The Oppression Of The LGBT Community

Harvey Milk once said, “Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard”, and in America today the LGBT community voices are being heard by society. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans are being accepted more and more by the evolving society as well as the progressing government in the country. But there are still walls holding the LGBT community back from complete equality in America, and the rest of society. According to the Family Caregiver Alliance, “sexual orientation” refers to emotional and sexual attraction to others of the same sex. Society today still considers it to be a lifestyle out of the norm. In the LGBT community, “coming out” could create psychosocial losses and major distress among their lives. The community feels this way because society has created a social complex of not being accepted and not being seen as an equal in their home and/or work lives. …show more content…
It’s time for society to see that this oppression of the LGBT community is a clear form of discrimination and is a violation against their rights as human beings and Americans. According to the American Journal of Community Psychology, “the LGBT community continues to experience many different forms of oppression and discrimination in North America and throughout the world, despite the social, legal, and political advances that have been launched in an attempt to grant LGBT people basic human rights”. Due to the rejection and harassment, it causes psychological and social issues that could be solved with equal rights for the