The Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) Club at Union High School requested a speaker for the Day of Silence Event in April. The GSA selected, Mr. Davis, a former New York City fire fighter who was ostracized after telling his friends and his fire engine company that he was a homosexual. Mr. Davis was recognized as a hero during the September 11 attacks and made national news for carrying the fire chaplain’s dead body to St. Peter’s Church. I originally approved the request with the notion that all students
Words: 526 - Pages: 3
“Suddenly they were not submissive anymore” (Duberman 144). These were the words of Deputy Inspector Pine that were used in response to the Stonewall Inn Riots that took place in 1969. The Stonewall riots were not the first, nor would it be the last of pro LGBT uprisings against a system of injustice and institutionalized oppression. Martin Duberman and Che Gossett both examine the effect of and the history of the riots, however Duberman historicizes the personal narratives of some individuals who
Words: 535 - Pages: 3
Veteran Scenario After being home from Iraq from only two months, I have not yet fully adjusted. I am currently living with my mom, in her small apartment. I recently went out to a bar and I had some drinks. Then all I remembered was that I was arrested. I was then later told about how I got into a brawl at the bar and witnesses saw it. Since I had so much to drink I couldn’t remember what happened. After I found out that I was involved in a brawl, I got more information and the person I hit was
Words: 535 - Pages: 3
Gender In this video which I did for my final project. I did interview with two people and I asked them questions I got them from (Gender and Race” Sally Haslanger”). In this essay I will talk about the interview and what was the questions and wat they answered and the main points that I got it from the reading. “There are several different ways to understand, and so respond to, questions of the form” (Sally Haslanger). First, I asked them about what is gender? And how do you define them? First answer
Words: 352 - Pages: 2
Last year when I wrote this same essay I wrote about my internal struggles with being a closeted gay kid in the middle of a town that has more churches than anything else. On September 15th 2016 I faced that fear . It was without a doubt the most terrifying thing I have ever had to experience. Facing my family and my peers was the one thing I never really wanted to do but I decided that for my sake I needed to because otherwise I was probably going to be driven insane with the secrecy. I decided
Words: 328 - Pages: 2
LGBTQ+ Activism and the Gay Rights Movement The United States LGBTQ+ community has long been a marginalized group who has struggled greatly with discrimination, bigotry, and institutional homophobia. While there are still advancements that must be made in order for full liberation of LGBTQ+ individuals to be achieved, the LGBTQ+ community has made critical and significant strides in terms of institutional and social liberation over the past few decades. These accomplishments would not have been possible
Words: 606 - Pages: 3
that of straight youth. CITE To combat this alarming fact, The Trevor Project was launched in 1998 by the creators of the 1994 short film, Trevor. Today, it is the leading national organization providing suicide and crisis intervention to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth. The group’s convenient website provides a wide range of resources that are all explicit to its audience. While their website is organized, The Trevor Project inconsistently uses social media to spread awareness
Words: 270 - Pages: 2
The Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Community have faced extreme difficulties throughout time when the topics of equality and civil rights issues have been brought to the public's attention. The rights that existed, or for better use of words, did not exist for homosexual men will be discussed, not only in the state of New York, but across America and how it affected the gay community in New York. The lives of homosexual men were highly scrutinized and judged during the time of the rapid
Words: 1265 - Pages: 6
the article ‘Understanding the effects of Victimization: Applying General Strain Theory to the experience of LGBQ youth’ written by Deeanna M. Button. Button’s, main focus throughout the article is the high risk of victimization among the lesbian, gay, bisexual and questioning(LGBQ) youth. In which, she demonstrated the strange violence, school violence, family violence and dating violence the LGBQ individuals experience compared to heterosexual people. Viewing the research, it shows the exploitation
Words: 487 - Pages: 2
June 10th, singer, Christina Grimmie was killed by a man who apparently hated her for being a proud Christian. She was shot after her meet and greet event in Orlando, Florida, USA. Last June 12th, a shooting was committed at a gay nightclub named Pulse, also in Orlando, Florida, leaving 53 people wounded and 49 people dead. The crime was committed by Omar Mateen who allegedly hated people who weren’t straight. It is considered as the deadliest mass shooting committed in the United
Words: 506 - Pages: 3
