Gay community

Growing up gay in machismo community had its difficulties. Not meeting the status quo can make you feel horribly excommunicated. Often times I would feel as if it was expected that I partake in "manly" activities that just made me feel uncomfortable. Cat-calling and football just weren 't for me. Because of this, I typically felt like I was a failure as a man. But i also felt uneasy conforming to the stereotypical idea of "the gay male". It wasn 't until i was able to see how other guys my age…

On October 7, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay 21-year-old college student, was abducted by two men who took him to a remote area, tied him to a fence, severely beat him with the butt of a pistol, and left him to die in the cold of the night. Matthew Shepard’s death became one of the most notorious anti-gay hate crimes in America, and 18 years later, it wasn’t the last. June 12, 2016 brought upon a new era of anti-gay hate crimes when 49 people were killed and 53 were injured in the Orlando night…

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…

Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is the only art museum of its kind in the world. It includes art pieces of both gay and lesbian erotica, along with other pieces relating to social movements regarding sexual orientation and gender identification. As discussed in class, social justice movements all revolve around the idea of making minority groups feel like the majority. It is crucial to give them a platform to express themselves and…

a marriage has really heated up during the 20th century. In the late 60’s there was some scuttles with the police and gay areas in Ontario and New York. These started to lay a foundation down of what right a government has to interfere with a group of people that are causing no harm Through the 70 's the HIV/AIDS crisis came unfolding many ideas about the gay community. Before gay groups lived on the margins of cities not much interacting with the government. Many people suddenly saw their…

article takes a clear focus on the fight for Australian gay rights and the clear oppression faced along the way. On the cold Saturday of June 24th, 1978, marchers, gay, lesbian and transgender alike assembled in Taylor Square in Sydney. The concept of the march was heavily influenced by the Stonewall Riot in Greenwich Village, New York, which marked the modern era “homosexual liberation”. During the 1970’s, members of the gay community were forced to live the concept of a…

People are made fun of on a daily basis for being themselves. People in the L.G.B.T. community are especially made fun of, laughed at and treated like lesser people, just for being themselves. People think that just because you learned something as a part of their religion, that it is the complete truth. People say that just because someone found true love in someone that happens to be the same sexuality as them, that they are not like other people and will not be able to enjoy life like it…

Is being gay a choice? “Sergio Urrego, 16, took his own life last month after Catholic school administrators harassed the teenager by making his relationship with another young man public and accused him of sexual harassment.”() It is the many situations like this that make one wonder why someone would choose this lifestyle. But the fact of the matter is that it isn’t a choice at all. Although many people think that being gay is a personal decision, being gay is not a choice. It is an…

Your silences will not protect you”, Audre Lorde wrote in “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”(Lorde and Clarke 2007). The LGBT community has had to fight for social and political progress within many diverse spheres. Early movements often struggled to select the appropriate approaches towards achieving progress. Many issues the community has been confronted with were divisive in nature, with some preferring assimilation, while others preferred a more radical approach. In…

The group that is evaluated in this report is the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD). GLAD is non-profit organization in the United States that works to stop discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status, and gender identity. The group originated in Boston, and serves the New England area of United States. The group was found by John Ward in 1978. His goal was to educated the lesbian, gays, bi-sexual, and transgender, questioning or queer (LGBTQ) on their legal rights…