“Territory” by David Leavitt is a short‚ yet complexly intimate tail of a mother’s futile attempts to accept her son’s homosexual identity and his on-going struggle with internalized homophobia. The story opens with twenty-three year old Neil visiting his mother‚ Mrs. Campbell‚ at his childhood home. As they prepare for the first arrival of Neil’s lover‚ Wayne‚ the anticipation triggers anxieties both Neil‚ causing him to have painful flashbacks of the past. As these images reveal‚ Neil has lived
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Running head: TOUGH GUISE The Media and Tough Guise The Media and Tough Guise In Jackson Katz’s video Tough guise: violence‚ media‚ and the crisis in masculinity‚ Katz presents the media as culprits in creating a culture crisis in masculinity. In the video‚ Katz uses the movie The Wizard Oz as a way to describe the use of the term “tough guise”. In the movie‚ the Wizard is a nervous‚ small man who hides behind a curtain to mask his appearance in order for him to be perceived
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at and judged by others. Most United States citizens make it their sole duty to make sure that the LGBT community know that. Instead of voicing their homophobia‚ United States citizens must learn to accept people so that the LGBT youth do not feel distressed or depressed. 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
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How would a parent feel if they knew their child was going to be educated by an LGBTQ (lesbian‚ gay‚ bisexual‚ transgender‚ queer-identified) teacher? A lot of parents would feel comfortable‚ but a lot of parents wouldn’t be too happy. There are many parents who would not feel comfortable having these types of educators around their children‚ but these parents aren’t the only ones who feel this way; colleagues and administration can also have negative feeling about having them around. People focus
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Lorde’s personal arguments‚ I continue to realize my deep hatred for the stereotyping and discrimination that still so strongly exists within our communities. Look around. Pay attention and observe. You will see. People have become too obsessed with homophobia and homosexual couples. I believe that as a society‚ as a whole‚ we must try to dissolve this media-created obsession revolving around lesbians and gays‚ and we must begin to accept others for who they
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spanning the author’s late childhood throughout his adulthood. Edmund experiences a brief sexual relationship with Kevin‚ a slightly younger friend. Kevin and Edmund’s intimacy is presented as natural and untroubled‚ untouched by the internalized homophobia that will later plague young Edmund’s life. “I was aware of the treacherous air vents above us‚ conducting the sounds we were making upstairs. Maybe dad was listening. Or maybe‚ just like Kevin‚ he was unaware of anything but the pleasure spurting
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takes a modern look at the violence‚ drug usage and homophobia present in low income areas. Chiron constantly struggles to both find and be himself yet the culture that surrounds him prevents this. The struggle to find one’s identity in a society that lacks acceptance is an important theme in the movie. In today’s modern era‚ most places accept homosexuality. However‚ the area that Chiron lives in is not so accepting. The film shows that homophobia is still present and that it can negatively affect
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Ghassan Ali Moussawi defines the Lebanese Gay Community as “informal social networks‚ institutions (such as nightclubs‚ bars‚ and restaurants) and activism”(103). Activism is mainly expressed through the use of Lebanon’s only LGBT non-profit organization‚ Helem‚ which was created in 2004. Helem is an NGO “dedicated to the protection and empowerment of LGBTQ individuals in Lebanon‚ bringing together advocacy and community services towards liberation from all types of legal‚ social and cultural discrimination”(Merabet
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for children and society as a whole. Advocates claim that homosexual adoption is a wonderful remedy‚ which will elevate the number of foster children in America while creating diversity and combatting homophobia. However‚ I propose that gay adoption is far from a healthy remedy for combatting homophobia or a medicine for the current welfare of the state. Children of homosexual homes are theoretically proposed to express higher incidences of homosexuality and gender atypical behavior‚ which will reason
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struggle that homosexuals have to live in 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
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