Argumentative Essay On LGBT Community

Goldstein’s article explores queer pedagogy and anti-homophobia education through three schooling models: safe, positive and queering. Goldstein notes that educators must identify queer youth and see the school as a risk environment for queer youth. The author elaborates on the differences between each model and expresses how schools can be providing more to students and educators in pushing for equity in the school system. A safe schools model is defined as creating and maintaining a place where students can learn and teachers can teach in a welcoming environment.

School psychologists must help create and foster an environment that educates administrators, teachers, and non LGBT students. Many lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender youth do not feel safe in school. Sexual minority students may suffer harassment (verbal and/or physical) from teachers and peers. As a result, they may experience more absences than heterosexual students. In addition, LGBT youth may turn to drugs and alcohol as a means of coping with the stressful school environment (Patterson 2013, p.192). Many will contemplate or even commit suicide.

LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) people are discriminated against, terrorized, and protested against. They have barely any laws guarding their rights. All Americans are supposed to have all the rights needed for their pursuit of happiness, yet LGBTQ+ citizens do not. This needs to stop. And the U.S., while still quite far away, is slowly on its way to equity for all of its citizens. But good LGBT Americans are mostly treated unfairly.

Unfortunately, many youth are unsupported by their families, schools, and communities, and struggle psychologically. As mentioned before, the torment of being unaccepted and hated can lead to drastic effects. For one example of the grief LGBT+ youth can feel, one can look at the story of Leelah Alcorn. Leelah was a transgender girl who lived in Ohio. On December 28, 2014, at the age of seventeen, she committed suicide because of the many, many struggles she faced. Her family, specifically, caused a lot of grief for her, as she would explain in the suicide note she scheduled to post after her death on her blog on Tumblr, an online social media platform. She was very firm in her identity, saying that first learning what transgender meant had made her weep with joy to know

People call me a lesbian because I am a woman who is attracted to a woman.

Most people believe that they deserve the rights that they are granted by the government. An upstanding citizen who pays their taxes, serves their community and abides by the law should be afforded the rights of an American. However, not all citizens are afforded equal rights. Gay and lesbians are consistently denied rights that are typically taken for granted by the average American. Specifically, gay and lesbian couples are denied the right to marry even if they are upstanding citizens and are held at an unfair disadvantage solely because of their sexual orientation. This discrimination must stop because gay and lesbian couples are

Gay Rights has been improving in a positive way over time. Today, the idea of homosexuals having certain rights is controversial and brings up different perspectives of how gay people should be treated. Laws had been made for them. A positive change was the outcome of homosexuals fighting for their rights. Homosexuals are treated differently than before. That does not mean they do not get hate it just means more people tolerate them. More people are accepting of them today than they were before. Gay Rights have become a cultural movement in our society because of the detail that relates to the whole concept of tolerance.

The government’s recognition of Civil Unions between Gays/Lesbians. The government should recognize civil unions. In February of 2004, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom ordered county officials to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, and the first same-sex couple to get married there was Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin. Their marriage did not last long, though, due to the California Supreme Court voiding the Mayor’s actions on August 12, 2004, as given in the book called Gay Rights, created by Peggy J. Parks. In the late 1900’s, there were laws that were recently struck down that made same-sex activity illegal. Some laws were called the Sodomy Laws, which means any sexual activity that “goes against nature,” were struck down as well with these other laws. Even though it is considered immoral by many, Civil unions should be recognized because it seems to be the equal of marriage and it will advance gay rights by recognizing them. The point is the government should legally recognize Civil Unions as the equivalent to marriage of straight couples, at the least.

Generally when people think about marriage they think about a man and a woman. In society today, the expansion of gay marriages has increased significantly but quite a few people do not agree with this community. Many think that the LGBTQ+ community is not morally correct and LGBTQ is extremely frowned upon in religions. There has been multiple news articles about the LGBTQ being threatened or getting discriminated upon. Luckily there are an abounding number of charities and organizations to help with this discrimination on the community. Since the LGBTQ is a controversial idea in the United States. Honeymaid, Nordstrom, and Campbells are working to fight the freedom for the LGBTQ+ community by creating commercials and advertising how to be themselves.

Many teens also feel less accepted by the world when it comes to other kids in their school. Students that do not support others orientation creates a discomforting environment. “Unsafe school environments prevent LGBT students from reaching their full academic potential” (Slater). The children have to feel heard or they will fall into a depression and will shut out everyone that cares about them. Therefore, “safe spaces for LGBT students” (“LGBT Youth”) Which will allow kids to have a safe

On June 26, 2015, a huge victory was made for the gay rights movement when the Supreme Court ruled by a 5 to 4 vote guaranteeing a right to same-sex marriage. While this is a great achievement, a problem has come up. Kentucky County Clerks have denied same-sex couples marriage licences a number of times even with the recent court ruling. This is discriminatory and should be acted on immediately; no couple should be denied their right to marriage and anyone who works in the government should abide by the law. This is plain and simple common sense, yet in today’s society, has to be argued about.

The LGBT community is often referred to as the gay community, which includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people. This community has not always been supported by others. There has been many challenges and attempts to get equality dating back to 1969 with the stonewalls riots, which were violent riots against a police raid by the gay community. This is just one of the many protest and riots that will take place with their fight against discrimination and inequality. Gilbert Baker was a rights activist, in 1978 he stitched the rainbow flag that has now become the international symbol of gay pride. In the 1980’s the AIDS epidemic brought more challenges, which people who did not support the LGBT community only used to further block legal protection. It would be years before they even got the right to same-sex marriage. In 2004 Massachusetts became the first state in the United States granting gays to legally marry, but it would not become legal in all 50 states until June 26, 2015. Even though people are now allowed the right to same-sex marriage, there are still many struggles and injustices that they still face today. Members of the LGBT community should be treated equal and provided with constitutional rights, access to the military, and legal protection regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

The bible is a collection of accounts, the first of these were compiled over 3500 years ago and the full bible was first compiled around 1900 years ago. So can this book which was written in an age with crucifixion and inequality be applicable to a society now driven by phones and jet flights? It is a comfort to many an enemy to others but can it help untangle the mystery of modern life and help you find a deeper meaning and purpose for the things you do on earth. This is the question that i'm going to be giving my opinion on in this piece.

In the constitution of the United States of America, the Supreme Court is given the mandate checking the action of the President and Congress. It also includes solving disputes of the appealed cases of the circuit courts. Cases are done by the jury, a team of justices that come out with their own rulings where the majority ruling matters. A case in point is an interest group, such as the human rights activist group HRIG, who feel that the LGBT group is treated unfairly by provision of the constitution and whom seek clarification. Considering every judgment is made on the evidence presented, and the legal doctrines and the presidential application of laws of the previous cases, equality should seem guaranteed. However, the jury is always guided by the jurisprudential philosophy that is dependent on the votes of the Supreme Court justices. Sometimes there comes a time when the Supreme Court has a 5-4 decision that needs an interception with a median justice that will give a decision that is neither too much conservative nor too much liberal. This concept has come to be known as the swing vote, which is pivotal in deciding a decisive case, in which case an LGBT decision on gay marriage could become a great deal.

We get it. You’re queer. It’s 2017; gay people don’t struggle for acceptance anymore… right? Often times I find myself asking this question. People aren’t staring; that scowl wasn’t directed at me; perhaps that woman is just having a bad day. The phrase “You will repent for your sins,” that comes after tells me otherwise. How can people like this still exist, when most of society is often so accepting? That’s when I recall the looks, double-takes, and rude comments that have followed me for years.