Enola Gay

Bill Konigsberg, the protagonist in the novel is a boy named Seamus Rafael Goldberg aka (Rafe). Rafe is a gay young adult going off to college and is tired of being labeled. He came out in his high school, and even though he wasn't really bully at his high school, they only knew him from being gay. His name was always that gay kid or the gay boy. He didn’t mind but he didn’t like how being gay was the only thing he’s known for. Rafe, the protagonist of Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg and I…

Katya Fuentes Ayala I consider important to address this issue regarding Gays and other targets of stigma since I have been exposed to two completely different societies and cultures. One from my country El Salvador, and the one I find in the United States. It is an issue that in the last decades has had a lot of controversy in both societies, especially in my country. In the US, the LGBT community is much more accepted. They are a united front and have fought to gain their rights. However, this…

Dion Kagan’s book chapter “Crisis Re-runs: Barebacking, Chemsex & Post-Crisis Sex Panic” begins with a critique of the VICE News documentary “Chemsex”, which is a misleading depiction of chemsex (the combination of sex and drug use among some gay men) as a ‘risky’ sexual practice, one that portrays its participants as immoral and hedonistic. This is one of the many examples that Kagan uses to explain the troubling phenomenon of what he calls ‘re-crisis’. This is defined as the modern…

and the girls' worlds, not belonging or wanted in either". His exclusion from both the boys and girls suggests that Arjie himself inhabits some third space in between these two, but that third space is merely euphemized as “funny” and never named “gay or homosexual”. The author eludes the placement of an official title or label on their narrators. When Arjie invites Shehan , the object of his attraction, to his home, Arjie's brother Diggy remarks that Arjie's father will now "definitely know…

The triangle is a plane figure which is formed by three lines and therefore it has three sides. This shape can be found in many contemporary and historical contexts as can be seen below. 1) The pink triangle is usually associated with the gay community and the gay rights movement as a symbol of empowerment, however, the pink triangle started during around world war two. The Nazis wanted to create an easy system so as to differentiate between the diverse groups in the concentration camps and as a…

After watching Volume 2 of the Human Extended documentary, it seems to be that the one thing that they all have in common is violence. All these individuals have/is experiencing violence. Either they were affected by violence personally, their families were affected my violence personally, their community were affected by violence or simply they were the ones actually participating in violence themselves because they either felt it was the right thing to do at the time (i.e. because of revenge)…

Review of Same Love by Macklemore ‘Underneath it’s all the same love’, Hip-Hop artist Macklemore’s hit ‘Same Love’ released in 2012 reached an astounding 162 million views on YouTube. ‘Same Love’ promotes the legalisation of gay marriage in America, a very topical debate at the time of its release. Macklemore’s hit encompasses an eminent evident message of equality, an equal world where people aren’t discriminated against for sexual preference. Macklemore allows the listener to understand to the…

Being a part of the LGBTQ community, I have developed of sense of what is right and what is wrong. It is not my place to judge those who would like to be different. I have faced so many challenges and still to this day I am trying to figure out my very identity. As someone who has been discriminated against, I have developed a sense of self respect for those who face challenges every day. Core Values The core values that I use every day are respect for those who are different. We as human…

There is currently a widespread opinion in society that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people are underrepresented in mainstream sport. Furthermore, sport is considered a field where sexual prejudice is palpable (Gill et al. 2006). Therefore, many LGBT people may feel discouraged from participating in sport at a grassroots level. Thus, many young LGBT individuals may not have access to LGBT sporting role models in the media (LGBTSRMITM), who by example, may inspire them to imitate…

As a Korean-American lesbian, I often wondered how other people of marginalized identities understand their sense of belonging in the larger society. I had not yet developed my sociological imagination to critically examine how larger social structures shape the ways people understand their social worlds. Now, my sociological training allows me to develop the theoretical, methodological, and organizational approaches necessary to explore how marginalized individuals navigate society,…