Grey Side of Gay Being gay and the perception of what it means has many underlying consequences upon gays in a multitude of ways. In a sense being gay has gained acceptance, but there are bound to be people that despize what it means to be gay, and it is clearly shown through how the world treats us. Gays have been ruthlessly beat, harrassed, and killed for centuries. Even in modern day society hate crimes still persist. Gays have just gotten the right all across America to marry just a year ago in 2015. This emphasizes that gays still have a long way to actually be fully accepted in a society with such difference in opinions. Gays are still descriminated against in an economic, social and historical way It is important to realize the historical
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The social acts done against gays still occur and has widespread effects on the gay population. Walking around as a gay person is limiting, it will either make people not want to be around you or interact with you. Or it will make people want to be your friend because they want to feel like they are a good person for accepting you because you are descriminated against. Simply being gay and it just being normal doesn’t occur too often. There is usually a response that they will love you or hate you, instead of just liking or hating you for who you are and not for that one part of you. People will see you as gay before they realize you as a person. So if they don’t like gays they will immediately dislike and have negative dispositions for you. This is the everyday reality of gays, just walking on the street acting feminine or having a gay lisp will determine how people treat you. Due to the negative bias against gays, their rights are often argued in politics. It is dehumanizing to have others determine what rights you have and your abilities to go about life. Gays just got the right to marry all across America in 2015, and in southern states there are state laws making some sexual activities illegal as repremand to the 2015 gay marriage law. Society still tries to control the rights of gays and limit their possibilities only because they don’t agree with them. This inherently is an act of descrimination, but passing those laws are still legal. But yet the most influential descrimination is the regular use of the word ‘gay’ as a slur to demean a person. Using a minorities title to try to hurt someone is slander. It effects how children see gays, resulting in the terrible perception of how being gay is bad, causing widespread bullying of both gay children and feminine heterosexual boys. This social descrimination determines how the next generation views gays instinctually from the
The social acts done against gays still occur and has widespread effects on the gay population. Walking around as a gay person is limiting, it will either make people not want to be around you or interact with you. Or it will make people want to be your friend because they want to feel like they are a good person for accepting you because you are descriminated against. Simply being gay and it just being normal doesn’t occur too often. There is usually a response that they will love you or hate you, instead of just liking or hating you for who you are and not for that one part of you. People will see you as gay before they realize you as a person. So if they don’t like gays they will immediately dislike and have negative dispositions for you. This is the everyday reality of gays, just walking on the street acting feminine or having a gay lisp will determine how people treat you. Due to the negative bias against gays, their rights are often argued in politics. It is dehumanizing to have others determine what rights you have and your abilities to go about life. Gays just got the right to marry all across America in 2015, and in southern states there are state laws making some sexual activities illegal as repremand to the 2015 gay marriage law. Society still tries to control the rights of gays and limit their possibilities only because they don’t agree with them. This inherently is an act of descrimination, but passing those laws are still legal. But yet the most influential descrimination is the regular use of the word ‘gay’ as a slur to demean a person. Using a minorities title to try to hurt someone is slander. It effects how children see gays, resulting in the terrible perception of how being gay is bad, causing widespread bullying of both gay children and feminine heterosexual boys. This social descrimination determines how the next generation views gays instinctually from the