“Queer”‚ once a slang for “odd” or “abnormal”‚ before it was attributed to lesbian and gay men as a homophobic insult‚ now portrays a spectrum of academic modalities and acknowledges the lives of thousands of fluid gendered peoples. Essentially‚ Queer Studies is the examination of issues pertaining to and intersectionality of gender‚ sexual orientation‚ gender identity‚ race‚ class‚ and ethnicity—revolving around ubiquitous structural and institutional inequality. Lisa Duggans in her article “Making
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want to come out of the closet. On the other hand‚ heterosexuals sometimes behave violent and hateful manners toward homosexuals and many gays and lesbians feel threatened by straights. Being involved with hatred and implacability during daily lives have increased “five times more the likelihood of suicide among gay‚ lesbian‚ and bisexual youngsters in the United States” (Brodzinsky‚ 39). One of the other disasters that homophobic attitude of people could cause for homosexuals
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polar opposition poses to pro-gay rhetors. Scourge rhetoric incorporating references to children presented a troubling persuasion dilemma for lesbian and gay rhetors. First‚ reference to child molestation is a powerful visceral weapon in the fundamentalist arsenal. Second‚ it plays into traditional stereotypes of gays‚ recalling old social knowledge of lesbian and gay persons to stymie the attempt to create new knowledge. Third‚ the focus on the consequences of gayness enabled anti-gay rhetors to move
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Skeene‚ provides us with a method of understanding the representation of sexuality in these examples of ‘lesbian literature’. Rather than engage with these two texts through simple literary appreciation‚ it is important to interrogate the ways that sexuality can be used as a means for expression‚ both cultural and personal. An even deeper analysis will reveal the ways in which terms such as ‘lesbian literature’ can lead to oversimplification of literary texts such as Nightwood and Miss Furr and Miss
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getting equal rights. Unfortunately‚ gay and lesbians are consistently denied rights that are typically taken for granted by the average Australian. Specifically‚ Gay and lesbians couples are not allowing to marry in Australia. This is an unfair sexual orientation. Gay and lesbian’s discrimination need to stop because that law-abiding citizens too‚ who should be holding the same rights as heterosexual couples. The common problem that affected gay and lesbians couple that are denied the right to marry
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come a long way in the last century but there is still so much more road to cover. “The number of lesbian‚ gay‚ and bisexual persons in the U.S. is subjective. Studies pointing to the statistics are estimates at best. The most widely accepted statistic is that 1 in every 10 individuals is lesbian‚ gay or bisexual (Johnson). That would mean that 1 in every 10 people you meet is part of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transvestite community. 1 in every 10 people has faced some sort of discrimination for
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Jaszmine 12:15-1:40 Breast Cancer Statistics Does anyone know some of the breast cancer statistics? Or maybe some of the risk factors? Well breast cancer is one of the leading deaths in women. Today I will inform you about some of those statics and risk and hopefully by the end of my speech you’ll know some of the people who are more likely to get breast cancer. The most significant factors for breast cancer are gender and age‚ two
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community. Despite advances that have been made in Lesbian‚ Gay‚ Bisexual and Transgendered rights‚ we as a society continue to fail the LGBT community and continue to leave our children homeless and discriminate due to our own inabilities to accept someone for their true selves. This is the root cause of our youth living on the street. “Of the nearly 1.7 million youth homeless in America‚ up to 40 percent of homeless teens identify as lesbian‚ gay‚ bisexual or transgender and 46% of LGBT teens
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placed on a continuum with two extremes‚ heterosexuality and homosexuality. Jill‚ the leading actress of Heterosexual Jill (2013)‚ confuses herself with her own sexual orientation after finding her “boyfriend” a butch lesbian. By depicting how Jill struggles through a “pre-ex-lesbian” phase and interactions among other characters‚ this film‚ Heterosexual Jill (2013)‚ has focused on the topic of sexual identity crisis. In the beginning‚ Jill’s confusion about her sexual orientation opens the door
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History This map suggests that same-sex IPV is a social construct‚ an amalgamation of societal myths and discriminations that inform what power means both in the greater society and within the LGBTQ community. These myths and misperceptions inform the interpersonal power dynamics within the relationship. The result is a disparity of power within the relationship which‚ as the theory suggests‚ is the contributing factor for IPV perpetration and victimization (McKenry‚ Serovich‚ Mason & Mosack‚ 2006)
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