The LGBT Culture In The United States

The LGBT culture has become a common culture throughout the United States. With such expression of differences this culture is speaking out in a much more modern style than the past. It is clearer throughout history and throughout the world, that people are having sex with other people of the same gender (Burleson, 2014). Through art, anthropology and documented history has opened closed doors to same sex sexual practices. Although exposed, it’s still quite challenging to understand the full scope of moral values and universal moral principles of this unique culture. During the last half of the nineteenth century, North America had great cultural diversity; including those of variation who was believed to have two spirits. In simple terms, these were men and women who had both gender and sexuality of their opposite sex. To date, there are still open opinions about accepting the gay identity. Many gay men, especially in African American communities our on the DL; meaning down low. In the larger African American culture, “to identify as being gay you are rejecting your gender role, your family and true ethnicity” (Paul Rust in William Burleson, 2014). Burleson, (2014) …show more content…
There has been shift in social norms; in which the law for same sex marriage has made it easier to express personal homosexual freedoms. I feel it is still culturally determined if this is right or wrong. Not to contradict myself, but from another angle and from a heterosexual and biblical standpoint, I can’t say that I’m in total agreement homosexuality because I don’t believe it’s a natural feeling or emotion to feel a sexual way about the same sex. This logic create mixed feelings and cause me to question things even more.. However, who am I to really judge this type of nature? The idea of what is ethically right or wrong can be opinionated by different