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Gay Teens In High School
1,083 wordsOne gay man remembers his high school years as filled with intense loneliness, fear and self-hatred. Another recalls spending every lunch period in a bathroom stall. A lesbian recollects her bottling up all her emotions and silencing all spontaneous gestures, terrified of saying or doing anything to betray her own secret. Unusual memories? Not at all. Most gay people, and many of todays gay teens in high school, can describe similar tales. In most teenagers lives, they experience a wonderful fou...
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Gay Teens In High School
1,125 words... itching the family. The students feelings of discomfort and isolation are reinforced as their schools further perpetuate the myth of their nonexistence. (Lopes, Paula: interview 31 Jan. 2000) The lack of knowledge of gay and lesbian students is a major role that society holds on keeping them in the closet. Some myths are: All gay people have HIV/AIDS, If you stand next to a gay person you will become gay, and Gay people are always trying to recruit other people. (Katz, Jonathan 103) For the ...
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Sexual Orientation Planned Parenthood
1,377 words... 3, the American Psychiatric Association classified homosexuality as sexual deviation along with other disorders such as fetishism and pedophilia (Zuriff. 1997, p. 2). Mental health professionals were classifying homosexuals as mentally ill because most of the research that was done involved lesbian and gay men in therapy. The research was biased because the research never included lesbian and gay men that were not in therapy. However, as Zuriff points out (1997), when the non-patient homosex...
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Civil Rights Movement Lesbians And Gay Men
1,636 wordsNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION LAW VOL. 1, ISSUE 1 Mary Sylla, editor () A (Personal) Essay on Same-Sex Marriage Barbara J. Cox Professor California Western School of Law Very little since Stonewall, and the break from accepting the status quo that those riots symbolize, has challenged the lesbian and gay community as much as the debate we have had over the past several years on whether seeking the right to marry should be the focus of our community's efforts, political influence, and fi...
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Men Are Created Equal Gay And Lesbian
1,902 wordsThis paper will introduce the "neo nuclear" family, homosexual couples with children and attempt to present a brief overview of the unit. First the nature / nurture theories will be presented to explain the origins of sexuality; then discussing the formation of gay and lesbian families including the reasoning for legalization of marriage and the introduction of children to these lifestyles; including scaffolding and barriers to achieving stability within the family. This paper will then discredi...
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Esther Greenwood Socially Constructed
1,753 wordsIn Sylvia Plaths novel The Bell Jar, Esther Greenwood seems incapable of healthy relationships with other women. She is trapped in a patriarchal society with rigid expectations of womanhood. The cost of transgressing social norms is isolation, institutionalization and a loss identity as woman. The struggle for an individual identity under this regime is enough to drive a person to the verge of suicide. Given the oppressive system under which she must operate, Esther Greenwood's problems with wom...
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Gay Or Lesbian Gay And Lesbian
1,203 words... nts, there are emotional issues. One parent someone that the child has know for maybe 10 years suddenly has no rights and the child will never see them again. These are big issues. (Davis p. 2) The number of U. S. children with at least one gay parent is estimated between one million and nine million, with most such children conceived in a previous heterosexual relationship. But an increasing number of same-sex parents conceive through donated sperm or with surrogate mothers. (Reuter p. 1 - ...
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Modern American Poetry Adrienne Rich
1,784 wordsAdrienne Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland in the year of 1929. Rich grew up in a household as she describes it as .".. white, middle-class, full of books, and with a father who encouraged her to write" (Daniel). Her father Arnold Rich was a doctor and a pathology professor and her mother, Helen Jones Rich, was a pianist and a composer. "Adrienne Rich recalls her growing-up years clearly dominated by the intellectual presence and demands of the male in the family, her father, while correctly ...
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Gay And Lesbian One Man And One Woman
1,443 wordsGay Marriage The appearance of marriage between same-sex couples provoked one of the major cultural and social changes of the twentieth century in the United States. In 1970 gay and lesbian couples inquired numerous marriage licenses from the Los Angeles County Clerk. As a result the Clerks office proposed the California legislature to tighten California marriage laws. Despite the promising start, and the aggressive efforts of gay and lesbian supporters and activists, for almost twenty years iss...
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Supreme Court Ruled One Man And One Woman
1,440 wordsSame Sex Marriage Same sex marriage is considered to be one of the most controversial and debated issue during the last two decades, extending its polemics beyond from societal to political level. The majority of gay and lesbian communities fight for same sex marriage arguing on the basis of their civil rights and ones of heterosexual couples. However, on the other hand same sex marriage is considered as a social deviation from middle class issues, and thus contradiction to just like everyone el...
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Gay Or Lesbian Lesbian Or Gay
1,694 wordsSexual Identity In our progressive society we can talk about who we are, what we like and dislike. But when it comes to our sexual orientation especially if we are not heterosexual, we may find it difficult to talk about it freely, despite a fact that today there is a large number of gay communities, where you can meet people who have a lot in common with you and who might help you in your difficulties. Thirty years ago being gay or lesbian, was much harder than it is today. You could not see a ...
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Identity Confusion Lesbian Youth
2,944 words? The unprecedented growth of the gay community in recent history has transformed our culture and consciousness, creating radically new possibilities for people to? come out? and live more openly as homosexuals? (Herdt 2). Before the 1969? s Stonewall riot in New York, homosexuality was a taboo subject. Research concerning homosexuality emphasized the etiology, treatment, and psychological adjustment of homosexuals. Times have changed since 1969. Homosexuals have gained great attention in arts, ...
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Gay And Lesbian Codes Of Ethics
2,308 wordsComing Out of Gay Men and Lesbians Coming out is a means of identifying ones sexual orientation as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. At its most basic, coming out of the closet, means being honest with those around you friends, family, colleagues, and so forth about your sexual orientation, about whom you are. It also means acknowledging ones sexual orientation to self. Such disclosure is an ongoing, lifelong process rather than a one-time event. New personal, social, and professional situations requir...
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Supreme Court Ruled Gay Rights Movement
2,831 wordsIt was Friday June 27, 1969. New Yorks crime syndicates are extorting large sums of protection money from gay bars. Any who can, or will, not pay are either persuaded or closed down after a visit from NYCPDs Public Morals Section, who enforce the Mafias stranglehold on the citys gay bars. The detectives from the Public Morals Section have no reason to believe that tonights raid on the gay Stonewall Inn will be anything but brief and businesslike. They arrest two bartenders, three drag queens, an...
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Gay And Lesbian People With Aids
2,232 wordsThe community I chose to research is the Gay and Lesbian community. I chose to look at this community because, as I meet more and more people in my life, I have found that I come into contact with many Gay and Lesbian people, and to understand their issues, would be beneficial to a social worker. As Berkman and Zinberg (1997), states, social workers are susceptible to absorbing the explicit and implicit biases held by mainstream society. I personally feel that the more you learn about other comm...
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Sexual Preference Sexual Attraction
654 wordsThere are many labels, names and categories that have been assigned or given to lesbians. What is lesbian? Is it a certain type of woman? Does one lesbian have an identical feature or character as another lesbian? Does a lesbian have something extra or something missing from heterosexual women? This notion that we can classify a human being by their sexual preference is absolutely ludicrous and unsubstantiated! Women are just that, women. Sexual attraction to humans, be it the same sex or not, i...
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Poems Quot Quot Quot
6,719 wordsJudith McDaniel The center of The Dream of a Common Language is a group of lesbian love poems, originally published as a separate booklet... [I]n these poems Rich shows us a glimpse of the power generated by love, specifically the love of women for women: Youve kissed my hair to wake me. I dreamed you were a poem, I say, a poem I wanted to show someone and I laugh and fall dreaming again of the desire to show you to everyone I love, to move openly together in the pull of gravity, which is not si...
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Quot Quot Barrett Browning
6,421 wordsIn On " Sisters" Annette Kolodny In many ways, Amy Lowell anticipated the recent feminist critique of Bloomian poetics when, in 1925, she applied his question " For why do men write poems? " to " we women who write poetry" : Taking us by and large, were a queer lot We women who write poetry. And when you think How few of us there been, its queerer still. I wonder what it is that makes us do it. She explains why there have been so few women poets by noting that women...
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Civil Rights Movement Lesbians And Gay Men
2,976 wordsThe education of lawyers must not merely involve the acquisition of knowledge and skills; it must include the cultivation of creative thinking and imagination, the appreciation of the commonality of the human condition, and development of a sense of judgment and responsibility. Hence, lawyering includes the ability to understand and critique existing and emerging visions of the profession in relation to interdisciplinary and multicultural perspectives, the implications of technology, and the con...
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Civil Rights Movement Lesbians And Gay Men
2,799 wordsThe education of lawyers must not merely involve the acquisition of knowledge and skills; it must include the cultivation of creative thinking and imagination, the appreciation of the commonality of the human condition, and development of a sense of judgment and responsibility. Hence, lawyering includes the ability to understand and critique existing and emerging visions of the profession in relation to interdisciplinary and multicultural perspectives, the implications of technology, and the con...
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