Mission and vision The Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center in Ferndale, Michigan is a highly inclusive organization, designed to promote tolerance and provide services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans-gender individuals. It defines its central original mission statement as "gay ...

Gay Marriage Throughout this core class, we have spent most of our time looking at the minorities and seeing the problems that they face, whether it be racism, being oppressed, or discriminated against. For this paper I have decided to focus on one minority group, the gay community. Even though ...

Once encountering the subject of secular spirituality, one is bombarded by a host of modalities which seem to be available in every brand imaginable. Many things can be spiritual; meditation, critical thinking, sports, and the list continues. It points to some very interesting conclusions conce...

During the last few years, the issue of homosexuality has become a focus of increasingly heated debate in all realms-religious, political, clinical, and academic. The debate over homosexuality and the Bible-specifically whether or not the Bible condemns homosexual acts in all cases-will do no ...

It is a crisp cool October morning. Two hikers are enjoying a quiet walk through the frost tipped fields of Laramie, Wyoming when they are startled by whimpers begging for help. They find a young man tied up to a wood fence, ready for crucifixion. He has been burned, bloodied, beaten, and broken....

What exactly is bisexuality and why is it threatening to so many straight people as well as many gay men and lesbians? Some believe that bisexuality is a third kind of sexual identity, between or beyond homosexuality and heterosexuality. Is this the case, or is bisexuality something that puts in ...

What exactly is bisexuality and why is it threatening to so many straight people as well as many gay men and lesbians? Some believe that bisexuality is a third kind of sexual identity, between or beyond homosexuality and heterosexuality. Is this the case, or is bisexuality something that puts in ...

Gay Rights The ratio in America between homosexual and heterosexual people has grown emessly since the late 1970's. The ratio used to be 2 out of every 20 people its, now 7 out of every 20 people. Gays in America have been miss treated for along time until they had there own rights pas...

"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the la...

Homosexuals: A Suspect Class? The struggle for minority protection by lesbians and gay men has movedto the center of American life at the outset of the 1990's. It is almost certain that lesbian and gay issues will be a more eminent aspect of the public consciousness and American political scene ...

In our Sexual Ethics class, homosexuality has got to be the most abundant thought in the back of everyone's mind. It is comparable to walking on thin ice. No one wants to touch the subject too much or else they will fall in. The issue of homosexuality has not only touched our class, but has ...

Crossing Gender Roles In today's society girls are raised on dolls and dress-up while boys learn to fight and play sports. People who play out the opposite gender roles are occasionally encountered but it is generally hard for them to be accepted. As time has progressed people have been abl...

Adoption Rights for Gays and Lesbians Just a few years ago, most children grew up in a "traditional" or "nuclear" family, which refers to the conjugal household consisting of a husband, a wife, and their dependent children, whose relationships are traditionally recognized b...

The Other Side of the Boy Scouts of America Jonny Umansky Honors English II February 23rd, 2001 In the oath of the Boy Scouts it is written, "On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself p...

Homosexuality has been a source of constant conflict among many organizations of today's society. Perhaps the most prominent disputes of this issue exist within the disagreement of same sex relationships from the views of society, homosexuals, the Christian church, and scientist's biologi...

Homosexuality is a topic that many people refuse to talk about because of personal prejudice or, they chose to simply forget about the existence of such individuals. However, there are those individuals who openly support these individuals, as well as there are those who are disgusted by the thoug...

Homosexuality is a topic that many people refuse to talk about because of personal prejudice or, they chose to simply forget about the existence of such individuals. However, there are those individuals who openly support these individuals, as well as there are those who are disgusted by the thoug...

Homosexuality is a topic that many people refuse to talk about because of personal prejudice or, they chose to simply forget about the existence of such individuals. However, there are those individuals who openly support these individuals, as well as there are those who are disgusted by the thoug...

Getting Away with Murder Aaron McKinney was recently convicted of second-degree murder for his role in the fatal bludgeoning of Matthew Shepard on October 6th of last year. During the opening statements of his trial, McKinney's attorneys argued that a homosexual advance from Shepard brough...

Two significant critical assessments of gay literature, published in New York just weeks apart, illustrate the continuing gap separating the works of lesbian and gay novelists from the embrace of the mainstream publishing world. On June 7 the Publishing Triangle, a Manhattan-based organization made...

Hate In America On October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, was kidnapped from a bar by two men. While tied to a wooden ranch fence, he was beaten nearly to death with a .357 magnum handgun. Eighteen hours later, a passerby discovered him hanging there. He ...

For many years, researchers have been studying the brain development of humans as young as a fetus, trying to find any signs in development that are linked to a person's sexual orientation. Homosexuality is the sexual orientation toward people of the same sex which is the opposite of heterosex...

You have fallen head over heels in love with your partner and you can not, imagine not being with him or her for the rest of your life so the two of you decide to take it to the next step. You join together in front of your family and friends and state your love for each other and then the two of ...

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." This quote from Austin's Pride and Prejudice, while being sarcastic and facetious, is truly indicative of the societal expectations placed on men in Victorian societ...

The Christian Church has always taught that "the purpose of the sexual faculty is the expression of married love and the generation of new life in the context of the family. To use the sexual faculty in a way which causes the generation of new life to be impossible is to misuse and is wrong. Genita...