Orientation week

She appealed to the pathos aspect in every person. Zimmerman argues that “Regardless of sexual orientation, everyone should have the right to envision a future for themselves; to engage with popular culture as an aspirational means of self-discovery.” This quote opens the reader’s minds to understand how much the media affects our lives. Most communication…

The LGBTQ community are discriminated against in many forms. Youths can face challenges at home, school, or foster care. A survey done by the organization GLSEN shows that 75% of transgender youths feel unsafe at school. Time and again, school faculty disrespect or punish them for expressing themselves in their identity. Another example of exclusion is in the military. There is an estimate of 134,000 American veterans and 15,000 people in the military forces today that identify as…

a man in the middle of this gay threesome” Said Mark Anderson. Gays get targeted at work at home and anywhere they go by homophobic people. “Gays frequently encounter homophobia, harassment, unfair treatment, and job termination if their sexual orientation becomes public knowledge” (Discrimination…

LGBT Should Have the Same Rights as Other Americans In 2016, just under fifty people were murdered in Orlando Florida. This massacre happened at a gay nightclub.( Being a LGBT member should still mean you are granted your human rights. This means that you should not feel timid about going out with your friends on a Saturday night and feeling that you might be killed or beaten. Around five-thousand lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender people commit suicide each year and around another five…

terms. These words were also imposed upon these women who later identified as trans, and out of respect to the historical subjects of this study, I choose to refer to them as Transgender. As a note, although it is important to consider other identities of the spectrum such as intersex and transsexual people, this project specifically interested in the category of transgender, which may or may not encompass these identities. My research is also situated in a specific time and place: the women who…

governor revoked health benefit from gay and lesbian partners of state employees, benefits in which they had previously received. Also, there are many anti-discriminatory laws in place whereas you can not be judged based on your race, color, sexual orientation, etc. With that being said, an individual can be fired from their workplace for being gay or lesbian. Same-sex couples don't receive full-marriage equality. Laws prevent them from filing taxes together and generally married couples file…

Man has been the number one sex as early as the 1600s, when scientists, doctors and religion claimed that the bodies of men and women were one. A body in this time period was “fluid,” and ever changing, and men and women were represented in a hierarchy. A male body was a perfect body to compare all others to; it was strong, full of heat and truth. A female body was one that lacked vital heat and perfection, making these bodies the inverse of a male body. Women retained, inside, the reproductive…

[became] the first state to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation” (The American Gay Rights Movement). Every year there are events held to show gay pride and to motivate people to accept this way of living and what the term truly means. There are events ranging from film festivals to banquets and fundraisers. One of the major events that happen all over the country are gay parades that people of all sexual orientations participate in to show support of the change that America…

and adoption are legal in every territory of France. Additionally, openly gay individuals are permitted to serve in the French military. Most importantly, the law bans all anti-gay discrimination, including discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation in employment (“France Archives…” 2013). Unfortunately much of this legislation is very new, and many practices have not caught up to the law. Homosexuals are still discriminated against in the professional world of…

Throughout this notion, a child needs the reassurance of both a mother and father figure. Once again, individuals who are ‘for’ gay marriage and parenting will possibly disagree and point out that a homosexual couples does not necessarily need to have children or the case that children will not be affected with same sex parents. As for the argument ‘against' this topic, that is not necessarily the case. In order to build upon this idea of children having both a mother and a father figure as…