Essay On Sexual Diversity

In the last few decades, gender and sexual diversity have been studied in great depth and information about them has become more accessible to and familiar with the general public. Growing up in a relatively religious and conservative home, the topic of gender and sexuality has rarely come up in conversations I had with friends and family. Besides class discussions, I realized I’ve never had a chance to actually talk to someone and listen to what they have to say about this topic. Hence, I saw this assignment as an opportunity to experience that. The person I decided to interview is my boyfriend Colin, who I’ve been with for roughly two months. I chose Colin to be my interviewee for two reasons. First, he came from what I consider a very …show more content…
I learned that this friend was the same one Colin shared his first homosexual kiss with, and after that, he told me, he was ensured that he didn’t like men. Colin seemed to be very confident with his physical appearance, which I think was reasonable. As a fashion designer, …show more content…
I, however, didn’t think what he said was necessarily true. I thought his style was very gender-neutral, and even though the clothes looked good on him, I wouldn’t consider them to be especially masculine. When asked about his opinion on the way people of different genders and sexual identities are treated in today’s society, Colin agreed that there were definitely inequalities and stigmas about gender and sexuality that still persist, and those were experienced by everyone regardless of how they identified themselves. Seeing my confusion, he went on and explained that even if you were a male, people still have certain stereotypes about you and expect you to be in a certain way that probably didn’t fit with how you envisioned your life. That being said, he admitted that gender minorities undoubtedly had to confront more pressures and inequalities in their lives than did a white heterosexual male such as himself. To him, gender and sexual equality was a good option because it allowed everyone to live up to their fullest potentials. In his opinion, the best way to archive that was through education and counteractions against existing