Sources for Research Topic

1 - American Journal of Community Psychology-Oppression and Discrimination Among LGBT People and Communities: A Challenge for Community Psychology: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) people continue to experience various forms of oppression and discrimination in North America and throughout the world, despite the social, legal, and political advances that have been launched in an attempt to grant LGBT people basic human rights. Even though LGBT people and communities have been actively engaged in community organizing and social action efforts, research on LGBT issues has been noticabley absent within the field of psychology that is clearly focused on community research and action--Comunity Psycology. The psychological and social impact of oppression, rejection, discrimination, harassment, and violence on LGBT people is reviewed, and recent advances in the areas of LGBT health, public policy, and research are detailed. http://www.springerlink.com/content/l411067qmx8016tq/

2 - Outlaws & Inlaws: Your Guide to LGBT Rights, Same-sex Relationships and Canadian Law:

The purpose of this handbook is to provide information on how lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-identified (LGBT) people, and those in same-sex relationships, are affected by the many recent legal and political changes across Canada. Numerous laws, for example, provide both rights and responsibilities to those in same-sex relationships. In recent years, these laws have been changing at a dramatic pace.http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=fAabfIHbDykC&oi=fnd&pg=PP7&dq=LGBT+rights&ots=tbysqA-oAw&sig=OrcjbIKOZKyO2K8H7QzrbkDF-TI#v=onepage&q&f=false

3 - Journal of Law and Policy: The Sex Discimination Argument In Gay Rights Cases: The argument that bars a sexual relationship between two women or two men discriminates on the basis of sex because either partner could have had the same relationship with a person of the opposite sex. Courts considering challenges to marriage laws concluded that marriage was defined to be only for male-female couples, and therefore even a state amendment couldn't undo the prohibition on same-sex marriage. Court cases involving employment discrimination went from discrimination against women or men to anti-gay discrimination. http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/jlawp9&div=35&g_sent=1&collection=journals

4 - Public Opinion Quarterly: Values, Political Knowledge, and Public Opinion about Gay Rights: This article examines how political knowledge has shaped the effects of traditional morality on American public opinion about gay rights. The results suggest that the extent to which political knowledge moderates a valu's effect on opinion can depend on whether public debate provides an unquestionable frame or competing frames for that vallue. In turn, one could frame the implications of this finding for democratic politics in more than one way. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/content/67/2/173.full.pdf+html

5 - Canadian Journal of Political Science: Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the U.S. and Canada: This journal discusses LGBT studies and comparative politics. The author explains why Canadians have gone much farther and faster in extending gay rights than Americans, despite a more skilled and organized LGBT movement in the US. Canadians enjoy the full complement of rights and freedoms that gays and lesbians have sought during the past several decades. Little over half of the US population lives in places that grant basic civil rights protections to gays; most states ban same-sex marriage and only a handful permit marriage or a similar status. The US legalized homosexual conduct nationwide, but over 3 decades after Canadians did.