Homosexuality and psychology

Caitlyn Jenner herself was quoted saying that “the hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear.” Many consider it stunning progress that we have successfully integrated transgender women into the pages of our largest magazines and onto our television screens. However, an identity for transgender women was never established outside of the traditional female archetypes that support the perpetuation of Capitalism. Dozens of transgender women, especially transgender women of color…

recent times, have been addressed, and rights like gay marriage have been legalized. However, even though many matters involving gay rights have been legalized, they have not been accepted by society today. Book: Gay Rights- Kafka discusses homosexuality involving children and teenagers and their education in school compared to heterosexual students. Some believe that due to harassment, discrimination, and isolation, homosexual students, and students that have gay parents, are denied an equal…

The legalization of gay marriage has raised so many red flags to many citizen and is still being fought hand and nail today. Gay relationships have always been frown upon since the beginning of time, and God forbid that the same sex couples want to marry one another. On June 26th, 2015 the Supreme Court established a new civil right and handed gay rights advocates a historic victory (Washington, CNN).This ruling by the Supreme Court set straight that there is no banning of same sex marriage in…

Introduction There is a widespread trend today of the increasingly pervasive presence of sexuality in one form or another prevalent all over popular culture and particularly advertising today. This practice, and the central importance sexuality has been given in everyday expressions of popular culture, has become quite embedded in the public life, and is having some important effects on the social development of people, especially young people. This paper will explore the current state of the…

For children to grow up as well-rounded and complete persons, it is important to raise them while being influenced by their natural mothers and fathers. This has been demonstrated by the obvious hardships that are experienced by orphaned children or those who have to be raised by one parent, or foster parent. Unfortunately, the same environment that these children grow up in will be similar to the ones that children in the same sex marriages will experience. A child whose parents are in a same…

After taking the Attitudes and Beliefs Inventory by Corey and Cory (2011), I have found that there are several situations in counseling that I feel uncomfortable with or unequipped to handle. In most of these situations it is due to my personal beliefs on the situation that I feel uncomfortable. I have learned and established these values, with the help of various people in my life. There are several things I need to work on personally, in order to overcome and be able work through these…

arousal is a temporary state of arousal by presence of an attractive partner. Arousal is usually caused by physical attraction to a partner. (LeVay 4) Attraction to opposite sex means heterosexuality, bisexual means attraction to both sexes, and homosexuality is attraction to both sexes. Both male and female can identify themselves as the opposite sex after a psychological process when one establishes a sense of their own sex. Scientists use special terms to emphasize the way of looking at…

religion. The bible does say that homosexuality is a sin, but it also says lying is a sin, stealing is a sin, adultery is a sin. Many of the people opposing gay rights are guilty of some sin or another. Speaking from a religious standpoint, the bible also states that all sin is equal. That the liars and the adulterers of the world are not any better than the gays they are opposing. If you are going to use the fact that being gay is a sin to oppose homosexuality, you must first make sure that you…

In the book “Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory”, Lynne Huffer teases out exciting new aspects of Foucault thoughts. She then rethinks and rewrites the theorists ethical work after these discoveries. In this book Huffer writes that Foucault recasts the Western rationalism as a project that both produces and represses sexual deviant, calling out the complicity of modern science and the exclusionary nature of family morality (Huffer, 2009). Sampling from unpublished…

If someone were to give you the task to pick out a homosexual character in a television series or a movie, most of us would be able to pick off who that character would be almost right away, but why is that? How is it that we’re able to determine the sexuality of a person just by looking at their appearance, listening to them talk or even just by looking at who they associated themselves with. Ever since the first appearance of a same sex couple on the big screen in 1895’s “The gay brothers”…