the differences between the Berkeley queer community and the San Diego queer community, where I had found my niche before college. Before I took this class, I was already something of a radical. I had participated in several protests for transgender rights. The portion of the San Diego community I found my home in was with other radical trans activists. We were not the most popular among the rest of the LGBT community in the city, nor did we expect to be: our goal was to
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Aaron Fricke was the young age of seventeen when he started the movement for queer teens across America. In July of 1980, it was prom season. Fricke had planned on bringing his boyfriend, Paul, to prom with him. After the denial of his request, his principal sent a letter in which this stuck out: "the adverse effect among your classmates, other students, the School and the Town of Cumberland, which is certain to follow approval of such a request for overt homosexual interaction (male or female) at
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impacting the lives of Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, women, LGBTQ individuals, and so forth. No doubt, today people have more rights than before but still struggle to reach the same level of equality. The LGBTQ community has overcome many obstacles such as the right to marriage yet they are constantly oppressed with other demanding rights. Most recently, the controversial President of the United States, Mr. Donald J. Trump has found a way to anger many U.S. citizens by implementing
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kids are facing danger from not only other students, but themselves. “Violence against LGBT junior high and high school students, 33%-49% of youth had reported experiencing harassment, threats or violence” (Munoz-Plaza 52). Students should have the right to go to school and not have to worry about facing harassment, and humiliation just like every student is promised. The continuing discrimination of transgender
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fear to be discriminated. Even though the sporting world is slowly accepting LGBTQ athletes, only a few people feel that gays are “completely accepted” on the sporting field, while others have been subject to verbal and physical abuse for being homosexual. There are still some people who would bully or even verbally threaten them. But now, they’ve established what they called Gay or Pride Games. This sends a powerful message to the public that homophobia
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Christopher Jones February 19, 2015 Response Paper Milk For this response paper, we learned about the movie "Milk". He was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in the state of California. Going forward with these questions: I feel that people should not be arrested for being gay, everyone has a right in this country to be an outspoken. It's one thing for our laws and another for God's Laws. With that we are not to judge of what is happening on earth when
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Protection Clause in Hawaii’s State Constitution. The judge agreed with the couples, and the couples won their case. However the judge called for a commission to secure the right to same-sex marriage and advise the couple to sue again. When they sued again in Baehr v. Miike (1996), the judge found that denying same-sex couples to right to marriage was gender discrimination that was prohibited by the state’s Equal Protection Clause. The judge said that same-sex marriage should be legal, but the ruling
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the plain fact that they were gay. Jake doesn’t understand why a man would cross-gender himself and portray a woman, and it makes him think about his current conditions. “Jake’s inability to perform sexually corresponds to the homosexual’s inability to perform the correct gender.” Brett Ashley, the woman he is in love with, spends a great deal of time with homosexual men. Jake probably feels that even though he is straight, Brett probably thinks of him as one of her gay friends when he’s with her
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Homosexuality in Our Society On the morning of July 2, 1990, Julio Rivera was walking to school in Queens, New York when 3 men lured him into an alley where they beat and stabbed him, killing Mr. Rivera. Mr. Rivera was attacked that morning because he was gay. We watched a film in our Critical Thinking class that was eye opening to understanding and coming to accept homosexuals so that we don’t have any more cases like Mr. Rivera. Homosexuality is not morally wrong and is not a sin, our society needs to
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