Ex-gay

Page 153 in Fun Home, Alison illustrates the situation that almost threw him out of the closet. Being caught with a young man and beer in his car. Now, that situation is not something you’d want to have over you. Bad enough that men of the gay community in the 1960’s were portrayed as older men who prey on young boys or pedophiles. In a 1960 propaganda titled “Boys Beware” produced by Sid Davis Production for the Inglewood Police Department, it was used to inform the public about these mentally…

“anti-gay propaganda”. This law bans propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations among minors (Chance 2). There are those who believe that Russia is standing on weak, wobbly wooden legs and these laws purposely serve as a distraction tactic from the internal and systematic problems within their country (alliteration of w; metaphor). But why cause so much suffrage, pain and harm amongst your own people (rhetorical question)? It is to our concern as humans to address and help fight for gay…

Growing up gay in machismo community had its difficulties. Not meeting the status quo can make you feel horribly excommunicated. Often times I would feel as if it was expected that I partake in "manly" activities that just made me feel uncomfortable. Cat-calling and football just weren 't for me. Because of this, I typically felt like I was a failure as a man. But i also felt uneasy conforming to the stereotypical idea of "the gay male". It wasn 't until i was able to see how other guys my age…

As a social worker, the idea of being culturally competent is a vital and important one. Many of the clients that we will work with through our careers are going to be different from us in more ways than one. Being able to understand how to appropriately and effectively work with clients who are different than us is a significant part of the profession. Cultural competence also spreads out into being important in regards to the agency an individual works for. Agencies need to make sure that…

this done to me, why not just choose to be gay? It’s not that simple, just like many penguins and dolphins, I cannot simply choose to be gay, just as those who are gay cannot choose to be straight. Being gay is just the way homosexuals were born. “Gay people can choose to be straight,” I hear this statement all the time from people who are members of a church. But if it were so simple to choose being straight, why did they choose the torture of being gay to begin with? It is inconceivable that…

laws are created and changed because of the interests that certain groups in society have. This can be applied to Stonewall because the gay community had a common goal as a collective group in society and were able to impact the law in some way. This can then be applied to the analysis of how things were for gay people before and after Stonewall. Prior to Stonewall, gay people were forced to remain silent about their sexual orientation and were forced to remain oppressed. While after the…

room to procure them, but you see an empty bottle of pills. They will not wake up. You look on their desk after looking at their body, finding a note explaining everything. What would you do? Almost half the world is accepting of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) community. However, there are still a numerous amount of cases dealing with LGBT suicides due to bullying and discrimination. These cases are a nightmare. This is why the LGBT community needs to have more rights because it…

Over time society has manipulated the meaning of many words. Imagine a word that was simply meant to be a bundle of sticks but as time past it became one of the most hateful words an individual can say to another human being. The word faggot is a very powerful and hateful word that leaves an impression on an individual’s life in both short term and long term time periods. The word faggot came from the word fagot which was from the late thirteenth century England and meant a bundle of sticks.…

Taken from his book which outlines the history of gay men’s dress in the twentieth century, Shaun Cole’s ‘Clubbing at the Blitz, the Batcave and Beyond’ focuses on establishing a connection between the fashion choices of the New Romantic subculture and the early eighties LGBTQ+ community. This discussion on their intertextuality differs to other writings about the period, which very much look to the politics or the fashion of the era. His perspective on the movement celebrates the freedom that…

Gay Marriage and Gay Marriage Services The Supreme Court ruling is being followed but on the edges of that ruling are loopholes being jumped through. Gay marriages are now legal, but the service providers for their weddings are now denying them their specific service. That comes from baking the cakes to photography for the weddings. These are all essential for a wedding in this day and age. Should this behavior continue to be allowed? “Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined…