Gay pride

The existence of mermaids has been a long and controversial topic for years! The legends of mermaids have even been dated back to the time of Christopher Columbus discovering the Americas. Comparing mermaids to humans is quite an easy topic to discuss, but also maybe a far-fetched one as many people all over the world roll their eyes at the stories and tales of the existence of them. People are just afraid of what they don't know, that's why we say ''ignorance is bliss'', and when it comes to…

In Butler’s theory of grief and vulnerability, she makes two key points that I feel could be used to help when dealing with the socio-ethical issue of homeless LGBT youth. First, she makes the statement that we are all interdependent of one another; she then encourages the idea of pushing our personal frameworks of people and the world into accepting others. As with any philosophical theory, there are counter-arguments to Butler’s claims. In her book, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and…

visibility of gay characters, there remains the issue that male homosexual interaction, including hugging and kissing, is largely avoided in mainstream media. Consequently, homosexuality has been forced to make its pop culture debut in others ways, such as by the portrayal of clearly recognizable male homosexual stereotypes. Until the 1970s, the codes for labeling male homosexuality were reduced to images of a sissy man. However, today, the predominantly negative, troubling images of gay people…

Scott, whose organs were rejected simply because he was gay. Although his suicide did not allow him to see his organs turned away for such an extraneous reason, his mother was forced to bear not only the grief of the death of her son, but the anger that came with the rejection. “At first I didn’t understand why his sexual orientation would affect his organs. Then I felt appalled that perfectly good organs could not be used because my son was gay. He is just another human being. No mother should…

Is gay marriage wrong? A vast majority have encountered the debate on more than a single occasion -- even more so over the past recent decades. Consequently, most people feel quite strongly one way or the other, the small exception being what Ed Stetzer, the president of LifeWay Research, referred to as the ‘mushy middle’ -- people who may hold some religious belief or another, but overall are not active in the church community, and therefore their opinions can be easily swayed in either…

1) The Mattachine Society is a group of homosexual man in the 1950’s who decided to start a group to protect Gay man. They believe that Gay man had the same right has heterosexual men. These men were influenced by communist ideology and came up with this group to fight for what is right. The Organization was founded in 1950’s, it gained members and they had another chapter in California within two years. After a couple of years, the organization abandoned the original structure of the group and…

cloning not only brings trouble upon morality or ethically but also religiously. in the Christian community it is believed that life begins at conception and the soul enters body at this point. it also acts as human playing role of God who should be the only creator of life. the Islamic community believes that only the heart and kidneys are permitted and also rewarded by Allah if used for treatment. in Judaism Standard rabbis for the most part locate no firm reason in Jewish law and morals to…

Many people say that gay parenting affects children negatively as well as being an unnatural parenting model and family model, therefore it will come to hurt the world. These opposing arguers strongly believe that children will become gay as an effect of having gay parents, or that the children will not be able to emotionally or mentally develop correctly, again as a result of having gay parents. However, what the people who do not agree with the idea are shutting out of their thoughts are the…

Why are most people now ok with gays when transgenders are still left in the darkness of discrimination and hate? There is a large amount of evidence that supports all the discrimination, refusal of work and all the pain, for all of the harassment. Why are people so transphobic and homophobic when they are just normal people like the rest of them? There is Discrimination, refusal of service, and pain and suicide that transgenders and gays face all through their life. High amounts of…

Detention centers are often the result of undocumented immigrants getting caught by the system. Typically, the LGBT community are vulnerable in detention because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. The Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 11.9 percent of LGBTQ men and 9.4 percent of LGBTQ women had been sexually abused by another inmate, and 6 percent of LGBTQ men and 3 percent of LGBTQ women had been assaulted by a guard, while the percentages were significantly lower for…