Brandon Mclnerney: Cosmetic Relief To The LGBT Community

Improved Essays
In previous years, there was little acceptance or understanding of the LGBT community and some of the things they accept, do, believe, and say. One of these things being males putting on makeup. This is seen as a female act in a lot of places, generations, etc. Should we seriously only categorize this cosmetic relief to the female population?
In one case, there was an openly gay teenage boy named Larry who occasionally wore makeup to school. Brandon McInerney ended the life of this young LGBT teen for being himself and said that Larry had made”Sexual advances” on him. With expression through makeup, and being friendly to someone, he had to lose his life. “The murder case against the killer, Brandon Mclnerney, evolved into a prosecution of

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Individuals who are gay, lesbian or bisexual or 1.5 to 2 times likely to be victimized by hate crimes (Daigle, 311, 2016). From the class notes it says that 78% of gay kids or kids thought to be gay are teased. Since Larry was gay he falls into this category of having a higher chance of being victimized. A study found that a frequent form of motivation of hate crimes is 20%, which is due to the victim’s sexual orientation (Daigle 307, 2016). Larry’s sexual orientation was gay, causing a bigger target on him and Brandon was uncomfortable with the fact that Larry was different.…

    • 888 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Nikki Araguz Analysis

    • 260 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Nikki Araguz is a trans woman who fully transitioned and began a stealth life before she met Thomas Araguz. Thomas’ family argues that the couple wed without him knowing about her transition, though Nikki says that is absolutely false and she has been honest with him about her past all along. Thomas, a firefighter, died July 4th on the job. His family has taken Nikki to court, arguing that she is not legally entitled to his estate because their marriage was homosexual and thus illegal. Reading the full story on the case above was nothing short of troublesome and unsettling.…

    • 260 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Mr. Lee has had very busy past several months. He has been not been honest in his reporting to this provider and violated the following treatment rules: -If your offense involved children, you shall not be alone with minor males or females. Whenever you have prolonged social contact with minors, an adult that is approved in advance by your treatment provider and is aware of your offense history and the behavioral rules that you must follow when around children must monitor you. -You shall not consume alcohol or use illicit substances, including prescription medication that is prescribed to another individual. -You shall not engage in any romantic/sexual behavior with any individual without my prior knowledge and approval.…

    • 903 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Essay On Larry Youngblood

    • 2311 Words
    • 10 Pages

    Introduction There are many people who have been accused of crimes they have not committed. Youngblood and African American male. He was wrongfully convicted of sexual assault, kidnapping, and child molestation of the young Latino boy name David Leon. At the time of the crime Larry was 30 years old. And the incident happened in the state of Arizona, on October 29th, 1983.…

    • 2311 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    He felt his heart suffered trauma, after that he committed suicide. Nevertheless, there are a lot teenagers killed themselves “The Universal Almanac listed a total of 4,960 completed suicides among US youth aged 15 to 24 years of age in 1993; The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimated 3 that "as many as 30% of completed youth suicides each year" are performed by gays and lesbians. ”(“Suicide among gay and lesbian youth”)…

    • 830 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Witness/Narrative: Lizzie Borden “Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks, when she saw what she had done she gave her father 41.” Technically it only took 29 whacks, but oh well! Hello there, I’m Lizzie Borden and I’m gonna tell you the story of how I was accused of murdering my parents. Let's start from the beginning!…

    • 411 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The film Murder on a Sunday Morning was a murder case in Jacksonville involving a 15 year old teenager being accused of 1st Degree murder and theft. In the video, it showed the process of the trial and both sides of the case. The lawyer in the video was defending Brenton Butler, the person accused of the incident and the lawyer truly believed that Brenton was not the person that committed the crime. Patrick McGuiness, the lawyer, went out of his way to not only prevent Brenton from serving life in jail, but to also get the real criminal that committed murder. In the end, McGuiness was able to prove to the jury that Brenton was not guilty and that the real murderer was still on the loose.…

    • 1051 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “In 2010, African American gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men represented an estimated 72% (10,600) of new infections among all African American men and 36% of an estimated 29,800 new HIV infections among all gay and bisexual men. (CDC, 2015).” To address HIV in vulnerable populations in 2006 The National Black Gay Men’s Advocacy Coalition (NBGMAC) was created to advocate saving the lives of black men though research, policy, education, and training. While some people may disagree that The National Black Gay Men’s Advocacy Coalition (NBGMAC) does not promote social change and this issue is not important, this organization uses effective strategies to challenge institutions and reinforce positive social behavior and relations.…

    • 899 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In “Passing Realities” by Allie Lie, she writes different narratives that reflect the effect of a gender normative society on transsexuals and transgender, while “Look! No, Don’t! The Invisibility Dilemma for Transgender Men” by Jamison Green, is about the parallels that exist in being a transsexual man. One being in how, being born a girl but never being a women, and being a man, but growing up in a girls body. Green also talks about the invisibility factor of sex.…

    • 728 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    It was December 24th, 1968, the afternoon before Christmas. Pamela Powers, a sweet, blue eyed, blonde ten year old girl went to the bathroom to wash her hands and vanished during her brother’s wrestling tournament. What happened to her? A man named Robert Anthony Williams raped, killed her and left her body to rot in a ditch. This murderer was almost able to walk away a free man after confessing his wrong doing, all because of the exclusionary rule.…

    • 775 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    While the Silva’s were assaulting the couple, they repeated racial slurs towards them. Another recently prevalent hate crime includes a person’s sexuality. In October of 1998, Matthew Shepard was robbed and beaten for being gay. He eventually died in the hospital for injuries sustained (“Hate Crime Laws”). Nearly every one of these…

    • 1650 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Colossal Effect

    • 1454 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Audrey Su Core RED #21 The Colossal Effect of Bullying (Attention Grabbing Strategy) There is a common saying that “the right choice is never the easy choice.” (Background Info) This can be easily testified to by middle school principal Mary Podlesny, high school principal William Davis, his vice principal Tom Blauert, and Roy Grande, Nabozny’s main bully throughout the years.…

    • 1454 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Raph Armstrong Case Study

    • 735 Words
    • 3 Pages

    THE CASE AGAINST RALPH ARMSTRONG In late 2015, Wisconsin’s criminal justice came to the fore of the nation’s public consciousness with the Making a Murderer documentary series. The series detailed the handling of Steven Avery’s murder case in 2007 and how it related to his exoneration in an earlier wrongly convicted rape case in 1985. Both of his cases fell under a heavy cloud of doubt in the veracity of the investigation, the validity of the charges against him and the trial that imprisoned him.…

    • 735 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    This idea again brings up the concept of intersectionality, but also causes me to question societal categories. The author states: “Sex, gender, sexuality: three terms whose usage relations and analytical relations are almost irremediably slippery.” (Sedgewick 27). Sexuality and gender are lumped together as the LGBT+ community, even though they’re different identities. Perhaps it’s because being transgender and being gay are both straying away from norm.…

    • 1052 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Personally, I found the film The Mask You Live In very eye opening. It focuses around how young boys are taught to portray their assigned gender and how they carry the lessons they are given into manhood. From as young as six years old, a boy is taught not to show emotion; that crying and hugging and any public displays of affection towards friends or loved ones in too feminine and unmanly. Boys learn to watch their father figures and associate them as the ideal role model for masculinity. When a father shows aggression towards a woman who then starts to cry, a young boy would not initially know what to make of it, and would possibly then associate violence with being manly and strong emotions as weak and girly.…

    • 701 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays