Bisexuality

Home sweet home my pretties. Gay adoption shouldn 't be called that there shouldn 't be a label on anyone. Same-sex married couples adopting shouldn 't depend on who the parents love but if the child will be able to fill the love of a parent ga, straight, bisexual, or transsexual it shouldn 't matter. Gay parents will be better than straight parents because gay people will think children will be precious, to them it would be like a diamond beautiful and priceless. Same-sex married couples will…

I recently took a series of implicit bias tests for this course and was both surprised and unsurprised with my results. On the first test I took, the “Weapons” test, my results showed a moderate automatic association for Harmless objects with White Americans and Weapons with Black Americans. This test’s design initially struck me as odd as the weapons they choose to use were atypical of my understanding of violent crimes. Showing cannons and flails were not the typical weapons I would picture…

The Freire Engagement Assignment performed in class the week of May 30th was, in my opinion, an exceptional introductory activity that helped facilitate class discussion as well as some level of reflection about the course materials and subject matter. For this activity, students were to think about the words “difference” and “diversity” and then write out a list of words they associated with these terms. Then, they were to pick five words on their list that they found particularly important…

Endah Siti Nurohmah Investigation of gay language This section contains quantitative analysis of language features of homosexual characters in Glee season 3. This analysis is based on Fiscus’s method, which is to count some features of language that stereotypically belongs to women language and men language. The features include hedges, intensifiers, oh my god/like, taboo words, gonna, and guys/man. Lexical hedges and intensifiers are suggested by Lakoff as women linguistic features (Holmes,…

The term “Sexuality” is used to describe how we identify our sexual interests or desires. Throughout our lives, these preferences can either stay the same or change. Heteronormativity is the viewpoint that expresses heterosexuality, the characteristic of being attracted to the opposite sex as a given, making it difficult for society to accept the idea of homosexuality. Due to differences in social views of sexuality in today’s society and the fear of not meeting established social norms, people…

Following a young man’s journey through seduction, moral corruption, and eventual demise, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is considered to be one of the best known homoerotic novels ever written. Although the novel does not contain any explicit homosexuality, leaving the novel to be a suggestive work of such a theme, Wilde, being queer-coded himself, is able to use his work as an outlet to validate the identity of homosexual individuals. By including homosexual subtext, Wilde promotes…

Homosexuality is still a controversial topic in the United States, however polls and surveys in regards to its moral acceptability, show an obvious trend towards tolerance of the LGBTQ community among the American population. Eventhough there is a rise in acceptance of the LGBTQ community, many parents still believe that they have to prevent their children from learning about these types of individuals. In the children’s book And Tango Makes Three, Justin Richardson writes a heartwarming true…

In keeping in line with the criminality of homosexuality, we also discussed the idea of discrimination against homosexuals in the military. While this has been a long running point of debate for many, and there are various different aspects to approach this issue from, I have chosen to look into one of the most important issues that faced homosexuals serving in the armed forces in the past, the idea of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was a policy which stated that while…

TED KELK, AN HONORABLE AND INSIGHTFUL MAN Ted Kelk (b.1927 d.1991) was a strong, passionate and articulate gay man, doggedly directing public attention to the terrible injustice the laws of Queensland imposed on gays, determined thereby to achieve law reform, and as a man of courage, determination and vision, he indeed became the catalyst for gay law reform in Queensland; Queensland born, and brought up on the family farm near Nambour, Ted entered teachers’ training college at only 16,…

There are many issues surrounding same-sex couples wanting to have children. Who is the legal guardian of the child in terms of custody? Will the child be bullied because of their parents? How is bullying stopped? Will that child grow up the same as any other child would? Does a parent’s sexual orientation determine the child’s sexual orientation? Viet Nguyen, the secretary of Texas Tech University’s Gay-Straight Alliance, said she sees no difference between children of same-sex couples and…