LGBT culture

I would add on to this argument by stating that it is not the issue queer people really care about in most countries. "Gay Marriage" is the poster-child of a "first-world problem" for the LGBT community(ies). Marriage is great for Western White gays, but it is not a queer issue. Gay people and queer people are inherently different in terms of gender, race, class, and sexuality and therefore do not experience the world uniformly. As Currier…

a world so hateful, some would rather die than be who they are” leaves a powerful message to all in regards to Lgbtq bullying. Most Lgbt students have been in a situation of bullying or similar harassment, or has seen it happen to another in the community. Schools are often ignorant to student rights or intentionally ignore them when in comes to students of an Lgbt orientation. Bullying can get to the point that it is so severe a student wishes to take their life, just how it is described in the…

In the novel “Openly straight” writing by Bill Konigsberg, the protagonist in the novel is a boy named Seamus Rafael Goldberg aka (Rafe). Rafe is a gay young adult going off to college and is tired of being labeled. He came out in his high school, and even though he wasn't really bully at his high school, they only knew him from being gay. His name was always that gay kid or the gay boy. He didn’t mind but he didn’t like how being gay was the only thing he’s known for. Rafe, the protagonist of…

Dion Kagan’s book chapter “Crisis Re-runs: Barebacking, Chemsex & Post-Crisis Sex Panic” begins with a critique of the VICE News documentary “Chemsex”, which is a misleading depiction of chemsex (the combination of sex and drug use among some gay men) as a ‘risky’ sexual practice, one that portrays its participants as immoral and hedonistic. This is one of the many examples that Kagan uses to explain the troubling phenomenon of what he calls ‘re-crisis’. This is defined as the modern…

object of his attraction, to his home, Arjie's brother Diggy remarks that Arjie's father will now "definitely know that you're". While references such as "funny" “girlie boy” certainly suggest behavior that would typically be described in Western culture as homosexual. The choice by Selvadurai to place his narrator in a nameless middle space in between demarcated sexual and gender boundaries in many ways mirrors the inability of diasporan individuals to be placed within cultural and ethnic…

In Christine Downing’s, “The Myth of Homosexuality” she starts by stating how they have been defined or the objects of this myth instead of being the creator of their own mythology. This leads her into the past of the myth’s origin which to her analysis is fairly short in which homosexuality was created to interpret human sexuality. Prior to the end of the nineteenth century homosexuality did not exist in the sense that these behaviors was understood in a different context. This was thought of…

The triangle: The triangle is a plane figure which is formed by three lines and therefore it has three sides. This shape can be found in many contemporary and historical contexts as can be seen below. 1) The pink triangle is usually associated with the gay community and the gay rights movement as a symbol of empowerment, however, the pink triangle started during around world war two. The Nazis wanted to create an easy system so as to differentiate between the diverse groups in the concentration…

In June 2016, a man shot 49 people at a gay nightclub. The terror attack had such a horrific outcome that at the time it was the worst attack on the United States since 9/11, both attacks rooted in hatred. In the literary works, Symposium by Plato and Metamorphoses by Ovid, the narrators contemplate whether love acts as the disease or remedy for society and the individual. These themes still have an importance in today's society, as acts of hatred still permeate through the fabric of humanity…

Definition of homosexuality differs from each side. Is it a choice or something that a person a born being? Is homosexuality a behavior or an orientation? A person’s stance on these questions makes all the difference. ). The authors of Authentic Human Sexuality, Judith Balswick and Jack Balswick, do not give a clear yes or no on whether homosexuality is a sin or not. They do state that they do not believe that homosexuals are responsible for their orientation, however, homosexuals must decide…

Emma Thibeault Gender and Culture October 26, 2017 Some people say that both male and female babies are raised the same exact way, and in no way different at all. On the other hand, some say that male babies are raised completely different than female babies. Some people also say that male babies get more attention than female babies. So, do male babies get more attention? Are the two genders raised differently? Germaine Greer wrote an essay called “Masculinity” that…