Sexuality And Oppression Of Homosexuality In The Workplace

What is sexuality? Sexuality is what one person is or isn’t attracted to sexually. The most common sexualities that people hear about today are heterosexual or straight and homosexual or gay (Benshoff and Griffin 427). Through the years the term homosexual has been looked down upon for many different reasons. These reasons are most of the time do not only apply to homosexual people but also heterosexual people. Sexualities have an impact on ones oppression even though most of the reasons people are oppressed apply to all types of sexualities, like AIDS. There are stereotypes that lead to oppression of individuals based upon their sexuality. Although there are laws to protect individuals form discrimination in the workplace because of age, gender,