id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_2trce7f3kbdgzma333psn3qxya Christopher W. Blackwell Discrimination of Gays and Lesbians 2004 17 .pdf application/pdf 6610 482 57 This article provides a specific analysis of this discrimination and demonstrates the stark contrast between the discrimination of gays and lesbians in American society and the social justice Areas examined include civil unions, gay marriages, adoptions, hate crime legislation and cessation of the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue" policy, advocating for lesbian issues, Stonewall, human rights, gays in the military, civil union United States is widespread, and the social movement to end such discriminatory practices has been recognized by many modern theorists researching queer theory (Kirsch, 2000). The extensive existence of discrimination, hate crimes, violence, oppression and heterosexist hatred against homosexuals is widely supported in the research literature (Herek, 2002; Ellis, Kitzinger, & Many authors and researchers have correlated Rawls' theories of social justice and distributive justice theory to the gay civil rights movement (Schauer, Sinnott & Armstrong, 2003). ./cache/work_2trce7f3kbdgzma333psn3qxya.pdf ./txt/work_2trce7f3kbdgzma333psn3qxya.txt