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Committees, or PACs, and involving lobbyist. Issues involving gay marriage and the cannabis reform act are presented in ways that can be beneficial or detrimental to the involvement of congress in these important issues. Though the gay marriage agenda was a success it was not an easy persuasion of congress. The Human Rights Campaign or HRC is part of the political action committee, this organization was a major factor in pushing the gay marriage agenda along as it helped with financial…

Bill Konigsberg, the protagonist in the novel is a boy named Seamus Rafael Goldberg aka (Rafe). Rafe is a gay young adult going off to college and is tired of being labeled. He came out in his high school, and even though he wasn't really bully at his high school, they only knew him from being gay. His name was always that gay kid or the gay boy. He didn’t mind but he didn’t like how being gay was the only thing he’s known for. Rafe, the protagonist of Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg and I…

Alfred Hitchcock is well known for bringing queer characters into his films. He’s also well known for exposing those queer characters in a negative light, making them murderers, or simply reinforcing the thought of the time that gay persons had mental illnesses. Due to the laws at the time concerning cinema, directly having queer characters in your film was hard to do. Yet, Hitchcock made it possible by implying, through the use and manipulation of technical elements of cinematography, that the…

This article discusses both the prevalence of homophobia, defined as “a prejudice that leads to hatred and discrimination toward lesbian and gay people” (Croteau & Kusek, 1992, p. 396), and a specific way to reduce homophobia—gay and lesbian speaker panels. Gay and lesbian speaker panels are panel presentations by gay and lesbian people, whereby they share their personal experiences, stories, and engage in a dialogue with the audience. Croteau & Kusek (1992) discuss six previous studies that…

this done to me, why not just choose to be gay? It’s not that simple, just like many penguins and dolphins, I cannot simply choose to be gay, just as those who are gay cannot choose to be straight. Being gay is just the way homosexuals were born. “Gay people can choose to be straight,” I hear this statement all the time from people who are members of a church. But if it were so simple to choose being straight, why did they choose the torture of being gay to begin with? It is inconceivable that…

equality and open tolerance for lesbians and gays were seen as radical, shocking, and not yet accepted. Eventually becoming the first openly gay politician, Milk’s influences on society eventually opened doors for others to harness courage to come out and be open about their sexuality. Harvey Milk was a leader and an iconic figure who stood…

Harvey Milk was a visionary and fearless gay rights’ activist and a Supervisor in San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Although his leadership was short-lived as a fellow supervisor and long-time opponent, Dan White, assassinated him his legacy remains as the prominent Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT). At that time, the community was entirely homophobic and standing staunchly to the fight against discrimination of the gay community. Harvey Milk was born on May 1930 in Woodmere, New…

In pop culture, the sexuality of women are often depicted as a binary: either as a slut or a whore, or pure and innocent. Adelina Anthony’s and Margaret Cho’s performances challenge these representations with their comedic performances and being open with their sexuality. They disidentify with hegemonic cultural representations by working with and against dominant representations such as sexism and classism. They use humor such as sarcasm to make people see how absurd about people’s…

upon lifestyle and choices. There are different types of savagery employed against a LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) individual or groups. Furthermore, it can have a huge impact upon the individual’ lifestyle. Moreover, this paper, will explore the causes and types of violence perpetrated against LGBT community, its impact, and the means of preventing its occurrences. LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) groups are the most hated and heavily targeted groups due to their…

media depictions of LGBT people as part of the reason gay people are discriminated against in places such as the workforce (Graber). Negative stereotypes in media depicting homosexuality as taboo and perverse have helped spread homophobia. Stereotyping LGBT people only furthers perceptions that being LGBT is abnormal, and thus treating them differently than heterosexuals is socially acceptable. Newsweek reporter Ramin Setoodeh notes that most gay men depicted in media are that of the effeminate…