LGBT rights opposition

number of gay people I personally know on one hand. I learned from this that if any of my friends do come out to me that I should ideally be very accepting and treat them the same as I treat my straight friends. My limited experiences with people of the LGBT community may have hindered my ability to develop any subconscious biases and, for that, I am thankful. Overall, I do not think the implicit bias tests monitored my feelings very well; my experiences led me to conclude that there are a ton…

I think that reflected appraisal has had a tremendous effect on the way that I act. One of the things that I have reflected on and have come to the conclusion of is that growing up, particularly in high school, one of the comments that I frequently got was that I am “very sassy.” It was not usually in a negative situation either, most of the time the person would make the sassy comment after I made retort about an action I thought was stupid or unnecessary and it usually resulted in a ripple of…

The inSocial Work Podcast- Wounded Bonds: Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual (GLB) Military Service Members and Veterans gave great insight on the LGBT military community and how we as social workers can better serve them. Dr. Lisa Butler conduct an interview with Dr. Michael Pelts and Dr. David Albright to discussed their review of the social work profession’s literature, implication for social work education and practice, and the training needed by social workers to effectively serve this population.…

Being black and homosexual is some people eyes is two of the most deviant things that a person could be. Being a woman on top of all that just really puts the icing on the cake. The movie I watched was called Pariah. It was the story of a young black masculine identified woman who is maneuvering through her life trying to figure out her sexuality. This movie was deviant because of its focus on homosexuality and masculine presenting women. It is the portrayal of the life as a closeted stud living…

Endah Siti Nurohmah Investigation of gay language This section contains quantitative analysis of language features of homosexual characters in Glee season 3. This analysis is based on Fiscus’s method, which is to count some features of language that stereotypically belongs to women language and men language. The features include hedges, intensifiers, oh my god/like, taboo words, gonna, and guys/man. Lexical hedges and intensifiers are suggested by Lakoff as women linguistic features (Holmes,…

According to the Human Rights Campaign, gender identity is defined as the “innermost concept of self as male, female, a blend of both or neither- how individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves.”(HRC). On the other hand, sexual orientation is the “inherent or…

Following a young man’s journey through seduction, moral corruption, and eventual demise, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is considered to be one of the best known homoerotic novels ever written. Although the novel does not contain any explicit homosexuality, leaving the novel to be a suggestive work of such a theme, Wilde, being queer-coded himself, is able to use his work as an outlet to validate the identity of homosexual individuals. By including homosexual subtext, Wilde promotes…

Homosexuality is still a controversial topic in the United States, however polls and surveys in regards to its moral acceptability, show an obvious trend towards tolerance of the LGBTQ community among the American population. Eventhough there is a rise in acceptance of the LGBTQ community, many parents still believe that they have to prevent their children from learning about these types of individuals. In the children’s book And Tango Makes Three, Justin Richardson writes a heartwarming true…

It does not matter what gender you identify as, your sex, age, race, or sexual orientation. A human being is a human being and it is not right to discriminate against anyone. My views did not change after viewing the film. I still believe that everyone is their own person and we do not need to fall into society’s norms or be what other people what us to be. I believe that more people should…

This, his lawyers argued, was a clear violation of his rights. The judges in the case came down on the side of the military, however, claiming that the military operated as "a specialized society separate from civilian society" (Thomasson v. Perry, 1996) and shockingly upheld the decision that the discriminatory…