American Civil Liberties Union

A Journey toward Love and Acceptance was the essay that interested and moved me the most. The author is Greg Chapman and the essay he wrote is about growing up in a society where being gay isn’t “okay”. In the essay he talks about finding and accepting everything about yourself, even if others can’t accept you. He also touches on the topics of wanting to follow his religion and how keeping his secret hidden drove him into a deep depression. This essay interested me the most because in our…

People may assume marriage is a compulsory stage in life while some may feel that cohabitation equals to marriage, disregarding marriage. Marriage and cohabitation differ in the aspect of its legal status, the death and legality of inheritance and the consequences that their children may face. Firstly, the difference between marriage and cohabitation is its legal status of acceptance and acknowledgement. In marriage there is a legally registered certificate of marriage binding and acknowledged…

claims that “the American public has decisively accepted marriage equality.” He gathered information from polls conducted by NBC/Wall Street Journal, CBS, CNN, and Bloomberg, to prove the popular public opinion supports same-sex marriage. In addition, Moulitsas provided quotes from “bigoted” high profile republicans, to prove the contradictions of their claims. He criticized Republicans, saying they are on the “wrong side of public opinion when it comes to the rights of gay Americans.”…

Polygamy is the state or practice of being married to more than one person at the same time. Polygamist communities are forced to hide the true nature of their relationships here in the United States. There's a resolution to legalize polygamy but most people do not know polygamy has long been associated with unique harms: the repression of women; underage girls too young to consent forced into marriage; the severe displacement of young men in geographically concentrated communities. In many…

Kids with same-sex parents do just as well as kids from heterosexual parents in school. There are no major differences found in a child of same- sex couples and heterosexual couples when being successful in life (“American Adoption Agency”). This goes to show, that no matter what household the children grow up in, they are found to have the same success rate. Zach Wahls once said, "I scored in the 99th percentile on the A.C.T., I’m actually an Eagle Scout and I own…

Theoretical Approach Since there are more than one issues that I’m trying to help Roger with I would like to the use the sexual identity model. How does Roger considered himself to be such as: straight, bisexual, or gay? Another model that I would use is Poll and Smith’s Model of Spiritual Identity. When using these two models to help Roger because if he can identify his sexuality then when it comes to homosexual thoughts could not concern his anymore if he considers himself a straight man. It…

Interest Groups LGBT The LGBT, or “lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender” group is a faction acting to define and support distinct categories in gay culture (LGBT Helpline, n.d.). For almost a century, LGBT interest groups have fought an uphill battle for equal rights. However, with support from the Obama Administration, this group has managed to achieve great milestones. During Obama’s first term at around 2008, same-sex marriage was considered an exceedingly controversial topic. Although…

This comic is by Kevin Siers, published in 2003 in the Charlotte Observer, where it is a local newspaper in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is a comic about a conversation between a father and son about same sex marriage and the acceptance of it, whether or not it is the same as an interracial marriage where there is a plot twist in the end of the comic, as the dark complexioned wife of the older white man has joined them in the comic. By doing this comparison Siers gets the readers to compare the…

The article documents cases of androgynous individuals through medical histories, referencing their personal difficulties and treatment in both medical and social settings. Emphasizing the belief that the psychological importance of medically treating intersexuals at the infant stage was the only way to be assured that hermaphrodites were not doomed to a life of misery. The author doesn’t agree with assigning gender until the child is old enough to decide for themselves when they reach the age…

countries outlawing it. Gay rights have sparked controversies with proponents and opponents coming out strongly guns blazing, giving different views in support or against the issue. The receptive environment surrounded by the desire to expand civil liberties and grant rights to individuals regardless of whether they are straight or not has, further, perpetuated the issue. The concept of the family has had to be redefined because of the emergence of the fight to protect lesbians, gays, bisexuals…