LGBT culture

to comprehend the term bisexuality so that it can stand the test of time especially as the concept gains massive popularity in this day and age. Today, bisexuality is all around us and has become a dominant part of our daily lives and our popular culture. There are people who identify as being homosexual as they are only sexually and emotionally drawn towards persons of the same sex. Others are heterosexual and are only attracted to people of the opposite…

Reverend Dr. Phil Snider. Kerry Washington, known for her role as Olivia Pope in the television series Scandal, delivered a powerful speech after being honored for her contributions to the LGBT community at the 2015 GLAAD Media Awards. Among the primary audience were fellow supporters and members of the LGBT community, such as Channing Tatum and Ellen Degenerous. The secondary…

Abigail Graber's article “Television Encourages Viewers to Reject Homosexuals”, Graber faults media depictions of LGBT people as part of the reason gay people are discriminated against in places such as the workforce (Graber). Negative stereotypes in media depicting homosexuality as taboo and perverse have helped spread homophobia. Stereotyping LGBT people only furthers perceptions that being LGBT is abnormal, and thus treating them differently than heterosexuals is socially acceptable. Newsweek…

here at SIUE I’ve joined the campus’s GSA, a local LGBT student organization, and encountered individuals who’ve stated that in order for our organization to last, everybody must share some type of crucial characteristic, and that this characteristic should provide the symbol for the organization’s identity. This poses an interesting point given that our organization has a commitment to be welcoming to all individuals who fall within the campus’s LGBT and Queer communities. A number of students…

The queer community has always existed, and as long as it has existed, so has homophobia. The Stonewall riots were a direct result of the oppression of LGBT individuals, when a group of New Yorkers decided that they had had enough. The riots may have only been an isolated event, but the events that followed helped to shape history for LGBT individuals forever. Just years before the riots, these individuals were hiding “in the closet” and afraid to be themselves. It was the loud and open…

and United States parents’ attitude toward homosexuality. In the early time of Taiwan history, people are more likely to strongly oppose the group of homosexuality. It was considered as a “sickness”, or “not ethical”. In the traditional Chinese culture, “Yin and Yang represent the two opposite principles of nature. Yin characterizes the feminine or negative nature of things and yang stands for the masculine or positive side.”() And only by the combination of both Yin and Yang, a…

these two couples? Activists express their opinions on certain sensitive topics and publish literary works that carry special themes or messages. One poet in particular who truly stands out, especially in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community is Denise Frohman whose work explores the intersections of gender and sexuality. Her most famous poem, “Dear Straight People,” is about how gay people feel the need to be hidden in the closet and constantly feel uncomfortable and…

performed in Rooted, told a story of how he went to an LGBT event in Montana without his husband because they did not accept his marriage visa While he was walking to the event, a pick-up truck pulled up next to him with a gun rack in the back and about two-three men inside. These men began to yell discriminatory words at him and ended up throwing a glass bottle at him cutting open his hand. This story was powerful to me because I did not know that the LGBT community was and still is treated in…

with the statement that is “all men are created equal”? The truth is… we cannot. Not everyone is treated equally in our world; whether it be women against men, or sexual minorities, such as people in the LGBT community, against heterosexual people. The healthcare for many people of the LGBT community is not the best and does not support the needs of most of the people included in the community. Many lesbian women and gay men have been diagnosed with HIV over the course of the past few years.…

indicates how inequalities and their intersections are relevant to political strategies.” Oftentimes the LGBT struggle for human rights is observed independently from the struggle of race, gender, disability, religion, and class. “Beyond Same-Sex Marriage” addresses political intersectionality and queerness by directing our attentions to the fact that people from all these groups exist within the LGBT community as well. There are a number of people with intersectional identities who are forced…