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displayed an earnest sensibility toward gay life. This can be observed through the much beloved Waylon Smithers. His continual progress as a gay man is evident through episodes such as “Secrets of a Successful Marriage,” in where Smithers is notably closeted, to the more recent “The Burns Cage,” his final coming out segment. Thus, the success of Obergefell v. Hodges can also be attributed to contemporary televisions queer sensibility. However, this also extends into the ongoing immigration…

Emile Zola details the lives of middle and lower class individuals in the fictional novel Germinal. In doing so, he reveals much about the effects class and gender have on people 's lives in mid nineteenth century France. According to Zola and the information contained in Germinal in mid nineteenth century Europe class and gender were determinants for how individuals and families behaved, influencing every part of a person’s life. In the novel, class and gender influence minor day to day…

First one problems and privilege and the illusion I had my first first-date at Valley Fair Mall last week. My date brandished his new iPhone and told me how being poor is hard on him. I told him how the child in China who made his phone was poor and abused, he wasn’t. This ignorance of ones privilege, present in my date and in most first-world citizens, is what the narrator masterfully brings out in“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin. The city of Omelas has joyful…

Scene 5 is a pivotal scene in relation the theme of reality and illusion and how it is central to the character of Blanche and the persona she has created for herself as the scene marks a major shift in the protagonist’s mental stability. The theme of reality and illusion is intertwined with Blanche’s mental state and desperation to survive in a world alien to her and Williams uses plastic theatre to encompass that using symbolism in staging. From the star her polarising difference to her…

Introduction In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, following decades of sociopolitical mobilization by members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community and their allies. However, members of the LGBT community have criticized the narrow focus on marriage equality, arguing it sidesteps other urgent community issues like racism, class conflicts, transphobia, youth homelessness, and others (Spade and Willse 2013; Duggan 2012a; Warner 1999). Moreover,…

Influences of Sexual Behaviors Throughout the course of history, natural law inadvertently created a culture that in and of itself bears a certain level of responsibility in shaping the sexual behaviors of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations. The principles of natural law as standards have been applied to theories of ethics, politics, civil law, and religious morality (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2011). Digress to 636c, and the dialogs of Plato, who’s writing…

key, perhaps this genera ration of millennial may have caught I don't know I can't speak for them. I know that I am able to speak to that because I am speaking from firsthand knowledge. Consider an eyewitness to those events, another scene is where closeted homosexuals did want to be outed such as Roy Kohn scene with his doctor, when he say Roy Known is not a homosexual Roy known is a heteteesxula man who has sex with men, tha was another sign that instantly brought me back to a period in time…

How have gay rights and same sex marriages changed for service members? The world is full of diverse people. The living world changes everyday. It is apparent that everyone is subjected to the law and deserves to be treated equally; yet people are not accepting toward one another. Sexual orientation is a major controversial affair. Many people in my audience may not be aware that gay rights express a misconception; but it is important to have an open mind and learn more. Attitudes have varied in…

that is available to men or people that present as men and that easily excludes trans women because they clearly fall into neither category. The famous Caitlyn Jenner also offered a genuine record of the “dysphoria and isolation she suffered as a closeted trans girl and woman” (Ginelle). Being read as male because of what you wear or how you talk is not all that male privilege is about cause if that is the…

It is never too late to fall in love for the first time in your life. I could not help myself ,but think of the Facts of Life theme song after seeing the new romantic comedy/drama movie Saving Face. Saving Face is a 2004 movie directed by, Alice Wu, is about an American theatrical release featuring an Asian American lesbian couple. One character that stands out in the story is, Vivian Shing, (Lynn Chen) because, Vivian Shing, is a typical boy-meets-girl, boy-gets-girl, boy-loses-girl,…