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2017. 7) Mammoth Gay Ski Week For the past 15 years, Mammoth Gay Ski Week has taken place in Mammoth Lakes California. Bringing excitement and more than 2,500 attendees to the High Sierras, the tremendous event features nine major parties with zero attitude. This year, join the fun from March 15-19 at the third largest gay ski week in North America. 8) Come Out For European Snow Pride As Europe's biggest Gay Festival featuring winter sports, music, and films, European Snow Pride in the…

When one pictures Orlando, the first thing that comes to mind is amusement parks, great weather, and perfect vacation getaways. This past weekend, however, shook the Sunshine state—and the nation—to its core as bloodshed overwhelmed the local community. On Friday afternoon, the 22-year-old singer who made her name on NBC’s “The Voice,” Christina Grimmie, posted a video to her Twitter and Facebook accounts jovially inviting her fans to watch her perform. Shortly after her performance, she…

The readings of “La Güera” by Cherrie Moraga, “Chicana Lesbians: Fear and Loathing in the Chicano Community” by Carla Trujillo dealt with the oppression those of the lesbian community have to deal with against society and the Hispanic culture. Cherrie Moraga's essay focused on the difference between her life and her mother’s due to the different skin colors they had, as well to the oppression she faced because she is a lesbian. Carla Trujillo centers her essay on how lesbianism is seen as a…

Society today has brought the internet to a disgusting way of communication with others. Some people don’t understand the effects of hateful things out there through the internet that can ruin people 's lives forever. In the article, “Internet Trolls” by Lisa Selin Davis explains that often be people on the internet are disinhibition effectors, emotion dislocators, and moral crusaders. A disinhibition effect is the person who knows that they are anonymous or know that they that they can say…

The deprivation of equality and respect towards the LGBT Community is one of the most controversial, but needed changes in the United States, and respectively over 20,000 gay-rights activist took the streets of New York City on June 13, 2016 for the city’s annual Gay Rights Parade; an iconic photo was taken that highlights three rhetorical appeals that helps convince people of my argument that gays should be completely equal as everyone else. The emotional appeal in Figure 1 is shown through a…

Further studying the nuances of linguistics within male-male relationships, Dustin Bradley Goltz appraised the intergenerational value shifts and the archetypal roles of older and younger gay men in a communicative workshop that produced both group discussion and personalized writings. In “‘We’re Not in Oz Anymore’: Shifting Generational Perspectives and Tensions of Gay Community, Identity, and Future,” Goltz investigates the accepted narratives and power dynamics that present themselves in…

Homosexuality was a crime for most of the United States history. As early as the 20th-century people were working discreetly until the Stonewall riots of 1969 for the acceptance of people who are gay in society. The Stonewall Riots were a major turning point for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) community. It was beginning of societal awareness of the persecution and needed rights of the LGBT community. This seminal conflict eventually led to increased social acceptance and legal…

Humans have willingly stepped across societal and cultural norms for eons, hoping to achieve new forms of entertainment. One of those boundary-pushing instances emerged with the world of drag. Drag is a world within a world. Its tradition has been carried on for generations through entertainment and the arts, dating back to Shakespeare and beyond to Ancient Greece. In layman’s terms, drag could be described as the art of a man dressing as a woman for entertainment value. As this cultural…

the heavy financial burden of costs typically associated with studio film making and at the same time introduced a new arena to stimulate competitive creativity in the film market. While blockbuster films found their success through formulas based in deep market focus and metrics, independent film makers found success with the niche market of films that were created by film makers that did not fit the “white-heterosexual-male norm of studio Hollywood”. (Lewis 2008) One of the genres…

For my ethnographic inquiry, I chose to start reaching gay individuals brought up in religious households. I believe that this cultural setup of people is important, in our world. I feel that the religious society already has a preconceived notion that, because if you are gay, you can not have a place in organized religious groups. I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, so for a long time, I was scared to find out my identity because I was told that I would go to…