Gay Rights: All Men Are Created Equal

Gay rights have been an issue for many years now. Many People believe they should have their rights and many people believe they should not have their rights. Gays need their rights because they are like every other human being; gays have two legs, two arms, two eyes, etc. The only difference about gays is their interests, but other than that they are like every other person. What happened to “All Men Are Created Equal”? This is stated in the constitution. Gays have been around for a very long time, and they’re not going anywhere any time soon. Gays have been around for a very long time, they have always been here and they will always be here no matter what. According to Aldrich’s study, “’homosexuality’ as a term did not emerge until the 19th century” (14). Homosexuality may not have emerged until the 19th

In 1964 an archeologist discovered an unexplored tomb which was the burial site of Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. There were many carvings on the wall of the two men together doing different activities like fowling and fishing, and in the company of their wives and children. There was one that caught the archeologists’ eye which was one of the two men staring into each other’s eyes and holding each other. No one is sure whether they had an intimate relationship or if they simply just had a very close friendship and wanted to continue their friendship in the afterlife. “One historian, Greg Reeder, points out that the pose of the two men gazing into each other’s eyes was uncommon in the iconography of the time; that their embrace is particularly intimate; and that the gestures the two men use follow the artistic convention that generally unite a husband and wife” (Aldrich 14). There could be a chance Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum did have an intimate relationship,