Orientation week

Why shouldn't the LGBT community have equal rights!? It's estimated that there is only two hundred and twenty nine million gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people in the world, that’s 5 percent of the seven billion people who inhabit this earth! However this number doesn’t stop hateful, disgusting bigots from saying that there is a "gay agenda" to turn their children gay. Egypt, Nigeria and Sudan are only three of the seventy nine countries in the world where being gay and lesbian is…

Researchers have tried to explain the increasing suicide rate for many years. The recent rise in suicide rates among bisexual and homosexual teenagers has created much controversy. Among the LGBT community some people feel there is no bearing on sexual orientation and suicide risk, while others argue it is a big part of the rising suicide rates. The present study included 131 males and 144 females who identified as bisexual, and 81 males and 38 females who identified as mostly/ 100%…

Although homosexuality’s existence no doubt preceded scientific or academic scrutiny, its study and differentiation from heterosexuality emerged at the same time as boundaries of black and white bodies were being studied. In the Jim Crow segregation era, relationships between two people of the same sex would already be troublesome, but two women of different races, would be especially alarming. The existence of race within sexuality, and vice versa, amplified the other’s presence more. Through…

Gay Marriage and Families. Granting legal marriage to gays and lesbians would affect the stability of families, the foundation of our society. It would affect families because it goes against the institute of marriage between men and women, people won’t be able to procreate, and the nation will find a decrease in the population. Gay marriage goes against the institute of marriage that you find in the Christian Bible. The Bible is so clear in its support of heterosexual marriage. In Genesis2:24…

just culture and ethnics. It is the variation which makes people the same and different. It’s our values, our beliefs and our behaviors that makes us who we are as a person. Some of the most invisible forms of diversity is a person’s sexual orientation, their life experience, their political views to which without questioning them, you as a person may not know. “At its most basic and best, the term “diversity” refers to any and all differences between and among people” (Define Diversity).…

EFFECTIVENESS OF FAMILY SUPPORT FOR GAY ADOLESCENT MALES WHEN DISCLOSING SEXUAL IDENTITY Monique Henry Marywood University EFFECTIVENESS OF FAMILY SUPPORT FOR GAY ADOLESCENT WHEN DISCLOSING SEXUAL IDENTITY The purpose of this review is to examine the literature of research in recent past, their findings, and the availability of existing programs to demonstrate the vast difference between support and absence of support from parents of gay adolescents in regard to their overall wellness…

Conversion, passing, and covering; these are the three movements that Kenji Yoshino describes how America moves through gay rights in his novel, Covering the Hidden Assault on our Civil Rights. Covering is something that everyone does, and is defined as “to tone down a disfavored identity to fit into the mainstream” (ix) as Yoshino describes. Kenji Yoshino writes Covering from his own experiences as a gay Japanese American lawyer. Yoshino was raised by his parents to be “100% American in…

In the book named Gay New York, the author yet a historian, George Chauncey, brought to the world audience a vibrant yet astoundingly transparent cultural history of gay men in the New York City between 1890 and 1940. In the book, Chauncey unearths a hidden gay male world that was not thought to exist before the World War II in New York City because of the myths of isolation, invisibility, and self-hatred or internalization of gay men in the past history. In the 1920s, gay men had their secured…

In the words of Ellen Wittlinger regarding transgender “...you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy” (“GoodReads”). It is not right that society would force a person to hide their true identity, however, many have hidden who they really are in order to be accepted into social norms and society. One specific group that has been socially analyzed and forced to hide their true selves are the transgender community. The definition of transgender is “Appearing as, wishing to…

during my junior year of high school I was chosen to represent my town as Miss Glenwood City. Through that organization alone I completed over 120 hours of community service. I worked at our local food shelter, public library, nursing home, and spent a week in Superior, Wisconsin with the Wildfire mission trip organization. After high school, I spent my freshman year of college working as a teaching assistant for Children and Family Urban Movement with an after school program called The Haven.…