This essay will look into sexual orientation. This essay will identify and define sexual orientation focusing on homosexuality. It will further provide an overview of homosexuality and a summary. I will discuss my initial opinions‚ attitudes‚ biases and assumptions about sexual orientation and demonstrate how my awareness of this element of diversity increased throughout the module. I will further address how this awareness will impact my ability to counsel more competently‚ followed by a conclusion
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References: Brodzinsky‚D. & Pertman‚ A. (2012) Adoption by lesbians and LGBT men. New York: Oxford University Press‚ Inc. CNN International Hicks‚ S. (1998) Lesbian and LGBT fostering and adoption. Kingsley Publishers: New York Legal Issues for LGBT and Lesbian Adoption Mallon‚ G.P. (2006) Lesbian and LGBT foster and adoptive parents: Recruiting‚ assessing‚ and supporting an untapped resource for children and youth. Child Welfare
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* The Annual Report on Lesbian‚ Gay‚ Bisexual‚ Transgender Domestic Violence highlights the occurrence of domestic violence in the homosexual community. Perhaps as mush as a 33% rate. Heterosexual marriages have a domestic violence rate around 1%. (More reasons in process) Homosexual Adoption There are currently no federal laws that specifically regulate homosexual adoption. States‚ however‚ may have laws that regulate adoptions options for gays and lesbians. For the most part‚ state laws
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org/hom_marint.htm#menu Twenty Arguments against Same-Sex Marriage (SSM) and Rebuttals: Overview: Polls in the late 1990s found that the topic of greatest concern for conservative Christians‚ and for many other North Americans‚ was that gays and lesbians might achieve rights and protections in law that had previously been reserved as special privileges only for heterosexuals. Perhaps the most important of these rights is for homosexuals to be able to marry the partner that they love and to whom they
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1 Dattani’s On a Muggy Night in Mumbai: A Homosexuals’ Odyssey Dr. Prakash Bhadury Assistant Professor‚ Dept. of H & S. S‚ NIT‚ Hamirpur‚India Research Article by the Author to be published in an Anthology shortly. Abstract: Gay and Lesbian relationships are branched off as two separate identity of homosexual behaviour and the issues relating to it has been a matter of intense debate in India and abroad in late 20th century especially‚ when in a post-war era the issues of identity crisis
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hardships that gay and lesbian couples face every day. And the sad thing is most of the arguments keeping same-sex marriage are flawed and reactionary and are based upon nothing more than prejudice‚ ignorance‚ bigotry and fear. Same-sex marriage should be legalized because lesbian and gay couples are good parents‚ because homosexuality is a common occurrence in nature‚ and because the laws keeping same sex-marriage from being legalized are old and outdated. Those against gay and lesbian marriages often
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when this would happen the gays and lesbians would try to sneak out the back door. The police would arrest the patrons and drag them off to jail‚ their names were written down and published in the newspaper by the next day and as a result they would be fired from their jobs. “The 1960s was a time of revolution. The Civil Rights Movement was in full swing and people took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam. It was only a matter of time before gays and lesbians stood up for their rights as well
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his letter‚ gays and lesbians are trying to get across to the American public. Same-sex marriage should be legal in all fifty states. The reasoning for same sex marriage to be illegal is not a good enough reason for gays and lesbians. If Congress were to make an amendment like president Bush would like them to‚ they would be making “an attempt to write discrimination into the Constitution” (CNN.com) They are correct in saying it would be discrimination because gay and lesbians have the same rights
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The Portrayal of Gays and Lesbians on TV‚ and How Viewers React Matthew Wood There are several ways in which gays and lesbians are portrayed on television‚ many of which‚ arguably‚ create problems both for the programme maker and for the viewer. Homosexuality is still not fully accepted in today ’s society and traditional patriarchal portrayals of both men and women are still dominant‚ with few exceptions to such images. This is‚ perhaps‚ particularly true of men. Whilst patriarchal images of
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In most cultures across the globe‚ homosexuality was viewed with disdain‚ and marriages between same-sex couples were forbidden. Having emotional‚ romantic‚ or sexual attractions to members of the other sex defines homosexuality‚ gay for guys and lesbian for girls. However‚ homosexual relationships are slowly gaining acceptance‚ as homosexuals have become vocal in fighting their right to marry now. With an increased in tolerance for homosexuality in the society‚ the controversy over the legalization
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