students regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Social Work
- Creator:
- Apodaca, Sophia
- Description:
- Woman, Mexican, queer. Everything is connected by a thread. There are endless beginnings and ends to a story, to an identity. I have to accept that I only know the beginnings I have lived and the ones I have been told. The ones before I was born. My mother tells me that our story begins differently than hers. Our story begins in 1980-something. When my mother was living in Sonora, Mexico. 20-something years old. Living with her parents. A two bedroom, one bath house. Concrete walls and floors throughout, except for in the bathroom where the floor was made up of broken tile pieces. Pieces construction workers across the street had labeled as trash. After my grandmother mentioned she wanted a bathroom like the one in her favorite telenovela, my mother began to gather the tile. She doesn’t know it, but for that moment she was a lesbian. 1992 I’m listening to Franklin is Lost on my walkman. I memorize each word, each page turn. I promised my mom I would learn on my own. I learned to tie my grandfather's shoes before breakfast. It took me an hour to pull the bunny through the loop. On the concrete front yard of my grandparents’ house, I stand with my head between the bars I'm not allowed to cross. Around the corner store a herd of wild balloons carry my mother home.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- McMahon-Brlansky, Liza
- Description:
- This document seeks to encourage the development of allies to the LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning/queer and intersexed) community as they are accessing social services. Content analysis was used to demonstrate the applicability of a commonly used ally development model and how it may be utilized within the context of a social work agency to increase professionalism and care of LGBTQI individuals accessing services, with a focus on mental health services. Seven LGBTQI identified persons with experiences accessing mental health services were analyzed for themes and coded according to the predetermined ally development model. This model was subsequently expanded on and suggestions were made for improvements in working with these clients. Based on the results of the content analyzed it is evident that there is a need for social workers and service providers to identify as allies to the LGBTQI community and also to act to continue their own education in this respect.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Social Work
- Creator:
- Trochtenberg, Rochelle E.
- Description:
- The purpose of this project was to build community capacity by enhancing the leadership of a core team of people from the LGBTQ community, to engage in a participatory process that culminated in the creation of an intention statement that communicates the group’s process and long-term goal. This project used a participatory change framework to enhance the ability of the Humboldt Grassroots LGBTQ Planning Group to engage in community capacity building to meet their long-term goal of creating a sustainable multi-use LGBTQ Community Center. This community project design was developed out extensive discussions and co-learning with the members of the core leadership group and informed by a transformative paradigm strongly rooted in participatory action, leadership development, and use of community organizing and popular education techniques.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Social Work
- Creator:
- Kooy, Rachel E.
- Description:
- Beginning in the late 1980s, after Transsexualism was added to the DSM-III, research on issues relating to trans persons (a term that encompasses people who identify as transgendered, transsexual, or as any other significant form of deviation from gender norms) is still relatively new. However, over the past few decades researchers have found that trans persons are at a higher risk for abuse and alienation from the public, including physical and verbal victimization, as well as sexual assault (Clements-Nolle, Marx, & Katz, 2006; Lombardi, 2001; Denny, Green, & Cole, 2007). The current study aimed to measure attitudes towards trans persons and discover possible safeguards against transphobia and discrimination. Using 126 Humboldt State University students, the current study examined attitudes toward trans persons using the Transphobia Scale and Attitudes Toward Transsexualism National Survey. (Landen & Innala, 2000; Nagoshi, Adams, Terrell, Hill, Brzuzy, & Nagoshi, 2008). Unlike previous research using the Transphobia Scale, participants in the study were significantly less transphobic, and men and women did not differ in their levels of transphobia. The current study also showed that having met a trans person, having had a relationship with a trans person, and having had previous contact with a wide variety of trans information sources in the media were associated with lower levels of transphobia. The Attitudes towards Transsexualism National Survey indicated that the majority of participants in the current study and the sample in a national survey in Sweden tended to agree on transsexual issues. Both groups favored giving transsexuals’ the right to change their bodies, names, and identities, the right to get married, and the right to work with children. The results of this survey indicate that trans research may generalize across western countries.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Psychology