Sexual orientation change efforts

My mother raised me to be independent and taught me that the man doesn’t always have to be in charge. My mother raised me to have pride in myself, because I was worth something. My mother raised me to know right and wrong, because she raised me in the Roman Catholic Church. But my mother also raised me to hide my feelings, keep my secrets, and lie, because she wouldn’t understand my side. I had always been my parents ' favorite child. I was Daddy 's little princess, and I was low maintenance,…

parenting with regards to the child’s welfare; a focus on sexual orientation; the stigmatization of the child; and how the situation can…

are in the LGBT community were overjoyed to finally have the long awaited marriage rights that had been granted to heterosexual couples for hundreds of years (Pearson, Sanchez, & Martinez, 2015). The Supreme Court decision is representative of the changes that have occurred in the United States in regard to LGBT individuals over time. However, the pages and pages of dissent written by Chief Justice…

with the expected sex/gender/orientation template is that it exists under the belief that they are mutually inclusive when they are not. The fact that there are plenty of cis-gendered men and women that are attracted to the same sex already debunks the template without even touching upon all the other combinations following the male/female, masculine/feminine, and men/woman options, plus options that are not included such as trans and queer. Just in the sexual orientation category there is…

quiet and reserved man. Unfortunately, I did notice that some apprehension from other coworkers. In addition, the way I communicate with him does not change but, I tried not to ask any uncomfortable or awkward questions. My assumption of gay men was extremely influenced by media; I expected them to be extravagant and very open about their sexual…

happens. Animal experiments have proven that this area is what regulates sexual behavior. Dr. LeVay also discussed experiments done on homosexual sheep that proves his hypothesis is with merit. The hypothalamus of gay sheep was examined and they showed the same relationship where an area of the hypothalamus was smaller in gay sheep as opposed to heterosexual…

and goes on to investigate what effect this construction of what is considered to be homosexual acts has on the larger discourse of sexual fluidity. Sexual Fluidity is also being affected by society growing to be a more Homonormative culture, culture in where homosexuality is normalized, Ward…

erasure, etc. Jeff Thomas demonstrated this issue in class with the relative privilege chart they drew: big L, big G, smaller B, small T, and even smaller Q. I want to acknowledge this problem, but I am going to focus on women’s sexual privilege as that is personally…

Even though the child might prefer having a father and mother instead of two parents of the same sex, homosexuals should have the same rights as heterosexuals because children of homosexual fathers, as a rule, grow up to be heterosexual. What is benefited from disallowing homosexuals to marry and adopt children? “Defenders of same-sex marriage want to legitimize the right to marry persons of the same sex. But since heterosexuals lack that right too, this cannot be the proper formulation of the…

Over the past decade or so, the stigmatization of sexual orientation and the antigay prejudice has drastically improved when compared to progress made over the last thirty or so years. Unfortunately there is still so much progress that needs to be made in order to finally say anti-gay prejudice no longer exists, or at the very least is a minor part of our society. Even today, the prejudice against gay men and lesbians is a prominent problem in our society, even though marriage equality has…