Were You Born Gay

The LGBT Community is more than just a community for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. In many aspects, it’s more than a simple so-called community, for some it’s a safe place and for others it’s a family. If you dig just a little deeper sexuality as a whole is a lot more than you think it is. No one is really on the inside aware of what’s going on. Instead they’re just on the outside looking in. In other words, no one sees deep down all they see is the surface. Even though not many understand sexuality many look down upon it some even praise it without knowing because they don’t over complicate the subject or could care less about the matter.

John D’Emilio’s “Capitalism and Gay Identity” contracts what life was like for gay men and lesbians throughout the 1970s and 1980s. During the 1970s, gay men and lesbians were able to come out freely, and eventually started to get accepted by everyone in society. They were able to express themselves without any regards, and started to become the person they were destined to be. People within the gay community have always expressed tendencies of liking the same sex, but societal norms did not allow them to express themselves. However, during the 1980s, as more people decided to openly come out, it started to take a toll on their identity. Society then started to question the importance of people who were brave enough to come out to the world.

The topic of sexual orientation is both sensitive and controversial. This is evident in events, such as the Pride Parade, and also in media, where authoritative figures preach against it and speak of its “sinful nature” (Emmanuele, Blanchard, Camperio-Ciani, & Bancroft, 2010). Sexual orientation exists in various forms, it differs in the way it is viewed by different cultures, and researchers propose different perspectives to explain the emergence of an individual 's sexual orientation. In the discourse of sexual orientation,

Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon and presidential hopeful, recently stated that being gay is a choice not biological. He likes to think that you can’t change your sexual orientation till you are old enough to make that decision. He believes it’s not possible to have “gay genes” because being gay isn’t genetic it’s your choice whether you want to be or not. People should understand that being gay is a choice that we as individuals make in this world and choose to live through everything that gets handed to us for how we want to be. While growing up you start to develop your feelings of sexuallity and their bodies and mind set start to change.They can not be able to be born gay because they do not

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.

A highly debated issue concerning homosexuality is whether sexual-orientation is biologically determined or if it is a socially learned behavior. One case study done about this topic gathered that “the homosexual desire seems in most cases to be implanted in those who develop an unusually strong attachment for one parent” (Cory 1951:67). This seems to suggest that homosexuality can be influenced by family structure or other sociological elements. On the other side of this argument, there is the belief that people are born either gay or straight. Even though there is no scientific or genetic evidence to prove this, there have been many studies done and most homosexuals interviewed take this view-point. McIntosh states, “[homosexuality] is still commonly seen as a condition characterizing certain persons in the way that birthplace or deformity might characterize them” (1968:182). To support their cause and to fight for acceptance in society, it would be beneficial to convince people that sexual orientation is biologically determined. “Research indicates that people who believe that homosexuality is a choice are more likely to condemn it than are those who believe gays and lesbians are born that way”

One of the most basic human desires is the desire for love. No matter how different we are, almost every person in the world wants to be loved. Justin T. Weller addresses this issue in his article “Gays Are Different & It’s A Good Thing,” which was published by The Huffington Post in March of 2017. Weller wrote his article to explain certain differences between the LGBT community and people that are not in the community. He also detailed differences within the community. In addition, he clarified that differences between all people can be not necessarily put aside, but respected. As a member of the LGBT community, and as an LGBT rights activist, Weller wishes to give insight on why it is okay to be different, particularly as a part

Homosexuality has been an issue for the public for an extremely long time dating back to even Ancient Rome and Greek. Especially with the birth of Christianity, the religious society has been persecuting anyone claiming homosexuality, forcing people to hide their own sexuality for centuries. It is important to understand and know the past of the homsexuality to understand the reason for their fight and the mentality of their opposition. Homosexuality has never been accepted into the norms of society and was even viewed as a mental disease by the American Psychiatric Association (Bowman). Not until a few decades ago has the movement for gay rights began to kick off. The event that really set off the movement was the Stonewall Riot of 1969. “New York’s gay community had grown weary of the police department targeting gay clubs, a majority of which had already been closed. The crowd on the street watched quietly as Stonewall’s employees were arrested, but when three drag queens and a lesbian were forced into the paddy wagon, the crowd began throwing bottles at the police” (“Stonewall”). This event is regarded as the foundation for the modern gay rights movement including the formation of many gay, lesbian, and bisexual civil rights organizations.

If sexual orientation is something that we can’t change or choose, then how are these specific preferences such as heterosexuality and homosexuality created? How does one person progress to either heterosexuality or homosexuality? Studies showed that there were genetic factors linked to influencing sexual orientation in males before they were born by increasing the female reproductive capacity in mothers during multiple births. (Iemmole, Ciani, 2008: 393) Though that doesn’t mean that there technically is a “gay gene” that has been discovered, just that several human genome studies has suggested promising areas of research that are pointing to that direction. (Iemmole, Ciani, 2008: 393) With more

While the gay rights movement has come a long way since the 1960s, there is still much that needs to be done. Gay men and women are still seen as inferior to straight people because the world we live in is a heteronormative one, a place that values the relationships between heterosexual couples above all others and views these relationships as an ideal and as a norm; a place where men and women

As a group of people we have a compulsive need to put people in groups based on their sexuality. Many people having this need can cause a problem be people saying that homosexuals are choosing this life and they combat that with saying they are born this way. It is true they did not have a choice to be sexually and physically whom they find themselves attracted to, yet they have a choice to how they express their sexuality. Homosexuality is not a choice scientist have proven through many studies it is genetically.

ONe can not fight who one truly is, no matter how hard one may try. Members of the LGBTQA+ community can't change how they love others. SImilarly, for the transgender community there is problems arising. Many want to deny transgenders access to bathrooms of their gender. For example, is a person is born as a man, but feels like a woman trapped in a man's body, they may live their life as a woman because that is who they truly are.

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

According to the Kinsey Scale, which argues that there is a scale between 1-7 of heterosexuality and homosexuality, and that there are very few individuals on the extremes of the scale. A good representation through a story about being stuck in the middle of this scale is the movie Boys Don’t Cry. In this film, Hillary Swank stars as a transgender, who starts falling in love with a girl in a small town. The movie sadly ends with Hillary Swank being raped and killed, which goes to show you the disgusting reactions of an intolerant society. Based on a true story, the movie really represents how society has dichotomized heterosexuality and homosexuality and you are either one or the other, just as with our gender. This clearly promotes the fact, that in our society, anything other than “normal” must be deviant behaviour. We cannot dichotomize this, because there are so many individuals in between, and it is impossible to fit all into two categories. In the film, we see that society cannot accept the fact that Hillary Swank was different, and that they had to punish her for being so. As a society it’s essential that we understand and accept these differences, because it’s very unlikely that most are on either extremities of the scale. It is strange that in modern society, it is slightly more acceptable to be a homosexual. As long as you

The gays aren’t normal; they are the wrong doings of this society. Gay – as some will say – is the synonym of happiness. However, “gay” isn’t compared to happiness. Gay is sin and if someone who is a homosexual will be rotting in hell. Isn’t evident that the Lord made a man and a woman in the beginning of humankind’s time? We, the heterosexuals, know that it is Adam and Eve, not Steve. It