Samah Alharthi
Sara Melton
English 121
November 30, 2012
Homosexual Rights in the USA vs. Saudi Arabia. The word Gay originally derived from Germanic word that has a meaning of “joyful, carefree, happy, bright, and showy” in the 17th century. Around the 19th century the word Gay turned out to be referred to a woman who was a prostitute and a gay man was the man who slept with a lot of women (Hiskey). It could be sort of ironical today that a gay man doesn’t sleep with women and a gay woman (Lesbian) doesn’t sleep with men. By 1955, the word gay officially acquired the new added definition of meaning homosexual. According to American Psycho- logical Association who is defined homosexuality as a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior
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They have the right to equal treatment. The society has to address the importance of equality among people. The discrimination towards these sexual orientations, under any circumstances, is morally wrong, and discrimination based on sexual orientation needs to be addressed. They have the right of privacy and to found a family. The LGBT has the right to get married, adapt children, and have their own normal life. The LGBT never asked for special privileges, but they simply ask for basic rights of equality that every straight person is given. All people created equal and should be given equal rights as a consequence. One right that every person entitled to is the right to marry. Gay Marriage is legalize in twelve countries in the world and part of the US and Mexico. However, some governments of some countries that opposed gays have strict rules about gay marriage based on religious and cultural rules. On October 2011, Pew Research Center for People& Press, made polling on the issue of the same- sex marriage. They found the public divides almost evenly: 46% favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally, while 44% are opposed. Each side of the argument has its cones and pros. The people who for gay marriage think that denying same sex marriage will make a huge debate but by providing homosexual couples with same legal rights as heterosexual couples, can make the equality among people. Also, could be a form of discrimination by
The meaning gay has changed tremendously over time. In the past, the term gay was not used as frequently and as freely as it is used today. The term originated from the Old French and dates back to the 1600s, “Deriving ultimately from Germanic source” (Wikipedia). The word means “Joyful, carefree, bright and showy” (Wikipedia). Gay also means to be “Addicted to social pleasure and dissipations,” as a noun “of a person:
The word “gay” has gone through drastic changes. Traditionally, it was a positive term that meant to be “happily excited” or “jolly” (Merriam Webster, “Gay”). It was used regularly to express one’s feelings about life. Today, it has a far different meaning. Now people use the word gay to label homosexuals, those with feminine qualities, or those who do something thought to be outside of the norm for their gender. “Being gay” went from expressing someone’s happiness to describing his sexual preference. The definition of gay has changed so much that its original meaning has become archaic and lost to the times.
Homosexuality is defined or characterized as attraction towards the same gender either male or female. It came from the Greek language, where “homo” means the same or similar, hence referring to the attraction between two beings of the same sex. Homosexuality is also referred as a clinical term. Most male homosexuals generally prefer to be called "gay men" and most homosexual women generally prefer to be called "lesbians." Homosexuality is one of the three main categories of sexual orientation, alongside bisexual and heterosexual. The longstanding consensus of the behavioral and social sciences and the health and mental health professions is that homosexuality is an example of normal and positive variation in human sexual
Originating all the way back to the 12th century of England, “gay” meant happy, carefree or joyful. Fast forward to the 21th century and the definition was altered to mean homosexuals and dumb
What is homosexuality? Homosexuality is the sexual or romantic attraction between persons of the same gender. Nobody knows when the homosexuality started, but it is been there since a long years ago. Homosexual people are been having hard days through the years, because religions. Every year are more states around the world that are giving the same right to the homosexuals, and giving them opportunities to normal life. Discrimination against homosexual are one of the principal problems around the world, there are more problems about gay bullying, homophobia and discrimination. June 12, 2016 is named the worst massacre in the United States, because around 50 persons were killed in the club of Orlando, Florida. Homosexuality is the attraction
I believe one of the most important issues the LGBTQ+ community faces is erasure. By erasure I am referring to bisexual/pansexual and transgender erasure. Phrases akin to “it’s just a phase” or “you just haven’t met the right guy/girl.” The older generation and the anti-LGBTQ+ groups seem to be less understanding of newer terms for things that have existed since the beginning, things like non-binary, bisexuality, and pansexuality.
They have the right to have a child if desired just like a heterosexual couple because they both have similar ways of parenting. Less children would be in foster care and adoptive agencies if homosexuals had the opportunity to adopt. This is a step forward in our country and in civil right for
Same-sex couples should have admission to the same assistances enjoyed by heterosexual married couples. It is not morally right to make a person feel less than because he or she loves different. Homosexuality is so much more about love and affection than it is about sex. Sex, in any devoted relationship, is a means of showing love. This is true no matter if it is in a heterosexual or homosexual relationship. Being gay shows who that person is and forms
With higher numbers of citizens coming out with who they are leaves high rick of hate crimes and uneducated resources about the LGBT people in the city; Lafayette, Louisiana should help fund and run an LGBT community support group to help its citizens to become more educated on the LGBT lifestyle, help with problems in the LGBT community that accrue in Lafayette along with helping its citizens come as one on and better accept each other.
Gay became a word in the twelfth century in England. Again the original meaning behind gay was, something “joyful” or “full of mirth.” Flash forward to five centuries later, in the 17th century, gay refered to being good or bad. In the Oxford dictionary during the 17th century gay meant “addicted to pleasures and dissipations. Often euphemistically: Of loose and immoral life”.
Gay pride or LGBT pride is the attitude against violence towards the lesbian, gay, bisexuals, and transgender, or LGBT community. Gay pride parades celebrate the acceptance and diversity in the LGBT community. Although Pride was considered immoral and was originally a riot, it is now considered a celebration of togetherness and acceptance for the LGBT community.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “All our progress is unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason”(). This quote is a great representation of how the Gay Liberation Movement swept across the nation spreading change everywhere it went. This movement was a major milestone for the United States, this was the first step towards acceptance. The movement did not pick up speed until the 1960’s but many years before that in 1920’s individuals started to speak up about their rights in the gay and lesbian community. December 10, 1924 the first Society for Human Rights started up in Chicago (American Experience). The Society for Human Rights published the first ever book in America that retained to gay and lesbian relationships, Friendship and Freedom (American Experience). Even though their success was short lived, they shut down due to pressures
Throughout history there have been thousands of times when people have been treated unfairly for characteristics that they cannot help. Most of these, such as race, sex, and religion, have been allowed to be themselves and have the rights they deserve. However, there is one major group that, even to this day, is still denied their basic human rights. This group is the group of people who have a different sexual, romantic, or gender orientation that most people, otherwise known as LGBT+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and others). LGBT+ people should be allowed to have basic freedoms, such as using the bathroom of their choice and being able to marry. This is supported by several facts. These people are only people, and therefore should have the same rights as any other person. Denying them their rights would be, and is, morally wrong and is a repeat of times in history when other groups were persecuted against. Finally, regardless of your beliefs, stopping someone from being a happy human being because their decisions go against your religion is wrong. That is like a Christian stopping a Jew from celebrating different holidays.
There is no exact definition of homosexuality, but what we are sure of that it is not a physical defect, it is not a mental illness and it’s not a demonic act of possession. Homosexuality means that two people male/female from the same sex or sexually attracted to each other this could also be called same sex attraction. Some people experience same sex attraction or homosexuality, they have this feeling that they are different from others, some people say they have felt that way since a very early age so that is said that they are born gay. Some people believe that homosexuals choose to be gay and that isn’t true people don’t wake up one day and go like “ooh so I’ve been straight for all my life why not try being gay just for fun”. The direction of one’s attraction can’t be altered quickly, it just so happens that people find themselves either attracted to the same sex or the opposite.
Same sex marriage is when two people with the same gender get married. Most people label it as homosexual, gay or lesbian marriage. Allowing same gender couples to legally marry is considered to be one of the most important of all LGBT rights. Same sex marriage isn’t hurting anyone, personal I don’t have a problem with it. People should love and be able to marry anyone they please. America is supposed to be a free place. Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Iceland the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, and Sweden are the 12 countries that allow same sex marriage. Alaska and Hawaii were the first states to