United States residents, such as a YouTuber named Yerv, make their homophobia public through pranks they do with and on social media. Samantha Allen, The Daily Beast reporter, observes Yerv says that there are two types of gay people, …show more content…
One specific person being MysticGotJokes put a little twist on his. Samantha Allen, with a Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies describes MysticGotJokes made a prank video of him fake coming out to his girlfriend (When 2). Although he most likely did not have lousy intentions, MysticGotJokes promoted the idea that the gay community was just a joke and something to laugh at. As show before, if people see that an influential person is doing something they will tend to do the same actions. Therefore, most inhabitants of the United States will treat coming out as just a joke and something that is funny. This downgrades what the LGBT community thought of as a colossal achievement and that makes the youth in the LGBT think that what they did was not a huge …show more content…
Richard Garner, The Independent editor, gathered a survey of gay, lesbian and bisexual people aged between 11 and 19 showed that most had suffered from homophobic bullying while at school (Garner 1). This is a crucial piece of evidence because it shows why LGBT youth are depressed. It shows that a vast majority of them do get bullied because of their sexuality. Richard Garner, editor of The Independent, states two of every five victims of homophobic bullying at school attempt or consider suicide (Garner 1). This goes hand in hand with the first piece of evidence, the first piece showed why they are depressed and this shows that they are depressed. This proves that because of the homophobia being voiced, LGBT youth feel like the only way out of it is through