LGBT

critical. On one hand homophobia is still a huge problem in today’s school system and heteronormativity is a virus that will only keep growing until a stop is put to it. On the other hand if teachers don’t present themselves as proud members of the LGBT community who will students have to look up to? By not being out teachers can involuntarily perpetuate heteronormativity and gender stereotypes. I was fortunate enough to have a teacher in high school who was openly lesbian and gender fluid…

On December 17, 2013, Phil Robertson who is well known for the A&E show Duck Dynasty stated his view on homosexuality in an interview for GQ magazine. His anti-gay rant brought about much controversy. According to an article written by Drew Magary for GQ, Robertson said, "It seems like, to me, a vagina—as a man—would be more desirable than a man's anus. That's just me. I'm just thinking: There's more there! She's got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I'm saying? But hey, sin:…

There has arguably never been a better time to be LGBT. The youth of today are experiencing a wave of acceptance that was not felt in our grandparents, or even our parents, generation. Everywhere you look people are talking about it; the “It Gets Better” project, Caitlin Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair, the historic Supreme Court ruling in which it was decided 5-4 that individual states must recognize the marriages of same-sex couples, and even in sociology. Sociologists studying…

homophobia is defined as "aversion to gay or homosexual people and their behavior lifestyle or culture" by the American heritage dictionary in 1992. homophobia is discrimination and hate and opposition of homosexuals that leads to prejudice views and treatment towards them this ideology historically routes from homosexuality being seen as a non-conformity tomorrow and harming toward society influencing I sentiment against gay individuals including lesbian bisexual and any sexuality that seems…

In the article The Sociology of Sexualities: Queer and Beyond, the authors Joshua Gamson and Dawne Moon identify three trends in the recent sociology of sexuality. Gamson and Moon explores how queer theory has influenced sociology, the nature and effects of sexuality among intersecting systems, and the political economy of sexuality. Sexuality is entangled with other cultural categories of discrimination such as race and income. In the mid-1990s, “queer theory” began to play a big role in…

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…

The word queer has its origin from the Proto-Indo-European word twerk. The word later turned into the word “quer” and picked up the meaning of weirdness and unconventionality. By 1500, it led to the word queer and was widely used in Scotland. The other theory for how queer came about was by William Sayers. He said its origin was from the word kue meaning a twisted thing, implicating not straight. Queer first appeared on paper in 1508 in the transcription of “The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie”.…

In one scene all the members had their parents over for family therapy. This was when they were at the third step called discovering your root. They each had to mention a moment in their life when they realized they were a homosexual. This concept indicates the nature versus nurture argument, or more precisely, the inkling that homosexuality is a choice rather than a genomic character. Mary Brown requests to identify what turned each pupil gay, as if such an immense notion can be secluded to a…

In her book Victory: The triumphant gay revolution (2012), Linda Hirshman discuses the major events, struggles and success of the gay movement in the United States. As discussed in class many times, here “gay” primarily refers to white men belonging to an upper socio-economic class. Nonetheless, Hirshman takes her readers from the early 19th century balls to the recent elimination of Don’t ask Don’t tell policy. As she prepares to wrap up her story of the gay movement, she discusses marriage…

I would add on to this argument by stating that it is not the issue queer people really care about in most countries. "Gay Marriage" is the poster-child of a "first-world problem" for the LGBT community(ies). Marriage is great for Western White gays, but it is not a queer issue. Gay people and queer people are inherently different in terms of gender, race, class, and sexuality and therefore do not experience the world uniformly. As Currier…