LGBT culture

transgendered (LGBT) people have experienced today, examines the tensions between power structures and recognises the challenges they still…

The LGBT movement has made significant strides in gaining representation in popular media over the past thirty years. Still, there is a serious lack of LGBT characters in television, movies, and other fiction-based media. The focus of this paper will be on representative divides within the community itself. Though there has been better inclusion of non-straight characters in popular media in recent years, it is a fact that we continue to see a disproportionate number of (white) male characters…

veterans remembered San Francisco as a open-minded city and returned after the war. Seventeen percent of the city’s population was homosexual by 1980. Next to the Castro is its very affluent neighborhood Eureka Valley, a neighborhood that popular with LGBT community and family. The Market & Castro Street Cable Car line opened in 1886,…

West Hollywood is a city in Los Angeles, California. West Hollywood is known for a variety of things, including the Sunset Strip, its large LGBT population and regular celebrity sightings. Since its earliest years, West Hollywood has earned a reputation for its nightlife and home to emerging artists in the entertainment industry. Based on the city’s history and current demographics, it is suitable for a new live entertainment venue to be established. SWOT Analysis Strengths: One of the biggest…

I wanted to incorporate Popular Culture as an Introduction to the broad topic that is Microaggressions. I decided I wanted to focus on the Television show Glee, because of the various identities and sexualities portrayed. I chose Blaine because something I don’t think is talked about enough is the idea of who can play characters with LGBTQ+ Identities. There are many variations to this long acronym. I will be looking at this acronym as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer + identities…

and celebrities making insensitive comments) that hinder the emotional wellbeing of those being affected as well as larger-scale macroaggressions. Events such as the Orlando massacre, the attacks perpetrated against immigrants and the rise of rape culture being prime examples of the horrendousness that those microaggressions can achieve. The people who have in the past been victim to those types of aggression were given one clear message, that they were not welcomed by society and that it did…

The only internal organisation for gay rights within Uganda is SMUG. The acronym stands for Sexual Minorities UGanda. SMUG is currently headed by Frank Mugisha and his deputy Pepe Julian Onziema. SMUG fights for the protection of the Ugandan LGBT community’s human rights. Amnesty international is another organisation fighting for gay rights in Uganda. My plan on how to stop this violation. More support is needed. Governments from overseas counties need to put pressure on countries with anti-gay…

The narratives of transgender, transsexual, cross-dressing, and female impersonating individuals have been left out of the historiography of the civil rights movement and the LGBT movement. The first to write about individuals outside of normative gender binaries were medical professionals in the United States during the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. In 1966, The Transsexual Phenomenon was published…

In 1961, Affirmative Action was set in place. It was started to help protect minorities, women and now those within the LGBT community. We have had great strides with equality within our country, but there is still a need for this act. According to The Leadership Conference, we still need affirmative action due to the fact “white men make up for 48% of the college-educated workforce but hold over 90% of the top jobs in the news media, 96% of CEO positions, 86% of law firm partnerships, and 85%…

In 2013, a survey took place on LGBT Americans, and 92% of them said society has become more accepting in the past decade. Today, homosexuality is still facing discrimination and equality issues. Even though, there has been positive growth toward homosexuals, people still struggle to accept it. It is important to have an open mind toward homosexuals because they are no different, they are have a unique ways of loving others. Although, there are negative attitudes toward homosexual people,…