Orientation week

been fulfilled like many of my other desires. I have never had the chance to be disowned by a family that claimed to love me. I have never been told I was evil by a church. I have never been bullied for any reason that has to do with my sexual orientation. If my desire is to have all this done to me, why not just choose to be gay? It’s not that simple, just like many penguins and dolphins, I cannot simply choose to be gay, just as those who are gay cannot choose to be straight. Being gay is…

thousands of gay and lesbian students are verbally and physically harassed in schools all around the world. In the small town of Ashland, Wisconsin, Jamie Nabozny was being physically and verbally tormented by classmates for years due to his sexual orientation. Nabozny’s school and district neither protected Jamie, nor punished the bullies. (Transition Word) For instance, (Supporting quote) they would say, “boys will be boys.” (Introduction Strategy) Statistics prove that 1 in 4 teachers see…

same as heterosexuals have attracts more foreign tourists to visit Canada. For instance, the gay pride that holds every 5 years obtained enormous amount of money from visitors. On 2006, $22,700,000 have been received from these tourists. Yet the Pride Week 2009 attracts around one million foreign tourists to Toronto with $136,000,000 contributed to economy in the city. This demonstrates as more people are supporting gay marriage as the time passes, more people will be participating in the prides…

primarily through an organized, cultural and sporting event known as the “Gay Games. Main goals of the organization are to promote equality within and through the organization. Second there will be no hate, discrimination on the biases of sexual orientation. By having sporting events having such broad mandated rules and regulations, like the Olympics, regulations like sex testing and policing of sport often prioritize these regulations over the sport. These sporting events are no longer a…

96% of CEO positions, 86% of law firm partnerships, and 85% of tenured college faculty positions” (2001). This helps ensure that all citizens have an equal opportunity at life and are not going to be held back due to their gender, race, or sexual orientation. Within this paper, affirmative action is looked at for the LGBT community, race, and gender. There is Affirmative Action for lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered people facing discriminatory issues today, but there has been more…

Gay youth are not just bullied in schools, they are frequently made to feel unwelcome and abandoned even by their own families. Even if having not tried drugs or alcohol before, within their first week, they are known to resort to substances such as Crack Cocaine or Heroine. In order to survive, these youth have sex for meals, money, or shelter, some are even raped. All of which put them at risk for HIV infection, or physical abuse. Because of the homophobia they face, they are four times more…

I have now been interning at the Diablo Community Center (DCC), on the campus of Mt. Diablo High School, for about seven weeks. In those seven weeks I have made a CPS report, three female students have come out to me as either being bi-sexual, or are questioning their sexual orientation, I have counseled three students that have experienced rape before their 16th birthday, worked with foster and homeless you who’s lives are falling apart and those that are excelling in all that they do, I’ve…

Gray Scenario Winter break was almost approaching at New High School as I received notification from all the teachers indicating which students were failing their grades. I started to make arrangement to meet individually with each student to discuss their grades and try to problem solve how to best help each student to raise their grades. The following days I started spending the majority of the time with some students. It was M.L.’s turns, he was a freshman and it was his first time being at…

With the news filled with stories of gay rights lawsuits filed for unfair treatment towards homosexuals, it is tempting to think there is a good sized percentage of homosexuals in America. This is not entirely true. The LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) community is actually really small. A 2013 survey in the UK shows 16% of heterosexual women have had a homosexual experience, 8% included genital contact. Heterosexual men have a lower rate, being 7% with a homosexual experience, and…

because society was not tolerant, the current generation has the ability to reveal their identities to society without being discriminated based upon what they identify with. The authors argue that parents who were forced to suppress his/her sexual orientation and societal wants look to his/her children as a means to a second chance. Overall, the authors of Fun Home and The Shadow Hero argue that due to societal advancements in tolerance, the parents who had to live in the older generation…