Lgbtq Personal Statement

In taking answering the questions to the Personal Autobiography on Sexual Orientation, I was able to reflect upon my life up to now as being a gay male from the Midwest. My first memories about really being exposed to sexual orientation would have to have been back in elementary school where sexual orientation was introduced by peers more or less as a name calling, playground name calling sort of thing—I was introduced to sexual orientation in a negative way. In terms of my parents, I would say the messages from there were positive as my grandma has a brother who is gay and has been “out” since the 1980s, so they have gone through the process of acceptance of LGBTQ individuals.

Pursing a career as a medical doctor is an opportunity for me to mentor youth in underserved populations. As a child, I was raised in the low income, urban community of Roxbury, MA. Although not as notorious today, the neighborhood had garnered negative attention for its high crime rates. My mother emigrated from Haiti and raised me as a single parent. Due to our financial circumstance, Roxbury became our permanent residence. I have always felt there was something lacking in Roxbury in comparison to other towns I visited. My teenage years were largely spent in the suburban town of Stoneham where I attended high school. There was a literal difference in air quality and a psychology contrast in future prospects. While native students of

There are few certainties of what one will encounter during life. A common joke names two: death and

Throughout my life I have experienced many things that have molded me into the person I am today, but the one I find most profound involves my coming out as a member of the LGBT+ community.

This organization focuses on increasing the tolerance for and creating a safe campus for the LGBTQ+ community. It is located on UNL’s campus on the third floor of the Union. The director is Pat Tetreault. The official mission statement is as follows:

For health 490, I am seeking to get an internship that will help cultivate certain aspects of my personal, academic, and career development. When considering my personal development, what I strongly want to improve upon are skills such as leadership capabilities, public speaking, and health communication. I am also seeking for a boost in my confidence in regards to my overall competency and knowledge base in the health field. My self-assurance will not simply stem from the education I gained at Maryland, but will also depend heavily on the first-hand experiences my internship will provide. By exuberating more confidence, I will be able to become more of an effective leader, which will in turn make me successful in my field of work. The target

I’m a non-binary transgender black person. Personally, I don’t know anyone else who is transgender and identifies outside of the Western gender binary. I have a very lsrge interest in psychology and how the mind works. I find it absolutely fascinating. If I receive the opportunity to attend any of the Telluride Association’s seminars, one of my goals is to be able to experience what it will be like to engage in intensive college curriculum. As a Cambridge magnet student, I am currently taking three classes at a college level in order to work towards my Advanced International Certificate of Education, or AICE diploma. I am enrolled in AICE Sociology, AICE International History – European Option, and AICE General Paper/every day I am exposed

My internship is currently at a community agency that is a part of the Community Service Board of Fairfax County, Virginia called Intensive Case Management. The Intensive Case Management program is located in Reston, Virginia. The population that this community agency serves are chronically homeless adults that have a co-occurring disorder of serious mental illness and substance abuse. This agency has seven case managers with a caseload of fifty-two clients. The purpose of this program is to find housing for clients and stabilize their co-occurring disorder so that they can function independently in the community.

The agency where I am completing my internship is called Center for Family Services. This organization provides a wide range of services. I am working in their Family First program. This program is a substance abuse program just for mothers who must attend drug court or have an open case with the Division of Child Protection and Permanency. These women are ordered to complete a substance abuse program. This program serves a diverse cultural and ethnic population who may have experienced trauma in their life. Many times, trauma and post traumatic stress can lead to substance abuse.

Streaming media (i.e. any electronic device that can access the Internet to view and download content) can help us understand why a popular culture trend is important to a particular culture and how it affects the rest of society. Thus, I will be looking at the importance of LGBTQ characters by using the ethnography of communication perspective. LGBTQ stands for: lesbian (females sexually attracted to females); gay (males sexually attracted to males); bisexual (males/females sexually attracted to both genders); transgender (persons breaking society’s gender norms by defying rigid distinction between male and female); and, queer/questioning (persons exploring options to understand their sexual orientation and gender) (Brym & Lie, 2015). Ethnography of communication is a discourse that investigates how we would react to each other’s dissimilar social and cultural practices and beliefs within a particular culture (Duranti, 1985). LGBTQ characters impacts our confidence in our self-chosen identities and sexual orientations because the characters’ experiences can empower us to dissuade others from controlling our lives and taking away our rights. This discourse analysis will have four components. First, I will discuss why others would use the status quo to evaluate this trend in societal structures such as the criminal justice and health care systems. Next, I will be using speakproductions’ (2013) uploaded music video, ‘Define Me’, to argue how the criminal justice and health

I am a very proud member of the LGBTQI+ community. I identify as queer. Being gay, specifically being a black queer man living in the deep south, has greatly impacted me and shaped me into the individual I am today. Being queer is a major part of my multi-dimensional person. I was made aware of my queer identity at a very young age. Since becoming aware of how I differed from most people, I have experienced life in a very unique and challenging way. Despite the subtle and sometimes blatant queerphobia I experience, I have still managed to not only survive but thrive in a world that says I shouldn't. I am quite certain that much of my strength, personality, character, and good nature stems from me being constantly marginalized. Despite the

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify my previous statement 'individuals will ultimately choose to adhere to the same sex orientation" It is my position that anytime there's two or more possibilities we as human beings have the free will to choose. Thus,making homosexuality a choice because you can either homosexual or heterosexual.

Being queer isn't an insult! Many people of the LGBTQ ( lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) community feel attacked by people who are homophobic towards them. People should be informed about the LGBTQ community, and how they are not bad people for being queer. Mainly because there is a big stigma associated with being part of the LGBTQ community.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals, also known as LGBT population have experienced a great deal of oppression worldwide. These particular individuals undergo discrimination from society, whether for reasons of ignorance, fear or intolerance, this population faces challenges in multiple areas of social justice sexual. Although the LGBT culture has made some strides in the areas of state and federal legislation, there is still a wide range of criminalization that takes place within our culture. Understanding the LGBT community and the history of their oppression may be the first step in becoming culturally competent. For many years this culture was denied their basic constitutional rights that were afforded to their equal heterosexual peers. Basic rights such as, adoption and marriage were uncommon to this culture until the 20th century.

What is equality? Is it just a political nomenclature or an ideological concept? Or is about working towards creating a fairer society in which each individual can enjoy his/her rights and freedom without any judgement considering that “[w]e will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.” Will Rogers (1924, p210).