Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays

individuals from different background, culture, religious affiliation, and societal status to make a family unit with the procreation of a next generation in foreknowledge. Unfortunately, it’s not like that for countless couples.…

Divorce in families is common and can affect the child’s psyche. The child may feel abandoned and act out as a result. Another example to give the feeling of abandonment would be a mother or father being deployed or dying. As irrational as it may seem the child’s mind…

During the 1960s, several socio-cultural and political events like students’ protest, anti-Vietnam war agitation, liberation for lesbians and gays andthe Women’s Movement shook the American literary scenario. The new generation of playwrights used drama as a potent medium in depicting the ongoing turbulence that prevailed in the society deftly. However, the Women’s Movement gathered women from allwalks of life, to come to the streets to record their protests and speak their voices. In spiteof…

According to the textbook, abnormal behavior is defined as "behavior, thoughts, and emotions that differ from society 's subjective idea of "proper functioning" and "normality." To me, western society in particular subjectively defines and categorizes what is "proper functioning" in ways that strictly adheres to and maintains the heteropatriarchal social order, as a way to control and censor people 's ' behaviors, thoughts, and emotions. Any sign of one straying from, denying, or defying this…

nothing special. I searched and searched for a book. They say don’t judge a book by its cover, but I do, and that’s what I did that day. I came across Captain Underpants; I had remembered hearing a bunch of my friends talk about how they loved reading those books. However, most of my friends, at the time, were a bunch of guys. Nevertheless, I walked out with that book and fell in love. I read it front to back in just a matter of hours; it wasn’t a hard book to read after all. Captain Underpants…

In the 1949 film The Third Man, protagonist Holly Martins arrives in Vienna to work for his friend Harry Lime only to discover Lime died right before Martins landed in Austria. Without giving too much away, Martins ends up uncovering the circumstances surrounding his childhood chum’s death may be more complex than what’s visible on the surface. The mystery genre -- for both literature and film -- often plays on the idea that the evidence available may not always have the meaning it appears to…

and non-Muslims are killed. Gays are viciously thrown off buildings and little children…

are perceived as violent and aggressive, and to combat this the try to use a strategy of a gentle black man instead so people will think they are not aggressive. For gays and lesbians, there is the all-but-heterosexual strategy so they will “blend in” to the heteronormative culture and how straight people act, but they are actually gay (3-5-18). These strategies are used to help people do gender the way they want…

Picture this: one day you wake up and you’re in a new body. This new body you’re in is the opposite sex. When you walk into the bathroom the reflection you see is something you can’t recognize it. You try and tell people that there something wrong. No one believe you though. They think you’re a little crazy for saying you’re in the wrong body. You’re not happy being forced to become somebody else because this new body just doesn’t feel like home, and everything you do feels like a lie. Though…

Reality versus Perceptibility Growing up I remember watching so many books, shows, and movies about high school. A few of them taught lessons. A few of them portrayed high school to be the greatest time or the worst time of your life. Some even went above and beyond to show you what high school was about, while staying true but being overly dramatic. By growing up in the age of technology watching the tv was basically and everyday thing. Even tho sometimes it was turned into a privilege.…