Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays

journey of finding sexual identity to journey that three-dimensional and mirroring to life. Pariah tells the story of Alike, a 17-year-old African-American from Brooklyn embracing her identity as a lesbian. She struggles in accepting her own sexuality and balancing the acceptance of friends and family, all while dealing with heartbreak and finding her identity. While…

I come from a background where some of my family members are part of the LGBTQ community along with a big portion of my friends. From a very young age, I was exposed to this wonderful community of human beings who had suffered from discrimination and hateful acts all because they identify themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer. I have witnessed and felt their pain and fears and I think that no human being…

being part of the L.G.B.T. Community, this would help any teenager coming out to their family or friends. This article demonstrates the perfect argument that…

“This is England” represent the British society during the Thatcher Years. There is a lot of prejudice and discrimination in all three movies, especially against gay people, women and black people. These three groups of people are widely discriminated and prejudiced, even today. The first movie “PRIDE” focuses on a group of gays and lesbians that chooses to support the miners during the strike in 1984. Even though same-sex activity became legal in all of UK in 1982, people still consider the…

Imagine with me that a close friend of yours can finally marry their same- sex partner. Eager to wed, the couple organizes a small ceremony at the local court house. They plan a reception afterwards and their families fly into town to celebrate with them. However, once they get to the courthouse, all of the officials refuse to marry the couple based on their religious views. This scenario is currently taking place in the McCrory County of North Carolina, where every official refuses to…

affected me, as I’m sure it has affected many others. Firstly, Orphan Black got me through high school, which is a feat unto itself. I started at a new school my freshmen year and felt extremely isolated. Over the next two years, I was faced with family problems and still had not found a good footing at school. These too things caused me to become every lonely and depressed. So much so that I contemplated suicide, but through all this Orphan Black was the one thing I looked forward to. I was…

future. My generation will stand on this earth long after you have ceased your power, in fifty years the future generations will be moulded around the decisions you make today. In the 21st century Australia has made some progress in protecting the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender (LGBT) community, there have been laws put in place to protect against discrimination. We protect them in their work by not allowing…

of ten and twenty-four (“Suicide Prevention”). Because mental illnesses are a stigma difficult to discuss, it especially challenging to efficiently talk about suicidal thoughts with teenagers. Along with the stigmatism of mental illnesses, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) community is stigmatized as well. Many youth who are committing suicide have a mental illness, or are LGBT. According to The Trevor Project, a non-profit, national suicide prevention organization, LGBT youth are four…

lack of information available in Cairns on the new disease killing his friends and acquaintances, Bert Gerbrands began giving out HIV/AIDS literature in 1982. Declaring gays, prostitutes, and drug users unwelcome in Queensland, Premier Bjelke-Petersen declared that information on the disease would just promote and encourage vice, and therefore his government would not provide such information. Fortunately, Bert’s long time friend, well known STD and AIDS Specialist, Dr. David Bradford, head of…

life. It is a time to spend with friends and family and seals a lifetime promise. Rauch definition of marriage is, " Marriage is a deal between a couple and society, not just between two people: society recognizes the sanctity and autonomy of the pair-bond, and in exchange each spouse commits to being the other's nurse, social worker, and policeman of first resort" (cite). Every marriage is a little different and is within its society of the bigger society. These benefits, give me a legal…