LGBTQIA + And Value Diversity Poster Analysis

This organization focuses on increasing the tolerance for and creating a safe campus for the LGBTQ+ community. It is located on UNL’s campus on the third floor of the Union. The director is Pat Tetreault. The official mission statement is as follows:

American rhetoric about LGBT+ issues underwent major changes in the late 60s and early 70s. While for years homophile groups such as the Mattachine Society dominated queer rhetoric, in 1969 Carl Wittman’s “Gay Manifesto” redefined the LGBT+ rights movement’s voice and goals (380). Using shocking language, his authority as a gay man, and emotional appeals to his queer audience, Wittman and his “Gay Manifesto” utilized a confrontational, liberationist tone to communicate his views on sexual identity and heteronormative culture. While opponents may argue that Wittman’s profane language and emotional appeals weaken his argument and alienate the audience, his rhetorical choices prove perfect for engaging queer readers. Wittman’s “Gay Manifesto” spoke to queer people and offered a new perspective in LGBT+ rhetoric.

Part of my training in becoming a counselor, I have developed and continue to develop skill to advocate for all youths. Through mindfulness training, I want be an advocate for LGBTQ youths by empowering them and providing useful skills that promote independent living. Every youth, gender conforming or non-gender conforming, deserves the right to live a success, content and fulfill life.

As a former student employee, I participated in numerous conferences, workshops, and discussion groups on a variety of topics that revolve around social justice and inclusivity as well as served students with diverse backgrounds. These events provided me with insight into the adversities that many minorities experience and how we should address these issues. A salient discussion group that I attended focused on individuals who identify as LGBTQIA Latinx. This population is at a disadvantage when it comes to higher education as they face additional barriers. For example, in the LGBTQIA community many individuals do not pursue higher education because of financial reasons and do not have the proper social support. Unfortunately,

Since the beginning of their existence and in today’s society, the community of LGBT workers are not being treated fairly or getting their fair share that they deserve in the workplace. They are victims to high rates of workplace discrimination. Instead of being judged as workers and what they bring to their jobs and how they work, they are being judged by their sexual preferences and appearance. Being a gay or transgender worker causes them to be mistreated, not judged for the actual workers they are, and most importantly, halts a majority of them in better career and job opportunities. Although under federal law it is illegal to fire someone who is either gay or transgender, they are still either being denied employment or being terminated from their jobs because of their gender category or sexual orientation.

In the Introduction to LGBT+ Studies class we discussed many themes of the history of the LGBT+ community, these themes include; oppression, fighting for our visibility and having it delayed, and a sort of power within the community. The LGBT+ community has gone through an immense amount of oppression, having to fight its way into the light and having it be pushed aside multiple times. In a historical context when the LGBT+ community started to show itself so to speak was around the 1920’s there were the first gay rights movements starting, and surprisingly it was the start of some acceptance. However, when World War II began in 1939 it oppressed the movement, as well as setting it back by gay men being denied from the military because

My unlearn poster spreads the message about LGBTQ+ and how most people have set expectations that all couples are heterosexual. In my poster, I demostrate this by drawing a male and a female sitting at a table on a date. However there is a twist, the male is gazing at another male who is standing behind the female while holding flowers out for the female, not really paying attention to the action. Meanwhile, the female is gazing at another female behind the male and not noticing the flowers being held out for her. Neither of them is paying much attention to the other. My poster has 2 different meanings and can be taken either way or if there is a way you prefer you can it take it that way. The first meaning is how most people in our society prefer couples as heterosexual and the people in the drawing see themselves with the person they are astonished .

In a society that is constantly changing, we do not know how to address others. Slowly, our world is beginning to accept people of color and members of the LGBT+ community. As these people begin to identify as what they feel, we must learn to address them correctly.

LGBTI as a pillar of a holistic diversity management is increasingly being taken up with the market leaders in the US and Australia. This development is the result of social changes, the key words such as "social responsibility", "Corporate Responsibility" and "diversity management" in focus and at the show also employers of society towards a sense of responsibility. 299 of the 500 largest companies in the US have voluntarily subjected to the ranking on the Corporate Equality Index of the Human Rights Campaign last year. Among the companies which have achieved full marks (100/100), included, inter alia, General Motors Co., Bank of America Corp., Apple Inc. This proves on the one hand that companies of their social responsibility are aware and increasingly on respect and inclusion instead rely on only acceptance and tolerance.

The presentation discussed many issues affecting the LGBTQA+ community, including the government, social media and NGO’s. The government has a big role in changing policies and laws that concern the LGBTQA+ community, such as police ignorance and propaganda law. Brazil had the world's largest pride parade but it is also the deadliest country in the world for LGBTQA+ people to live. This is highly contradictory and scary because if you participate in the pride parade, you become a target essentially. In russia, even though it is illegal to discriminate against LGBTQA+ people, the police are extremely lax towards this, making it very unsafe to be a part of this community. I think this is highly unfair because laws are created for a reason and this one does not harm anyone, it just provides equality. The police in both Brazil and Russia should definitely pay more attention to the discrimination happening around them and do their job by

“In the United States, art by feminists, artists perceived to be unpatriotic or sacrilegious, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) artists were particular targets of public uproar, fueling the so-called culture wars that erupted in the late 1980s and 1990s over public funding and freedom of expression” (page, 12). We have seen in recent years, particularly in the last few, a huge demand for acceptance and tolerance from the LGBT community, not only in the U.S., but also across the globe. With the allowance of same-sex marriage in recent years, we made a huge step towards equality among all people. Homosexual acts used to be crimes punishable by death and paintings or photographs showing homosexual activities were cast out by the public and ridiculed for so many years. But as we have seen evolving in recent years, society has grown and become more and more accepting of the LGBT community and the art they choose to express themselves through. Regardless whether you approve of any other individual’s behavior or not, there is no denying that the LGBT community has come a tremendous way in the art world in recent years, and has shown a vast and continuing expansion that seems to be on a runaway train through history.

The LGBT community has made new laws each day to bring equality to all. “Throughout its, America has symbolized equality of opportunity for people of all races, origins, religions and creeds, serving as a beacon of hope for anyone seeking a better life. However, despite its founding principles of equality and acceptance, the United States also has a long history of denying basic rights to certain people” (LGBT Equality). When the US discriminates against a certain thing people retaliate and rise up and try to make new laws to help their cause. The LGBT community has been striving to bring equality in many ways. The LGBT community has made great strides in gaining equality of same-sex marriage, gay adoption, and transgender equality.

On that train of thought, he is of the idea that we live in globally imagined worlds and not merely in communities, which are locally imagined. In this world, the splitting-up of current territorial connections that is, deterritorialization, is of utmost relevance. Yet, as seen throughout the LGBTQ+ movement history, one must realize that "one man’s imagined community is another man’s political prison." (Appadurai

What is equality? Is it just a political nomenclature or an ideological concept? Or is about working towards creating a fairer society in which each individual can enjoy his/her rights and freedom without any judgement considering that “[w]e will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.” Will Rogers (1924, p210).

The people of the queer community that have been made to hide their sexuality or gender often find comfort in knowing there are many people in the world who feel the way that they do. This theory has paved the way for many LGBTQ people to gain rights and acceptance within the community. The queer people having organizations and groups such as the LGBTQ movement helps many people gain enough confidence to “Come out of the closet” and be openly queer. This topic also helps people understand the use of “Queer” as an umbrella term to define anyone whom does not identify as straight. I feel that this term helps bring many people part of this “Queer” community together.