Gay

Although I know that this essay is not supposed to be of the persuasive kind, there is an issue that has been weighing on my mind as of late that I believe Roxbury Latin must address, and that is the lack of affinity groups on campus. As someone who is part of the LGBT community at an all-boys school, I have certainly felt excluded in some aspects of school life. People are not openly disrespectful to me or my community, at least not to my face, but I have certainly felt that far too often my…

should be killed. The Middle East must end cruel prejudices against LGBT persons due to the negative effects it could inflict on our future generations and the harm it causes, physically and mentally, for the LGBT community. LGBT stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender and is considered…

Homosexuals and other members of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) community are discriminated against on a daily basis. Many people in this community even face institutionalized discrimination by the government. This deep-rooted problem has been neglected for quite some time, but lately many organizations have been fighting to rectify this issue. One of them is a non-profit called the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, who for several decades has been a stakeholder in litigating…

Dancing with the Stars – Chaz Bono Controversy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=198k0ZfhI8g&list=PL03D830CF6E2DF076 Chaz Bono, today 45 years old is a transgender man. In 1995 he publicly identified himself as a lesbian to a famous gay and lesbian magazine called The Advocate after which from 2008 to 2010 he underwent gender transformation. The Chaz Bono Controversy video publicizes that he was the first transgender man to participate in a television show called Dancing with the Stars that had…

everyday life simply for being transgender. Similarly, ‘heterophobia’ has been used a propaganda slur by homophobes, who level the charge at any homosexual individual who stands up for their rights, justifying it often with sentiments such as “there is a gay pride, but no straight pride.” The fact of the matter is, disgust with homosexuality and the idea that it is unnatural, or unhealthy, or can somehow be ‘cured’ is in no way mimicked in society to make a case of heterophobia,…

diverseness has skyrocketed since the legalization of gay marriage. The media is meant to represent the diversity of the country and represent the common people and the number of gay and colored people has shot up immensely within the last 20 years but the media has failed to keep up with this. Most people, white, straight and usually male, feel that the media represents them perfectly and it does. But for the people that are colored, transgender, gay or sometimes female feel that the media does…

example, LGBTQA stands for, "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, and Asexual or Ally." In the past, the homosexuals were treated like animals. They were treated differently as if they were monsters who don't deserve to live amongst other people. The western places, especially the U.S.A., didn't approve of same-sex marriage too. But in 1924, the Society for Human Rights in Chicago became the US' earliest known gay rights organization. Although,…

are people who hated it so much that they did rallies and there are sites on the internet that teaches people why it is wrong. The word gay/homo/etc. are words people thinking about it when same sex is involved? For males, the concept of being gay is like being a female. Well, to be more precise in terms of keeping your masculinity some males think being homo/gay means being less than a man an insult to one gender most hate/dislike come from this as some males act like a woman, walk, or even try…

that any feminine behavior expressed on a date can often lead to the date ending early. A level of disgust often fills the air. Gay men specifically are terrified of the stigma of being feminine. It all seems to boil back down to the idea that if you are feminine or anything at all like a woman, then you are weak. Sadly, this has triggered copious amounts of posturing from gay men to try and prove that homosexuality does not necessarily mean femininity. Thus, the homophobia within the LGBT…

Both A Streetcar Named Desire and A Taste of Honey include characters who are victims of their sexuality. These two texts were written in 1947 and 1958 respectively, and this period of time showed a specific attitude towards homosexuality: Homosexuals were treated with constant disrespect and homosexuality was also classed as a mental disorder. These views were also evident towards women who engaged in sexual relations outside of marriage. The negative attitudes towards characters such as…