Dr. Gay: Reflecting American Values

In Stephanie Fairyington's essay, “The Gay Option”, the author expresses regret about the framing she used to explain her sexuality when coming out as a homosexual to her mother. She told her mother that her homosexuality was a result of biology and not choice. As a result, Fairyington's mother began to refer to her sexually as a birth defect. This in not the outcome Fairyington desired. She explains that her intent was to gain acceptance from her mother not pity. That experience lead her to conclude that the best course of action for the LGBT community should be for them to turn away from using biology to explain their sexuality but to look instead to an argument of choice. Fairyington explains that an argument of choice will force the rest

The African American Health Program (AAHP) is a health program that focuses on minorities with health disparities, chronic health issues, and maternal and child care. It also provides preventive care through weekly health education classes and screenings as well as testing in the community. However, the program’s focus is on the African descendants with or without health problems to prevent and control diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer awareness, and prevention. In addition, the program provides and dental care and several HIV screenings in the communities and on school campuses. Besides these, it also provides maternal and child care that focuses on the prevention of infant mortality among African American, African, and Caribbean

One of the most offensive statements was to the popular Black Lives Matter movement. According to Trump (2016), “There’s no such thing as racism anymore. We’ve had a black president so it’s not a question anymore. Are they saying black lives should matter more than white lives or Asian lives? If black lives matter, then go back to Africa? We’ll see how much they matter there.” This quote shows that Trump is very opinionated and really does not care if other people disagree or have a difference of opinion from him. He offended a whole race when he said this. Trump (2016) also accused the black lives matter group of inciting violence against police officers and called them a “threat.” This caused many people to feel like Trump did not know them at all. They felt like he was just stereotyping them. Trump as president elect should have more decency and be more empathetic to what others will feel. One of the Black Lives Matter founders (Givens 2016) issued a statement calling Trump “among the world’s worst fascists.” He then proceeded to ask people “especially the white people, to forcefully reject the hatred.” They are calling this a “white supremacist government” Which in my opinion is exactly what Trump is making this out to be in his

It was 5 days before summer break at Ladue Middle School in St. Louis, Missouri. My friends and I were eating lunch at our usual place discussing who it would be to ask our Counselor Mrs.Worthington for a Gay-Straight Alliance. They all agreed that I should be the one to request it seeing as I was the one that was the bravest of the group when it came to Administrators, so I marched right up to the Counselor “Mrs. Worthington I was wondering if we could have a GSA next year”

The article don’t be so Gay: Challenging homophobic language by Erika L. Kirby is Professor of Communication Studies; she has been at Creighton since 1998. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in organizational communication, and she studies the everyday intersections of working and personal life, emphasizing how differing social identities (especially gender) assimilate into and collide with organizational structures. The following piece was originally published in 2008. The author’s main purpose is to educate the reader on the power of certain words. The author’s tone is truly concerned with how common homophobic slurs are use. The overall topic is to demonstrate what little thought we put in to our words.

This is not my president.” Kathleen Rice said, “ President Trump is a racist. Period. He’s gone out of his way to make that clear, so let’s not tip-toe around it. He’s a racist.” These two quotes show the amount of hate people show to go against different opinions or interpretations of what happened in Charlottesville. This quote the political tension that these types of events cause. Many other people have reacted toward a negative way to President Trump. People like Lawrence Tribe, Chuck Schumer, and more also expressed their hate towards President Trump.

However, there have remained in many more cities peaceful protests. Unfortunately, there are those among us whom are seriously emotionally affected by the terror that as reared its ugly head in some cities. One such comment was made by 19-year-old Taylor Quattlebaum during a Friday protest in Washington, he stated “I can’t continue to live in a world like this – it’s too painful, I can’t continue to cry every night before I go to sleep. It hurts too much.” (Murphy, 2016, Paragraph 27). Where do these individuals turn to for help in a crisis filled America? The truth in this statement is beyond measure and brings me back to the article and those among us who listen to each other and stand united with one

Here’s what I’ve learned about myself. I’m a flaming homosexual in love with my soul mate who I’d kick box my mother, the pope or anyone else in the face for (Mr. Smith’s backhand has nothing on my running shoes) if they questioned my love for you or disrespected us or the choices we make together.

Donald Trump is opening the world to a plethora of hate. Thanks to the “Trump effect,” our country's now fractured into factions with people only looking out for themselves. While it is true that political correctness is at an all-time high and needs to be lowered, Trump chooses to denounce all political correctness, which brings us back to the 1800’s when women couldn't vote and black men were less than white men. The President-elect chose a broken strategy that won the presidency, but lost all hope for an open minded

Whether you believe it or not, every single person excluding no one is born with a sexual orientation. Most may have grown up in a family where you just knew that a man was supposed to be with a woman, and no one questioned it because it was “normal”. Then we have some people in society who were adopted by families all a crossed the world who found themselves in a home where the parents were of the same sex. We find again that we asked no questions because it was “normal”. Americans find themselves in quite the debacle these days because of prejudice. We find all sorts of Americans being prejudice whether you are a homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual. All the negative attitudes based on sexual orientation have seemed too taken over

Imagine four teenagers: Craig, Lucy, David, and Gina. Really think about their appearances and personalities. I’m going to say that you imagined all of them as heterosexual, cisgender, white, average-sized boys and girls. If you did, it’s okay. It’s our brain's default. It’s what is “normal”. What if I said that Craig was gay? What if I said Gina was African-American? Or that David used to be Diana? And Lucy was Buddhist? Most minds of our generation wouldn’t care. It wouldn’t harbor negative feelings now that these people have “breached” if you will, the societies perception of normal. America’s gift to our generation is acceptance.

Lesbians, gays, bisexual, and transgender Americans face many oppressions and do not share the same civil rights as their fellow heterosexual citizens. In my opinion, your sexual preferences should not dictate your civil rights. Sadly, this is not the case in America. The Declaration of Independence proclaims that “all men are created equal” with the right to “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.” However, in today's society homosexual are not giving the same opportunity to achieve their pursuit of happiness. Many LGBT Americans have fought and still fighting for the rights, safety, and freedom of this country but are still not given the same rights as heterosexual Americans. #2 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Americans should have the same rights as heterosexual Americans in all fields including but not limited too are marriage equality, job security, and human rights.

I found this article by logging on the to the Queens College library website. Next, I went to the Quick Links tab and clicked on One Search. In the keyword box, I put “human sexuality in the United States,” I received 684 results so to help me condensed it, even more, I filtered my results to give me exactly what I needed, peer-reviewed journals, and received 256 results. So I scouted the first 10 articles on the page and found that the seventh result was what I was looking for. I chose this particular article because it was a 10-yearlong study dedicated to sexual identity in the United States.

Restrictions have been put in place on homosexuals’ basic human rights because of individuals’ opinions and lack of tolerance. America is a country where all people should have the same rights, regardless of sexual preference. Gay marriage is illegal in more than thirty states even yet today (ProQuest). Homosexual people have been struggling with their rights for over a hundred years now, but the issue still hasn’t been resolved.

In March of 2009, at the Hotel Triangle in Kampala, Uganda, Scott Lively, an American attorney and activist and the president of Abiding Truth Ministries, a conservative Christian organization, delivered a speech that was to have a drastic effect on the human rights of gays and lesbians in Uganda. The speech, given at an anti-gay conference titled “Exposing the Truth behind Homosexuality and the Homosexual Agenda”, linked homosexuality with child molestation and the destruction of African families and laid the foundation for what was to become a virulently homophobic movement in Uganda. This religious crusade against the rights of gays and lesbians culminated in an oppressive law, passed in 2014 and recently struck down on a technicality by a Ugandan court that, in its original form, made homosexual acts punishable by death. This paper examines the roots and language of the law and the connection between its passage and American evangelical efforts in Uganda, as well as the distorting influence of Scott Lively and a lawsuit brought against him for human rights violations.