Just as a cover does not fully reveal the text of its book, the ambiguousness of my physical appearance has never truly represented the cultural diversity and experiences of my life. People have inquired about my nationality and guessed countries from the sunny shores of Samoa to the mango orchards of India. In the sunshine and heat of the summer, a person wouldn't likely guess, from the melanin in my skin and salty ringlet curls that crown my head, that I fluently speak Croatian and love the Croatian
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Over the past few weeks, proselytising and campaigning about the role of the Safe Schools Coalition has reached fever pitch. While the program faces continuing malicious attacks from the right, many Australians have been thrust into a discussion that invokes the idea of “the gay agenda”, sexuality recruitment and indoctrination about sexuality and gender. While social and psychological research wholeheartedly dismisses these claims, the voices that propagate them continue on without recognition
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Why hasn't LGBT marriage been accepted in some countries yet ? Introduction LGBT has always been a familiar social issue. I am sure that everyone knows about LGBT but most of people do not really understand the meaning of it. LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender. Same - sex marriage has been seen as a sign of Satan. Some people think that it is a disgusting thing and against moral. They make up lots of reason even the nonsensical thing like if homosexuality deserves equal protection
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Homophobia is a discrimination against homosexual people and has been a major issue throughout the world. Last week, I was at an event organized by the Political Science department and it was an interesting session. The speaker, Jay Kestenbaum had a lot of interesting things to share. For example, he had discussed the wages of homosexual people, the death rates, and many more topics regarding homophobia. Something that I had learned was that homosexual people earn 10 percent to 32 percent less
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models for LGBT youth “likely increase heath and behavioural risks”, and that establishing supportive relationships with “peers, family members or other caring adults” could potentially reduce the “impact of stigma and shield LGBT youth from negative health risks (Bird, Kuhns Garofalo). Of particular significance for LGBT youth may be the “other caring adults’ that may serve as role models for LGBT youth who may lack supportive relationships with peer and family due to the stigmatization of LGBT identities
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Stonewall. No, I’m not talking about the Confederate general during the American Civil War. I’m talking about the Stonewall Uprising — the dawn of the modern day gay rights movement. During the 1960’s, homosexuals unwillingly complied with police forces and yielded to the homophobic American laws. This was true until the 1969 police raid of Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar located in New York’s Greenwich Village. In the early morning hours of June 28, members of the New York Police Department’s Public
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Just after 3 a.m. on a Saturday morning, a police raid of the Stonewall Inn–a gay club located on New York City’s Christopher Street–turns violent as patrons and local sympathizers begin rioting against the police. Although the police were legally justified in raiding the club, which was serving liquor without a license among other violations, New York’s gay community had grown frustrated of the police department targeting gay clubs, a majority of which had already been closed earlier that year
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Imagine this, the LGBTQ community and heterosexuals switch places in society. Straight people are treated the way gay people are treated now. You are one of the straight people. You are out in public. People see you with your partner and they look away or shoot you a dirty look. Sometimes even throw a slur or two at you. Maybe even chase you down the street, threatening to kill you. Imagine this: You are in a bar, with some of your other straight friends. Just having a good time, relaxing. Next thing
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service providers who interact with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth. In the state of Pennsylvania the Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OMHSAS) has mandated that service providers be trained to ensure accountability for providing inclusive services. The ultimate goal is to create respectful inclusive environments for LGBT youth enter our programs (City of Philadelphia, 2017). LGBT youth often find themselves victimized in schools, and this has been well
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In the 1950’s it was shameful to be a gay person because people were seen as a mentally ill person and many gay people died for being gay. Many of them would not go out with there partners out in public because they were afraid of what people would do or say to them if they found out that they were gay. Its crazy how now many makeup artist are gay, and show people how to put on makeup. Many of them are influencers in the makeup industry and followed by many people how want to know if the product
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