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An Exploratory Study of Differences in Views of Factors Affecting Sexual Orientation for a Sample of Lesbians and Gay Men
Sexual fluidity in young adult women and men: associations with sexual orientation and sexual identity development
Hate crimes hurt more.
Constitutional questions about hate crime laws in the United States were settled in the early 1990s. Yet, critics persist in arguing that the laws punish "improper thinking." In this context, this article addresses the question of the justification of punishing motivation—or bias—behind hate crimes when the type of expression and the thought behind it used to indicate motivation are largely protected. There has been considerable legal scholarship on this question but little empirical investigation of how supporters of legislation respond to the question. The article draws from in-depth interviews carried out with a purposive sample of "elite" informants in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1999. A key theme that emerged was that alleged greater harms inflicted by hate crimes—over and above the harms inflicted by the same underlying but otherwise motivated crimes—justify greater punishment. A conceptualization is provided of alleged harms involved
Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Hate Crime Victimization: Identity Politics or Identity Risk?
Do My Teachers Care I'm Gay? Israeli Lesbigay School Students' Experiences at their Schools
Measuring Stigma Among Abortion Providers: Assessing the Abortion Provider Stigma Survey Instrument
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