Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays

Thanksgiving is coming up so I have to invite some people. This year will be different, instead and inviting thousands of my family members, I will be inventing 5 people cause last year I didn't get any food last time. So I shall be inventing my cousins)Thaila and Etianna, Kendrick Lamar(a rapper), Logic (also a rapper), and Rosa Parks. These people (not my cousins) has rather been an inspiration to me or told the truth in their music. It makes me want to do amazing thing with my life. It just…

being a gay best friend assumes certain spaces of privilege. To be fashionable, one cannot be poor and homeless; to have a sharp tongue, one cannot be preoccupied nursing a black eye. Rickie faces all these obstacles—he…

It’s a Saturday night and you’re watching television with your family. A show comes on and it centers around the life of homosexuals. Back in the ‘80s, this show would have been brutally criticized and switched immediately. However, it’s not the ‘80s, but rather 2016 and the acceptance of homosexuals is continuously increasing. This television series would probably be kept on in most households with no backlash or disapproval. The term homosexual is becoming more common to the world around…

has many cases of criticized divorces, remarriages, individual paternity, existence of gay and lesbian parents and merged families have the right of same standing and status in our society as others have. This essay should that which aspects of her essay are support and sympathy of the criticized families in the society. It is about the specific types of marriages and about how it is acceptable for the families different from having typical outlines. Barbara Kingsolver, the authors…

Should Gay Marriage Be Legal? “Tradition alone cannot form a rational basis for a law… The fact that a particular discrimination has been ‘traditional’ is even more of a reason to be skeptical of its rationality.” - Judge Chris Piazza Gay marriage has been a controversial headline that in the past couple years, hasn 't seemed to actually left the news. Why? Well, because our country is discriminative against anyone or anything that is different from the ‘normal’ or quite frankly,…

world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things black nor all things white” (Kinsey, 1948). Kinsey’s revolutionary scale, as pointed out by Diamond (2008, p. 256), has been massively taken out of context and been divided into rigid “gay/lesbian, straight, and bisexual” categories. Despite Kinsey’s attempt to be anticategorical, we as a society seem to constrict ourselves to categories regardless. I speculate that this because it’s easier to wrap our heads around something if its…

The youth of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) community continue to face struggles, and a result sexual orientation and gender identity continues to be is a huge and sensitive issue in today's society. It is not easy for a young person to “come out” about their gender identity because of the fear of how their parents might feel about their sexuality. The LGBTQ youth’s primary concern is sure to be whether their families reaction will be positive or negative…

Ideal families in the fifties consisted of a working father, a mother who was a housewife, and a few children. Many men joined unions to take care of their families, where they were able to receive pensions and health benefits. The government also supported most families with their financial situation after the war had ended. Although the "ideal" family life was pleasing, it did not last very long. According to Pauline Irit Erera in What Is A Family, "The main reason for family change was…

One of these benefits is for lesbians. In the article “Why Gay and Lesbian Couples Pay More,” the author mentions a lesbian couple JaChel and Micaela, who have a baby daughter, but Micaela wants to give birth to her second child, yet her single policy wouldn’t be enough to cover all the costs (Brown 39). If gay marriage was legal in their state, Micaela’s status wouldn’t be as “single” and all her maternity costs would be covered. Just because a woman is lesbian, it doesn’t mean she does not…

take place in South Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and many other places. This should not be confused with Forced marriages. In Arranged marriage while the family or friends decide the meeting of the spouses, the spouses agree on their own free will to marry each other. While in Forced marriage the family or friends still decide the meeting of the spouses however, the spouses have no consent whatsoever. These types of marriages were common throughout the 18th century through the…