Race Towards Lgbtq Community

After reading chapter 3: "Prejudice and Discriminations" and as well the article "Transgender African-Americans' Open Wound: ‘We're considered a Joke’”, I have a better understanding of the challenges that certain group undergo due to prejudices and discrimination that exist within their own racial group and other groups of our society. Although the LBGT community has made its social conditions a little more better, there is still those within their group that are even more marginalize, this is the case of a African-American transgender. African Americans transgender face twice as much prejudice and discrimination. They battle prejudice and discrimination from their own racial group and from society because of their skin color and their gender

This paper has discussed how intersectionality plays a key role in how black gay males fall into more than one marginalized group and how it shapes their life experiences. Intersectionality was used to show some of the unique challenges these individuals face starting from adolescence. Multiple threats to their mental and physical health were discussed as being due to social environments, expectations from the community and themselves, and resources. These negative outcomes cause a burden on individuals because they are part of multiple oppressed groups. It was seen that religion was a major influence on what was accepted and expected of those within the community.

Due to slavery, segregation, and the countless acts of racial discrimination in our society, African Americans have placed their reliance and faith in religion. During difficult periods, the only perceived and genuine alliance has been found in God himself. For these reasons, religion has become the fundamental set of moral rules and values followed inside a typical Black household. However, one essential factor to understanding human life is acknowledging sexuality, whether it pertains to heterosexuality, homosexuality or transsexuality. Unfortunately, other forms of sexuality remain silenced in the Black community, as it is believed homosexuality is a “white man’s disease”. Silence, judgement, and denial fail to acknowledge the sexual

For my immersion paper I would like to write about the Latino LGBT community. This would be a great opportunity to immerse myself in a group that has had a history of oppression and recently has been involved in major civil movement towards equality. As I have previously mentioned in class, my 18-year-old brother is gay and has had a difficult time finding comfort in his environment. It was as if he had to go through a period of re-socialization to adapt a to a new role as a gay man. Being raised in a culture that shames homosexuality has strained my brother’s relationship with our nuclear family and his community as a whole. I would like to see how the Latino American LGBT community deals with the dichotomy between their culture/ethnicity

Different cultures across the world have developed various views on homosexuality. Most cultural perspectives developed from religious or humanitarian sources. Living in 21st Century America, I have personally witnessed some of the strides and struggles of GLBT (gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender) youth. In the United States there exist laws that both promote sexual diversity and laws that restrict the complete rights of such individuals. On a more cultural than legal level, tolerance for this group of people has grown significantly. America is currently in the midst of cultural change. Nonetheless, this story does not hold true for other cultures. On one hand, the

LGBTQ people have to overcome education, employment, health, legal, and safety obstacles and discrimination throughout their lives. LGBTQ are likely to have low life satisfaction, low self-esteem, low mental health, housing issues, body image/ eating issues and low trust in intimate relationships. LGBTQ are also likely to increase chances of depression, increase substance abuse, homelessness, and increase changes of suicide based on their sexual orientation. LGBTQ experience negative health issues when faced with family rejection, social stigma, religious intolerance, school bullying, physical assaults, hate crime, harassment, unfair treatment in the legal system, and lack of health insurance.

The BSA have discriminated against LGBTQ+ individuals by denying and/or revoking memberships to individuals who have identified as LGBT despite the years of loyalty and service to the institution (Dale, 2013). In reviewing the Boys Scouts of America’s rules and regulations, it was found that the organization incorporated faith base teaching into scouting programs (Boys Scouts of America, 2016). It is possible that these faith based teachings are the ones that hinder the organization from allowing scouts to freely express their gender orientation and identity.

The impetus of religion and church leaders that drives the acceptance or non-acceptance of nontraditional relationships sexual orientations helps to create within many communities shame and guilt for LGBT individuals. “Beyond the legal restrictions, many communities perceived nontraditional sexuality as something abnormal

The struggle for equality has been intense, and still continues to this day. With this being said, much progress has been made in establishing respect and external acceptance for all individuals sense of identity. For example, in 2015 the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Same Sex Marriages, marking a pivotal point in the civil rights movement for the LGBTQ community. For many, this act helped to support their sense of self, a right that been denied for so long. The United States effectively validated the LGBTQ community, giving this group all rights granted to all other citizen’s, However, the creation and acceptance of this community has not had positive benefits for all members. The Gender Binary has been changed, but many distinctions

Being part of a stigmatized group often accompanies a sense of negative self-worth. This association can become increasingly evident if an individual is constantly faced with adversities that make the individual feel devalued. Specifically, individuals in the LGBTQIA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual) population have unique experiences that proliferate the rate of being marginalized. This marginalization can negatively affect the individual and can be portrayed in multiple ways. At the society level, Herek & Garnets (2007) coined the term sexual stigma to describe this phenomenon in relation to sexual minorities. Sexual stigma, in the researcher’s terms, means that there is an inferior status in relation to a society that does not tolerate of any nonheterosexual behavior, identity, or relationship (Herek & Garnets, 2007). An example of this stigma would be a religion frowning upon a homosexual relationship and not tolerating or devaluing the homosexual couple. Herek also describes this at an individual level: sexual prejudice means “negative attitudes based on sexual orientation” (Herek, 2000), as a result, the individual may feel devalued through various means such as not being able to build relationships with individuals who oppose homosexuality. Both at the societal and individual level can include: prejudice -which is a negative attitude that an individual may associate to an identity (in this case an nonheterosexual identity)-, blatant

Former President, Obama once said, “We are big and vast and diverse; a nation of people with different backgrounds and beliefs, different experiences and stories, but bound by our shared ideal that no matter who you are or what you look like, how you started off, or how and who you love, America is a place where you can write your own destiny.” Many things have changed in the past decade, the United States electing its first African-American president not only for one term but for two. President Obama administration helped expand and advance equality regarding the LGBT community. The Obama Administration provided support and equality towards the LGBT community. Numerous people have come to accept their ‘true identity’ without the fear of

Growing up in South Korea as a Korean-American lesbian who did not neatly fit into any category, I constantly wondered about how other people of marginalized identities understand their belongingness in the larger society. I had not yet developed my sociological imagination, the ability to critically examine how the larger social structure shapes the ways in which people like myself understand their social worlds while empowering and affirming themselves. However, my training as a sociologist has allowed me to develop theoretical, methodological, and organizational approaches necessary for exploring how individuals of marginalized identities and statuses navigate through the society, including how discrimination influences individuals’ identity

Transgender individuals are finding that their changes in lifestyle are slowly becoming accepted in the communities that they live in, but there are still progressive problems that they must face. When people who are considering becoming transgender, they describe the process as realizing that they are supposed to be a different gender, however, their body does not represent that. Most of the time their changing process will result in changing their temporary appearance to appear more as the opposite gender. Their identity that most seem themselves as is changed and represents the person they want to be; their occupations, clothing, and attitude are the first major items that people will change about themselves in order to be looked at differently in their society. Nevertheless, it is not always easy to change your appearance and gender in the community you currently live in. Sometimes transgender people will realize that their community is not as accepting and will need to move to another town in order to start a new lifestyle. The people that they might still talk to from their community will only be those who are close to them or are relatives. Even with moving to a different community or staying with their own, it becomes a difficult process to know whether or not to reveal their sexual orientation and true gender transformation. The most common fear that transgender individuals face is wondering if others will use their orientation against them. This fear is rational

The diversity of human population increases every day. With freedom, people have the will to express themselves in different aspects of a region, beliefs, or sexual orientation. Most recently, there has been an increase in cases of gay people in America, and the world over. Debate rages whether being gay is caused by hormones, genes, social and environmental factors or a combination of all these factors. Regardless of the cause, the general population is gradually accepting the gay community in the population (Katz, 2012). Although there is still a stigma associated with this particular minority group, studies show that it 's more favorable being gay now than it was ten years ago. This essay is going to conduct a population immersion study of the gay population in America.

Traditionally, a family consisted of heterosexual married parents and their biological children, but now today’s families are continuously changing and becoming more diverse (Shelley-Sireci & Ciano-Boyce, 2002). Homosexuals experience many different transitions and changes in life, some are similar to heterosexuals and others are distinctively different. When lesbians and gay men experience