Essay On Lgbtq Community

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The LGBTQ community has been a rising topic in the media. With multiple options, negative and positive, towards this group. The media has a strong influence towards the opinions and thoughts. Many people are become more excepting but still as a whole we have dividing opinions. The LGBTQ community has become a intense controversy globally because of the way they choose to live that does not necessarily fit in the twenty first century status quo. Many people have heard of the acronym LGBTQ, but do not necessarily understand what it stands for. The acronym LGBTQ represents the community of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning or queer. The group highly unrecognized in the LGBTQ community is “questioning” or “queer”. This group of people are still unsure of their sexual orientation which may cause confusion in weather they can be classified to be in the LGBTQ community. Queer is known for a offensive term that has only recently been used to show pride about being in the LGBTQ community by the younger generation. Although it has been a symbol of pride it still can be considered very offensive. However, we hear of the acronyms LGBTQ their is also another group called “The Alphabet Soup”. This consists of two “A's” which stands for asexual, …show more content…

Bisexual is described as being sexually and emotionally attracted to both sexes. This means they do not fully identify as lesbian, gay, or heterosexual.Transgender is described as relating or identifying as the opposite sex. Transgender is commonly mistaken as a cross dresser but is undoubtedly different. A cross dresser is described usually a heterosexual male how occasionally wears woman type clothing, makeup, and accessories. Transgender is a person who fully identifies as the opposite sex. Although there are multiple groups in the LGBTQ community they all have one thing in common, the idealists criticism toward the way the choose to live and

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