Liam Payne: On His Wild Nights, Gay Rights

On the other hand, there were some authors that did not agree with Gay. For instance, Garber argues that “I didn't love, however, was that a lot of these (relatively) progressive ideas manifested in MMXXL not just as What Women Want, but as What Women Want According to Dudes. Marriage! Being called “queens” and “goddesses”! Being danced for! Being grinded (ground?) upon! Being poetried about!” (Garber 2015). I disagree with Garber because women are hardly taken serious and respected, especially in Hollywood films with a hegemonic white man like Mike, for example True Lies. I was applaud by the male entertainers, especially Mike, Richie, and Ken because they were “so appealing [not just by] their looks, it’s the fact that they focus so intensely on how to make women happy” (Caputi

A major reason for the writing of this essay for Roxane Gay was to express the idea that gay celebrities have an obligation to come out and be counted to become role models for the community. Throughout the essay she focuses on three major coming out stories of three well-known celebrities : a journalist by the name of Anderson Cooper, Sally ride a famous astronaut, and Frank Ocean who is a up incoming hip hop artists. Using a strong narrative through the recalling of the stories of these three individuals Roxane gay express the importance of strong role models in the LGBT community. She compares the brave story of Frank Ocean’s coming out story in a community, that in the past has been known for being very homophobic, to the work of famous rapper “Tyler the Creator” . Gay expresses that people looking up to and idolizing Tyler the creator, a rapper whose work contains “213 gay slurs on one album”, is a step backwards, while having a brave role model like frank Ocean would help drive the progress of gay rights forward. Gay uses the rhetorical strategy of repetition by repeating the phrase we must “stand up and be counted” in order to support her idea that strong role models help the community and work towards a greater good.

This newspaper article from The New York Daily News was extremely biased and homophobic which allowed us to realize how the public viewed the LGBT+ community back in 1969. The article also included interviews with police and participants of the riots that described the violence that took

Just a few years ago Jason Collins who identifies himself as a man was the first professional basketball player to come out as Homosexual. Of course he faced some backlash and was called numerous degrading names similar to Ricky as River High, but was he less of a man because of this? No. The skills and athleticism he displayed every night on the court never changed following his admission, nor did the aggressive nature in which he played. Skeptics couldn’t fathom how a homosexual could play such an aggressive sport, even though he had an extremely long professional career. Jason Collins makes it apparent that the backbone of what defines a man according to the institutions throughout society does not posses any merit. Collins doesn’t appear to be a “sissy” or “untough” rather the opposite, yet the fact remains he is a homosexual.

Gay’s is something many people do not agree on. It has through the country for a spin, the hate, violence, and eventually equality. John found out when the pastor ask for any confessions later in the sermon just like every Sunday that his son stood up and admitted that he was gay. John didn’t know what to do. Stacey didn’t laugh or jump up and down she gave him advice and John someone would had hated gay people, and didn’t understand the situation has been ushered into the same shoes that Stacey had been. It doesn’t matter who you’re, what your name is, or how much money you make, you’re equal to the person next to you. People are entitled to their opinion and moral standards, but that should be kept to themselves. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” –Martin Luther King Jr. People should not be judged by the color of their skin, same goes with sexuality, it should be judged by the kind of person they are, how they leave an impact on the world. I leave a challenge to the reader, what impact will you leave on the world, positive or

Highland writes an opinion column for The Paris Post-Intelligencer in Tennessee. In a recent article Pro-homosexual Agenda Aims to Promote Deviancy, Indoctrinate Young Children, penned by Highland and wrought with a

This article shows that even when you know who you are and you have finally shown the real world what you have to give, that everything inside doesn’t matter anymore. In school, we have always been taught to love who we are, and to be “different” in our own ways, doesn’t this relate to that? When you walk down the street and you see someone who’s gay, do you immediately judge who they are just based on that, if so, what happened to never judge a book by its cover? I feel it is important to express who we are in ways that make us stand out, not ways the world wants to see

He then enters into the details of the case and includes quotes from the legal director at the Human Rights Campaign, experts at the University of Washington, and Stutzman’s lawyer. Johnson presents arguments from both the prosecution and the defense, as well as the result of the matter. He refrains from siding with one perspective or the other. He strictly offers his readers the facts, allowing them to form their own opinions. Proving Johnson’s authenticity is his conclusion, in which he illustrates two contradictory points of view. He quotes Ferguson, who believes that the Supreme Court’s ruling “sends a clear message that ‘sexual orientation is a protected class…’ “ (Johnson). He also quotes Stutzman, who claims “ ‘ we should all be very, very scared ‘ “ (Johnson). The informative theme of Johnson’s article is rare and impressive, especially among LGBT+ issues.

When we find a reading vastly interesting and informative regarding a recent or an upcoming event, we fail to realize that many writers insert their biases when composing their work. There are certain things they don’t want to include as well as things that they want the reader to believe. It seems kind of like a jack in the box. You crank the pull bar and never pay attention to the noises or anything and then bam! You’re hit with the jack and you get a reality check. Although people don’t want to admit it there is still a stigma towards homosexuality. Many are bullied and discriminated through the USA solely based on the person they want to be happy with. If we let our old ideology cage us from following what our hearts want, we cannot say

In the article “Media's portrayal of homosexuality as a reflection of cultural acceptance” Austin Rowe uses the contact hypothesis to address the topic of homosexuality in media. This article is about how in recent years since homosexuality has become a positive media has began portraying it as a positive as well. This article is for all people who support the LGBT community and who just want to see in a different perspective how media is portraying the LGBT community. The article was written by Austin Rowe who is attending college at Georgia state. Rowe uses evidence to his advantage to make a very effective argument.

“I profoundly disagree with and am deeply disturbed by the sentiments expressed in the paperback regarding the LGBT community,” the mayor posted on his Facebook last November.

Throughout the chapter Hurst explains how the views of sexual orientation and gender identity has changed over the years. He also talks about the type of people who are against LGBTQ and who are for it. It explains the difficulties and inequality the LGBTQ go through and how they are being treated. Greggs is the one chosen to interview the person they arrested. THroughout the interview, she was harassed and called many stereotypical names because of the fact that she is a lesbian.

Contemporary political activists, in an effort to delegitimize homophobic narratives that stigmatize the “gay” identity, have argued that same-sex attractions are an innate and biologically fixed component of one’s character. By emphasizing the immutability of sexual orientation, civil rights lawyers have established “gay” identifying individuals as a separate class of people worthy of protection from discrimination. This pervasive and politically expedient ideology, which has now become the prevailing cultural attitude within liberal circles, is reflected in commercially successful pop songs such as ‘Born This Way’. Yet the ubiquity of this essentialist understanding remains problematic. For one, the fixedness of sexuality is biologically

In Journal of Human Rights published in 2014, after the Equalities Act of 2010 enacted, the United Kingdom sees sexuality and gender identities as “protected characteristics,” with legal imperatives to address discrimination, and in Canada in the early 1990s, there were an opposition against gays and lesbian rights, but after sexual orientation recognized in 1995, gradually by 2013, gays and lesbians have equality rights. (Browne, 2014)

My analysis of major themes and how the media participate in the construction of attitudes about gender and sexual orientation is predicated upon 16 articles drawn from three major news sources: Newsweek, The New York Times, and The Advocate. The articles were published in the months of January, February, and March. The selection of the articles was not random; I specifically chose articles whose titles and introductions were of particular interest. The three news sources, particularly the Times and The Advocate, published many articles related to LGBT issues—typically greater than a dozen for each weekly search—from which I selected only two per week. In sifting through the 16 articles, I identified three important