Sexual orientation

“If you preach hate at the service your words aren’t annointed, that holy water you soak in then has been poisoned.” -Author Adoption services should be the same across the board no matter the complexion of someone’s pigment, religion, race, even gender. “Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told a New Hampshire audk”{Pience that children are better off with a father in prison than being raised in a home with lesbian parents and no father at all...” .“Gay parents "tend to be more…

After coming out as gay, his family was unsupportive and he eventually cut off all contact from them. He is having trouble making friends that will accept his religion and sexual orientation, even in the LGBT community. He tried to handle depression on his own before coming to therapy, which he refused to do for six months because he thought that it was pathetic to ask for help. Being alone, he says that he feels isolated and often…

offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in a part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity. Hate crimes happen often enough in the society that it has a multitude of myths and speculations. Hate crimes can include single-bias incidents, racial bias, religious bias, sexual-orientation bias, ethnicity/national origin bias, disability bias, and much more. In this paper I shall take into…

Sexual orientation has been a heavily disputed topic for decades. At first no one really cared, but the more it was put out there the more it became evident that this couldn’t be ignored. It wasn’t until June 26, 2013 that gay marriage accepted in all fifty states. It is gradually becoming more widely accepted, but there are still large groups out there that do not support it. In Sager’s article Refuting Anti-Gay Rights Arguments, we see that he has a much stronger source because he comes back…

harassment at schools report lower academic performance than straight students. Nearly one out of three LGBT students has skipped classes because they feel unsafe. 3. To escape socio-cultural rejection LGBT students do not dare expose their real sexual…

adoption to create families, which is no easy task. When trying to adopt in the United States, same-sex couples face prejudice and legal barriers in the court system based only on their sexual orientations (Brown 17). It’s unfair for states to stop same-sex couples from adopting or fostering based on sexual orientation rather than the couple’s ability to provide a loving home. LGBT couples should be allowed to foster and adopt…

simply a term used to describe the process of first acknowledging, accepting, and being prideful of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Another important term is “Ally”; which is simply a straight person who supports and helps stand up for the LGBTQ community. “Closeted” is a term that means a LGBTQ person who has not yet acknowledged, accepted, or became prideful of their sexual orientation or gender identity. “Homophobia” is a term in which describes the fear, hatred, or discomfort…

Introduction Approaches to studies on the categories of sex, gender, sexuality and sexual orientation as well as the perceptions that society has had concerning it has displayed constant change throughout the pre-modern to the modern and currently the post-modern eras. Rothmann (2014:16-91) discusses five different models representing the way in which homosexuality was perceived in these eras namely the same-sex emotion model, the medical model, the ethnic model, the social constructionist…

This article is very personal since it deals with a population which I am a part of and identify with. Therefore, it was exciting to learn what implications this mixture of race and sexual orientation can have on an individual. The authors of the article were interested specifically on how Latino and Asian American lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults were affected by their dual minority statuses. It is generally thought that this combination generates a greater vulnerability to the mental…

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…