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Effects On Children Heterosexual Couples
2,888 wordsA Case for Same-Sex Marriages During the last presidential election cycle in the United States, the issue of same-sex marriage became one of the most divisive and contentious political and moral issues in America. Many, particularly religious conservatives, believe that marriage can only be sanctioned by God if it takes place between a man and a woman. Others see same-sex marriages as a threat to the moral fiber of a nation and as a threat to the traditional family structure. On the other hand, ...
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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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Lesbian Mothers Heterosexual Parents
5,082 wordsLesbian and Gay Parenting I. SUMMARY OF RESEARCH FINDINGS Charlotte J. Patterson University of Virginia Like families headed by heterosexual parents, lesbian and gay parents and their children are a diverse group (Martin, 1993). Unlike heterosexual parents and their children, however, lesbian and gay parents and their children are often subject to prejudice because of sexual orientation that turns judges, legislators, professionals, and the public against them, frequently resulting in negative o...
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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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Avant Garde Alfred Hitchcock
4,284 wordsHistorians have traced homosexual imagery to the very start of American cinema, with the Thomas Edison film The Gay Brothers (1895), directed by William Dickson, in which two men dance together. Female impersonators and women playing male roles, both fixtures in late- 19 th-century vaudeville and theater, began appearing in split- and one-reel films of the 1900 s. Today this work can seem more overtly gay or lesbian than it did in its time, when the notion of homosexual desire was more strictly ...
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Heterosexual Parents Sexual Orientation
1,903 wordsDespite Ignorant Beliefs, it is Alright for a Gay Couple to Raise a Child In the small town that I grew up in just outside of Boston Massachusetts everything thing seemed normal, mothers were at home raising their children, taking them to soccer games and little league, while fathers went off to work every morning only to return home to have dinner with the family. It seemed almost all families were like the Cleaver family. In August of 1986, a new family, the Buchanan's, moved into the Morrills...
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Today Society Sexual Orientation
2,252 wordsGAY TEENAGERS One 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 today? s gay teens in high school, can describe similar tales. In most teenagers? lives, they experienc...
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Gay And Lesbian Gay Community
1,639 wordsGAYS ON PRIME TIME From Will and Grace to ER, gay themes and characters change the TV landscape In a recent episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on the WB, two of Buffy's pals share a meaningful kiss at an emotional moment. Some viewers may not have thought twice about it. But this non publicized kiss between two women is one sign that things have changed in the four years since the protests over the coming out of Ellen on ABC. Turn on prime-time TV today, and youre likely to surf across about a ...
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Los Angeles Times Men And Women
4,367 wordsIn the earliest years of life, long before questions about the choice of a partner for sexual activity can arise, small boys and girls manifest differences in attitudes, interests and behaviour, and develop a strong feeling of belonging to either the male or female sex. By the time they reach the age of romantic or erotic attachments, their own self-image, and everything they have learned to associate with masculinity and femininity, dictates that they should choose a partner of the opposite sex...
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