Shame: Transforming Gay and Lesbian Lives” by Gershen Kaufman. This is one of the first books I picked up when I was in the mist of dealing with my sexuality. The first shame‚ inferiority‚ and guilt I felt concerning homosexuality were as a young child growing up in a Black Baptist church. “Organized Christian Religion‚ in particular‚ has been a major source of shame and contempt for homosexuality” (Gershen‚ p. 9). The pastor would preach many sermons on the sinfulness of being gay. “You shall not
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I’ve never really gone out of my religious comfort zone‚ but for this assignment I chose to go to a gay bar. The reason I chose to do this was because I have been raised as a Christian‚ I grew up in a very conservative town and while I support gay rights being around gay people is still something that is foreign and a little bit uncomfortable for me. My roommate also chose to use going to the gay bar for an assignment for her human sexuality class‚ so while knowing that I would have my roommate going
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2009 <http://www.nbclosangeles.com/around-town/archive/Palm-Springs-Warms-to-Spring-Break-Crowd.html>. "Gay & Lesbian Palm Springs Travel Guide". www.palm-springs.org. <http://travel.latimes.com/destinations/palm-springs/clm/planning-a-trip/gayandlesbian-travelguide>. " Gay‚ Black Mayor for Palm Springs". Windy City Times. 2003-11-12 <http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=684>.
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“Family-ship” In 1994‚ the book‚ Waves: An Anthology of New Gay Fiction‚ edited by Ethan Mordden was published. The book was a collection of fourteen short fiction stories written by gay men who talked about homosexual issues within a dominant heterosexual culture. The book‚ saturated with homosexual ideas‚ was published at a point in history when homosexuality was utterly taboo and its condemnation was commonplace. Moreover‚ the rise of the HIV and the AIDS scare‚ which was peaking at this time
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there own society. The juxtaposition of anti-gay demonstrations sparked by religion at a homosexual’s funeral‚ and even the physical setting is related to why people are afraid of change. Whether it is start by homophobia‚ religion‚ or opression‚ people are not just afraid of change in general but change for a free society where homosexuals can express and just be themselves. In The Laramie Project‚ a character name Cathy Connolly claims that gay the people in Laramie feel the oppression from
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attitudes towards LGBT community have changed in the UK over the past years? Introduction LGBT is an abbreviation term‚ which stands for lesbian‚ gay‚ bisexual and transgender. It is used in reference to the LGBT community since the late 1980s. According to Integrated Household Survey done by the Office for National Statistics‚ 1.5% of British are considered gay‚ lesbian or bisexual (Chalabi‚ 2013). Today‚ the LGBT community are accepted into British society and are protected by the Equal Opportunities
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LGBT‚ which stands for Lesbian‚ Gay‚ Bisexual and Transgender‚ is a great – scale community which makes up 10% of the world population. Demographer Gary Gates‚ who works for the Williams Institute at UCLA’s School of Law‚ has compiled the results from nine surveys that attempt to measure sexual orientation — five of them from the U.S. He estimates that 3.5% of the U.S. population identify as lesbian‚ gay or bisexual‚ while 0.3% are transgender. … He also points out that bisexual identification
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into this construction.¡¨ (Connell & Dowsett‚ 1992). The Crying Game and Loaded‚ exhibit sexual identities yet in different ways. ¡§Liberal Humanism¡¨ was concerned with universal humanism which tended to homogenise various types of gays and lesbians. It was ¡§Identity Politics¡¨‚ which was bench- marked in western countries throughout the 1960¡¦s‚ that appealed to Liberal Humanism and saw that everybody had a right to express themselves and their identities. It was this
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Every individual have different identities‚ which creates tension for others‚ as everyone also have different perceptions and views about other people that are different from them. According to Henrickson (2008)‚ in order to be gay‚ you have to be strong. This statement can be taken in so many ways. It can imply that coming out is something that takes a lot of courage‚ as there is a massive possibility that people‚ family and friends may not accept you and might start to treat you differently.
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homosexual in the society is a problem‚ but the deeper issues behind gays right are very challenging and we must bear in mind that our next generation will be affected. The objective of Hong Kong’s LGBT Festival ‚ Pink season and Mr Gay Hong Kong is to promote the talent and contribution of Hong Kong’s homosexual. However‚ it seems that the objective of these events is blindside by ‘’fight for equality’’ slogan. Is it necessary for the gays to come out and hold big event together to express their talents
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