Bisexuality

Homophobia has been around for many years, and at times, dominated decisions that were made in regards to the LGBT community. Exactly what is homophobia? Homophobia is the negative thoughts, feelings, and behaviors an individual has in response to others who are perceived to be gay or lesbian. This concept has plagued many among the LGBT community in regards to equal rights, fair employment, and most shocking of all, personal safety. This paper highlights some studies which have been conducted…

Is age directly linked to love? Personally, I do not think so. Most people refer to teenage love as “Puppy love” but what is the difference? Everyone has their opinion of love, but the universal definition of puppy love is “teenage infatuation or love”, while love is defined as “a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend”. If a child can feel love for a parent or friend, a teenager can easily feel love for another person. The person the teen falls…

The LGBT Community I want to discuss to you is all about LGBT Community, What is the LGBT Community? The LGBT Community or GLBT Community is also known as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,and Transgender. And LGBT are supportive people, organizations, united by a common culture and social movements. These community generally celebrate pride, diversity, individuality, and specially sexuality. The gay community is associated with certain symbols especially the rainbow or rainbow flags.…

Stonewall Riot was a riot between the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender community against Police officers. It took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall inn, located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York city. The riots marks the beginning of the modern day gay liberation. During the riots gay and drag queens showed heterosexual people that they are as physical as them. Before the riots gay people and drag queens did not have any right or…

Based on the events of the 1969 Stonewall riots is the film, Stonewall. The movie focusses on fictional Danny Irvine, a gay Caucasian youth who leaves his conservative Indiana countryside for New York City. In the weeks leading up to the riot, he meets and befriends a group of LGBTQ youth. Danny is shown the rough lifestyle of theft and hustling of these street kids as well as the realities of police raids and the brutality of their bigotry. In the process, he learns more about LGBTQ culture…

Ann Bausum’s book, Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights, covers the events of the Stonewall Riots and other important topics brought up by gay rights. The book goes through events going a bit farther back than 1969, when Stonewall occurred, until 2013 in modern times. Bausum recounts the events leading up to the Stonewall Riots, the riots themselves, what it was like to be gay at the time, the aids epidemic, and where we are now in modern day with gay rights. Besides the events…

The LGBT movement has made significant strides in gaining representation in popular media over the past thirty years. Still, there is a serious lack of LGBT characters in television, movies, and other fiction-based media. The focus of this paper will be on representative divides within the community itself. Though there has been better inclusion of non-straight characters in popular media in recent years, it is a fact that we continue to see a disproportionate number of (white) male characters…

A few days ago, my boyfriend Taylor and I watched some of “When We Rise.” It sparked some interesting conversations between us. We were watching it and I was embarrassed to admit it at first, but the intimate scenes were making me a little uncomfortable. I was somewhat confused because I have always been accepting of homosexuality and did not understand the dissonance I was experiencing. I thought about it and decided to bring it up to Taylor and discuss why I may feel like that. I started off…

La Mission is about a single-parent, ex-con and recovering alcoholic, Che, who struggles with his own personal values and beliefs when he discovers his son, Jes, is gay. He becomes violent beating his son up on the sidewalk and throwing him out of the house. Later in the movie as Jes and his boyfriend, Jordan, were walking in the Latino neighborhood a car with a few gang members pull up and begin to insult them. Jordan states that people who are homophobic are actually gay themselves. The gang…

Michel Foucault wrote The History of Sexuality , which is a three volume analysis of sexuality in the western world. Foucault balanced this archaeological approach with a genealogical approach that he borrowed from Nietzsche. In the first volume, Foucault explorers the “repressive hypothesis” in which he says that the history of sexuality over the past three hundred years or so has been a history of repression. Repression is a manner in which a person is barred from expressing his or her…