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    This article we read(Our Mutual Joy: The Religious Case For Gay Marriage) by Lisa Miller (569-576). Whether it be political or personal, Millers purposes are very one sided about the many arguments she shows us throughout her article. That is how most writings should be, the article makes readers really think about each issue at hand and what the article entails. What is your take on the subject, how does reading this impact your own views? The article by Lisa Miller begins with the relations…

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    younger generations have grown up in a society, for the most part, of love, acceptance, and protection for these people. This essay will argue that the Stonewall riots were unpremeditated and violent demonstrations that not only marked the start of the gay rights movement, but created the emergence of concepts and influences that are still prevalent today. It will support this argument…

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    Robert Reno Professor James Richardson WHO-1030-271 16 April 2015 The Gay Rights Movement: Moving Mountains Although great strides have been made in the recent past, homosexuals have faced many hurdles in the fight for equal rights. From hate crimes to legislative tyranny, the homosexual community has strived to become socially accepted and ascertain the same rights afforded to them as by the Constitution of the United States of America. For over five decades, many organizations have been…

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    problem could cause permanent "damages", child abandonment and worst of all, the child may go through a suicidal stage. We're at a crucial in history ever since the LGBT community had taken up a storm on the country after the recent national approval of gay marriage.…

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    What begins as the Stonewall Riots in 1969 was the beginning of the Gay Revolution. In New York, you can hear miles away people chanting (LGBT) repeatedly to the point their voices were heard across the world. We created the Declaration of Independence that said, “That all men are created equal,” instead American society made homosexuality unacceptable for effeminate of young men and women. Most men and women that were gay had to hide their sexuality, and live the “normal” life that society…

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    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…

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    really knew anything about the gay community, in fact the word gay was “dirty.” If there were any suspicions that a person had gay tendencies they were committed to a mental institution. As the 20s’ came around speak easies began to pop up in bohemian neighborhoods in places such as San Francisco and New York. The gay communities gathered at these speak easies because they still had to hide from the rest of the world. The 20s’ was also the time of prohibition so the gay community…

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    of the worst times for gay people. During this time period gay people were treated unfairly and did not have equal rights because being gay was considered wrong. As a result, gay people could not enjoy the same freedoms as heterosexual people. A freedoms that inhabited was an unhindered social life since many places did not allow gay people. One of the few places where gay people could hang out was at gay bars. However, people were not completely safe from authority at gay bars because they were…

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    come out and tell the public they’re gay. Most responses to this turned out to be good and that shows what kind of a society we are today. Above I have listed the key repitions and oppositions and ranked them in the way I thought they were most important. My rankings show me that today in this world as people come out it is not as big as a problem because today we are more of an accepting society. Based off my rankings I have noticed a theme about how coming out gay as a public figure can go…

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    evidence to support the argument, but there is no way that someone can be born gay. A study conducted in 1993 suggested that there was a possible gay gene. It also said that there was an alcoholism gene as well as a warrior gene. Genes cannot always control behavior, what genes can do, in some cases, is to create a tendency to develop or display certain traits or behavior. Being gay is not nature it is nurture. So if gays are made then the parenting, education and environment in which the…

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