and used as a source of ideas by many major feminist and lesbian thinkers and writers around the world. In May 1970‚ Wittig co-published what can be described as the manifesto of the French feminist movement. Ever since‚ Wittig’s works have included both fiction and non-fiction essays evolving an ongoing dialogue between theory and literary practice. Throughout the early ’70s‚ Wittig was a central figure in the radical lesbian and feminist movements in France. She was a founding member
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10 reasons why Same-Sex Marriage is a Bad Idea: 1. Gays & lesbians make poor parents. Assertion: The State of Hawaii and court petitioners representing the Roman Catholic Church and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints claimed that gays and lesbians in committed relationships make inferior parents. The best way to assure that children get the best possible upbringing is to require spouses to be of different genders. Rebuttal: All of the witnesses in Baehr v. Miike -- both for the plaintiffs
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society‚ but I’m not talking about whether marriage is a good or bad thing. Background: Over a period of many years‚ members of the gay and lesbian community have gone from living lives of secrecy to being proud and telling the world about their sexual orientation. Unlike other society groups who have been judged because of race or gender‚ gay and lesbians can easily hide their sexual identities. The act of coming out or revealing that one is gay does a great deal of altering the lives of people
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for gays and lesbians to adopt children. Currently‚ in the US only‚ there are over 100‚000 children waiting to be adopted. The already adopted children of gay or lesbian couples do not have the same rights and protections connected with children of heterosexual‚ straight parents. If gay marriage is not approved‚ the gays and their children will have 1‚138 less benefits than those of heterosexual parents. Also‚ longitudinal studies have shown that many children adopted from lesbian and gay couples
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Campaign). Some may argue that having lesbian‚ or gay parents hinders children. On the contrary‚ a study done by Nanette Gartrell‚ a professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco (and a law professor at the University of California‚ Los Angeles)‚ and Henry Bos‚ a behavioral scientist at the University of Amsterdam‚ in which they focused on what they call “planned lesbian families”‚ or households in which the mothers identified themselves as lesbian at the time of artificial insemination
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protests and its consequences‚ what came afterwards. II. Body: A.The Stonewall Riots. What happened? B. The aftermath C. The LGBT Community current situation III. Conclusion: A. Summary of the speech: Stonewall riots- Way out gays and lesbians found to fight for their rights Consequences LGBT community current situation B. Device(s) to help the audience remember the content of the speech: Reasons why people have
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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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