Essays on LGBT

Human rights are fundamental for the development of any society, and one of the few reasons why the importance of the State can be argued is simply because of the need to protect our rights. Accordingly, “Overcoming centuries of anti-LGBTQ bias and discrimination requires more...

“I don’t care if you’re black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you are nice to me, I’ll be nice to you. Simple as that”. Robert Michaels Discrimination has many forms including direct discrimination, indirect discrimination, harassment, sexual...

Social scientists in recent years have become increasingly interested in using qualitative research, particularly ‘narrative analysis’; in order to gain a ‘greater understanding of the social world’, the term can be defined by Sarah Earthy as; “an approach to interview data that is concerned with...

The heartless and demean treatment to which members of the LGBT community have been subjected, makes their desire to achieve greater visibility more threatening to those who wish to repress them (McLaughin, 2012). In an interview of gay and lesbian adolescents and young adults in...

Homophobia is an issue in both secondary and primary schools within the UK, as the learning culture needs to encourage and development every student and not just a few. However, the Stonewall Schools Report (2017) has reported that almost half of LGBT pupils still face...

I am so nervous because I am going to confess something to you all: I am a lesbian. Okay, I am just joking. Anyhow, when your first reaction after listening to it is like Ewww… then I have a question for you: Who are we...

In 2017, research reveals, an outstanding multitude of 5,790 Americans under the age of seventeen are shot each year. Around three-quarters of all suicides in 2016, in the UK, were male. Four in five anti-LGBT hate crimes go unreported, with younger LGBT people particularly reluctant...