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focus of the functionalist perspective (Leon-Guerrero 126). One movement for helping their community is Out Right Action International, formerly known as the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. This is a website and organization that helps fight for the equality that human rights gives to the gay and lesbian community. The website states this statement for how they work and why they do what they do, “Every day, LGBTIQ people’s human rights and dignity are abused worldwide in…

The author’s motivation for writing “Being Black and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender”, is to help the audience better understand what it is like to be LGBT, and how it has evolved over the course of time. Manly through the lens of being LGBT in New York City, and how being a black LGBT interacts within a black community, and where they stand today. What the author wants us to think after we have read this article are as follows, he wants us to know that “black LGBT persons do not…

After reading the entry “Sexuality and Sport” it is argued that sports as a socio-cultural institution is behind the times compared to the rest of western society (Fusco 2011:545). The existence of a variety of different types of sexuality, does not appear to be openly discussed, explained Fusco (2011:545). It is uncommon to hear about an athlete coming out as gay, and there are some theories as to why this is: One theory, Fusco (2011) explains, is called the “conspiracy of silence” where it is…

causes the researcher to participate in a longitudinal study. The case study was done in the case of children who have been adopted. The study involved waves of checking on children in either the mother and father relationship and children in a Lesbian Gay family. There were two waves, first when the child was in preschool and then when they were in middle school. This research led to the discovery that regardless…

Margaret Thatcher, Often referred to as the Iron Lady by the Russians was the Prime Minister in Britain from 1979 to 1990. She was look upon by the British people with both respect and hate, either way she had a strong and successful career. Thatcher was not merely unpopular, she was very polarizing – some liked her, other disliked her. There are many reasons for why the British people hated and respected her. In the movie Pride, it is very clear why many people disliked her. Her economic…

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…

Corner’s: Underground Homosexual Kingdom in the Eyes of Lesbians As the Taiwanese film critic Huang Jianye concludes, documentary in Taiwan has been developed into an ascendant genre after the success of the inaugural “International Documentary Biennial Exhibition” in 1998. With the shift from obsession with indigenization to excavation of individual life after the lifting of martial law in 1987, possibilities of focusing on minority groups and exploring urgent social issues have been…

According to the textbook, “Human Sexuality,” by Sayad and Yarber, mass media helps to shape views on sexuality. The depiction of sexuality in media helps viewers create their own understanding of sexuality, but it can be very narrow because it can be argued that there is a lack of representation of other sexualities. Television is claimed to be where adolescents gain most of their knowledge of sexuality. However, it does not portray sexuality in reality, but presents various stereotypes and…

& the US The gay rights movement has been ongoing for over seventy years. From the rise in gay men and lesbians during the 1920s to today’s international policies on same-sex marriage. The US is instrumental, yet still lagging in the changing of how society views, treats, and the acceptance of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Historically in the US the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community has had to endure social and criminal injustices…

When it comes to gay marriage what is your opinion on it? When you walk by someone that is Gay or lesbian how do you feel about them? All these questions have been debated in court cases and they need to have answers but they will forever be questioned. So far all court cases have been going towards gay marriage. Obergefell v. Hodges. A landmark civil rights case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both…