Bisexuality

The LGBTQIA+ community faces many challenges in today’s society. One major challenge that the community must conquer is being outed as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, pansexual, or other aspects of the community. However, is this a challenge that the community really has to conquer? Richard D. Mohr, writer of The Case of Outing, explores this topic and why members of the LGBTQIA+ community should out other members of the community. To give context to this subject, there are two…

Love and Sex Final Paper: Equal Access to Love Merriam-Webster defines love as attraction based on sexual desire: affection and tenderness felt by lovers (Merriam). Although this seems to be a basic human right, there are certain factors that make obtaining love, sex, or both more difficult for certain groups of people than others. Two specific factors include ones race and their sexuality. According to authors like Katz, Sullivan, and Bedi, sexuality and race can affect someone’s experiences…

The group that is evaluated in this report is the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD). GLAD is non-profit organization in the United States that works to stop discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status, and gender identity. The group originated in Boston, and serves the New England area of United States. The group was found by John Ward in 1978. His goal was to educated the lesbian, gays, bi-sexual, and transgender, questioning or queer (LGBTQ) on their legal rights…

Throughout my childhood, I’ve endured an alcoholic father, being sexually abused, and coming to the realization that I’m gay. While inherently some of the biggest hardships in my life, they don’t compare to the struggles I created for myself though my mistakes. When I started high school it dawned on me, there was a strong possibility of becoming valedictorian. I’d always been a very good student and received all A’s at the end of the first quarter of my freshman year. Unfortunately, I…

My curiosity was first sparked by the LGBT+ community when I was in eighth grade. This was when I discovered my sexual orientation differed from my friends'. At this point, I knew nothing but the terms "gay" and "straight". Now I am aware of the numerous sexualities and genders that exist. Because of this curiosity, along with my own identity, I have spent countless hours since eighth grade doing my best to help the LGBT+ community. I have found that the best way to do this is through education,…

Bullying and Intersectionality Though many research studies focus on LGBT+ youth in comparison to heterosexual youth, or the differences in gender, there are few studies that focus on the different identities of an individual together and compare the intersectionality between such individuals. Intersectionality is the “recognition of multiple interlocking identities that are defined in terms of relative sociocultural power and privilege and shape people’s individual and collective identities…

In the latest half century, Homosexuality social movements were all over the world. Traditional concept of “A man and a woman” have been challenged. There are people who believe that it’s every person’s right to choose who they love and who they want to spend their life with, regardless of gender. However, there are also people who think that it isn’t how the natural code works, it is not normal. The biggest suffering choice hits directly to the parents, they are forced to decide what they…

Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines homophobia as the irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals. While society has made great strides towards becoming more accepting of the LGBTQ community, there is still a portion of the population that has not changed. And in hip hop culture today, it can be seen by many that homophobia is still prevalent. Joel Penney is quite aware of this as his article entitled, “We Don’t Wear Tight Clothes”: Gay Panic and…

The result of the study suggest that among UP 2nd year Students, higher education brings positive effect on attitudes towards homosexuality, a group that has suffered prejudices in the general society. More education was linked with new positive views of, acceptance and equal treatment to gay people, willingness to interact with homosexual people, and extends equal rights to all. Moreover, higher level understanding was found to have positive feedback on the majority of the respondents even…

Privacy is considered to be an important value because it protects personal information from the public's perusal. People’s uniqueness derive from their personal judgement and belief towards others. Although everyone’s differing viewpoints can contribute a greater alternative to society, it is not always the case. Since people's’ minds are so different from one another, there is bound to be disagreements. A great example of this is homosexuality. For centuries, homosexulaity is seen to be some…