Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays

Gay marriage, also known as same-sex marriage, has and will continue to be a highly controversial topic throughout the world today. According to the Williams Institute at UCLA, only 3.5 percent of Americans claim to be homosexual, yet it continues to divide this great nation. In the United States, 39 out of the 50 states oppose gay marriage, 6 states allow it, and 5 states allow a civil union between same-sex partners, but do not allow them to marry. These numbers seem like they would…

Gay But Not Happy: The Impact of Queerness on Mental Health Introduction Four years prior to his suicide, 16-year-old Bobby Griffith wrote in his diary: "I can 't let anyone find out that I 'm not straight. It would be so humiliating. My friends would hate me, I just know it. They might even want to beat me up. . . . I guess I 'm no good to anyone . . . not even God. Life is so cruel, and unfair. Sometimes I feel like disappearing from the face of this earth" (Miller 88). After realizing he was…

The second criterion that defines a disease is that a disease usually worsens if left untreated. Although not all diseases can be cured, most of symptoms and effects caused by a disease can be lessened with medications, therapy, surgery, and other treatments. For instance, a person born with asthma, a condition where the airway is being infected and swollen by certain factors such as dust or pollen, can live a healthy and productive life if he or she receives suitable treatments. Although it…

The same website has given a great example, “Gay Marriage will have no impact whatsoever on heterosexual communities, just as racial integration in the 60's had no negative impact on white communities. This is the same concept with legalization of gay marriage, it will grant the LGBT community a right that has been immorally denied to them.” In the U.S. history, we once segregate the African-American…

marriage. Anyhow, gay privileges associations fight that talk about religious groups on marriage are incorrect, a standout amongst which may be the Bible says about polygamy. This article was written by Rob Jones, who is a Journalist, written about marriage equality. The article Church, State, & Marriage Equality was published in 2013. Boston newspaper article talks about how Catholics use the Bible as an excuse to dislike marriage equality. Boston talked about, people who are against gay…

treatment of gay men and lesbians who abuse substances? Some of the difficulties that are specific to the treatment of gay men and lesbians who abuse substances are that counselors should understand that homo-prejudice and trans-prejudice could be internalized causing LGBTQ clients to hold negative attitudes about their own sexual identity. They may also be Alienation from friends and family due to sexual orientation stigma and addictive behavior. Collateral issues may include alienation from…

Today's youth are having difficulty in disclosing their sexual orientation to their family and friends because they fear being , abandoned, judged, hated and isolated. They do not want their family members to treat them different than they treat everyone else . LGBT teens get bullied because they do not look like everyone else and are seen as the odd one out .“Among transgender students 42% were prevented from using their preferred name 59% were required to use a bathroom that did not match…

bullied because of their parents? How is bullying stopped? Will that child grow up the same as any other child would? Does a parent’s sexual orientation determine the child’s sexual orientation? Viet Nguyen, the secretary of Texas Tech University’s Gay-Straight Alliance, said she sees no difference between children of same-sex couples and heterosexual couples. “There’s nothing wrong with them, mentally, physically, academically, there’s nothing wrong,” Nguyen said. According to a report from…

members of the same sex. Despite that it was considered a taboo decades ago, homosexuality had acquired great power in society in recent years. Homosexual individuals are also known as lesbian (women who are attracted by other women) and gay (men who are attracted by other men) in a like manner, the term mentioned above gay, can also be use to refer to both homosexual males and females. For obvious reason like, humiliation, physical attacks, and low self-esteem, many of this individual hides…

under serviced groups in our schools today. Gifted and Talented (G/T) and LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) students and students from LGBT families are not being reached out to and served by most school districts in America. I have been in classrooms with both of these groups, and the teachers were not prepared for their classrooms and it has and is still causing issues with the students and the families. The second issue is one of the most challenging issues that teachers are going…