Essays on Sexual Orientation

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...

The term ‘hijra’, of course, is of Urdu origin, a combination of Hindi, Persian, and Arabic, literary meaning ‘neither male nor female’. Another legend traces their ancestry to The Ramayana. The legend has it that god Rama was going to cross the river and go...

In discussing sexuality, it is important to consider sexual orientation, gender and biological sex. The term “LGBTQ” is frequently used in this context and encompasses a wide spectrum of different sexual orientations as well as differences in traditional gender assignment cues. These different sexual orientations...

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...

It felt like a dirty little secret, it felt like I had chains wrapped around me, I couldn’t be who I was, I felted alone and trapped. Just telling one person made me feel so much better, just that one person took a weight off...