Sexual orientation identity

reflects on queer mothers in reference to women who have queer sexual identities and/or are in relationships with other women, and who parent children. In this journal, I will be looking at the question of normalcy and “homonormativity” in terms of the depoliticization, commercialization, and co-optation of queerness and LGBTQ activism, using the pride parade as an example. Gibson notes that queerness challenges presumed gender, familial, and sexual relations and norms in dominant culture (347).…

Prejudice during the Thatcher Years. The movies “PRIDE” , “The Iron Lady” and “This is England” represent the British society during the Thatcher Years. There is a lot of prejudice and discrimination in all three movies, especially against gay people, women and black people. These three groups of people are widely discriminated and prejudiced, even today. The first movie “PRIDE” focuses on a group of gays and lesbians that chooses to support the miners during the strike in 1984. Even though…

Transgenders say they want this because of safety infractions, but doing so would just be causing more safety issues. If restrooms were based off of gender identity, who or what is going to stop one of the 747,408 registered sex offenders (NCMEC) in the US from waking up one morning and saying “I feel like a woman today.” “It doesn’t make any sense at all to let grown adult men-strangers- to be alone in bathrooms…

Sikhism is a Religion of uniqueness. It has beliefs from two other religions; Hinduism and Islam(Borak 53). This religion is very scarce in the United States. However, the main area for Sikhs is in the Northwest India (Borak 53). Sikhs has a very rare formation. However, this religion is a mixture of two religions, known as Hinduism and Islam. Therefore, this joining together is known as syncretism (Hopfe188). The Hindus and Islam began to mix and some thoughts of joining the two together. Not…

Although gender identity rights remain a controversial subject, I lean towards the side that desired the Supreme Court to hear Gavin Grimm’s case. In my humble opinion, I believe a person can achieve anything they desire, and that a person can be whomever they aspire to be. Transgenders are included, they feel very strongly about this issue and fight for who they are. It appears the government is treating people with gender identity issues just as colored people were treated in the past. Sadly,…

given by the United States Department of Justice states that these crimes are motivated by a bias towards a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity or national origin. Statistics from 2006 show that racially motivated crimes account for the most hate crimes committed. The remainder of crimes are committed by bias against a religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity or national origin, and disability, in that…

existence of sexism within our society. Homophobia is defined as the irrational fear and hatred of those who love and sexually desire those of the same sex. Because of homophobia, it is enough to keep 20% of people to hide or live in fear of their sexual identity. Even while growing up, children learn to fear people who are not heterosexual. Once children hit puberty, they learn to use taunting labels such as queer and fag, using these terms to ostracize those around them that are gay. When…

I am in GSA also known as the Gay Straight Alliance. I've never had a vendetta against the gay community and one of my absolute favorite teachers started the club so I attended the first meeting. I’m always up for radical change and a GSA club starting at my school was a definite one. Within twenty minutes of the first meeting I was immediately enticed after hearing so many stories. I realized just how serious the issues are that the lgbt community faces, so I decided I was going to join and I…

The reading for this week consisted of Tanya Erzen’s Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement. Erzen’s work is an ethnography of individuals at “New Hope”, which she states is the oldest ex-gay organization in the United States (Erzen, 2006). Erzen excels at providing historical and social context in her writing along with her ethnographic findings, giving the reader a well-rounded basis to form their opinions from. The “ex-gay” movement is one that is widely…

In both articles there are some words that are a lie. All I know is that she would give out marriage licenses to same sex couples, but she said as long as her name is not in the document is okay. The ones she gave out in the license it said “pursuant to federal” not her name which is weird. The two articles that we read, “The Pope and Kim Davis: Seven Points to Keep in Mind” by James Martin, SJ and “How Pope Francis Undermined the Goodwill of His Trip and Proved to Be a Coward” by Michelangelo…