LGBT culture

Term Paper There has been numerous cases and articles that have come up in the past years that impacted communities or the national as well as internationally because of the situation that left customers being discriminated upon by the business owners. However, these cases are started to increase as of lately. The main topic that is at the root of this situation is that of the refusal of services of customer’s base on their sexual orientation. Some cases have seen some business paying fines in…

“Don't Ask Don't Tell” was a policy enacted on the military in 1993, this policy allowed for a US soldier no matter what rank, gender, race, or religious affiliation, who was gay or lesbian to be kicked out of service if their sexual orientation became known. In 2010 congress had repealed this discriminatory policy. In the summer of 2012, the Supreme Court struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, which had forced the federal government to deny more than 1,000 federal…

Being against gay marriage does categorize you as homophobic. What defines homophobia is when you have “Prejudice or dislike against homosexual people.” Although standing against same-sex marriage and being homophobic is not wrong, having prejudice and dislike against anything does categorize you as “anti” it. In greater detail, the definition of a phobia is “Having or involving an extreme or irrational fear of, or aversion to something.” Therefore having an aversion toward same-sex marriage…

has been rejected by every major medical and mental health organization in the country. A 2015 case found that a Jewish group providing so-called conversion therapy violated the New Jersey’s consumer fraud protection laws by claiming it could cure LGBT persons using therapies that have been discredited by the medical…

Out of the five statements given about this topic, the one statement that stands out as an assumption rather than an inference or observation is statement number three “Parents are seldom the people an adolescent tells about his or her same-sex attractions”. The reason this is the assumption is because while Santrock touches on this subject by mentioning that adolescents with same-sex attractions reported less positive experiences with their parents than people who are heterosexual, he didn’t…

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,…

In the 1970’s there were many events that changed the path of history, the Vietnam War, President Richard Nixon’s resignation after the Water Gate scandal, the emergence of the hippies, and women’s rights movement, but we will be focusing on the gay rights movement and how it affected America and paved the way for a different future. “The Man I Love” was a song originally written by George and Ira Gershwin in 1927, long before the sexual revolution, but was covered by Zebedy Colt, in 1970, which…

numerous times, other hateful traditions are lingering under our noses, waiting to be sniffed out. One being the baseless practice of Conversion Therapy, which has been condemned and promoted, spit on and funded, opposed and proposed. Members of the LGBT community have had multiple victories after finally getting the mouth-piece necessary to speak their case, but things like marriage and these therapy programs are rearing their ugly faces. Conversion Therapy is just hateful, baseless programs to…

Historically, literary themes regarding the LGBTQ community have been omitted from comic books mainly because of censorship regulations and the presumption that storylines that include sexual orientation are not appropriate for children. The social mores of the past caused the exclusion of LGBTQ issues and characters from children’s comic books because the LGBTQ lifestyle was considered immoral. However, in recent years, comic book creators have started to take on the task of representing the…

For indigenous cultures it is considered a traditional aspect for dances or cultural celebrations. I chose a couple countries to discuss their views on female breast exposure. In Europe, some countries have now de-criminalized female breasts for activities such as swimming or sun-bathing. For example, in Denmark 2007 the supporting group Topless Front swam topless throughout many beaches. A year later, Copenhagen’s Culture and Leisure Committee voted to allow being topless…