heterosexual communities‚ just as racial integration in the 60’s had no negative impact on White (the majority) communities. It simply overturned an ugly‚ immoral attitude that upheld segregation. The same goes for legalizing gay marriage; it will grant the LGBT community a right that has been immorally denied to them. One of the major reasons that gay marriage is currently illegal is due to the religious interpretation that "homosexuals are sinners." Such a religious perspective should have no place in federal
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I. SOCIAL IMAGINATION CONCEPTUALIZATION According to C. W. Mills‚ “social imagination is an awareness of the relationship between a person’s behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped the person’s choices and perceptions. It’s a way of seeing our own and other people’s behavior in relationship to history and social structure (1959)” (OpenStax College‚ 2015‚ p.6). Sociological imagination is the ability to see individual behavior within the larger society and the impact of society over
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programs safe for LGBTQ youth improves conditions for all homeless youth regardless of sexual minority status. Culturally competent treatment in providing housing services to LGBT youth. Low housing occupancy limits and private showering facilities. Social Workers should be trained on LGBTQ non-discrimination and sensitivity. LGBT-specific homeless youth programs should be created. We also must care about the LGBTQ homeless youth because is wrong to leave theseyouth on the streets‚ as this could be anybody’s
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The members of the LGBT( Lesbian‚ Gay‚ Bisexual and Transgender) community are less likely to seek for healthcare services if they feel that they would not receive appropriate care based on their sexual orientation or their gender identity. Even if it was not required by law‚ healthcare providers are morally required to provide the same types of services to all patients with no regards to their differences . But‚ even healthcare providers are simply humans ‚ and our personal bias can influence the
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Why do people have homophobia? Everyone‚ regardless of gender or race‚ more or less displays homosexual tendency (Kinsey‚ 1948). At some point‚ homosexuality is not a problem‚ actually since 1975‚ the American Psychological Association has called on psychologists to remove lesbian‚ gay‚ and bisexual orientations from the mental illness (APA‚ 1975)‚ which means homosexuality is more common than we can imagine. The real issue is homophobia ‐‐the hatred or fear of homosexuals. Homophobia can
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must be judged by our leaders and by those who are themselves gay‚ those who are visible. “ What he is saying is that in order for society to even begin to accept the diverse LGBT community there has to be a good representative from that community. Harvey Milk’s “Hope” speech informs America that in order to give young LGBT people hope that they have
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With all of the current media coverage homosexuals are receiving it should come as no surprise that more and more gay characters and gay-themed movies are emerging from Hollywood. These characters and movies often tend to fully personify the homosexual stereotypes that exist in our society today. Many gay-themed movies have made their way into the lime-light and gay characters are popping up in dozens of mainstream movies. By looking closely at these movies and characters we can see the different
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The queer communities and the communities of color in Los Angeles have a common history of police violence. Their geographic proximity during the 1950’s and 1960’s‚ exposed them to the same heavy policing in the form of "vice" entrapments‚ which were motivated not only by the police’s need to control the queer community‚ but also to stop interracial relationships. The struggles of these two groups were put in evidence in the 1952 case of Horace Martinez and his friends. Martinez was using the restroom
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Name: Pankhuri Malhotra 22.09.14BA LLB 2014 Section D My love is right‚ your love is wrong ---------------------------------------------------------------------- “If there is one constitutional tenet that can be said to be underlying theme of the Indian Constitution‚ it is that of ‘inclusiveness’. This Court believes that Indian Constitution
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References: Women ’s International Center. (1994). Women ’s History in America. Retrieved from http://www.wic.org/misc/history.htm U.S Morris‚ PhD‚ B. J. (2014). History of Lesbian‚ Gay‚ & Bisexual Social Movements. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/history.aspx Associate Program Material
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