Essays on LGBT

The drag ballroom culture is an enchanting subculture that clarifies the societal themes of race, gender, and sexual orientation. In this essay, I will mention the historical emergence and development of the ball culture an LGBTI+ subculture, and its components, drag performances and voguing as...

“HIV incidence among men who have sex with men (MSM) has steadily increased since the early 1990’s.” This could suggest the need for HIV interventions and sexual health information to help combat the prevalence of HIV amongst the MSM community. As stated in the Yogyakarta...

Marriage was once viewed as something much different from what it is now. It is a commitment between two individuals and the definition according to Google states, “in some jurisdictions specifically a union between a man and a woman”. This commitment varies between cultures; however,...

As society is becoming more modern in the Western sphere, people’s perceptions of certain ideologies and social groups have changed. Whilst I agree with Gherovici (2010) that transgender people are much more present in mainstream media today than they were twenty years ago, this representation...

Brazil is a place that has earned the highest ranking of the world deadliest place for the LGBT community. People apart of the LGBT community can’t live in peace because no matter where they go they are discriminated against. This is a problem because gay...

The laws come from outdated religious mindsets from the seventeenth century when the majority of blacks in Jamaica were slaves. The mass use of slavery during this time is a contributing factor to the homophobia. Plantation owners were forced by law to teach Christianity to...

People have different perspectives and walks of life. Sexuality is one issue in life where people differ in perspective and attitudes. It is also a highly controversial issue because quite a significant part of the global population does not appreciate homosexuality. As a result, gay...

First of all, how did I come up with this topic? The topic of my GPE paper is: Should gay rights be universal? I came up with this topic, because we live in a modern world, and in my opinion everyone should respect each other...

Still today, at least 40 countries worldwide have laws that criminalize same-sex relationships. This may be surprising for many people in the western world, although the situation could be the same if important gay rights movements like the Gay Liberation Movement (GLM) in the U....

When AIDS first hit the United States in the early 1980s, it plagued marginalized communities that had since been ignored by the sociocultural and political world. The concentration of the illness within the LGBTQ+ community created tension and associated the illness to specific social groups....