Gay Liberation

Homophobia in Jamaica Due to gay rights, there is a exceedingly high crime rate in Jamaica. Jamaica has the world’s highest murder rate and citizens can’t rely on police protection because protection is generally poor. Most of the country is Christian, therefore they find LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) to be sinful. People of gay background are less likely to find homes or be hired for jobs. Jamaica is the most homophobic country in the world. There is an extensive amount…

The Frias-Navarro et al, (2015) project measured whether opinions about the inherited or conservative analysis of the gay orientation can be instantaneously changed by interpretation a transcript and the fundamental result of ascriptions about the regulator (environment) or non-controller (inherited) of gay orientation on the denial of gay parenting and their societal privileges. The Frias-Navarro et al, (2015) study projected the results showed that beliefs about the etiology…

In the epilogue of Michael Bronksi’s A Queer History of the United States (2011), Bonski asserts that the recent battle for marriage equality may in fact undermine the LGBT movement’s original intention to “fight to eliminate or limit the state’s involvement in consensual relationships” by insisting that it forces queer people take on the classic American lie: we are “just like you” (pp. 240, 241). Implicit in this claim is the belief that most queer people are not interested in establishing…

knowing that they are gay or lesbian, the idea of “choice” seems downright offensive. David Halperin, author of “Is there a History of Sexuality” argues throughout his text that indeed there are moments in history, such as movements, both political and social, that have shaped the way in which people identify themselves sexually. He talks about different societies, such as the Mediterranean societies, and how they viewed sexuality as autonomous D’Emilio author of, “Born Gay”, as well presents a…

more accepted than it has ever been before, especially considering that gay marriage has just been legalized. Despite the small changes that America has made to accommodate this marginalized group; many people feel like they don 't deserve right at all. Thousands of people think that the LGBT community is such a foreign concept and their default reaction is fear. It is ironic how so many people can feel like the thought of being gay or transgender is so entirely new because it 's been around for…

as the starting point in uncovering the extent in which Whitman’s at the time most scorned poetry employed either outright queer imagery or otherwise latent queer code in order to convey his message of free love as opposed to contempt, an issue most gay men had to face in the nineteenth century (men only, seeing that romantic affairs between women were disregarded as innocuous and platonic). The basis of this theory lies in Foucault’s assumption that “sexuality is not a natural feature or fact…

Those that stayed behind staged a mock funeral on October 6, 1967, which they named, “Death of a Hippie.” The ceremony was to signal the end of a played out scene. A funeral procession carried a coffin containing beads, bells, flowers and other hippie symbols was carried from Buena Vista Hill down the length of Haight Street Mary Kasper, who helped organized the mock funeral, explained “We wanted to signal that this was the end of it, don't come out. Stay where you are! Bring the revolution to…

life post-transition. Now with all these positives of her coming out, there have also been some negatives. Her opinions on gay marriage, gender, and her own sexuality have been generalized to all of the trans community by the public. Ellen Degeneres called out Jenner when she said, “You're wanting people to understand and accept you...and you still have a judgment about gay people and marriage”. Even though Jenner may have some issues with being a trans figurehead, overall she has given much…

“Being a girl makes you weak.” “Boys don’t cry.” “All Asians are geniuses.” “He dresses like a gay man.” These statements reveal the startling amount of stereotypes present in today’s society. We have been conditioned to believe these declarations and judge people according to them. However, this leads to unethical actions, as To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee demonstrates. The novel follows the life of six-year-old Scout Finch in Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression. Scout and her…

The entertainment industry has always had an uncanny relationship with LGBTQIA+ characters, from making them our “Gay Best Friend,” to being the “Beard” for them, and it seems that now we’re full on slaughtering them. Across space, through the years, in every genre imaginable, gays have toppled everywhere. As in, with the recent trending of boycotting #BuryYourGays, the pattern of denying queer characters their happy ending has become prevalent and more obvious in television culture.…