Lgbt Diversity And The Lgbt Community

The year is 2015 and I can’t imagine not having the freedom I do today. Marriage equality is a very recent topic in history. It wasn’t very long ago that laws prohibited the marriage of same-sex couples. I have decided to investigate the history of marriage equality and the organizations that helped make the dream come true. In order to fully understand the changes that occurred, and to comprehend the level of discrimination that was felt in the homosexual culture, one must first understand the history of the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) community. The harsh history of the LGBTQ community, and discrimination that was imposed on them and the organizations that strived to advocate for the LGBTQ community on a local, regional and national level is what eventually lead to the Supreme Court ruling on June 26th, 2015, stating that states cannot ban same-sex marriage.

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,

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

The difficulties and inequities listed above contribute to the overall health and wellness of LGBTQ people. They experience additional stress due to discrimination and bullying in their schools and jobs which lead to a greater risk of depression and anxiety which leads to suicide and self-harm. LGBTQ teens face isolation and depression because they are navigating their sexuality without any support (Subhrajit).

Amongst the many issues faced in the LGBT community, three critical concerns include oppression and discrimination, homelessness in youths and martial rights.

As anyone in the 21st century can attest to, our social and moral norms are constantly changing. Things that were once considered taboo or unacceptable even 50 years ago are now more commonplace and an accepted aspect of our culture. One area that has showed a great increase of acceptance among people is the issue of Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgendered rights (LGBT). While there are numerous social issues that I believe are important to our society and culture, I felt a special need to research and report on LGBT rights, as it seems there are so many people who are blatantly opposed to this lifestyle for various reasons. I feel it is important for people to not only understand the advances that have been made, but more importantly,

Looking back throughout history at the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender individuals, it isn’t hard to see that we have made the majority of our strides in the past 10 years. As a society we have decided the time is now to put an end to the lack of rights for people of different sexual orientations. Accepting LGBT individuals and providing them the same rights and protections as all other Americans makes us a more united, respectable Country. Everyone deserves equal treatment and opportunities regardless of what their sexual orientation may be.

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 LGBT community has been silently suffering through generations. But in this generation, they are finally showing the world their voice. There have been many instances where young adults were denied their right to be who they are and now they are speaking out about the mistreatment. Even though the united states have begun to be more open about the LGBT community here is still more change it come. These changes can be explained through many sociological perspectives including: functionalist, conflict, symbolic interactionism and interactionism. Along with these perspective religion, norms and deviance all impact these individuals who are striving to be open about who they really are inside and out.

There are all kinds of people in this world. People of different races, nationalities, descent, cultures, even sexualities and genders. The people who are not cisexual and/or heterosexual are part of the LGBTQIA community. Since they are still people, one might assume that they have the same rights as everyone else. But that is not the case. Even after all the community has been through, some places around the globe still refuse to give them their rights. But slowly the world is waking up and realizing that people, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity/expression deserve the same rights as anyone else. The LGBTQIA acronym refers to any lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, and/or asexual person. I will be using the shortened version throughout this paper, “LGBT”, but keep in mind that this also includes queer/questioning, intersex, and asexual people.

With Supreme Court of the United States declared Same-Sex Marriage Legal in all 50 States on June 26th, 2015(Chappell), many same-sex couples and their supporters cried tears of joy in the rainbow lights shining on the White House. When celebrating this historic victory of LGBT(lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender)’s love, people witnessing this significant moment would probably wonder what made a increasing number of people in the society understand the LGBT community better and support it. As LGBT individuals take on the important jobs like lawyers and doctors, they play more and more significant roles in the society. Meanwhile, as the thinking of contemporary people becomes more open and progressive, abundant organizations are appearing to struggle for LGBT’s rights. The influences of the media and daily discussions can never be ignored. Although the increased exposure causes a short-term and inevitable backlash to controversial communities such as the LGBT community, covering the topic of LGBT broadly and frequently in the social and mass media and discussing the idea in everyday interactions improve society’s comprehensive understanding of the community more than it harms the community.

The topic is about the impact that representation has on the LGBT community. LGBT representation matters because people live vicariously through their role model, it influences how people come out, it helps people self-realize and the main reason why this topic is so important is because of how drastically underrepresented they are. Two proposed social changes are for there to be more LGBT characters on television shows and for there to be more positive LGBT role models.

The LGBT community is full of upstanding citizens that deserve right to marry and to found a family without having to face limitations or discrimination in society. This community should be given the same rights that heterosexual couples take for granted. In order implement these rights there are several organizations, for example: The Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, The Human Rights Council, The Human Rights Watch, and The International Lesbian and Gay Association.

This introduction describes a short overview of crucial political developments in global lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organizing and advancement over the last few decades.

Throughout history, many individuals have been looked down upon or mistreated due to a social stigma that is linked to a person’s sexual orientation. Members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT+) community have faced scrutiny for being “different” and “morally wrong” in the eyes of society. Recently, however, legislation passed a law making same-sex marriage legal in every state. This law changed the lives of many people because those people are now able to freely marry the person that they love, no matter what gender of the two people. Same-sex marriage becoming legal is a huge accomplishment for the LGBT+ community; they have not always had such a large crowd of supporters behind them.