Since the time we were little, I have always had speculations about my friend, Eric's, sexuality. Within the last year he decided it was time to come out to his family and friends. I was not as shocked as everyone else because I had always thought this of him. It was much more noticeable for me while we were growing up because we spent more time together than with anyone else. Over the summer on vacation Eric stopped me and said he needed to talk about something. He said he did not know how to say this and was afraid that me and our other friends would disown if we knew the truth. I knew what he was going to say at that moment and I told him that I already knew and I had no problem with it. From that moment on he has been comfortable with telling me all of his problems and opinions relating to his homosexuality. Seeing firsthand the difficulty homosexuals face in their lifestyles, marriages, and adoptions has enlightened me.
As Eric began getting more involved in his lifestyle he met a new friend who was also homosexual and eventually this friendship evolved into a relationship. His parents were more apprehensive and referred to his boyfriend as his friend They did not feel that they should attend family events together and slowly started pushing him out of the family. On the other hand, when I introduced my new girlfriend to my family they were excited to meet her and invited her to a family reunion. It is also easier for me to walk in public holding hands with my girlfriend than it is for Eric and his boyfriend. It is very awkward as society is still close-minded to this lifestyle. Eric invited me and some of our friends to come along with him to our first gay club one weekend in New Orleans. The club was not the type of club that I am accustomed to. However, there was loud music, dancing and a bar like the other clubs, but it was different. It was different because at this gay club the people are more hands on and they touch and hug the club-goers. This is the homosexual hangout and there were very minimal heterosexuals insight.
be a person who accepted him for who he was in a society where homosexuals are
I had mixed feelings one time when my friend, Gracie’s, twin sister was depressed. Her name is Meghan and she is 15 years old. She was depressed because her mom, Cathy, and her step dad had just split up. Meghan and her step dad were really close, so their breakup was not that easy for her. She had attempted suicide a few times for this reason. I should have said something that could have prevented her from trying to attempt suicide again. I learned that a friend is worth more than a secret.
All of this happening within the span of roughly three months. Like McCandless, I have also formed friendships with others that resulted in nearly becoming family. It wasn’t adoption, but we became so close, it was almost like I’d grown up with them all my life, and am viewed as another daughter. this was all because I had decided to strike up a conversation He wasn’t too fond of truly becoming close to others.
The workings of justice and what falls under it have been debated for a very long time, ever since men started to interact with one another. Some say justice is based on what is fair, lawful, or moral, but that only depends on what someone sees as fair, lawful, or moral. During the time of Aeschylus, justice was all three of them as well as none of them. Justice in itself was contradictory, and was subject to follow the whims of both man and god. This is seen especially in Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Furies, where from story to story someone’s views on justice were different than that of the person before them. However, they all did have one key component that they followed. This component was an edited version of Hammurabi’s code of an eye for an eye, and focused on vengeance and retribution as the primary reasons pushing for justice. In Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Furies, justice is an arbitrary term that is used to give reasoning to someone’s actions of vengeance and punishment of others.
LaSala, Michael C. "Lesbians, Gay Men, and Their Parents: Family Therapy for the Coming-Out Crisis." Family Process 39.1 (2000): 67-81. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 May 2014.
...ery anxious about disclosing his sexual orientation to his family. Suggest that he does this only when he feels confident enough and at a time and place that suit him. There should be no pressure on him to disclose his sexual orientation to others.
Hilton and Szymanski (2011) conducted research to understand the experiences of 14 white homosexual biological siblings after they learned that their sister or brother was lesbian or gay. Their subjects consisted of eight females that had a gay brother, two females that a lesbian sister, and four males with a gay brother. Hilton administrated the study by asking a series of questions; the subjects getting interviewed through these methods person to person...
After a few attempts to meet or have a phone conversation during a course of a few weeks, finally, we both were able to find time to talk about his “son”. His son was born a biological female. I have always been an advocate for him and his wife for being openly supportive of their child. I knew about his son was “coming of age” as a lesbian, but was surprised to discover that this young “girl” I once knew was transforming into a bonafide, by all definition, male! I discovered this through social media. Reading comments from fellow ex-classmates were
My friends that had once claimed to be my ‘best friends’ ignored me. P.E. and track became horrible whenever I had to enter a locker room. All of the girls would stare and whisper, refusing to change in front of me like I was some disgusting sexual predator. Finally, during my eighth grade year, a popular boy named Brennan came up to me one day after school. We sat down and talked for a while before he just grabbed my hand and said, "I'm gay." He immediately started crying as I sat there in shock until, after a few moments, I just pulled him over and hugged him. I understood exactly what he was feeling, and knew that just letting him cry would be enough to help. I couldn't believe someone had come to me. Me! Of all people! Hugging him and telling him that it was ok, just accepting him for who he was, made me feel so happy. There is no feeling in the world like helping someone through something that you can relate to. It made me feel like maybe I was able to do something, even if it was little, and it gave me the courage to begin to make a difference in my schools.
express that after coming out that they experienced a ‘second childhood’ in terms of dating and meeting new friends.
Diversity is broad and incorporates the concept of acceptance and respect. It understands that individuals are unique in their own way and recognizes the differences between individuals which can be in terms of race, gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, religious beliefs among other ideologies (Nederveen et al, 20013). It entails the exploration of all these variances in a positive, safe and nurturing environment as well as understanding one another beyond levels of tolerance, so as to accept and celebrate the rich variety of diversity each individual possess.
As I recall one incident, the mother of a friend hosting a get-together decided to share her views on gay marriage. This topic entered the conversation due to the recent Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage. She began to state how she was in disbelief that America would allow for gay marriage. She continued by saying she could never support anyone who wanted to live that lifestyle. Her comments made me feel uncomfortable, as I stayed quiet
...sed about it because now there is a lot more homosexuals in the world so you are not surprised like you would have been years ago. Just face it, it is becoming a normal thing and that homosexuals should have the right to have a happy family and a child to call their own just like any other family. Leave them alone and the let them live life as if you are doing with your family not bothering anybody. “What is most important is love. A homosexual couple can give much love to a child, sometimes even more than a heterosexual couple” (Subulica).
Yes we all have known that this population has been around for so many years, but as a Mexican and being the only daughter it was hard for my friend to admit she was a lesbian when she was younger. She feels grateful for President Obama because he is the person that has welcomed this community to society, even though some individuals cannot accept the fact that the LGBT Community is here to stay my friend is happy for who she has become. A lot of anti LGBT religious people preach about being homosexual is a sin and that is a subjected that she gets irritated about, no one is perfected in this world. Being a lesbian does not make my friend any different when it comes to believing in God. As a lesbian and with kids no one has the right to judge her but only God. My friend goes to Abundant Living Faith Christian Church, she only attends that church for the reason being that she feels welcome by that church. She attends service with her wife and her kids, not even once she has felt and awkward stare or she has never felt people talking down to them because they are a lesbian
So that was one side of my family that did not like me due to the color of my skin and it did upset me. This made it even harder for me to be myself when it came to my father’s dad’s side of the family because they were really religious and did not agree with someone being LGBT, or so I thought. I came up with that explanation on my own based off of the time period that they were raised and the fact that they grew up in a church. So I was nervous to tell them that I am a lesbian because of their backgrounds. I should have never done that because I never tried to figure out their true thoughts towards that subject matter. I gave into the way that society was and their beliefs that they put into place, instead of figuring out my own families beliefs. This made me become the part of society that I did not like and that is, the part that passes judgment on people based off of the time that they grew up in and the beliefs that were in