Living in a Christian household is both a blessing and a curse. It’s a blessing because I am fortunate enough to have my mother, who constantly shows me love and affection. She is a religious person and believes in God from the Holy Bible. She is the person, who introduce me to god’s love and teachings. The curse aspect of living in a Christian household with my family, is that some of her and my family’s religious views are different from mine in terms of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Ally (LGBTQA) community. My family believes in the concept that being homosexual is a choice, while disagree with that concept. I do not know much about homosexual individuals, but I am certain that they do not become gay. Some individuals
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After the session, I can say that I feel slightly more comfortable engaging in discussions with any individual, who is LGBTQA. My homosexual friends and I, rarely engage in any topic regarding homosexuality. I think they are comfortable talking to me about many things like sports, life-events, dating advice, except for homosexuality discussions. I assume that they either are being polite and respecting that I am not comfortable talking about it, before I attended the session or they do not feel that there is a need to discuss the topic of homosexuality. Regardless of their reasons, I feel somewhat comfortable talking to them about homosexuality topics, because of the knowledge I have now from the …show more content…
The first knowledge was, the use of gender pronoun such as he or his, her or she, them or they. The use of gender pronouns was a sign of respect, because LGBTQA individuals, wanted others to respect who they were in terms of their sexual orientation and their physical appearance. It also, allowed others not to question whether someone was male or female. An illustration of this was in the discussion panel, there were four individuals, who looked like females based on their physical appearance. However, three out of the four did not use gender pronouns that were commonly associated with the female gender such as she or her. The queer individual used they, them and their, while the other two bisexual individuals used gender pronouns such as him, she, his, he and
After the session, I can say that I feel slightly more comfortable engaging in discussions with any individual, who is LGBTQA. My homosexual friends and I, rarely engage in any topic regarding homosexuality. I think they are comfortable talking to me about many things like sports, life-events, dating advice, except for homosexuality discussions. I assume that they either are being polite and respecting that I am not comfortable talking about it, before I attended the session or they do not feel that there is a need to discuss the topic of homosexuality. Regardless of their reasons, I feel somewhat comfortable talking to them about homosexuality topics, because of the knowledge I have now from the …show more content…
The first knowledge was, the use of gender pronoun such as he or his, her or she, them or they. The use of gender pronouns was a sign of respect, because LGBTQA individuals, wanted others to respect who they were in terms of their sexual orientation and their physical appearance. It also, allowed others not to question whether someone was male or female. An illustration of this was in the discussion panel, there were four individuals, who looked like females based on their physical appearance. However, three out of the four did not use gender pronouns that were commonly associated with the female gender such as she or her. The queer individual used they, them and their, while the other two bisexual individuals used gender pronouns such as him, she, his, he and