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High Risk Ten Percent
1,171 words... sts. This attitude sometimes causes people to make harsh judgments about homosexual individuals. The AIDS epidemic, to which many male homosexuals are falling victim, may be a major contributing factor to antigua prejudices. As more gays have identified themselves publicly, they have also formed more public organizations. There are gay journals, gay newspapers, and gay political groups, These groups have formed an alliance; they support candidates for public office, fight legal battles in su...
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Southern Baptist Homosexual Relationships
1,341 wordsBenefits for Homosexuals in the Workplace For many years now minority groups have been fighting to get equal representation in high paying jobs and to be treated like everyone else if they are hired. The minority group that I wish to focus on is homosexuals. Many gays believe that they are being treated unfairly by companies that do not offer domestic partner benefits and other fringe benefits that are offered to heterosexual workers and their spouses. They argue that their partners are in effec...
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Hastings Center Report U S News World Report
2,019 wordsThere are many important issues discussed in public policy today. One of these issues is homosexual marriage. This is an important issue because it deals with a relatively large minority of the United States. This issue is put into many different lights. Those of morals, family values and religion; and those of equality, constitutionality, and right to privacy. The aspect with the most relevance is constantly left up to debate. Homosexuals are 'gay' due to a combination of factors. These factors...
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Treated Fairly God Makes
577 wordsPrejudice is defined surely as the mistreatment of a person or people due to a preconceived bias. In Britain today there is an obsession with not being racist, and to a lesser extent, not being sexist. However rampant homophobia still exists and noone sees fit to criticise. So here we go... Homophobia; the word itself is a symbol of the difference between the opinions of society on the mistreatment of gay people compared to the mistreatment of women or ethnic minority groups. The word suggests a...
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Homosexual Couples Sexual Orientation
1,495 wordsWhen people think of gay rights they think that homosexual people want to have special rights, rights that heterosexuals do not have, but this idea is entirely wrong. Homosexuals just want to have the same rights as heterosexuals, nothing more, and nothing less. Homosexuals are a growing minority with nearly a million gays and lesbians identifying themselves as members of same-sex couples in the 2000 census. But the total gay population is much larger, since the census didnt provide an opportuni...
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Defense Of Marriage Act Civil Unions
1,974 wordsIntroduction Within our society and the western hemisphere, it is believed that only a man and a woman should be allowed to participate in the sacred ritual of marriage. These beliefs are instilled through the socialization of society and family. Our society illustrates marriage through the media. Our family illustrates marriage by first hand experience. In a traditional family, we perceive a man and a woman as our parents. Traditionally, people marry with the expectation that reproduction will ...
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Aids In Contemporary Gay And Lesbian Fiction
767 wordsBased on reflections made as part of activities of the project developed by me along with Professor Italo Morriconi at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, entitled Body and History in contemporary literature and culture: the writing of AIDS (critical reading and documentary researches), and having as its start point a comparative study on gay literature - more specifically, the writing of AIDS - I have decided to start a research about what seemed to be an important issue in the understand...
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March On Washington Gays In The Military
1,837 wordsFor some veterans of the civil-rights era, it's a matter of stolen prestige. "It is a misappropriation for members of the gay leadership to identify the April 25 march on Washington with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. 's 1963 mobilization, " one such veteran, the Reverend Dennis G. Kuby, wrote in a letter to the editor that appeared in the Times on the day of the march. Four days later, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee's hearings on the issues of gays in the military, Lieut...
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Middle Ages Gay Gene
1,064 wordsHomosexuality is behavior of choosing a partner of the same sexual interaction. The term homosexual is used to characterize individuals who prefer romantic attachments and sexual interaction with the same sex and typically are maximally aroused by same sex erotic imagery. The word is used to describe both males and females. There are many terms that are used to describe homosexuals. First, Homo is short for homosexual and the first part of the word means same. The term queer is used to denote so...
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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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Homosexual Marriage Gay Marriage
891 wordsOne of the lesser topics making waves in society is that of gay marriage. I call it a lesser topic because, while gay marriage is an important issue, it simply does not hold a candle to war. War is perhaps the most meaningful outlet for the full spectrum of human expression, and we should make it our primary focus always. Way down the list of important topics, right after healthcare and global warming, is gay marriage. As a straight man belonging to the coveted 18 - 25 -year-old male demographic...
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Church And State Homosexual Couples
1,004 words... s unconstitutional to deny marriage licenses to homosexuals (Victory 1). In response to the ruling, the Vermont state government enacted a law permitting civil unions of gay couples to be performed. Civil unions give exactly the same privileges to homosexual couples as are afforded their heterosexual counterparts. Homosexual citizens in the state of Vermont are now permitted to join in civil unions if they choose to do so. These couples were then given the same rights as their heterosexual c...
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Matthew Shepard Hate Crime
1,031 wordsWhat is Homophobia? When looking in the dictionary, you will most likely read that homophobia is a fear of homosexuality. However, this fear can vary from insignificant to such that will cause enormous problems in the society. Nowadays homophobia is being discussed in all kinds of media, and hundreds of researchers try to find solutions to this painful issue. For my paper, I decided to present three vivid examples of homophobia. The first one is from Journal of Homosexuality (Heterosexual mascul...
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Roman Catholic Church Allowed To Marry
1,363 wordsI Do or Please Dont: Hawaii's Same Sex Marriages With the recent decision by the Hawaii courts regarding the legalization of marriage between same-sex couples, a political debate across the United States has begun. Many people believe that this is a monstrous step to legalizing same-sex unions country wide, especially since legal tradition recognizes marriages performed in other states as binding within every other state, but also because Hawaii is known for its liberal, ground-breaking first st...
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Tropical Rain Forest Plants And Animals
1,722 wordsA decade ago the rain forests seldom came up in every day conversation. Today the tropical woodland is the theme and setting for popular movies such as the Medicine Man, and Arachnophobia. In addition there is an International restaurant chain called the Rain Forest Caf, the caf has a rain forest theme, and is located in such countries as the United States, England, and Australia. The Rain Forest Cafe actually donates a percentage of their profits toward rain forest conservation. Rain forests ar...
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Hate Crime Death Penalty
1,081 wordsHate Crime Laws are the Result of the Gay Panic Defense Editorial by Rich B. Kim From the Houston Chronicle, October 14, 1998: The passage of hate crime laws would be the wrong way to react to the brutal murder of University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepherd. All victims are equally deserving of protection against violence, and the subjective nature of determining which views count as hateful would lead government into drawing distinctions between approved and suspect systems of thought Matthe...
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Homosexual Couples Heterosexual Couples
2,493 wordsHomosexuality and the Law 2 Homosexuality and the Law The issue of homosexuality has been brought to society s attention on more than one occasion, and still remains unresolved. The homosexual community should receive the same rights as the heterosexual community, thus the laws should relate to all of the society. By thoroughly researching the laws in relation to the homosexual community, it has been noticeable that homosexuals do not receive the same recognition as heterosexuals. Though same-se...
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Openly Gay Gay Lesbian
626 wordsWhen you hear the word gay, what do you think of? Happy? Doubtfully. Something stupid or dumb? Most likely. In todays culture, gay is a common adjective for something undesirable or stupid. I hear this word used in such a way countless times daily. Am I the only one bothered by this? Homosexuals have never seemed to be a widely accepted group in America. Many people are still disgusted by the fact that there are such people in the world. But this is getting better. There are many pro-gay / lesbi...
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Supreme Court Decision Due Process Clause
2,634 wordsHomosexuals: A Suspect Class? The struggle for minority protection by lesbians and gay men has moved to the center of American life at the outset of the 1990 s. It is almost certain that lesbian and gay issues will be a more eminent aspect of the public consciousness and American political scene in the coming decade than in any other time in American history. Policy changes early in Bill Clintons administration created a heated debate over the military presence of gays and lesbians, several stat...
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Today Society Man And A Woman
1,881 wordsSame-Sex Marriages? Alex knows that his family is unusual, to say nothing about his conception. In 1982, a family friend bicycled an oyster jar of his own sperm over to Bonnie's [Tinker] house. [Bonnie] She administered the insemination herself. Alex [Tinker] considers Bonnie and Sara [Graham] his parents. But the father occasionally takes Alexa long with his own children hiking or biking? (Shapiro and Gregory 2). This example is a prime reason of unacceptable behavior carried on by same-sex par...
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