LGBT culture

It’s only been in recent years that the LGBT community has gotten decent positive representation in media. LGBT is a topic that can bring stigma, which can lead to misunderstanding and glamorization. Despite this LGBT content in media is slowly pressing forward to creating more realistic content representations that LGBT individual can identify with. Along with gaining the courage to create awareness and acceptance. Starting out the subject of LGBT was considered taboo. This being a fact not…

that Latinos have to deal with prevents them from coming out as an LGBTQ+ member because Latinos fear that they wont be accepted by their family due to culture. Coming out of the closet and being latino is really crucial because Latinos are not always accepted within their cultural grounds. Latino family 's tend to feel strongly about tradition, culture and religion which makes LGBTQ latinos less open to showing their true identity to their families. Although latino families feel strong about a…

In our age of progression, we have achieved tremendous strides for minority groups. One of the communities that has experienced positive change over the past year has involved LGBT youth. This group was recently granted the right to same-sex marriage. However, significant acceptance has ceased to exist, especially for people who identify as transgender. The issue has been debated socially when concerning the rights of these individuals. It has gained critical attention through the media, mainly…

impacts of performance and corporatization in North America. Pride Parades through time have changed dramatically. What once was used as a means of protest and a riot used for the protection and fight for people’s human rights, in North American culture, has turned into a celebration. The people who are present range from “visitors to pride parades line the streets to cheer drag queens, dykes on bikes, leather bears, buff boys, marching girls, gay parents with their kids, gay and lesbian school…

future ahead of itself, and that would not be possible without one specific group; queer youth. The younger member of the community are the next generation and will continue the fight wherever the current generation may leave it. However, some young LGBT+ members aren’t even waiting for the next generation. Jazz Jennings is a fourteen year old transgender girl from Florida who has made it clear that she wants her voice to be heard. Jennings, at the age of four, became one of the earliest…

discrimination against LGBT’s. LGBT stands for those that are: lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, sometimes there might be a Q at the end (LGBTQ) the Q stands for queer which some people prefer to be identified as. In turn, this sparked consciousness for LGBT Rights. LGBT rights are the equal and social rights for homosexuals compared with heterosexuals (Dictionaries). Not only has equal rights for…

understand the severity of LGBT issues and the growing statistics of violence, discrimination, bullying, and inequality surrounding teens that are within the LGBTQIAP+ community. Outreach personnel that work with youth and have a background in Psychology plus Gender and Sexuality studies striving to create change are very important to the success of equality in our society. Micah Johnson was the previous Director of School Outreach at a non-profit organization that caters to LGBT youth in…

Everyone has a culture and often people feel proud of their culture and where they’re from. However sometimes, people 's perception on certain cultures can be affected. There have been many cultural and social movements that have trended on social media, including Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. #LoveWins was one of the top 10 viral hashtags of 2015. It was a social movement that started on June 26th, 2015, when the United States became the 21st country to legalize same sex marriage nationwide…

Many LGBT individuals and families are arbitrarily excluded from some housing opportunities in the private sector. 11% of the 2008 survey responders reported having been evicted due to bias. It also showed that 1/5 of respondents claim that they have been homeless…

"socially accepted" binary concept and it definitely affects my identity. I regard myself as heterosexual and graysexual, which means that I am straight and rarely experience sexual attraction compared to "ordinary" people. I did not know the term until my LGBT friends told me that I may be asexual, those who do experience sexual attraction toward individuals of any gender at all, and after searching on the terms, I figured out that I can be categorised as graysexual. To simply put, I…