Heterosexism

Stonewall Riot was a riot between the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender community against Police officers. It took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall inn, located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York city. The riots marks the beginning of the modern day gay liberation. During the riots gay and drag queens showed heterosexual people that they are as physical as them. Before the riots gay people and drag queens did not have any right or…

Ann Bausum’s book, Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights, covers the events of the Stonewall Riots and other important topics brought up by gay rights. The book goes through events going a bit farther back than 1969, when Stonewall occurred, until 2013 in modern times. Bausum recounts the events leading up to the Stonewall Riots, the riots themselves, what it was like to be gay at the time, the aids epidemic, and where we are now in modern day with gay rights. Besides the events…

The evolution of advertising has been a continuous process, today it seems ad’s are more focused on selling a company’s brand than its individual products. One aspect of advertisement that has not changed, however, is the fact Melissa Rubin eloquently presents in her response to a 1950’s Coca-Cola ad, that advertisements have an innate ability to reflect the values of that culture. This being the case, it is no surprise that in today’s America, where stories centered around the fight for…

The Marrying Kind uses a controversial topic to explore a larger institution in America, one that has an effect on most everyone. Rauch uses the topic of same-sex marriage to further his points, but does not use it to overwhelm the overall idea he is introducing. Rather, he begins the essay by discussing his main point: cohabitation versus marriage. He then, quite effectively, introduces his own first hand experience of being gay in America, the effects it has had on his ability to marry, and…

Same-sex marriage is an important issue that have been a central point in modern society. Certainly, the importance of this issues should be decided on the foundation of civil freedom and civil rights. The recognition of the legitimate rights of same-sex married couples should be acknowledged and protected under the law. Thus, rejecting same-sex couples, the legal rights to get married is the despicable indecency denying human rights to lively freely. “Gay marriage is really a matter of respect…

A Journey toward Love and Acceptance was the essay that interested and moved me the most. The author is Greg Chapman and the essay he wrote is about growing up in a society where being gay isn’t “okay”. In the essay he talks about finding and accepting everything about yourself, even if others can’t accept you. He also touches on the topics of wanting to follow his religion and how keeping his secret hidden drove him into a deep depression. This essay interested me the most because in our…

Rhetorical Analysis of “Time for Marriage Equality” On April 21, 2015, The Hill newspaper published “Time for Marriage Equality” by Markos Moulitsas. In his article, Moulitsas claims that “the American public has decisively accepted marriage equality.” He gathered information from polls conducted by NBC/Wall Street Journal, CBS, CNN, and Bloomberg, to prove the popular public opinion supports same-sex marriage. In addition, Moulitsas provided quotes from “bigoted” high profile republicans, to…

n addition, the power of context makes big impact on individuals’ personalities and characteristics which let them know how to make changes are able to stay competitively in the society and do not let others to hate you. Loffreda proposes that people always do not have their own characteristics, they often affected by external factors like the environment or voices from different people. She states in her essay that “ Henderson had tied him to a fence there and McKinney had beten him viciously…

Seeing how many in America (ironically including the religious) want to globalize everything including making countries think and do everything just like they do, in a way, she is right. Its kind of ironic that most regressive leftists and the religious right Americans have zero problem calling people in America or other countries who think differently than them bigots; for nothing more than daring to have opinions they disagree with. That alone actually proves who the real bigots are.…

Take a trip back with me to June 28th, 1969. This day is important for many reasons. It is the beginning of the Gay liberation movement at the Stonewall Inn. Now I’m sure we are all well aware of the significance of such an event and the domino effect that rippled across the nation. For those of you who don’t though, the events that took place at Stonewall was a riot of freedom and life (do your research). For me, it holds more significance, not because of the actions that took place then and…