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    Westboro Baptist Church

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    The Westboro Baptist Church is arguably a radical hate group who vehemently protests gay rights. Their presence disrupts the peace by inciting riots and violence, their protests can be seen as bullying or harassment, they are discourteous to the sanctity of a funeral and indifferent to the suffering of others. Therefore, this church and its followers should not be able to protest at service members’ funerals. This group is well known for its peaceful picketing of funerals that seem to respect…

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    LGBT citizens are no strangers to violence and abuse directed toward them due to their orientation. Whether the violence comes from family, strangers, or even the police, the targets of many attacks, from something as small as online harassment to something as drastic as the Pulse nightclub shootings, are LGBT people, especially people who are black, Asian, or Latinx (known colloquially as POC). In a 2016 survey of survivors from reported anti-LGBT attacks, more than 61 percent identified as POC…

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    The documentary film "Paris is Burning" directed by Jennie Livingstone, gives us an insight into the lives, dreams, and aspirations of the gay/ homosexual community of New York. It focuses on the glamorous aspect of the community, the "Balls" which provide an outlet and an arena to distinguish themselves, to shine, to be recognized, admired, and to be proud. The article "The Homeless Community of the Piers" by Rob Maitra, parallels the same main theme, but it focuses mainly on the lives,…

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    insidious side effect of homosexuality is that he gets charged with unrelated felonies. (Rinehart).” Mr. Brent also said: “If a guy's definition of "guts" is voting on legislature that bans homosexual banners from city properties, he's only jealous of gay men because they get more vagina than him (Rhinehart).” The next topic of hate speech would be when comedians take homosexuality jokes entirely too far, until were it become offensive to the audience. Which we all know that comedians talk about…

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    The adversity faced by LGBT+ individuals everyday is a problem I would like to help solve to the best of my ability. Statistics show that LGBT+ individuals are more than two times as likely as straight individuals to have a mental health disorder, such as depression or anxiety disorder, suicide attempts are three times more common among people who are bisexual than people who are straight, there’s a greater risk of substance abuse disorders for members of the LGBT+ community, and we’re also…

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    the Gay and Lesbian Alliance against Defamation, is a non-governmental media monitoring organization that strives to bring people powerful stories from the LGBT community that build and support equality. Their mission, as stated on their website, is “to amplify the voice of the LGBT community by empowering real people to share their stories, holding the media accountable for the words and images they present, and helping grassroots organizations to communicate effectively.” GLSEN, the Gay,…

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    How wild of a journey have we taken on the issue of gay rights not only politically but also socially? The beauty of acceptance, once a dream now a reality. Richard Blanco’s “Queer Theory: According to My Grandmother gives us a glimpse into what it was for him growing up being pressurized to be a certain way that was considered “masculine”. Although the poem is called Queer theory and Blanco is gay this focuses more on gender norms rather than actual sexuality. It reflects on what it was that…

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    Stereotyping And Adoption

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    Riskind, Patterson, and Nosek (2013) found that self-efficacy was a large predictor in whether or not LGBT members would become parents. “However, they [lesbian and gay people] were somewhat optimistic about overcoming barriers to adoptive and foster parenthood…” (Riskind, Patterson, and Nosek 2013). The optimistic outlook of adoption and fostering lead to the belief that LGBT members that are higher in self-efficacy…

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    Culture In Education

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    I believe culture is important for the education of students. It is a necessity for children to learn the beliefs, values, and customs of different cultures. They have to understand what is normal for them may not be normal in another person’s cultures and vice versa. Culture can affect how one views the world and learns about the world; they may look at it from a different aspect of someone else in another culture. From another person’s viewpoint, the world may consist of only their home or…

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    concentration camps, most notably those of the Jewish religion. What history seems to forget is that another group of people who were greatly affected by world war two and the Nazis power were none other than the homosexual men of Europe. The story of one gay man, Pierre Seel is displayed in his memoir, “I, Pierre Seel Deported Homosexual”, where he describes the particular dynamics of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals and their post war legacy. In the six months that Pierre was a prisoner of…

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