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    In a way it is quite unusual to be a gay person in diverse an assumed to be original town like of Houston. This is in no way bashing the city in any way but particularly just throwing my two cents to grow up as a gay Mexican American and discovering the gay community. The smell of liquor and stench of sweaty people around you isn’t the combination that is flattering. I didn’t grow up with the same freedom most of this people did and is was quite clear. I grew up in a Mexican family with the belief of my mom weighing down on us like an iron fist. It wasn’t that she was evil but she tried to shelter us from becoming like our father who was at that time an alcoholic with a hint of abusiveness in him. In a way it was a struggling effort to play two different rolls and with one being pervasive to the other is not fun. I can remember moments when growing up I had to give a show and hope no one doesn’t find out about me. The thing with my classes and growing up, a lot of students were Mexican American as well. You could say a lot of the populations of students of the schools I went too were Latinos. The problem wasn’t that but the fact that sometimes our culture carries being masculine as important and not to be seen as weak. Obviously the best way kids can prove…

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    CVS Health in January of 2015. As a consequence, I selected my subject on the gay community and the social impact that this group has had in our contemporary society. Although I’ve previously read the struggles that the LGBT community has consistently endured, I wanted to hear personal experiences from Daniel in order to fully comprehend the magnitude of the situation. The interview with Daniel demonstrates the social inequality that exists within our society in terms of how minority’s including…

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    is a documentary about the gay community prior to the Stonewall Riots in New York City in 1969. Through historical events and interviews from people from each decade, the secrecy, prejudice, and even comradery within the gay community was addressed throughout the film. The documentary begins with talk of speakeasies during prohibition in the 1920s. People would sometimes have speakeasies in their basements, which often served as a gathering place for secret homosexuals to socialize and meet…

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    Even though gay marriage is legal throughout the entire country, it does not change the fact that discrimination in the LGBTQ community still happens everyday. People who discriminate against those in LGBTQ community should have harsher punishments put against them. To some people this may sound insane, that in 2016 gay people are still be looked down upon, but today I am here to show you some major examples of what goes on everyday right here in our country. Denial of service, suicide rates…

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    Field Study Paper Marque Griggs Tennessee State University Field Study Paper Research has found that racial prejudice is something that may be tolerated in the gay community (Callander, Newman, & Holt, 2015). The researchers posit that racial prejudices and preferences are more openly communicated in online communities than in person and found that many people do not consider voicing racial preferences as a microaggression or racism. These experiences of general racism perpetuated in the Gay…

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    AIDS had affected primarily the gay community. No one knew anything about AIDS, or why it seemed to plague the homosexual community. Originally, the virus was labeled as a gay disease/cancer. One can argue that perhaps a certain segment of the homosexual population was not practicing safe sex. In addition, the virus also affected bisexual men, heterosexuals, other members of the LGBT community, intravenous drug users who shared needles and in some minor cases, some individuals acquired the…

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    Dorian insists that Ignatius is nuts, Ignatius starts to insult the gay community. But when Ignatius see’s that the Gay community in New Orleans is larger than he thought, even extending to the military, he decides to work with them. The gay community in New Orleans has a rich history. It hosts the oldest gay bar in America Cafe Lafitte in Exile, opened in 1953. Before that, the original owners owned Lafitte Blacksmith Shop. Which was another gay bar opened 1936, before losing their lease. (A…

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    when being confidently gay and black had violent consequences, it was important that at-risk individuals had a place to be comfortable and expressive. Paris Is Burning, directed by Jennifer Livingston, shed a necessary light on the subculture of the house system and the ball circuit in 1980’s New York City. Because of the socioeconomic and political culture surrounding the Reagan Administration, there was high demand for asylum for LGBT individuals, thus creating the house system. This house…

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    Battcock is an oil on canvas piece by the artist Alice Neel. In this piece you see two seated men, one in suit and tie and the other only in underwear. Both men seem to be staring off into the distance with disinterest. This piece is actually a portrait of the openly gay couple. Alice specialized in portraits and bringing attention to features others usually didnt say much about although you could not help think of. All Alice did was put it in a painting. This piece’s success atributes to a few…

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    The Gay Community In the historical document “The Declaration of Independence” written by Thomas Jefferson, there is a demand for immediate freedom from oppression and equal rights for all men. There is a question that comes to mind when contemplating equality: are we really considered equal regardless of our differences, or are we only equal when we conform to the social norms? Jefferson writes: Prudence, indeed will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and…

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