Bisexuality

Maria Callas was a famous opera singer who faced adversity from the very beginning of her career. She was ridiculed and dismissed because of both her looks and her style of singing. She however overtime became very popular for the same reasons that she was originality shunned for. Due to her resilience and attitude towards those who looked down upon her she became very popular among the homosexual community. Wayne Koestenbaum was one such person who found Callas’ personality to enough him to…

Non-heterosexual orientations and relationships have long been the topic of psychological research. While much of this research has been harmful or lead to harmful results, including pseudoscience such as conversion therapy, some of it has been of interest or even useful to LGBT communities. The studies reviewed in this paper, as well as other referenced studies, investigated the effects of several minority stressors on the stability and quality of same-sex relationships in various sample…

The existence of mermaids has been a long and controversial topic for years! The legends of mermaids have even been dated back to the time of Christopher Columbus discovering the Americas. Comparing mermaids to humans is quite an easy topic to discuss, but also maybe a far-fetched one as many people all over the world roll their eyes at the stories and tales of the existence of them. People are just afraid of what they don't know, that's why we say ''ignorance is bliss'', and when it comes to…

Over the course of the last decade, even though film and television audiences have seen an explosion in the visibility of gay characters, there remains the issue that male homosexual interaction, including hugging and kissing, is largely avoided in mainstream media. Consequently, homosexuality has been forced to make its pop culture debut in others ways, such as by the portrayal of clearly recognizable male homosexual stereotypes. Until the 1970s, the codes for labeling male homosexuality were…

Organ rejection is a common misfortune in medicine today. However, most of them happen in a patient’s body. This is not the case for Adam Scott, whose organs were rejected simply because he was gay. Although his suicide did not allow him to see his organs turned away for such an extraneous reason, his mother was forced to bear not only the grief of the death of her son, but the anger that came with the rejection. “At first I didn’t understand why his sexual orientation would affect his organs.…

Is gay marriage wrong? A vast majority have encountered the debate on more than a single occasion -- even more so over the past recent decades. Consequently, most people feel quite strongly one way or the other, the small exception being what Ed Stetzer, the president of LifeWay Research, referred to as the ‘mushy middle’ -- people who may hold some religious belief or another, but overall are not active in the church community, and therefore their opinions can be easily swayed in either…

1) The Mattachine Society is a group of homosexual man in the 1950’s who decided to start a group to protect Gay man. They believe that Gay man had the same right has heterosexual men. These men were influenced by communist ideology and came up with this group to fight for what is right. The Organization was founded in 1950’s, it gained members and they had another chapter in California within two years. After a couple of years, the organization abandoned the original structure of the group and…

In Growing up Gay in the South: Race, Gender, and Journeys of the Spirit, Sears (1991) provides compelling narratives of high school life for lesbian and gay youth in South Carolina, the heart of the Protestant evangelical South, and the difficulties of the lesbian and youth gaining acceptance in the conservative state. The majority of South Carolinians is conservative Christians (Sears, 1991). Thereby, the conservative Christians in SC are “fervent believers in rebirth and redemption, the blood…

There are so many very serious social justice issues going on today. There first social justice issue I feel strongly about and believe is a huge problem is the treatment of homosexuals. Though there has been major progression in the treatment towards homosexuals legally there are still many prejudiced people that treat them terribly. Last summer on June 26 the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage. Some people were ecstatic with ruling and others found it morally wrong. Though gay marriage was…

cloning not only brings trouble upon morality or ethically but also religiously. in the Christian community it is believed that life begins at conception and the soul enters body at this point. it also acts as human playing role of God who should be the only creator of life. the Islamic community believes that only the heart and kidneys are permitted and also rewarded by Allah if used for treatment. in Judaism Standard rabbis for the most part locate no firm reason in Jewish law and morals to…