Stonewall Inn

LGBT citizens in America have lived hidden and persecuted lives from the very beginning of our country’s founding. This paper will document the history of their struggle for equal rights for with emphasis on the late 20th and early 21st centuries. From the very earliest days of North America’s colonization, homosexuals have had to live hidden lives to avoid persecution. Many of the first English settlers were Puritans who maintained extremely repressive lifestyles in many ways, including…

On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 majority decision that marriage is, in fact, a right guaranteed for everyone protected in our U.S. constitution. Prior to this ruling, same-sex marriage was legal in all but thirteen U.S. states. This decision made same-sex marriage recognizable nationwide in all 50 states, a historical moment that will go down in history books forever. Consequently, the supreme court’s decision still deeply divides people across the nation today…

predominately in the U.S and Europe homosexuals was considered congenital or had this condition at birth assumed by the medical community. As homosexual identity was becoming known and movements were being organized a gay and drag bar by the name of Stonewall Inn in New York City which was predominantly Latinos and African Americans were being discriminated against. In June of 1969 there were even a police raid on the bar that lead to the death of icon Judy Garland. There were different…

Influences of Sexual Behaviors Throughout the course of history, natural law inadvertently created a culture that in and of itself bears a certain level of responsibility in shaping the sexual behaviors of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations. The principles of natural law as standards have been applied to theories of ethics, politics, civil law, and religious morality (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2011). Digress to 636c, and the dialogs of Plato, who’s writing…

Falls State Park (North), and Mount Yonah (Northeast). On the northwest side of the mountain, there are currently faces of three men carved into the granite: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis. “Stone Mountain Memorial, memorial to the Confederacy, consisting of the equestrian figures of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis carved on the northern face of Stone Mt., a granite dome 650 ft (198 m) high in NW Ga., NE of Atlanta” (“Stone Mountain Memorial”…

People were relaxing at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City. All of a sudden they were interrupted by the sound of fists beating on the door. It was the NYPD coming to raid the place. At the time homosexual acts were illegal, therefore usually when police raided gay bars people…

What would America be like without its’ citizens having the opportunity to showcase their personal opinion peacefully against regulated government ideals? Is it disobedience or a social breakthrough in political principles? America was born through opposition towards the unjust government practices of a monarch. Our Founding Fathers brought to light new social ideals, that “all men are created equal” and established a revolutionary form of legislature. Throughout history, there have been a…

I would like you to close your eyes and take a moment to imagine what it feels like to realise that there is something different about you. That a significant chunk of the world believes that there is something disgustingly wrong about you, something sinful and disgusting that should be discouraged at all costs. That millions and millions of people that you will never meet and will never speak to hate you for something unchangeable about yourself. Imagine what it would feel like to be…

Gay marriage, or to be more politically correct, same-sex marriage, has been the debate of the century. Now to me, this particular situation has been stretched to its limit. No one has the right to say how an individual lives their life. The previous laws that were being followed and argued over were made a couple hundred years ago. Times have changed, and relationships are no longer the same. Although the original laws were based on particular religion, now many more beliefs are widely accepted…

In this journal, I will be discussing Margaret F. Gibson’s article “Queer Mothering.” The article 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…