In readings, George Chauncey’s “Why Marriage, ” and Riki Wilchins’s, "Time for Gender Rights"” the texts explores the struggles for equal LGBQT rights, and teaches us a lesson about a philosophical concept built on ideals of freedom, equality, and human dignity on LGBQT community. These articles show statics of how throughout our history, there has been a long history of denying basic rights to certain people, but by coming out it is even necessary for atheists and humanists. However, by coming out, it transforms the transgender society. Most LGBT community experiences anti-LGBT language and harassment related to their sexual orientation and gender expression, and they often feel unsafe. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people …show more content…
Chauncey quotes, “The dramatic mobilization of lesbians and gay men in the 1970’s set the stage for the earliest legislative victories, but they also depended on the continuing strength of a broader public commitment to civil rights. In 1972, East Lansing, Michigan, home to Michigan State University, became the first municipality to pass a gay rights ordinance” (38). Reading this article, we learn a valuable lesson from LGBQT society-LGBQT community has been out casted and criminalized, but their trying to change the system around. His reading gave us a lesson how we need to create a liberal community where LGBQT rights need to be supported and to not be afraid of who they are. This story provides us a lesson of how we need movements for justice; of moments of triumph that people we now understand as LGBQT have challenged. Chauncey quotes, “The results of half a century of struggle were everywhere evident. In the 1990’s, there were annual gay pride marches in more than 100 cities. There were influential gay caucuses in the major unions and strong movements seeking reform in the Catholic Church and every mainline” (56-57). There has been early victories and dramatic growth in gay organizations, but there are still areas in certain cities that still have …show more content…
While these flawed views for transgender, lesbians, and gay men, are starting to vanish, people are still often met with ridicule and a rejection to not understand equality and freedom for LGBQT community. Wilchins shows us a positive awareness of how it’s important to start understanding gender and stereotypes as an issue for everyone, whether they identified themselves as lesbian, transgender, gay, minority, feminist, or youth. Wilchins quotes, “We have to come out of this closet, because gender is where people learn to hate us. Boys learn early on that if they don’t grit their teeth like Clint Eastwood and hulk around like Vin Diesel, they’ll be attacked or humiliated” (266). The articles shows how it’s important to keep continuing to support and advocate the LGBQT community to let them have an equal chance to succeed in their lives. It's time for gender theory to give rise to gender rights to construct equality and freedom of identity. Wilchin then quotes, “We’ve finally learned that it’s okay to be gay, but we’re still not sure that it’s okay to look and act gay. The sexual orientation thing is fine with us; it’s that gender thing that still makes us uncomfortable” (265). It’s important for us to speak up about the LGBQT community to those who are not respecting the gender they live as, or not respecting anyone’s gender expression