Lately, we’ve gained a substantial amount of insight on the LGBTQ community. Even then, we still fail to develop a proper understanding of what it means to be part of such a large community, and in most cases people just don’t care to know. Whether you recognize yourself as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, or even queer, in America you aren’t treated fair. Automatically, if you are associated with being LGBTQ, one is given a strong and everlasting label. In the country we fail to treat these individuals as individuals. It is very evident that equality doesn’t exist amongst these individuals. And as a society, we fail the people who are part of the LGBTQ community as we should treat them as just another person because a lot of
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There are several ways that even our ‘regular’ laws ahrm the LGBTQ community. The struggle for legal equality for LGBT people rests on several fundamental constitutional principles. A state governor revoked health benefit from gay and lesbian partners of state employees, benefits in which they had previously received. Also, there are many anti-discriminatory laws in place whereas you can not be judged based on your race, color, sexual orientation, etc. With that being said, an individual can be fired from their workplace for being gay or lesbian. Same-sex couples don't receive full-marriage equality. Laws prevent them from filing taxes together and generally married couples file them jointly. LGBTQ couples must put out a lot of money to ‘protect’ their marriage in a way. They must draw up documents, primarily will and trusts. Because of DOMA, social security death benefits do not go to the surviving partner of a same-sex couple. To tie this in with another controversial topic of immigration, those laws prevent binational couples from being together. Citizens of the United States are allowed to sponsor their spouse which would make them eligible for a green card. They’d be allowed to permanently live and work in this country. Now because of federal immigration laws, and with DOMA applied, same-sex marriages and void. Just think about how the lives of people in the LGBTQ community are made hard just because of their sexual
There are several ways that even our ‘regular’ laws ahrm the LGBTQ community. The struggle for legal equality for LGBT people rests on several fundamental constitutional principles. A state governor revoked health benefit from gay and lesbian partners of state employees, benefits in which they had previously received. Also, there are many anti-discriminatory laws in place whereas you can not be judged based on your race, color, sexual orientation, etc. With that being said, an individual can be fired from their workplace for being gay or lesbian. Same-sex couples don't receive full-marriage equality. Laws prevent them from filing taxes together and generally married couples file them jointly. LGBTQ couples must put out a lot of money to ‘protect’ their marriage in a way. They must draw up documents, primarily will and trusts. Because of DOMA, social security death benefits do not go to the surviving partner of a same-sex couple. To tie this in with another controversial topic of immigration, those laws prevent binational couples from being together. Citizens of the United States are allowed to sponsor their spouse which would make them eligible for a green card. They’d be allowed to permanently live and work in this country. Now because of federal immigration laws, and with DOMA applied, same-sex marriages and void. Just think about how the lives of people in the LGBTQ community are made hard just because of their sexual