Homosexuality and psychology

Does a person really understand the need or want for legalizing same-sex marriage without directly experiencing it for themselves? It all started in March of 2012, the day our lives were forever changed. It was the start of a roller coaster of emotions for my sister and our family. My sister, who I had always looked up to, came out about her attraction to other females. In the beginning, we were faced with anger and denial like most people probably would have expected. It wasn’t an easy matter…

In 2012, the police arrested a gay couple under criminal trespass for requesting a marriage license in Texas, a state that bans same-sex marriage (Wong). In the United States of America, it is up to the state government to ratify same-sex marriage. As of 2014, thirty-five states in the U.S. allow same-sex marriage, and fifteen states ban it. Gay marriage is banned for a number of reasons including the following: it is unnatural, unorthodox, and homosexual couples cannot raise kids right. The…

Streetcar Named Desire and A Taste of Honey include characters who are victims of their sexuality. These two texts were written in 1947 and 1958 respectively, and this period of time showed a specific attitude towards homosexuality: Homosexuals were treated with constant disrespect and homosexuality was also classed as a mental disorder. These views were also evident towards women who engaged in sexual relations outside of marriage. The negative attitudes towards characters such as Geoffrey and…

The Next Step to Evolution: Same-sex Marriage What is the meaning of family? Since our childhood we see programs in television that usually portray a ‘traditional’ family. However, since a few years ago Disney channel, the most popular channel for kids, has taught us that “Ohana means family” said by Stitch, an alien. So the question that we should ask is what is the meaning of family today? What is the conflict between gay and straight families? Should we allow gay people married at first? Do…

Laura Augustin’s ‘Sex at the Margins’ (2007), and Jerker Edstrom’s 2010 article ‘Time to Call the Bluff’ highlight similar barriers to effective development programs. Augustin challenges imperialism in international aid, particularly concerning prostitution. Her work discusses Western aid workers’ desire to impose their own morals and control those that they help, for example, determining what aid is received (Augustin, 2007). Edstrom notes similar issues within HIV/AIDS interventions:…

Homosexuality has been the topic of our daily life, when we talk about the equality, humanity, and rights of an individual; however, we all have personal opinions about the subject. Some people think that homosexuality is a sickness of the mind and others say that it is a personal choice of lifestyle of a human. Our opinions are usually driven by our believed system, environment, and social customs; and religion teaching leaves strong mark of our way of thinking right verse wrong. Most religion…

According to A. Dean Byrd, “nature created male and female to be complementary to each other in myriad ways that enhance not only the couple’s relationship, but the healthy and stable development of the children they produce” (Should Gays and Lesbians Be Restricted from Adopting Children). A Dean Byrd is one of the many people across the world who are against same sex marriage as well as same sex adoptions. The subject of gay marriage alone is a very controversial one, but the subject of whether…

If everyone should be equal, then why aren’t everyone being treated equally? Everyone has their own personality. Differences in a community are what makes a community better. Accepting the differences in others is a way of respecting them. People get married so they can be happy with someone they love. United States is a diverse country. It’s stated in our constitution that everyone has the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. United States have so many people from different…

The legitimization of same sex marriage has been an issue for very much quite a while. Government authorities all around all through the country contribute hours debating on the points of interest and hindrances of this issue. Close by political inconsistencies, there are religious and social ones as well. It is clear that the Catholic Church is against same sex social unions. The controversy for legitimizing same sex marriage is one that is dependably different in every state. A couple states…

In Greenwich Village, June 28th, 1969 at 1:20 on a Saturday morning there was a police raid on a popular gay bar; in itself this was far from an uncommon occurrence however the riots that followed were. The raid led to six days of what became known as the Stonewall Riots. The Riots were credited with being the event that commenced the LGBT+ movement. They were the event that ‘catapulted the issue of sexual liberation out of the dark ages and into a new era,’ , but while the Riots were…