Bruce Bawer's 'A Place at the Table'
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A 5 page paper discussing the book by Bruce Bawer of the same name. This book offers new insight into the 'gay' man as Bawer is an incredibly 'normal' man aside from his homosexual nature. His book requests, rather than pleads in regards to acceptance for homosexuals. Bawer is a conservative and a Christian as well and offers the reader tremendously insightful illustrations of the stigma and stereo-types that haunt the homosexuals of today.
Filename: Bawer.wps

Bruce Bowers, "A Place at the Table":
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This 3 page paper is a critique of "A Place at the Table" and a reaction to the content. This paper considers the biases of the author, the most thought-provoking passages, and other aspects of how gay culture is perceived and manifested in society. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: GSTables.rtf

California Proposition 22.
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(7 pp) The text of Proposition 22 was brief: ``Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid and recognized in California'' - but complex legal and moral issues lay beneath the surface. There are some who would argue that was inappropriate for the collective church to become so politically and financially involved in it. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BBcalprp.doc.

Career Counseling for Gays and Lesbians:
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This 5 page paper examines the issues which apply to gay/lesbian career counseling. Furthermore, this paper outlines the special problems facing this group in terms of career counseling. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: GSCareer.rtf

Censorship Of Children's Literature / Banning Books Written By Homosexuals
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A 5 page research paper discussing the issue of censorship of children's and young adult's literature. Emphasis is on material written by and about gays and lesbians. Specific examples of books censored and banned are given as well as statements by some of the writers of books for young adults dealing with homosexuality. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Censchil.wps

Changing Definitions and Concepts of Family
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A 5 page discussion of the concept of family. Provides sociological definitions and views of the concept of family. Emphasizes that the traditional concept of family, the concept of a father a mother and one or more children comprising a family unit, has been turned on end in recent years. Questions the relationship of the members of a same-sex "marriage" as well as other contemporary familial relationships to illustrate the point that the family unit is no longer defined as it was in times past. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PPfamRv.wps

Christianity, Social Tolerance & Homosexuality
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A 3 page report on John Boswell’s work Christianity, Social Tolerance & Homosexuality. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAcsoox.rtf

Clinical Aspects of Male Homosexuality
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This 5 page report discusses the 14th chapter titled “Clinical Aspects of Male Homosexuality” by psychoanalyst Irving Bieber who studied homosexuality and taken from the text “The View of the Clinician.” The report then compares Bieber’s approach to that of Sigmund Freud and the ways in which Freud’s ideas were transmuted into those of analysts such as Bieber. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: BWbieber.rtf

Coming Out
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This 3 page paper discusses the process of coming out, and how nurses can help gay people handle this difficult transition. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: HVComOut.rtf