Activities
Rockway’s primary goal is to provide accurate information to the media, legislatures, and the courts. More generally, the Institute serves as a “go-to” resource for other organizations that need experts and research information about LGBT issues in their public education and advocacy activities. Areas of expertise include:
- Same-sex couples (including same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships)
- Lesbian and gay parenting and child development (including adoption and child custody)
- LGBT youth and school issues (including family acceptance, harassment in schools, suicide)
- Evaluating conversion therapies and claims by the ex-gay movement
- Mental health and substance abuse in LGBT populations
- Discrimination in employment, housing, healthcare, and immigration
- Violent hate crimes against LGBT persons and others perceived to be LGBT
- Behavioral and educational aspects of HIV treatment and prevention
- Religious participation and beliefs among LGBT people
- Aging and the LGBT population
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Famous quotes containing the word activities:
“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
“Love and work are viewed and experienced as totally separate activities motivated by separate needs. Yet, when we think about it, our common sense tells us that our most inspired, creative acts are deeply tied to our need to love and that, when we lack love, we find it difficult to work creatively; that work without love is dead, mechanical, sheer competence without vitality, that love without work grows boring, monotonous, lacks depth and passion.”
—Marta Zahaykevich, Ucranian born-U.S. psychitrist. “Critical Perspectives on Adult Women’s Development,” (1980)
“If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one’s own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.”
—David Elkind (20th century)