The Opportunity To Create A Monument Analysis

If given the opportunity to create a monument, I would dedicate it to Gay history. Homosexuality is not something new, and modern. It is something that has occurred throughout human history. Gay history dates back to as early as the 1600’s. During this time in Connecticut, New York, and Virginia there were a total of five documented death sentences in the colonies for same sex generally anal or oral sex. Due to the intimate manner of non-sexual same sex relationships during time period, the information is not always so distinguishable. Mining camps and navy ships were typically an all male setting, were men would hold dances, and wear something to denote that for that night they were a woman.
The monument that I would create would be a statue of two solider, both of male gender. They would be dressed in complete Civil War attire with one solider dressed in the Unions’ paraphernalia, while the other in the Confederates’. The inscription on the bottom of the statue would state, ‘“Sometimes home is not a place, but a hand to hold and a heartbeat.” I would have the statue be …show more content…
What I hope it to depict is that your place of safety, love, intimacy, refuge, or desire does not have to be a place, or a person of the opposite sex. A human is a human, male or female. Whom you choose to spend your most intimate moments with, or a cup of coffee with, should not be dictated by their gender. Home is not this country, or the building at which you sleep, but it is a place where you feel the safest, most welcomed, and most like yourself. If that place just so happens to be a person, then so be it. By placing the statue in on the border of these two states, love truly has no boundaries. Love is not limited, whether is be to the North or South, or men or women. This location shows that we should not be discriminating against homosexuality, but embracing it as apart of our history and