LGBT

The riot at the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969 was an event that had a massive impact on the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) rights movement. The riot started because of a police raid on the bar, due to it being illegal to be a LGB person at that time, the people in the bar had grown tired of the raids and fought against the police. The people involved with the riot did this through its effects on the movement by creating advocacy groups and made changing how LGB people were treated by police.…

discrimination in other forms from others. While the trend lately has undoubtedly been shifting in favor of gay marriage, with over half of the country now allowing it (with some states attempting to appeal), there is still a battle to be fought so that the LGBT community can be on equal ground with their heterosexual counterparts. Laws passed as recently as last year continue to be a hassle to…

Both the Gay Liberation Movement and ACT UP focused on issues affecting all manners of LGBT people, yet they pushed for mainstream acceptance via legal means, which meant that they had to push out the less “acceptable” looking members -- the queer and trans people of color -- in order to further their movement in the mainstream. In one instance…

believes there is no choice in this matter. People can't help being gay, she states, "My same-sex attractions were awakened in me at such a young age that they felt as mush a part of me as my limbs" (Fairyington 51). The author feels that the world views LGBT activists as having a choice. Politicians are some of the worst when it comes to gay rights. However, in the 1970's, homosexuality was no longer considered a mental disorder. With the help of the mental health establishment, being gay is…

around in mind and body, the one that kept telling me that I was gay. This time around, I needed to listen because my desperate attempts at appearing heterosexual were not fooling anyone. I had mellowed and researched sexuality and the whole spectrum of LGBT topics, choosing to embrace it. Gay people weren't sexual deviants and transgender people weren't attention seekers. As soon as I understood that sexuality was a spectrum, I had an epiphany of biblical proportions. Not too far after, I had…

A Journey toward Love and Acceptance was the essay that interested and moved me the most. The author is Greg Chapman and the essay he wrote is about growing up in a society where being gay isn’t “okay”. In the essay he talks about finding and accepting everything about yourself, even if others can’t accept you. He also touches on the topics of wanting to follow his religion and how keeping his secret hidden drove him into a deep depression. This essay interested me the most because in our…

After much consideration, I have decided to dedicate this space in my application to a man named Harvey Milk, the first openly gay non-incumbent to be elected to a public office in U.S. history. Through his dedication to the LGBT community and the gay rights movement, Harvey Milk overcame many challenges and showed true leadership through his persistence, courage, and focus on making a better future for all. With the help of the gay community and his own determination, Milk was elected to the…

Laverne Cox is a well know actress and activism in the Transgender community, I have personally been impacted by this figure because of her strength, dedication and perseverance that has led to her success in her career and personal life as she has shared in a detailed manner, in many interviews and magazine’s articles. As she has described herself: a member of a minority within another minority group, as she is African American and also a transgender woman. She had to deal with a lot of…

In the epilogue of Michael Bronksi’s A Queer History of the United States (2011), Bonski asserts that the recent battle for marriage equality may in fact undermine the LGBT movement’s original intention to “fight to eliminate or limit the state’s involvement in consensual relationships” by insisting that it forces queer people take on the classic American lie: we are “just like you” (pp. 240, 241). Implicit in this claim is the belief that most queer people are not interested in establishing…

2000s it was not uncommon for LGBT organizations to push local governments for all inclusive protections only to jettison the Trans portion of the plan to allow the LGB portion to pass through (Taylor, 2014:116). While these conflicts have died down in recent years there is still pressure in some LGBT organizations to place other priorities higher than protection of trans people (Taylor, 2014: 121). It can be difficult for trans people to become an equal part of the LGBT coalition especially if…