Introduction We live and are raised in a world where we are taught and influenced that traditional values are the normal and praised, and anyone that goes against them are considered wrong, sinful, or even immoral. Those that challenge the media and go against what society says is the normal are often targeted for bullying, discrimination, and even judged negatively. This is most prevalent for gays, lesbians and bisexuals that face criticism are degraded all because they prefer individuals of the same sex. Whether it is consciously or unconsciously our society has the tendency to have negative attitudes and prejudices against members of the LGBT community. There are many different ways LGBT members experience prejudice and unjust treatment. …show more content…
I kept the first one the same on both surveys, the rest were slightly modified to correlate with my hypothesis. The second question was, ‘ heterosexual couples do not bother me,’ as well as ‘I prefer seeing heterosexual couples over homosexual ones.’ ‘I think heterosexuals have higher paying salaries than homosexual one,’ and ‘I would rather have a heterosexual doctor than a gay on.’ Also I asked ‘I would feel uncomfortable if a homosexual attended my church,’ and ‘I would not mind if my roommate was straight.’ ‘I have many friends and acquaintances that are homosexual,’ and ‘I feel marriage is equal for all genders.’ The last question was ‘I think homosexuals should have the same rights as heterosexuals.’ I created the surveys and used the Likert scale to have accurate results from the subjects based on how they truly feel. Although it’s hard to say if everyone was completely honest with some questions, I feel the majority of answers were relatively accurate. I created the ten questions that were simple and wouldn’t take up too much of the subjects time. I averaged about a minute or so for each subject to finish it. Upon creating my surveys I then needed a place to gather subjects that would give me a wide variety of all ages and different types of people to get a better diversity for the research. I chose local grocery stores and markets to find subjects and volunteers …show more content…
Discussion The results of the study I conducted were for the most part positive. I did expect a high number of people to hold prejudice towards homosexuals, though it is a positive result that they didn’t. I feel if I would have been able to cover more ground and went around different parts of Sacramento as well as a few nearby towns and cities, the survey would have a much more mixed and diverse set of results with the sheer amount of people. Some flaws during my surveys and research paper were amount of questions. I feel next time only five questions would suffice, giving me an accurate amount of data as well as making it quicker for the subjects using their time to fill it out. I got a little confused during my initial calculating of the surveys due to the amount of questions and the different age groups I split each survey up in. The results yielded a high correlation to positive attitudes and views on gay rights and gay people. I hope with social media continually showing and making it more accepting for the LGBT community that more people will become educated and open their minds and stop the prejudice and discrimination against
In certain countries such as the U.S, people discriminate against others to a certain extent based off their gender, race, and sexuality. Butler states that “to be a body is to be given over to others even as a body is “one own,” which we must claim right of autonomy” (242). Gays and Lesbians have to be exposed to the world because some of them try to hide their identity of who they truly are because they are afraid of how others are going to look at them. There are some who just let their sexuality out in the open because they feel comfortable with whom they are as human beings and they don’t feel any different than the next person. The gender or sexuality of a human being doesn’t matter because our bodies’ will never be autonomous because it is affected by others around us. This is where humans are vulnerability to violence and aggression. In countries across the globe, violence and attack are drawn towards tran...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals people make up more than ten percent of the population; that means if you are sitting in a classroom of thirty, then more than three of those people are LGBT individuals. However, this overwhelmingly large minority group continues to be one of the least protected by the government as well as most heavily targeted by discrimination and hate crimes. Regardless of the powerful shift in public opinion concerning LGBT individuals during the last twenty years, the laws concerning hate crimes have remained invariable.
Recently, the stigma surrounding homosexuality has progressed a long way. Society has learned to be more
Lesbian, gay, transgendered, bi-sexual and those who question their sexuality are discriminated against and in turn, have higher rates of depression. Discrimination in the workplace and in everyday life can be taxing which causes depression to be more prevalent in today's society. In turn, people apart of the LGBTQ community seek therapies, medications and places where they can be heard to ease this burden. Throughout this essay I am hoping to try to find ways for our community to actively prevent this discrimination from continuing. This topic needs extensive research because depression is highly prevalent in this group of the population today.
The mental health of individuals in the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) community is something that is a serious problem. For most of the history of the United States and many different parts of the world LGBT people faced much persecution and in some cases even death. This constant fear of discovery and the pressure that one feels on oneself when “in the closet” can lead to major mental distress. Research has shown that people who identify as LGBT are twice as likely to develop lifetime mood and anxiety disorders (Bostwick 468). This is extremely noticeable the past couple years in the suicides of bullied teens on the basis of sexual identity and expression. The stigma on simply being perceived as LGBT is strong enough to cause a person enough mental stress that they would take their own life. This is always unfortunate, but in the case of young individuals it borders on unthinkable. Older LGBT individuals do not tend to fair much better either seeing as they were raised in generations who were stricter on what was considered proper and morally right. All this being said, even as the culture of the world shifts to more accepting LGBT individuals their mental health is something that is only now being looked at thoroughly.
With a high level of regulation, individuals feel as though they are not accepted in their societies if they do not fit the mold of what that society deems as normal. A great example would be the deaths due to the sexuality of an individual. In the United States, the LGBT community is still not accepted fully by the population. There are many people against the idea of same sex marriages, and transgendered individuals leading to hate crimes. According to bullyingstatistics.org, a recent study states that “gay and lesbian teens are two or three times as more likely to commit teen suicide than other youths. About 30 percent of all completed suicides have been related to sexual identity crisis.” Many individuals see that the LGBT community goes against what is considered “normal” and is seen as a threat to heterosexuality, this is why it is not accepted. The individuals that are questioning their sexuality fear for their lives and still struggle to accept it and come out because of the reaction of the people around them. This leads to the act of committing
Sexuality is often a definitive aspect when it comes to presenting identities; take a look at how homosexual characters are stereotypically presented in genres such as soap operas or comedies; the media often choose to create an identity only representative of cultural ideologies, and therefore does little to reinforce the national representation of homosexuality, as heterosexuality is represented as the norm.
The feelings homosexual youth face are only the beginning of the problem. As they recognize that they are different and discriminated against, they lose self-esteem and become depressed. Many become suicidal and develop a feeling of extreme depression and helplessness. Homosexual youth can not speak up because of fear and misunderstanding. Not only do they face unrestricted discrimination and harassment at school, they often face similar or worse homophobia at home.
We believe that Violence and hate against homosexuality need to diminish severely. Gay bashing, gay bullying, and hate crime is very popular when it comes to hating on homosexual people. LGBT people of all ages die every year, whether caused by suicide, injury or homicide. From 1999-2010, the Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention program says that suicide is the 3rd leading cause (4,600 deaths) of death among young people ages 15 to 24. In 2011 there were 1,572 victims that received hate crimes based on sexual orientation. In an article on PBS, written by a woman named Karen Franklin, a description of an interview with a man called Brian states that him and his ...
In today's society, there exists a mixture of issues which tend to raise arguments with people all over. There are a handful of topics that always seem to escalate these differences between people to the point where one who earnestly participates in discussion, debate and argument can direct their anger towards their feelings on the person themselves. Some examples of such delicate subjects are the death penalty, abortion, and euthanasia. An issue that has in recent years, begun to increase arguments, is the acceptability of homosexuality in society. Until recently, homosexuality was considered strictly taboo. If an individual was homosexual, it was considered a secret to be kept from all family, friends, and society. However, it seem that society has begun to accept this lifestyle by allowing same sex couples. The idea of coming out of the 'closet' has moved to the head of homosexual individuals when it used to be the exception. Homosexuality is nothing to be ashamed of and we should all come to realize this.
According to the research done in the year 2013 found that most of the LGBT community members were highly mistreated badly by their bosses who discriminated them in respect to their sexuality transgender and sex personality (Gates, 2011). This act did not please LGBT community and made them to go streets campaigning to be given their job rights and be respected by their employers.. Another report which was done in the same year by the National Black Justice Coalition found that majority of the LGBT community group around 50% who are black Africans were highly discriminated and segregated at workplace. They were not given equal rights like the other Americans but instead got fired from jobs and sometimes undermined. Around 22 states have passed laws making work separation because of sexual introduction unlawful 19 likewise incorporate sex personality LGBT specialist’s still need government assurance (Gates, 2011). Poverty is also another ethical issue experienced by LGBT community. Research demonstrates that against LGBT segregation affects LGBT specialists' monetary prosperity, prompting high rates of joblessness, vagrancy, weakness and sustenance instability. Seat found that LGBT laborers will probably acquire less every year contrasted with the general U.S. populace. Furthermore, from the analysis done about discrimination of LGBT community in employment showed that that Transgender people
We have to accept everyone the way they are because it is their life and if we do not accept them they will struggle a lot in the society. Some homosexuals get attack in the street, and people treat them as if they were outsiders, hurt them mentally,
Every day in our society we judge people because of how they act or how they choose to live their lives. Lots of gays and lesbians have to go threw people judging them and they still have to go threw it when they want to get a job. Sometimes it is harder for a homo
There are individuals that live in fear of showing their true identity to the world because they simply fear that society won’t accept them for having a different sexual orientation. Society advocates that individuals should be able to be proud of who they are, but yet they judge homosexuals for being different. People are taught not to judge others based on their race or religion, so why do they still discriminate against homosexuals? The homosexual subculture is not accepted by society, looked down upon, and misjudged; however, they are human beings and deserve to be treated equally.
When one hears the words “LGBT” and “Homosexuality” it often conjures up a mental picture of people fighting for their rights, which were unjustly taken away or even the social emergence of gay culture in the world in the 1980s and the discovery of AIDS. However, many people do not know that the history of LGBT people stretches as far back in humanity’s history, and continues in this day and age. Nevertheless, the LGBT community today faces much discrimination and adversity. Many think the problem lies within society itself, and often enough that may be the case. Society holds preconceptions and prejudice of the LGBT community, though not always due to actual hatred of the LGBT community, but rather through lack of knowledge and poor media portrayal.