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    Gay Marriage and Equality Gay marriage, these two words can make people go from being completely civilized, to arguing like crazy. This is a very sensitive topic for many people, and I honestly don't know why it has to be. I am fully supportive of the gay marriage law and rights. I think that through the years we have had this image of what a perfect society is supposed to be like. Trying to make the perfect society has ruined us we no longer accept people for they are, we only accept people…

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    How often do you hear someone complaining about how marriage within the same sex is “immoral” and they'll “go to hell for it”? Now and days that's a common barber shop topic and its casual to speak down on same sex couples and homosexual males and females. I believe that denying the right to marry is discriminatory and creates a second class of citizens, Marriage is an internationally recognized human right of all people, and same sex matrimony is a civil right. If all these reasons are true,…

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    it is above all about visibility. By speaking out women reassure that they are there, even under layers of social stratification (Marshall). When Alison Bechdel realized that she would like to identify as a lesbian she felt the need to “share it immediately”, as if she has finally become visible (Bechdel, 58). Thus, Lorde’s daughter asked her mother to tell the world that she only became a “whole” when she broke the wall of silence (Lorde, 42). Audre Lorde…

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    The Zeitgeist

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    The Zeitgeist, as explained in the text is the “spirit of the times”. There are several areas of discussion in our current cultural climate in the United States. Some of these discussions have been ever evolving, while other areas have taken drastic shifts on how they are viewed and discussed. One important cultural climate today is the acceptance LGBTQ community. I suppose acceptance may not be the correct term to use as there is still several areas of inequality in comparison with…

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    but it does seems have affected him, if Rogers handpicked who to tell and who not to tell. In addition, I think there was enough information to assume he was gay, however, as Downie said, nearly at the end of the case, “I am a member of he Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association […] National Association of Black Journalists […] Hispanic Journalists Association […] Asian Journalist Association, and I am none of those things. I belong to them because I believe in those journalists, and I believe…

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    Homosexuality is a topic that has been one of the most debated and discussed in America, especially in the past few years. There seems to be an ongoing debated amongst many people of whether or not homosexuality is a sexual orientation that is acceptable to have. Homosexuality becomes even more of a controversy when Christianity is added into the argument. Many Christians seem to struggle with concluded a correct response to the appropriateness of homosexuality as a sexual orientation. The…

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    life. It is a time to spend with friends and family and seals a lifetime promise. Rauch definition of marriage is, " Marriage is a deal between a couple and society, not just between two people: society recognizes the sanctity and autonomy of the pair-bond, and in exchange each spouse commits to being the other's nurse, social worker, and policeman of first resort" (cite). Every marriage is a little different and is within its society of the bigger society. These benefits, give me a legal…

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    Ellen DeGeneres is one of the best celebrities you can imagine. She has her own talk show and it is very entertaining, in her show she frequently donates to charities and her audience. Ellen also serves as a proud LGBTQ. She is one of the one liked person. She created some Ellen cards which are cards that are given to people with a nice compliment/ comment as an act of kindness. The Ellen cards are available on her website: http://www.ellentv.com/2016/05/03/download-the-official-ellen-card/. As…

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    a feminine manner in order to attempt to dispel the ever-present myth that they are homosexual (Ross and Shinew, 2008). After the end of World War II, women who participated in working class sporting events were often targeted by the public as lesbians. It was a belief of some that because these women were not seen as attractive to men, they became uninterested in their attention. Babe Didrikson, a famous track star in the early 1900s, was often criticized for her mannish appearance and…

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    Jeanette Winterson is a British writer, she is also a lesbian. Being a lesbian writer has become a common identifier when she would rather be referred to as a writer who is a lesbian. In “The Semiotics of Sex,” Jeanette Winterson tackles the inherent relationship between the artist and their artwork by digging through the biased judgment that encases it. According to Winterson, using sexual preference “to judge the work of the writer” creates a distorted reality about their work of art (173).…

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