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noticeably bisexuals, gender-fluid people, trans-gender people, and asexuality. In these communities there seems to be a hierarchy to decide how much anyone belong. Bisexuals in heterosexual relationships are shunned, assumed to be straight, or not gay enough to belong. Transsexual and…

will definitely surprise you! Number Seven: Emmy Rossum Pranked Justin Chatwin Chatwin, who played a gay son to a very homophobic father on Showtime’s Weeds, got pranked by her on-screen love interest. Rossum convinced the writers to give him a script with an extra scene in which he confessed his homosexuality to his father. “He had finally really embraced the whole idea of his character being gay! And we finally broke the news to him [that it was a prank] on-camera. It was amazing. The shock…

is an important and rising concern. In communities around the United States of America, this problem especially affects lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. Bullying against such individuals is still a relevant issue despite efforts for equal rights. Support systems are an important part of stopping these reoccurring tragedies. From now on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender will be referred to as LGBT. Many alterable factors affect LGBT mental health including suicide…

The Marist basketball team is simply going to play a game that happens to be in North Carolina. In one article, Mr. Massie, who is gay and a long time employee at Marist, said “How disappointing for me, a gay man, former long time employee and major donor, to know Marist College doesn't care about #LGBT rights by agreeing to have its men’s team play against Duke in NC”. Boycotting is will not solve this problem. Marist…

including biphobia and transphobia is an issue that has an impact on nearly everyone. Out of the 318.9 million people in the US a shocking nineteen million Americans identify as LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender), that is about 3.5%, with 1.1% of women identifying as lesbian and 2.2% of men identifying as gay, and 1.8% identifying as bisexual (Statista). In comparison to that a mere 0.3% identify as transgender and other. Although from a reputable source, these statistics are not entirely…

documentary, is actually killed. The person who is suspected to have killed David did so because of his sexuality, openness, and because of his disagreement of the Bill. In Born This Way, Cedric is threatened twice by other men because he is an “out” gay man. This physical violence is an indicator of masculinity and how men stereotypically use violence instead of compassion. The men deal with a different form of violence against them, but both types are…

should not be allowed under constitutional separation of church and state. In comparison to the over three million citizens that occupy this country, this seemingly small group of individuals along with the other residing members of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) communities, are under attack. This year alone there have been more than 200 bills introduced by lawmakers in the United States to limit the rights of LGBT people with only a small handful that have passed (Thoreson).…

The taboo of homosexuality in the Indian civil society is a question which is Largely known to be a thought provoking subject. In India, homosexuals are depicted as abnormal and are known to have a separate identity, although we see that the existence of homosexuality has been visualized in various forms of art like carvings in temples and paintings in our Indian culture. So basically homosexuality is characterized as a romantic compulsion. It can also be known as a sexual desirability…

One of these was the fact that Williams was a homosexual. I see this book as a way of Tennessee expressing himself and that fact that he was homosexual. In the time period he lived gays were frowned upon and not warmly welcome. I see this book as his way to explore his own sexuality because he couldn 't actually do it in real life so he did it in his head. The fact that williams was living in the historical period of the 40’s influenced…

The word queer has its origin from the Proto-Indo-European word twerk. The word later turned into the word “quer” and picked up the meaning of weirdness and unconventionality. By 1500, it led to the word queer and was widely used in Scotland. The other theory for how queer came about was by William Sayers. He said its origin was from the word kue meaning a twisted thing, implicating not straight. Queer first appeared on paper in 1508 in the transcription of “The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie”.…