LGBT

Cultural Competency Assignment: The LGBT Culture Throughout its history, the United States has symbolized equality of opportunity for people of all races, origins, religions, and creeds. Despite these founding principles of equality and acceptance, the United States has also had a long history of denying basic rights to certain groups of people that live within the land. Still, most Americans describe our culture as the “melting pot” in which people from around the world contribute their own…

There have been many research studies on the topic of LGBT characters in media, but I decided to make my study unique by studying how they are understood by a certain cultural group. I chose Japanese Americans because Japan and America have very contrasting views and distinct understanding on the LGBT community in society. With this, my audience based research question was the following: how are Mitch and Cam understood by the Japanese American community? To answer the question I created, I…

LGBT stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. It encompasses all of those who do not identify as heterosexual and those who don’t identify with the gender they were born with. As with all minority groups, they have been discriminated against since the beginning. Just like any other minority group, they are confronted by heavy amounts of hate and discrimination. Things like being verbally harassed, physically assaulted, and even murdered have been common problems they have had to…

Research Portfolio Mishna, Faye, et al. “Bullying of Lesbian and Gay Youth: A Qualitative Investigation.” The British Journal of Social Work, vol. 39, no. 8, 5 Jan. 2008, pp. 1598–1614., academic.oup.com/bjsw/article/39/8/1598/1624782 Bullying occurs in schools, home, religious spaces, public areas (eg: malls) on the street, public transit, online “Conversion Bullying”: Occurrences where LGB people are harassed to change their sexual orientation and comply to heteronormative ideas the American…

It happens all over the world. The topic is “Human Rights - LGBT” and the paper will focus on Russia. History and Demography With a population of 142.470.272, Russia is a huge country. Out of all the people in Russia only 29.918.757 people believe that homsexuality is an orientation that people are born with. 64.111.622 people believe that being gay is the result of “loose personal morals.” (rt.com/news/russia-gay-law-myths-951/) The LGBT community has been in Russian history for some time.…

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.…

The 26th of June 2015 was a day that went down in history for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community. This was the date of the decision for the landmark Supreme Court case, Obergefell v. Hodges, which determined that same-sex marriages were to be considered legal in all fifty states (Obergefell v. Hodges, 2015). Those who are in the LGBT community were overjoyed to finally have the long awaited marriage rights that had been granted to heterosexual couples for hundreds of…

take in these children. There is a certain group of adults that are willing to take these children in; however, many have claimed that these adults are in unfit to care for children due to their sexual orientation. In the American Foster care system, LGBT couples are viewed as inadequate caregivers to children due to the claims of people who disagree with their differing sexual…

reason, people fought back. They made themselves heard. They never thought that that could have changed the world by changing the way everyone viewed them. The Stonewall Riot was the most important event in American LGBT – lesbian, gay, bisexual,…

The Effects of Proposition 8 If you were in the LGBT community during the 1800-1900s you would of been thrown in jail and fined up to $1,000. Being attracted to a member of the same-sex could of landed you in jail with a $1,000 fine back then. If an individual was gay in the military you had to keep it a secret from other, especially your enemy because they may target you due to your interest in a partner. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) social movements is a political ideology…