Bøger af Chuck Stewart

In June of 2015, the United State Supreme Court issued an opinion that directly impacted the lives of many LGBT Americans: in Obergefell v. Hodges, the court required all states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions. While many activists consider this a major achievement, LGBT individuals still face a number of pressing issues. In Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Americans at Risk, editor Chuck Stewart and a carefully selected group of contributors unravel these far-reaching concerns. The book is a cutting-edge resource for academics, activists, scholars, students, and lay people who are interested in examining LGBT social and political movements as well as the public policy progress and setbacks of recent years. Three volumes of essays by experts in a variety of fields delve deeply into primary sources to tackle important topics such as transgender adolescents, alcohol and drug abuse, and the massacre at Pulse gay nightclub, along with dozens of others. Organized by life stages, this comprehensive work sheds light on concerns and controversies affecting youth, adults, and seniors connected to the LGBT community

"How to Bankrupt Your Student Loans and Other Discharge Strategies" is a completely updated (2023) legal self-help book designed to help debtors file an adversary proceeding to determine the dischargeability of student loans as part of a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, or to negotiate directly with the Department of Education to have their student loans discharged through the process of Compromise or Write-Off. This is the only book written specifically on the topic of how to bankrupt student loans. Readers are guided, step-by-step, in the process of filing a legal suit against the Department of Education. It can be done! Many people have successfully discharged hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans. All forms included. The book: - Helps debtors to determine if bankruptcy is the proper process for their circumstances.- Reviews many other discharge strategies for their student loans.- Presents the history of the United States bankruptcy system as related to student loans along with the underlying legislative language and legal concepts for the discharge of student loans.- Conducts an extensive review of relevant court cases including 34 case studies where the debtor won!- Provides detailed arguments that could be used to challenge the restrictions against the discharge of student loans through Chapter 7 bankruptcy.- Gives step-by-step instructions for preparing, filing, and negotiating an adversary proceeding.- Gives step-by-step instructions for preparing, filing, and negotiating a Compromise or Write-Off directly with the Department of Education.- Explores the process of negotiation and presents strategies for effective negotiations.- Contains an extensive Appendix with worksheets, examples, blank forms, instructions, supportive academic resources, Glossary, and Index.The book is written in plain English, with a minimum of legalese. 393 pages. 8.5" x 11" Perfect bound. ISBN13: 9780976415466

Explores the contentious history of the international gay rights movement from its inception in Germany in the 1800s to today.

While most would think of the modern Gay Rights Movement as beginning in the 1960s, in reality, the issue of nonheterosexual human behavior within society and the campaign to achieve equality and acceptance have existed far earlier. Beginning with the First People in the Americas and their acceptance of tribal members who did not conform to gender and sexual binary roles, to the expansion west and establishment of the United States as a Republic, to the contentious struggles for equality in the 20th and 21st centuries, this reference traces the development of the Gay Rights Movement through the examination of primary source materials related to the incremental changes toward making America safe for all people.These documents enable readers to reflect on pivotal moments in the LGBT rights and sexual equality movement in the past up to the achievement of marriage equality. A modern chronology traces key events in the Gay Rights Movement across the last 70 years, such as those during the World War II era, the formation of the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles in the 1950s, to the Stonewall Riot in New York in the late 1960s, the elimination of the category of homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973, the judgment in 2003 by the U.S. Supreme Court that laws criminalizing sodomy are unconstitutional, and the legalization of same-sex marriage in all U.S. states in 2015.

This reference work provides important information about the role academic research has played in the ever-evolving laws covering homosexuality.