Homophobia

“She’s Gotta Have It” is a momentous film that captures the dynamics one woman, Nola, encounters in her personal relationships, as she pursues multiple partners. Throughout the movie, Nola has three consistent partners; each possesses a distinctly different personality and manner in which they go about dating Nola. Nola is a young and successful woman who is unsure of what she wants in romantic relationships, so she seeks out multiple partners. Despite the many manipulations and domineering…

Hate crimes is listed as the number one priority of our Civil Rights program. As defined from FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) Program, hate crime is a traditional offense like murder, arson, or vandalism with an added element of bias. It is also defined as a criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in a part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity. Hate crimes happen often enough in the…

author starts by giving an example of a work of art that Lady Pink created a mural that brought the issue of gay-basing in he United States. Lady Pink creates art that is political because it addresses issues of rape, prostitution, overpopulation and homophobia. She enjoys making surreal images, but presents a feminist message. However, she enjoyed the rush of creating artwork in subway stations, however, males were still dominating the art world. She balanced school and being a part of an…

rise of the third wave. The goal for third wave feminism was to achieve equality for everyone. They believe that justice cannot be done until all women and men are absolutely equal. Also, they also inserted themselves in the fight against racism, homophobia, environmental degradation and animal abuse. They use the power of calculated nonaggressive action to achieve equality & social justice. Despite claiming they are for all these things and for equality between men and women, third wave…

approach led to a non-pathological theoretical position. These treatments allow for clinicians to treat people to help alleviate harmful effects of internalized mental disorders. One of the first treatments used concerns external stressors such as, homophobia and relationships to families. The treatment acts to target sources of stress to allow for better living conditions. Another form of treatment within gay-affirmative therapy is attempting to define internal psychological emotional pain…

subgroups throughout the years. Dudley talks about how black LGBT person’s still find it difficult to find a safe space where they can fully be themselves, he says “it seems that although some of this is due to the combined impact of racism and homophobia, some of this continues to be a consequence of problems within the black community.” (Dudley 192) Dudley goes on to provide examples on how Ellen DeGeneres, and Rosie O’Donnell are condoned for coming out as being lesbian, and those of color…

In the 1980s, the recognized American/Mexican (chicana) theorist and writer, Gloria Anzaldua, published her semi-autobiographical book Borderlands/La Frontera. By narrating her life as a chicana, an American of Mexican descent, Anzaldua explains the existence of cultural barriers and how she managed to find her own true cultural identity while living on the border. As a tribute to her work, Emma Perez, an associate professor at the University of Colorado, wrote “Gloria Anzaldúa: La Gran Nueva…

staying silent, he received everything except for what he truly needed, understanding, support and most importantly the feeling of unconditional love from the people that matter most and in the end it was all too much for him. The institutionalized homophobia in our society took him away, one of the most decent people I…

Dorothy Cobble, Linda Gordon, and Astrid Henry further explain this idea in their book Feminism Unfinished! by explaining that the earlier generations of feminists focused on identifying the political and social inequalities they dealt with. Whereas the third wave of feminists sought out to address these inequalities. In further explanation, these authors stated, “While connected to earlier movements to advance gender equality and social justice, this new feminism was not a mass-based movement…

The topic of religion can be a sticky one. Religion for most people sets their base beliefs and affects at least some of the standards that they live their life by. Challenging these sacred values can be dangerous because it arguably stands against someone 's core virtues they live by and cater to. Although these waters a treacherous, it’s imperative to question anything and everything about a religious system. Why would we not ask questions about something that so many blindly follow? Personal…