Ally Training: Helping with the Struggles Faced by Homosexuals

We live in a society in which there are people of different race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation etc. people are free to choose whatever path they want to follow and especially with sexual orientation. People know what path they way want to follow at an early age whether they heterosexual, meaning that they are straight or if they are homosexual which means that they are lesbian, transgender, or queer/questioning. In this paper, Ally Training will be discussed as being educational, how heterosexism plays a part in homosexual’s lives, the coming out process, the multicultural world, concerns that homosexual faces, and religion.

Going to the Ally training was an educational experience. Starting with what is Ally training. Ally training is a training that is set up to give people accurate information on what it means to be a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/question, which can be written as LGBTQ because we live in a world where there so much information out for people to know. People who are Ally are people that regardless of what sexual orientation they are or what gender identity they are wanting to support and honor the different sexual diversity, acts according to the challenge of homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic remarks and behaviors. These people want to explore and understand these forms of bias within themselves and try to figure out why they have these biases.

This is a world that is dominated by heterosexism and according to the book heterosexism is defined as “the view that heterosexuality is the norm and that homosexuality is abnormal” (pg 130). When a straight person starts feeling that their sexuality is the best sexuality there is and does not understand why other people are not straight, they start making those people feel uncomfortable and in return feel uncomfortable being in a place or even talking to a person that is not