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San Marcos, Texas 78666
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10th Anniversary Celebration

Allies of Texas State is proud to announce its 10th year at Texas State University-San Marcos in 2010.  On April 8, 2010 from 12:00 am to 2:00 pm at the LBJ Student Center Room 3-15.1, Allies of Texas State will celebrate this milestone with a celebration.  The 10th Anniversary Celebration is a reunion and panel of prior and current Allies who will share their personal and professional experiences as members, contributors, and initiators of the Allies of Texas State Program. The 10th Anniversary Celebration is open to all Allies of Texas State who have completed training since the inception of the program in 2000 and members of the Texas State community.  A soup, salad, and sandwich lunch will be provided at this celebration.   Participants are asked to RSVP to this event by 10:00 am on April 8, 2010.

 

If you have any special accommodations due to a disability in order to participate, please contact the Office of Disability Services at 512.245.3451 or allies@txstate.edu at least 72 hours prior to the event.

 

RSVP

RSVP for 10th Anniversary Celebration (click here).

Dr. Michael D. Jasek is a founding member of Allies of Texas State.

The Immorality of Homosexuality
Dr. Michael D. Jasek, Assistant Dean of Students & Director of Student Transition Programs at University of West Florida

We live in a society where people are taught that homosexuality is immoral. For many men, an internal conflict develops as they begin the coming-out process. In order to proceed through this identity formation, they must resolve this internal conflict. This qualitative study explored the ways gay men resolve this issue so that they may adopt a positive gay identity for themselves.

This study looked at moral development in gay men as they resolved the conflict between their moral beliefs and their emerging gay identity, how this process related to Cass’s gay identity model, and the external factors which played a role in the process. Triangulation of fictional novels with gay characters, books telling men’s coming-out stories, and data collected from the interviews of three men who spoke about their experience with realizing their true sexual orientation was used to generate results.
 
Some men were told at an early age that homosexuality is immoral and is not a life a “proper” man lives. Several institutions were discovered to construct and maintain this belief in these men. Some of these included family, peer, community, legal, education, and religion institutions. It was this repeating message that homosexuality is immoral which allowed the men to internalize this belief. Only later in their lives did this belief come into conflict. The introduction of new and often contradictory information to the “truth” the men had held throughout their lives until the point of conflict was key to a resolution of the conflict.
 
Location:   LBJ Student Center, Room 3-15.1
Time:        2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
 
To RSVP, please follow this link: RSVP for The Immorality of Homosexuality.
Texas State University-San Marcos is a member of the Texas State University System.
Telephone: (512) 245-2208; E-mail: allies@txstate.edu