The philosophy of “Live and Let Live” was that if you leave me alone, I would leave you alone. To the homosexuals of Laramie this was interpreted as, if I do not tell you I am gay, you will not kill me. I could feel the fear in many of the interviews with the gay community. Most of the gays felt the need to hide their identity in the community. In Matthew Shepard’s case the town philosophy of “Live and Let Live” was not followed.
A Case Study of Lisa and the Two Sues James E. Lowery University of the Incarnate Word Abstract The following are two similar case analyses involving three ladies, Lisa, Sue Taylor and Sue Knowles that have different cast. The first case Feature Lisa narrating her side of the story: Lisa talks about herself and the encounter with two strangers as her roommate in the university. The case portrays her as a person who has suffered from poverty and could not make to university due to financial pressures. It shows frustrations of Lisa after she learnt that she was not to be sharing a room in the university with her best friend Jane. She is seen to have received a cold reception from both sues, and they do not want to communicate to her or be associated with her.
Yet, this same upbringing blinded me to the inherent social disadvantage experienced by transsexuals. Through my experience, I can recognize that heterosexuals are taught not to identify the privilege of their group over transsexuals. I have decided to identify some of the daily effects of heterosexual privilege in my life. I have chosen those conditions that I think in my case attach somewhat more to sexuality privilege than to class, color, or status, though of course all these other factors are intricately intertwined. As far as I can tell, transsexuals that I come into contact cannot count on most of these conditions.
 A New Politics of Sexuality is written by June Jordan, an African American mother, who is also a bisexual woman in America today. In her piece she talks about her ideas about, and views on, sexuality and what it means to her. Jordan believes that the Politics of Sexuality is the most ancient and probably the most profound arena for human conflict. (Elwood-Farber, 118) When Jordan speaks about sexuality, she is not only speaking about gender. She also refers to the way gay, lesbian, and bisexual people, as well as women in general, deal with the struggle to fit into the social “norm” of how they should behave.
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell or Ignorance is Bliss Homosexuals have faithfully served in the military since its very beginnings. But this fact does not matter to people who oppose the full integration of homosexuals into the military. Many reasons have been cited, but there has been little proof offered to substantiate these reasons. Colonel Roland D. Ray of the United States Marine Corps is the author of Gays: In or Out. In the section titled, “The Reality of Homosexuality and its Lifestyles,” Ray states, “Many homosexuals engage in sexual practices that are virtually unknown among heterosexuals.” After checking the front cover to determine if this book was written in this century, I found it difficult to believe Ray felt he could effectively speak for the entire heterosexual world when he made this statement.
This is considered to be of high risk because it can pass other diseases which can make them ill because of their low immune system already being weak by the HIV virus. Some men find it difficult to ask their partners to wear a condom because it raises feelings of insecurity and infidelity in the relationship. In many cases men don’t have access to condoms so they decide to have unprotected sex. Many gay men have difficulty disclosing their sexual orientation because of fear of rejection from family, friends, children and society. It is advised that they receive mental health treatment to deal with these fears of rejection.
So if you are saying that gay marriage should not be allowed to marry based on moral issues, you are in essence saying that morally it is worse to be a homosexual than to be a rapist, murderer, or child molester. It is this kind of thinking that has held society back. Still others would argue that due to divorce and cohabitation the institution of marriage is already in a weakened state. They view allowing legal gay marriage as the potential straw that is going to break marriages back. I would acknowledge marriage does not have the same prevalence and level of commitment it held in past generations but the decline of marriage has nothing to do with homosexuals.
When talking about homosexual vs. heterosexual unions, they are comparable in all ways; however, legalizing them together would cause irrevocable damage to our already weak view of the institution of marriage. Our young generation is in a time where they are being told how to speak and sometimes think, and societal indifference to gay marriage would further confuse our youths who already find their sexuality hard. It is very important that we continue to take strides toward accepting homosexual unions; however, legalizing gay marriage is not a necessary step for that to
Introduction Homosexuality has been a topic of debate for centuries. Some people still strongly believe that homosexuality has some cultural, social, and political backgrounds. The existence of such myths could be attributed to lack of researches on the subject and ignorance on gender specific roles and traits. It seems that different cultures observe the trait of homosexuality in extremely different ways since few researches have been performed to explore the contributory factors to this trait. The rights of homosexuals are gradually turning out to be equivalent to those of heterosexuals in the United States.
For instance, the African American niche station BET (Black Entertainment Television) was found to, “represent a venue of minority voices, [but] it is also a source of problematic representations of gender” according to Melinda Messineo. This television station provides desired representations for their culture that could not of been easily afforded if on any other white dominated television station. With this said, automatically, their advertisements are going to be biased towards the African American stereotype. This would be just as true with any other television station with predominantly white viewership. Print media has always interpreted heterosexual culture over homosexual culture in America wrong simply because it is the stereotypical way of doing it.