Gay Men In Chechnya

claiming that in Chechnya--a republic within Russia-- 3 gay Russian men have been killed, and at least 100 more have been detained.1 Some European countries are accepting refugees from Chechnya, and the United States State Department released a statement hoping for the end to this situation. However, the continued existence of this problem means those efforts have not been enough.2, 3 As a major world power and the “Leader of the Free World,” the United States must do more to help gay individuals in

commonly cited as the spark that started the modern gay rights movement. This event is known as the Stonewall Riots, an uprising against the NYPD that occurred as a response to police raids of gay bars. in the 60’s bars were one of the only places in which gay people felt safe enough to be themselves, and so these places became hotspots for New York City’s “undesirables,” from gay men and homeless gay youth, to butches, transwomen, and drag queens. These gay bars were also subject to regular police raids

struggled against and that was outlawed in the 1960s. But this was not the case for LGBT individuals. Today, in America, land of the free and the home of the brave, a lesbian can be fired simply for being gay. A gay couple can be refused a wedding cake for the most important day in their life. A gay couple could be refused their right to adopt a child. Much of this discrimination is chalked up to a concept called “religious freedom.” Religious freedom is the right to deny service based on the idea that

us have the comfort of being able to come out to friends and families to the extent that we know that there won’t be a government retaliation for every coming out story that takes place in the States. The LGBTQ+ community in places like Egypt and Chechnya are not giving the spotlight as much and I believe it is an issue that the World is ready to hear. I have always thought that I being queer was not much of an issue and that it is not an important matter

Since the beginning of media, producers have created products that applied to the biggest audience. Unreliable political and current event information and bias leads to underrepresentation of various ethnicities and identities. Mass media coverage portrays figures that appeals to the larger audience, hence, isolating others. The Ghost In The Shell trailer was released on Nov. 13 2016 and featured Scarlet Johansson - a white actress. The film is based on the Japanese manga series of the same name

standards of the American Dream: the ability to achieve economic success. A “normalized” family based on American standards encompasses the idea of marriage and having children. Before the legalization of gay marriage, this “dream” was generally exclusive to heteronormative couples. Slowly, the acceptance of gay marriage as another possibility has opened up the “normalized” family structure to include homosexual couples. The dream is the image of happiness and for those who do not try to achieve it are not

nominally encompass all individuals in smaller communities (pansexual, nonbinary, agender, etc.) the term is generally accepted to include those not specifically identified in the four-letter initialism (Shankle). According to LGBT, the first documented gay rights organization was founded by Henry Gerber. Gerber founded the “The Society for Human Rights” in Chicago, Illinois in 1924. The fight for LGBT rights has been a long and hard road and it will never end as long as the community is seen as inferior

Nowadays, governments internationally have control of many things: finance, laws, and militaries- and, somehow, such a primitive and natural thing as the right to love. Same sex marriages are criminalized in 78 international territories and are not recognized as legal unions in over one hundred countries. Same-sex marriages should be legal and accepted internationally, without bias in front of the law and amongst the citizens. I, as a strong supporter and member of the LGBTQ+ community, believe and

LGBTQ+ is an acronym for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer/Questioning, and more referring to the people categorized by not having heteroxexual and cisngender actions or identificantion. As opposed to having a romantic preference to sex, gender identification is what a person chooses to identify as, instead of it being decided by their sex. Currently, countries and law makers are currently blocking the same rights as heterosexual and cisgender people regarding civil, political, social, and economical

understand that marriage is not a privilege but a right. Individuals should be able to marry who they love regardless of their gender. Before discussing the idea of gay marriage, I will briefly discuss the many challenges that people of the LGBTQ community have struggled with and the reasons for this. The main reason that the legalization of gay marriage is looked down upon is due to the normalization of heterosexuality. Because heterosexuality dominates society it creates a stigma towards LGBTQ youth