Homophobia

Over the course of Dramatic Literature, we read and explored many important issues through literature. A moment that I found particularly powerful is when we read The Laramie Project and created interviews on the truth in drama through the production of our own documentary theater. My group conducted an interview on the question: is it okay for guys to sleep around, but not girls? In conducting the interview, the responses we got were overall the same. Many of the people we interviewed responded…

The logical impossibility of the LGBT+ community ever outweighing and oppressing heterosexuals allows the concept of heterosexual pride to become a vessel of homophobia as straight pride proponents boast that they are within the known majority, and embodying a gloating decree of ‘normality’ in response to the LGBT+ pride which is all about celebrating identities scorned by a heteronormative society. Proclamations…

Writing Project According to Google, the definition of intersectionality is “the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.” While this definition scrapes the surface and definitely encompasses the definition of the word, it’s hard to fully grasp the concept of intersectionality. It is not one-dimensional and we see…

laws in place at the time that dealt with hate crime specifically. As hate crimes increased so did the need for “hate crime legislation specifically protecting sexual orientation” (Alden & Parker 322). McKinney and Henderson are examples of how homophobia directly correlates with hate crimes. These two men allowed their beliefs and observations of the…

"Arizona pastor who predicted an ‘AIDS-free world by Christmas’ if all homosexuals are killed." This is another cause of homophobia and concept misunderstanding of gays. All which are not true. From experience in gay debates, this is why most say marriage should be deprived from gays. Those anti-gay supportive people got the wrong concept that is not gays love that because the…

Since the advent of civilization, society has tended to experiment with codes that regulate human morality in conformance with established norms and expectations (Halperin, 1990). Of particular interests to societal institutions is sexuality, which for the better part of the centuries leading to the 20th century has been governed by codes drawn from religion and civil laws (Foucault, 1979). Society has continuously normalized heterosexism as the appropriate form of sexuality that should be…

Dear White People: Lionel’s Identity Leah N. Stone Southeastern Louisiana University Dear White People: Lionel’s Identity In Dear White People, the racial controversy of a prestige Ivy League college, Winchester University, was highlighted. Samantha White has a radio show called “Dear White People” sparks conflict within the university because she discusses the existence of racism and microaggression. The university is clearly divided because there is housing specifically for the Black…

One’s disagreement with their assigned sex, Corradi claims, is like an anorexic person’s perception of one’s body (19). Doctors would not help the person lose weight because that person thinks he/she/they are overweight, so doctors should not help a person transition into another gender because he/she/they think they are that other gender. These two examples are not similar, though. Anorexia can harm or even kill a person, whereas having a non-binary gender cannot physically harm a person.…

Same-sex marriage has been a hot topic with the media lately. Ever so often you hear another state make same-sex marriage legal. Every new overruling is a win for the LGBT community, and a lost to conservatives. In this day and age, you would think gay marriage would be okay, but there are still people out there that still bring religion into politics. Our government was set up to have a separation of church and state by the Establishment Clause. I believe the federal government should have…

attitude toward members of a group including stereotypes, negative feelings and a tendency to discriminate against members of the group, involving negative prejudgments with the most well-known types of prejudice including racism, sexism, classicism, homophobia, nationalism, religious prejudice, ageism. For instance, in 2013 at Newcastle crown court a football fan was removed from the jury of a sex assault trial after confessing he couldn 't give someone from Sunderland a fair trial so soon…