Gay

people who identify as gays or lesbians. A group of people who created a spark in Canadian history on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights. The Brunswick Four were a group of four lesbians’ who decided to sing in a Toronto bar called the Brunswick Bar in 1974 where they sang, “a rousing revision of “I Enjoy Being a Girl” – for ‘girl’…

Authorities Arresting and Killing Gay Men, Russian Paper Says” where he writes of the horrors taking place in which gay men are being arrested and some executed in taboo of their sexual orientation all around this Russian republic. “Homophobia in Kenya: is a change going to come?” is another article in the African country of Kenya where another mass…

room to procure them, but you see an empty bottle of pills. They will not wake up. You look on their desk after looking at their body, finding a note explaining everything. What would you do? Almost half the world is accepting of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) community. However, there are still a numerous amount of cases dealing with LGBT suicides due to bullying and discrimination. These cases are a nightmare. This is why the LGBT community needs to have more rights because it…

“The Laramie Project” was a movie played by a group of people showing the reaction to the 1998 murder of a gay student in Laramie, Wyoming. The murder was criticized as a hate crime and brought attention to Laramie, Wyoming. The town was well known as a friendly place until Shepard’s death. This incident was an awful tragedy that discolors the name and reputation of the town. I was surprised to see that people would kill someone based on their sexuality. In 21st century, being homosexual is no…

On April 7, 2017, I watched the TED Talk of Yoruba Richen, a documentary maker. She explores how the gay rights movement has learned from the civil rights movement. Specifically, she claimed that the civil rights movement is the reason why the gay rights movement has advanced as quickly as it has. As she said, “some of the ways that the gay rights movement has made such incredible gains so quickly because it’s used some of the same tactics and strategies that were first laid down by the civil…

the antonym of power is gay. Gay is a status, not sexuality. He says this himself in his diatribe about homosexuals. Labels do not mean identity; they refer to “clout” (Kushner 45). Roy learns this from the nuclear environment he grows up in. He is a youth in the 30’s through 50’s when American society was strengthening the reigns on divergence. There was a movement to go enforce archaic, strict gender and sexuality norms. In an article for The New York Times titled “A Gay World, Vibrant and…

In Allan Berube’s “Marching To A Different Drummer: Lesbian and Gay GIs In World War II” Berube explains how the war was used as a way for many men and women to come out. During the draft, many people were young and had no prior knowledge of sexuality. Young men and women were raised in households that were based around heterosexual norms. Coming into the war a lone, there is where people actually figured out who they really are and their sexual preference. One’s loneliness caused them to…

Despite the fact that gay relational unions are lawful now it is still hard to except by some if gay men and lesbian women did not live in vast urban communities, for example, New York, San Francisco, and Boston, where vital gay and lesbian society flourishes, gay men and lesbian women generally, for the most part, kept their sexual introduction a firmly protected mystery at work. A large number…

laws are created and changed because of the interests that certain groups in society have. This can be applied to Stonewall because the gay community had a common goal as a collective group in society and were able to impact the law in some way. This can then be applied to the analysis of how things were for gay people before and after Stonewall. Prior to Stonewall, gay people were forced to remain silent about their sexual orientation and were forced to remain oppressed. While after the…

Bullying targeted towards the youth in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered (LGBT) community is a serious problem that is often overlooked. There is discrimination and bullying toward LGBT youth found in all sorts of settings including the home, work, and school. Many LGBT teens experience abuse at home and even being kicked out of their house. Finding a job is sometimes harder as their sexual orientation is unwelcomed by employers and fellow colleagues. LGBT youth also endure…