Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays

and emotional abusive behaviours used by one person in a relationship to control the other. Partners may be married or not married, heterosexual or gay/lesbian, living together or separated and lastly dating or broken up. Types of domestic violence include, name-calling or putdowns (neglect), keeping a partner from contacting their family or friends (social), withholding money (economical), stopping a partner from getting or keeping a job (social/economical), actual or threatened physical harm,…

Some of the themes the musicals were portraying were, racism, cross dressing, homophobia and gay rights, and sexually transmitted diseases. In history theses themes play a big part in our society. Racism of course because of the segregation between blacks, at the…

analysis of Modern Family Winning the Golden Globes 4 years in a row, “Modern Family” the american comedy, is still releasing trending episodes where the day to day life of three different types of families hook our eyes every Tuesday at 9:00 p.m in ABC family. It’s not only Sofia Vergara (the highest-paid TV actress in the U.S) who influences the rating to go up. In fact, the hilarious of the show “Modern Family” consists of 3 unsual marriages, each one representing a contrasting family…

this right, gay couples wanted the same rights. All throughout the United States homosexuals tried to gain this right but everywhere they tried, they would get stumped. In 1972 during Baker v. Nelson marriage rights were denied to gays in Minnesota while in Georgia during the 1986 case of Bowers v. Hardwick homosexual sodomy was banned. On the Pacific coast in Hawaii a state constitutional amendment was passed banning the union between homosexuals (Wolf). To make matters worse for the gay…

words: adolescence, coming out, gay and lesbian adolescents, Latino parents and youth, parents, intergroup conflict, social identity, family influence, teenage suicide, parent-adolescent conflict, religion and traditional family values. A small body of studies discusses parent/adolescent conflict resolution, but not in the context of LGBT youth. However, in all case studies the effects of coming out to families, invites feelings of personal loss (Newman…

increases the number of elderly inmates, the number of inmates with HIV, as well as mentally ill inmates, and most importantly long time-term prisoners. Personally, I recall the last time I visited a family friend in prison about five years ago. I noticed there was several elderly prisoners and according to my friend they were serving a life sentence in prison. Furthermore, I am aware that the elderly community does require medical care services as well as governmental and social service…

Sexuality in the earlier years of the 1900s and years before was treated as taboo. It was wrong to talk about sex with anyone. Sex was even an off limit to researchers that was only until the later part of the twentieth century. But why did society hide from sexuality, when its theme is found so many times throughout our day? Before the twenty first century many saw sex as the single most difficult subject to discuss because most people feel embarrassed or insecure. Now that sex has become more…

that any feminine behavior expressed on a date can often lead to the date ending early. A level of disgust often fills the air. Gay men specifically are terrified of the stigma of being feminine. It all seems to boil back down to the idea that if you are feminine or anything at all like a woman, then you are weak. Sadly, this has triggered copious amounts of posturing from gay men to try and prove that homosexuality does not necessarily mean femininity. Thus, the homophobia within the LGBT…

look like or their religion or cultures. This mindset that I have has helped me a lot in my social relationships. In high school I was not in a certain group or clique. I was friends with every type of group there is in high school. Whether it be gays, jocks, loners, or even the jocks. I was so open to meeting new friends that I did not…

the catholic religion. Around the middle age of twenty Jim Obergefell finally came out to his family as gay. In 1992 Jim met his reason to fight for gay rights, John Arthur. After these two had frequently met up they began to fall for each other more, and as time went by the both of them lived together, worked together, and began to live a normal happy life together surrounded by supportive family and friends. In 2011, Arthur began to have serious medical issues, and eventually was diagnosed…