Reflective Essay On Being Gay

Richard Mohr believes that outing closeted homosexuals is morally justified. He argues that sexual orientation is not a private matter and therefore, does not violate a homosexual's right to privacy. He believes that outing will increase the homosexual community by creating positive role models. He argues that remaining in the closet is morally debasing and creates indignity to one's self. Claudia Card on the other hand, argues almost the complete opposite. She takes a utilitarian stance on outing "the big secret." The big secret is referring to one being a homosexual. She believes that outing is justified as long as it does no harm, which she believes is unlikely.

I remember on my first day of preschool, my mom told me, “Abby, don’t tell your teachers about your family.” Sitting in my car seat, at the age of 4, I was starting to become overwhelmed with confusion. This confusion bubbled up inside me for years. I had so many questions that I wanted to ask my moms, but I did not have the courage or the strength to ask. Then I grew up. My perspective on the world changed, and I realized that my parents were seen as a calamity to society. That was my perspective though. I wondered what my mom’s was. How did she grow up in a world that only saw her as a flaw in the system? So I asked. Beth Shaffer’s perspective on her past, the present, and the future is an astonishing story.

“Is Sexual Orientation Determined at Birth” explains this: “Thus, homosexuality, in my view, is an adaptation, not an inborn trait.” As a child, one might experience an upheaval in their life. A distressing childhood, neglect, or abuse are examples of trauma that can scar a human’s psychological mindset. Homosexuality is a response to these harmful experiences that can cause individuals to reject one gender over another, or simply to become confused with their own identity and attractions. Parents might unintentionally show their children neglect, which will create a child who’s thoughts are distorted as to what love truly

“Our sexual identity, that label we embrace to let others know whether we prefer people of the same gender, of different genders, or both (e.g., gay, lesbian, heterosexual, bisexual, queer), does not always necessarily reflect who we are attracted to, who we fantasize about, and who we have sex with.” (Vrangalova &

The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) community is among the subculture groups that are stigmatized by the U.S. society. They are deviant of the heterosexual norm. Society labels sexualities, which expressions of sexuality it values or stigmatizes. The meanings of sexuality change over time in different contexts, which reveals the sexuality as defined by the society. Sexuality is defined as “the ways we experience and express ourselves as sexual beings”. Sexuality is more than sexual behaviors, it encompasses socially constructed meanings of sex and gender, which includes the culturally specific norms, beliefs, traditions and taboos that are related to sex. For an instance sex between an adult and a child is considered a taboo in the U.S. If sexuality is socially constructed, so are sexual identities. What makes a man “gay” or “straight”? Is a straight guy who slept

As humans, we are all born as individuals. Some parts of us, we are born with, like different hair and eye colors along with certain aspects of our varying personalities, and others, we learn through our experiences, such as music and fashion taste and weird senses of humor. For years, there has been one of many aspects of human beings that science cannot pinpoint whether we are born with it (nature) or if it is learned (nurture). This one aspect is sexuality. Some believe that people choose to be gay to torture their parents, while others believe that they are “born this way”. Actually, homosexuality is not solely nature or nurture, but it is both.

My understanding of sexual orientation identity is that although there are many developments of sexual identities, there is only one that people see it as normal. Which is the development of heterosexual identity. Also, because of that all the other sexual development of orientation identities, such as lesbianism, gay and bisexuals development of sexual orientation identity are being focused more than heterosexual orientation identity. This is very interesting because the author compares the development of sexual orientation identity and the racial identity development.

In an interview recently I was asked to describe the best and the worst parts of being gay. This came as a quite unexpected question under the given circumstances: I hoped we were all past that.

Human psychosexual development is the complex learning in today’s society. What is the meaning of sexual orientation? Obviously, it has to be related to sex. It is a way for people to choose their partners to have sex with. Most of people would say it means either interested in men or are interested in women. This is called sexual orientation. In the book Gay Straight, and the reason why written by Simon LeVay, the first chapter of talker about what sexual orientation is, “We usually judge sexual orientation based on a person sexual attraction to men and to women- that is , on her or his feelings –as expressed in answers to direct questions such as “ Are you sexually attracted to men, to women, or to both men and women?” (Page 2) The question doesn’t refer to the interviewees’ feelings of sexual attraction at the very instant of being asked, of course but to their tendency or predisposition to experience such feelings over some extended period of time, perhaps over their entire adult life. In this paragraph, Simone has described how sexual orientation formations create in a sexual orientation. Sexuality refers to a person based on sexual partner sex appeal on the basis of gender and sex want to, Heterosexual sexual orientation to the opposite sex, Gay to same-sex sexual orientation, Bisexual sexual orientation partner selection and can be either gay can also be members of

"Wlaz she's not coming, she got suspended for kicking Austin in his boy part, so stop looking for her, she's not here." My best friend Dinah told me for what feels like the millionth time. I had a doctors appointment yesterday so I missed the action that went down at lunch. People were always picking on her because she's smart and she's the only openly gay student in this eight hour prison that we call school, but come on people times are changing, it's ok to be gay, there's nothing wrong with loving someone. Especially someone as beautiful as Lauren.

Homosexuals ,lesbians, and gays are all names given to people who make the choice to be different from society’s unwritten rules. They ignore the testaments that obstruct their god-given right to love. Sexual Orientation determined by choice because anyone can make the decision to ignore straight tendencies, sexual orientation is a matter of self-affirmation, if homosexuality was more socially acceptable there would not be a reason to research if the act of being “gay” is genetic.

Sexuality is the whole of a person, including all aspects of a boy or a girl, a man or a woman, and a lifelong change. Sexuality reflects the human personality, not just sexuality. As a general expression of personality, sexuality involves the biological, psychological, social, spiritual and cultural factors of life. These factors affect the development of personality and the relationship between people and consequently the impact on society. Through sexuality, homosexuality is considered as a sexual orientation, a tendency for intimate, unconditional love, for people of the same gender. There are two kinds of homosexuality in society such as gay and lesbian that have feelings with the same gender. According to Module 9 – Slide 20, professor Aguilera points out, “Heterosexism- society reinforces heterosexuality and marginalizes anyone who does not conform to this norm” (Aguilera 2017:20). Moreover, heterosexism is the love or sexual relationship with people who have the different gender or normal sexual relationship between a man and a woman. By definition, people easily distinguish between homosexuality and heterosexism. The homosexuality is the love between people who have the same gender, and the heterosexism is the love between people who have the different gender. The emotional relationship between a man and a woman is a natural relationship and everyone knows and accepts in the last

I am a 15 year old gay male. When I was around 13 or 14 years old, one night, my father and I were lying on the same mattress in our living room. He was asleep, but I was still awake. All of a sudden, I got really horny. I turned to my father and he was lying on his stomach. I saw his butt (fully clothed) and decided to quickly tap the tip of my tongue on right where his anus would be. I did nothing after that and fell asleep. It was an urge to speedily relieve my spontaneous excitement without masturbation. Also, as a gay person I was curiosity of how "eating" ass would be like (a common sexual fetish in the gay community). At the time of the action and after, I didn't feel guilt, regret, or any emotion for that matter. I never even thought about

“All men are created equal, No matter how hard you try, you can never erase those words,” Harvey Milk. A homosexual, as defined by the dictionary, is someone of, relating to, or characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward another of the same sex. Homosexuality is ethical, and I will provide rational arguments for, and irrational arguments against the topic. A few objections are as follows: It is forbidden in the Bible and frowned upon by God; It is unnatural; Men and women are needed to reproduce; There are no known examples in nature; and the most common argument that concerns homosexuality is whether it is a choice or human biology.

It has long been debated where our sexual orientation comes from, particularly whether its biological or social forces driving these behaviors. In regards to homosexuality and bisexuals, some have argued that it may be a choice that these individuals are making.(Levay 2012: 41)Some have even said it is a mental disorder that one can recover from, but there is plenty of data that says otherwise.(Levay 2012: 41)(Levay 2012: 65) I believe diverse sexual orientations develop in humans due to sex hormones during fetal life, gene influences, and other effects such as birth order influences. I’ve come to this conclusion based on the narrative provided via Dr. Simon LeVay’s book Gay Straight, and the Reason Why, and the research that has been compiled showing strong influences from a multitude or reasons. I will also be looking at a research paper by Francesca Iemmola and Andrea Camperio Ciani, who looked into genetic factors influencing sexual orientation in men. It is clear there are gender differences between men and women, and this is probably one of the strongest indicators that hormones can affect the outcome of variations in gender traits.