Closeted

I have never looked up to, and never have I ever been around, anyone more in my life than my sister. From the moment I was born, we were attached at her hip whether she wanted me there or not - we played with toys, and games, together; I looked up to her; I respected her; she taught me next to everything that I knew about life back before I started school. Once I got a bit older, I reached the point of having the ability to genuinely discover who I was, and find my own identity. Around the same…

“...Something strangely artificial, or even deformed” : Mauro Giuliani's Bold Attempt to Legitimize the Classical Guitar. While he mainly referred to himself as a violoncellist, Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) was the leading guitar virtuoso of his time and still stands as one of the leading composers in the repertoire of the instrument. A well respected and well connected musician in early 19th century Italy, Giuliani was regularly seen performing, dining and in the entorages of the likes of Haydn…

Homosexuality is a constant topic in the media and is always being shunned with religious motives in both past and present. In recent news, politicians in some states are aiming for the criminalization of homosexuality while others are passing legislation for the recognition of same-sex marriages. Michael Levin presents a purely scientific and secular argument against homosexuality and homosexual marriages in his work “Why Homosexuality is Abnormal.” Michael Levin addresses the debate question:…

Heterosexuality. The norm. Man meets woman and they go on countless dates and share many passionate, public kisses. Pedestrians passing by witness their romantic gestures and are in awe of their romance and cannot help but think, “What a beautiful couple” and smile towards the new lovers. Homosexuality. A controversial word. Man meets man and they go on many dates and steal a kiss or two and get an abundant amount of looks of disgust and disapproval. A group of people passing through snicker and…

Women in Literature class granted the students an open door towards a new world of literature, teaching students the importance behind each reading, specially the importance and identification of objective correlatives which can be found in every piece discussed throughout the class. “Objective correlative” is the way to express emotions through the usage of objects or events that share the burden of sentiments. Placing an object instead of an feeling or idea can sometimes be the right way to…

But it wasn’t until joining the campaign of Barry Goldwater that he realized his closeted outlook on things needed to change. A lover of Harvey’s, likewise to himself, loved theatre, and introduced Harvey to the cast and director of the show “Hair” in San Francisco. Upon meeting like minded people, Harvey decided to move to the Bay area…

Although the DADT continued discriminatory practices against homosexual members of the military, it did lift an official ban from WW2 that completely excluded gays from the military; some argued that the DADT justly allowed gays in the military through ‘closeted…

Wesangula uses the short story into the life of Patrick Murage to his advantage at ethos to express how a closeted gay man at the age of 36 has to hide the fact that he may have found his one true love at last. According to Wesangula’s report (2015), Patrick Murage expresses in his words “‘I am at the age where I am supposed to have a job, a family of my own…

That Poor Girl and how he Killed her is a play with a social message around a girl named Alyssa Long, a girl who is presumed raped and killed by a mysterious figure named Felix Amaya. The audience however is made aware during the play’s plot that this death is a farce created by Alyssa’s brother Connor and her friend Bianca. The rest of the play deals with both Alyssa and Felix’s sobering interactions and also the twisted social reality in which Alyssa’s friends attempt to deal with the loss of…

Growing up as a closeted lesbian meant that I spent a lot of my time wondering why the books I read never had characters I could relate to. I was an avid reader, reading two or three books a day at times before moving on to the next thing. Yet these stories always kept to…