Homosexuality and psychology

Rough Draft Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of an unbiological offspring. Adoption is usually considered a good thing in the world, you are changing the life of a child or children so why are we so opposed to letting certain humans adopt. Homosexuals are just like heterosexuals, they have stable environments, deserve equal rights and qualify in all legal principles of adoption. One of many arguments for why homosexuals shouldn't be granted adoption rights is that…

Gender norms play a very big role in society, both today, and in the past. Gender is defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary as, “the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex”(30). For instance, some people believe that if a woman is slaving over a meal, a person of the male gender should not help because that is what she’s supposed to do. While others believe that if a person is observing the situation, whether they be male or female, they should help.…

A common topic of discussion lately has been transgender rights, specifically when it comes to bathrooms. The more conservative side of the spectrum argues that transgender individuals using the bathroom assigned to the gender they identify with endangers the safety of others. While others say by denying them the right to use the gender they identify with is an act of open discrimination. By denying transgenders basic human rights, such as using the bathroom that they identify with, it…

Walking with Hannah When I was trying to decide what to write about, nothing was striking me. I wanted to find a culture that I had deep-rooted opinions of and a person who would challenge me. As a child, my environment as a whole was completely accepting of people from all lifestyles and backgrounds, except for the LGBTQ+ community. When I realized this, I knew that this was the culture for me to try and understand. I was scared to write about it, because I am still working through my prejudice…

Burlesque has not just been used to protest gender roles and the rights of women it also been used to teach a pro-sex message. The AIDS epidemic of the 1980s brought not only a deadly disease to humanity but also a fear of gay sex that was ripple down from the government's failure to address the situation. AIDS activist seeked information about transmission and prevention instead of the punitive actions they received. ‘Queer women today exist in a community that has experienced the feminist sex…

The Student Action outreach of the Tradition Family Property (TFP) program published the article, "10 Reasons Why Homosexual "Marriage" is Harmful and Must Be Opposed." This article outlines 10 reasons as to why gay marriage should not be legal. For example, it states that same-sex marriage offends God, does not create families, will force schools to teach children to accept it, and deprives children of same-sex marriages of either a mother or a father. The writers state that they are practicing…

Brown-Saracino (2015) argues in “How Places Shape Identity” that the current conception of how place shapes identities, i.e. through region, location, and institution, does not aptly describe how identities vary in places that are similarly situated. Instead, she asserts that there are three loosely grouped sets of place elements that affect how identity is shaped by place: numbers and acceptance, place narratives, and encounters with socioscape. Brown-Saracino (2015) refers to numbers and…

The word queer has its origin from the Proto-Indo-European word twerk. The word later turned into the word “quer” and picked up the meaning of weirdness and unconventionality. By 1500, it led to the word queer and was widely used in Scotland. The other theory for how queer came about was by William Sayers. He said its origin was from the word kue meaning a twisted thing, implicating not straight. Queer first appeared on paper in 1508 in the transcription of “The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie”.…

Response to “Gender Revolution” In her television documentary “Gender Revolution,” Katie Couric an American journalist meets with the leading scientists, surgeons, and experts of their field to answer questions regarding gender identity. Couric states that not too long ago “it use to be so simple, you were a boy or you were a girl, girls wear pink boys wear blue, girls played with dolls boys played with trucks, but that was then.” nowadays it's more than boy and girl when it comes to gender…

I often think about the issue since I do not think I fit to the "socially accepted" binary concept and it definitely affects my identity. I regard myself as heterosexual and graysexual, which means that I am straight and rarely experience sexual attraction compared to "ordinary" people. I did not know the term until my LGBT friends told me that I may be asexual, those who do experience sexual attraction toward individuals of any gender at all, and after searching on the terms, I figured out that…