Marriage Equality One of the most controversial topics in today’s media is same-sex marriage and the equal treatment of those in the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community. I am in support of marriage equality for all people, regardless of their sexual orientation, because everyone should have the right to marry their significant other. The United States of America is the supposed “land of the free”, but in some states that statement is merely a phrase and not a practice. Many religious institutions protest gay marriage because they believe it threatens the sanctity of marriage. While religions should be allowed to have their own beliefs, the law should be objective.…
Robert Reno Professor James Richardson WHO-1030-271 16 April 2015 The Gay Rights Movement: Moving Mountains Although great strides have been made in the recent past, homosexuals have faced many hurdles in the fight for equal rights. From hate crimes to legislative tyranny, the homosexual community has strived to become socially accepted and ascertain the same rights afforded to them as by the Constitution of the United States of America. For over five decades, many organizations have been created to facilitate this fight and many continue today.…
One of the groups formed due to the Stonewall Inn was called the Gay Liberation Front (G.L.F), it was named after the National liberation front of South Vietnam. The members of the Front felt that they were part of the movement that was antiwar, liberation, and collation of the new left. "The current system," wrote one Front member in a 1970 flyer entitled "What is Gay Liberation," "denies us our basic humanity in much the same way as it is denied to blacks, women, and other oppressed minorities; the grounds are just as irrational. Therefore, our liberation is tied to the liberation of all peoples. " Groups of the Gay Liberation Front started to show up in Chicago, Los Angeles, and other major cities within a few months of the original group…
Gay Hate Crimes in America Jordan Schaeffer was just at the ripe age of 25 when his life was almost taken from him. On a trip to Miami, also known as one of the many safe havens for gays, his life turned around. Jordan and his boyfriend had just shared a kiss in Burger King when Jordan was taken from his comfortable life. Coming from California where he was accepted and homosexuality was okay, he had never been face to face with a hate crime. As he was slammed into the ground and being kicked, he was losing his feeling of safety in the world.…
INTRODUCTION LGBT people are a part of every community. The LGBT community in itself is diverse, comprising of people of all ages from different racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, from all over the world. LGBT is the initialism that stands for “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender”. The initialism is meant to highlight the diversity of sexuality and gender identity-focused cultures.…
n today's culture homosexuality is no longer a taboo to the american public since it is a topic that is widely talked about as LGBT people advance in gaining their rights of marriage equality and other benefits that heterosexual people have but remain in isolation against religious communities. The United States in the past one-hundred-years as strayed away from a protestant culture to a secular one as the country is filled with various opinion and religious beliefs that would be discriminated against in state sanctioned public activities that adhere to christian beliefs and values. The secularist movement in the American government had caused shock and concern for the the religious christian communities in the country and gave birth to christian nationalism and the evangelical movement that began in the mid 60s as american society was placed with various issues that required serious cultural changes.…
A comparative analysis between Ontario’s Ethical Guidelines for Ontario School Counsellors and the United States Ethical Standards for School Counselors and the need for an Ethical Guideline specific to Northern schools in remote First Nations communities The Ontario School Councilors’ Association (OSCA) and the American School Counselors Association (ASCA) are both professional organizations geared towards supporting teacher-counsellors and students in terms of Guidance and Career Education. Published in 2014 the Ethical Guidelines for Ontario School Counsellors was created in hopes to clarify Ontario school counsellors’ understanding of their position in terms of the profession’s ethical principles and the law. It is in fact stated that…
Born Gay? Well, from the very beginning of time, people thought that being gay was bad news. In England, "a sodomy trial stirs public debate about homosexuality. "And the New Haven “mandates that a death sentence for sexual relations between women.” And last but not least, sodomy is linked to mental illness.…
As the school counselor, it would be necessary to support all students within the school. The counselor would first meet with the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) students in order understand their perspective and hardships that they face in the school community. I would continue to work with them in group sessions and individual sessions as needed to support an open dialogue and increase individual coping skills. In addition, I would support them by advocating for them and empowering them to support change within the school. Further, to work on making sure they do not continue to be oppressed or discriminated against within the school, the counselor would reach out to the principal and teachers to educate them about GLBT students…
Throughout the past couple of years, we have seen the rise in popularity of gay culture. We can see the importance of this topic to many Americans today as the issue of gay marriage has finally hit the supreme court. A year ago, I would have thought very differently about this topic due to my religious beliefs. But, my ideology changed whenever one of my closest friends came out as gay.…
From now on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender will be referred to as LGBT. Many alterable factors affect LGBT mental health including suicide prevention, bullying, and culture. In relation to suicide, there are many disparities between non-heterosexual youth and heterosexual youth. Suicide rates among LGBT youth are significantly higher than suicide rates for heterosexual youth (Hatzenbueler, 2011, p. 896).…
The American Institute of Bisexuality defines bisexuals as people with the innate capacity to form enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attractions to those of the same gender and those of different genders/gender presentations from themselves (AIB, 2015). Among the members of the LGBT community living within the United States, 40% identify as bisexual, making it the largest subgroup in comparison to the 36% who identify as gay, 19% as lesbian, and 5% as transgender. However despite making up almost half of the sexual minority, they are overlooked by the predominant monosexual population who deny the existence of bisexuality. Negative attitudes stem from common misconceptions and stereotypes about bisexual culture and identity, and…
Since the beginning of time, people have fought over their different opinions. With different opinions, there are bound to be a lot of arguments. Some of the arguments can be big or small, and other arguments people do not like to speak of. One of the most confidential is the right for LGBT communities right to be able to get married. This is an ongoing problem that needs to be settled one way or another.…
Marcus Bachmann, a therapist who runs a Christian counseling place, claimed that homosexuality could be cured. Bachmann stated that homosexuality is both a choice and a threat (Goldberg, 2011). A method called the conversion therapy is a way of curing homosexuality. A conversion therapy aimed to re-assign the sexual orientation of its patient. During 1950s and 1960s, a conversion therapy is done by pressuring its patient to masturbate to a picture of those of the opposite sex whilst they will be electrically shocked when they are shown a picture of those with the same sex.…
This is why the LGBT community needs to have more rights because it makes equality not that big of an issue, makes the LGBT community feel more comfortable with talking to people about their sexual orientation or gender identity, the adoption rate will increase, and the suicide death rate will become less drastic. The LGBT community should have more equality. Many LGBT teenagers do not have control over their coming out experience. Some of them are perceived as LGBT and may already be…