Sexual orientation identity

freedom protection bill that would allow any healthcare provider to refuse services to any person who violated the provider’s moral and/or religious conscience meaning the bill is clearly aimed at gay people even though the bill doesn’t mention sexual orientation. In addition Gonzalez wants to empower adoption agencies to refuse to place children in homes with two lesbians all due to their religious convictions and also allow individuals and small companies to refuse service on the same grounds.…

People in this time period were living in an era were homosexual sex was illegal in every state except Illinois. Homosexuals were discriminated against homosexual sex was punishable by prison. Within Greenwich Village is the Stonewall Inn which was a common area for homosexuals to hangout and drink. In the 1960's, New York created police vice squads that's purpose was to raid gay bars and baths. They began using decoys to solicit and entrap gays. By 1966 over 100 men a week were arrested as…

Did you know that books can be completely banned from libraries, counties, cities, states, and even countries because of minor circumstances like witchcraft and wizardry! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was an english author living from May 22, 1859 to July 7, 1930. His most famous series, the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, was banned from many school across the country. One of the books in question is A Study In Scarlett. According to some people, this book is offensive to them and their religion. This…

Cisphobia is defined as a fear or hatred of cisgender peoples as individuals or as a group, as heterophobia is defined as fear or resentment of heterosexuals in the same sense. The term ‘cisphobia’ may have been coined by Piers Morgan in February of 2014 to describe the apparent prejudice of transgender people, a historically oppressed group, against cisgender people, a historically privileged one. However, the reality is that there is no systematic oppression of cisgender people simply because…

The movies La Mission and The Wedding Banquet shows fear of queer contamination and also cultural genocide. There is a cultural difference between different countries in different parts of the world. These movies compare the cultural differences between Asian and Latino with Western culture. These movies not only show cultural differences but also show family tradition and problem with homosexuality with the non-westerners. The fear of not being able to continue family lines because the only son…

Chapter 3 was interesting and its starting to give me a better understanding of sexual orientation. Sexual orientation is how you identify yourself, sexual behavior and attraction. There are many different categories that people identify themselves as. Everyone knows the fundamental groups, heterosexual, gay, and bisexual; their plenty more that I personally wasn't aware of until this week. Asexual is someone who doesn't desire sex, and pansexuals are attracted to everything and don't categorize…

In both the interview with Rick Santorum and the interview with Jonathan Rauch, the arguments around same-sex marriage are based upon what marriage is biblically, societally, and how it relates to the community. Santorum carefully states that the impacts of same-sex marriage are unknown while Rauch claims that all marriage is beneficial. Lately, marriage is supposed to be emotional, romantic, and based on love and dedication to each other. However, the marriage culture’s foundation of…

This should be taught in EWRT 1B because to this day, students in college are afraid to take pride in their ethnicity or to show their sexuality in fear of being judged. Many students in society often get bullied because of their race. Reality shows that even some companies hire/terminate employees based on race, even when they are not allowed to discriminate. One of my friend’s old workplace fired several workers. The reasons behind the work terminations are not too certain, but the workers had…

the role of color in gay issues. Allan begins by talking about being a gay, white male. He touches base on how he has recently started using white as an identity and how it has helped him notice other problems that gay people of color face. Allan talked about how we, as society, whitewash gay people and therefore gay POC have to actively identity as as such. In addition, white, gay activist are not educated on, nor do they fight for problems that gay POC face. Allan then goes onto give examples…

Adoption is not about finding a child for a family; it’s about finding a family for a child. Adoption has been around for many years, but only recently has the question of gay adoption been raised. Throughout this world there are many orphans but not enough parents or families to take them in. There are not that many families who can and will adopt children, whether its because they cant support them, they have children of their own, or they just don’t want children. The end result is still an…