The author states that some people can actually be a part of the LBGTQ community from the beginning. It is hard not to hear the many theories that state that people choose to be a part of the LBGTQ community instead of being born that way. In the article, the girl remembers wanting a girlfriend in kindergarten, prior to being influenced to believe a certain way was either right or wrong, based on societal norms. Children, that young, are unsure of how the world works, instead they are led by internal feelings rather than what the world wants them to do. Continuing on her journey, the author states that she was sixteen when she realized that she was bisexual, meaning she was sexually attracted to both males and females.…
Throughout her story, she states her personal experiences and opinions dealing with her condition. The purpose of this essay is to show the readers that homosexuality is out there and it is not going away anytime soon. Over the years, people have grown more used to the gay topic. Parents have found ways to accept their…
Throughout civilization, there have been multiple changes in family dynamics and structure. In Changing Families: What Does the Economy Have to do With it? the one catalyst in familial change that I’ve never thought of is how technology in the home has lead to a shift in families over the last 65 years. After hearing Mr. Guner describe the change, it does make total sense. Refrigerators, dishwashers, ovens, microwaves, washer/dryer and stoves make the functions of caring for a household not only take a fraction of the time, but also lend themselves to any gender.…
Life as a Lesbian Feminist: An Interview with Holly Hughes Introduction Through intersectionality, an individual’s experience is shaped by various combinations of intersecting identities. Conceptions such as race/ethnicity, class and sexual orientation can all drastically affect what a person goes through in their lifetime and the oppression they may face. Through issues of sexism, heterosexism, invisibility, absence or misrepresentation in the media, identity development and evolving ideals of various social movements such as feminism, it becomes clear just how influential one’s identity may be. Holly Hughes, an American lesbian performance artist born in 1955 in the Midwest, faced all of these issues and more throughout her life.…
Dr. Archibald D. Hart uses his professional clinical psychologist experiences combine with his personal childhood experiences surrounding divorce to create the book Helping Children Survive Divorce: What to Expect: How to Help. Dr. Hart (1997) purpose of writing this book is to help the dissociating parents to be able to lessen the toll of the unhappy homes making the children turn out to be the unhappy children (130-131). Dr. Hart’s (1997) book will help the divorcing parents learn the framework that is needed to form a healthier post-divorce family system life for the children that are impacted from the divorce. Dr. Hart talks about the consequences of the collapse of the American home surrounding the children that emerge from the divorce.…
Till to this day the LGBT community still fighting hard to gain their equal right as other people in the community. Now gay and lesbian can get marry in some states. The stonewall riots was the turning point for the LGBT to get their…
We come to this world as innocent infants, who know nothing of discrimination and differences. We learn to dislike and differentiate as we grow older, this is due to our social, cultural and religious backgrounds. We are all unconsciously attached to our believes and our knowledge of how the world works that most of us have the feeling of unease with the notion of change. Today, changing a few ideologies of the past is becoming more flexible. One of the most controversial topics is sexual orientation.…
Diversity Interview I completed this interview with an old friend, Darian, she is African American and her prefered sexual orientation is female. I have never really given much thought on how different we are, and still believe we are more alike than different. But we do have some rather large things that distinguish the two of us from each other. The major ‘skin deep’ things being she has a girlfriend and is African American.…
On the day of the event, I became hesitant in my choice of attending the lecture. I knew what the lecture was scheduled to be about, but I questioned if I would be welcomed to participate, even with it being open to the public. The atmosphere on campus inspired me. Every couple of feet, the NC State emblem is built into the sidewalk with white bricks on a maroon background. Seeing the different ethnicities of students as I walked to the Talley Student Union was different from what I had become accustomed to with working on the campus of a historically black college/university.…
certainly be a challenging course. Individuals who desire to change from one gender to the opposite gender most likely often begin by articulating their gender character in different circumstances where they feel harmless. They usually begin to start living full time by making gradual changes to their gender appearance so they can start living their life as they wish in a different gender. They feel like they need to Bond with other people who are transgender individuals by their peers during support groups and the transgender community groups may as well be very supportive for them when they are going through the transition process. During the transition process it normally includes them in changing their clothing ad grooming such as either…
The stages of the Identity Processes model look quite similar to Troiden’s model, these include 1. Existing Heterosexuality, 2. Developed LGB (Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual) Identity, 3. Become an LGB Offspring, 4. Develop LGB Intimacy Status, and 5.…
A close acquaintance of mine once said to me people get uncomfortable when they are learning. Why? As humans when we learn these things are unknown to us and in most cases, it is something outside of our comfort zone. Coupled with a human nature that is argumentative and defensive we lead to clashing with those in out society. Obviously with this in mind we get in arguments with those around us a few times in our lives.…
Family Assessment The community environment is a suburb of Saint Paul and is on the east side of the Twin Cities area. The housing development is located off a busy street that consists of a public High School, a grocery store, multiple fast food restaurants, a city park, and is one mile from a major highway system. The housing development includes over one hundred and fifty houses that are mostly brick, two story homes with vivid green grass, colorful flower gardens and filled with friendly, waving homeowners.…
"Bending gender, ending gender: Theoretical foundations for social work practice with the transgender community." Social Work 52.3 (2007): 243-250. Gottschalk, Lorene. "Same-sex sexuality and childhood gender non-conformity: A spurious connection."…
Life of bi “Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you”-P.C Cast I don’t understand. How can I be like this? It’s not normal.…