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Sex, love & homophobia : lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lives /

By: Baird, Vanessa.
Contributor(s): Tutu, Desmond | Perry, Grayson, 1960- | Amnesty International.
Publisher: London : Amnesty International, 2004Description: 152 p. : ill. (plates) ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1873328575; 9781873328576:; 9781873328576.Other title: Sex, love and homophobia [Parallel title].Subject(s): Homophobia | Human rights | Sexual orientationDDC classification: 323.326
Contents:
Introduction --- Glossary --- Against nature; Bisexuality; Clitoridectomies and other cures; Diversity ... and identity; Equality; Faith and fundamentalisms; Gay gene -- and other scientific adventures; Homophobia and its roots; Intersex; Judges ... and the law; Kertbeny and the birth of the 'homosexual'; Love that dare not speak its name; Marriage; Not in our culture; Out; Positive lives; Queer; Rainbow flag; Stonewall; Trans liberation; Untermenschen -- or 'sub-human'; Vegetarian sisterhoods, Mother Clap and other queer histories; We are family; XXYY; Youth; Zapatistas --- Appendices.
Summary: This accessible introductory text explores the complicated and intimate area of human sexuality from a human rights perspective. It describes how lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual people around the world are denied their rights, and discusses why these abuses continue into the 21st century.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 323.326 BAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0077026
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"Foreward by Archbishop Desmond Tutu."--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-147) and index.

Introduction --- Glossary --- Against nature; Bisexuality; Clitoridectomies and other cures; Diversity ... and identity; Equality; Faith and fundamentalisms; Gay gene -- and other scientific adventures; Homophobia and its roots; Intersex; Judges ... and the law; Kertbeny and the birth of the 'homosexual'; Love that dare not speak its name; Marriage; Not in our culture; Out; Positive lives; Queer; Rainbow flag; Stonewall; Trans liberation; Untermenschen -- or 'sub-human'; Vegetarian sisterhoods, Mother Clap and other queer histories; We are family; XXYY; Youth; Zapatistas --- Appendices.

This accessible introductory text explores the complicated and intimate area of human sexuality from a human rights perspective. It describes how lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual people around the world are denied their rights, and discusses why these abuses continue into the 21st century.

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