Gay couples should be allowed the right to get marry because they are human beings too. They deserve to be happy and marry whom they love. They have the rights as the heterosexual couples. It has become more egalitarian, and it is considered to be a human right. Marriage should be made available to couples regardless of their genders. Many people say it might be against many religious beliefs. There's a lot of people that are too afraid to let people know what their sexual choices are. The same
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There are thousands of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender youth in juvenile detention facilities throughout the United States. They are left unprotected from violence and harassment, subjected to differential treatment and denied appropriate services. Youth who are incarcerated or detained have the right to safe conditions and protections from aggressive inmates and staff. If correctional officer witnesses a juvenile being harmed that have to intervene. This does not always occur happen. Many
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Despite the countless problems that the LGTBQ+ community is facing, some claim that homosexuality is an issue that does not exist in the Middle East. The most notable example is when former Iranian President Ahmadinejad stated during a speech at Columbia University that “In Iran we do not have this phenomenon” when asked about the LGBTQ+ community in his country. However, homosexuality has been occurring in the Arab world for a very long time and is far from being a foreign concept. As Sabine Schmidtke
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Diversity is defined as the state of being different when it comes to race, color, religion, sexual orientation and educational background. Diversity is not limited to these things but is the basis of its definition. To me diversity is an essential component to strengthening the community as a whole. To understand the world and all the beauty of it, we must learn about the people living in it. By embracing one another’s differences; whether that be race, gender, ethnicity etc., we are able to learn
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In 1981, a rare lung infection, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, and other strangely uncommon afflictions, including Kaposi’s sarcoma, became oddly prevalent among young homosexual men. By the end of 1981, of the 270 reported cases of unexplained immunodeficiency, 121 individuals had died. The unknown disease was dubbed GRID (Gay-Related ImmunoDeficiency) by the American media, and this was the root of much stigmatization against HIV-positive individuals and homosexuals that unfortunately remains
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Thoughout history there has been controversy about whether or not a homosexual gene exists. Geneticists and researchers have attempted for years to prove the existance of this gene that they assumed existed in male's X chromosomes that would genetically qualify them to be born gay. However this has not been proven and is only a theory. As for today, a homosexual gene does not exist. Confusion usually comes across many people when this information is presented to them as he or she may recall instances
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Pride Month Informative Speech Introduction: A 2016 interview conducted by Gallup Tracking estimated that over 10 million US citizens identify as LGBT, which then concludes that 7.3% of the US population identifies as LGBT. Unfortunately, studies from CBS News and Pew Research surveys present that 53% of LGBT people still feel that they are being discriminated and 39% have been rejected by family and friends. As many may know, but for those who have not learned, June is Pride Month in the US. Pride
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Homosexuality has been a controversial topic throughout all of humanity. Many societies have condemned the practice of same-sex love and have tried to cure it throughout the decades. Many claimed it is often seen as “unnatural.” Gay relationships—especially lesbian relationships—are not often addressed in media and if they are, are usually dismissed, such as in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. The typical argument tends to be whether Celie was indeed truly homosexual and would identify as such, or
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Personally, I experience the prejudices of others, at times, due to my sexual orientation and perception of self. Criticisms typically are presented through the occasional name-calling and obscene comments from strangers or people I hardly know. However, my appearance does not reflect stereotypical assumptions about LGBTQ members of society. Many others tend to receive more measurable, concrete discrimination, such as, wages. In a 1995 study by M. V. Lee Badgett, it was proven that gay and bisexual
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Siobhan Somerville argues that there is a link established that intertwines sexuality with race in her article Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture. The journal article is written about the nineteenth century American culture. Homosexuality stems from the debates about the correlation of race and gender. She wants to demonstrate the way that writers formed the concept about the dependence in ideas of race, therefore forming people’s understanding
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