Homoaexuals and their Struggles essays

Homoaexuals and their Struggles essays Who are we to judge? Well people sometimes judge other people just because... a person is different. What I mean by different is not just the way they look but the way they identify themselves as; and judgments such as that is nasty, you are gay or what a lesbo, what a dyke are aimed at homosexuals. But what are homosexuals and why are they considered to be part of the marginalized groups? Homosexuals have different sexual orientation then majority of mainstream American and some view this sexual orientation as something inferior or in defiance of social values (Strommem, 1). People might have feared or hated homosexuals because of some of the myths they hear about. There are myths about how homosexuality is deviance and how homosexuals introduce HIV/AIDS to society. From these myths people began to develop homophobia and a lot of them have physically and verbally abused homosexuals. For many years homosexuals have been afraid to come out and admit their sexual orientation but after being victims to various hate crimes and exploitations, many homosexuals are coming out from the closet to fight for their rights. Maybe homosexuals should have the same civil rights protection like every other citizen of the United States. After all the Constitution did say that every citizen is endowed with the rights to pursuit life, liberty, and happiness. Many people have agreed with this, have sided with the homosexual protesting, but there are still a lot of people in mainstream society that do not believe that gay and lesbians deserve civil rights protection because most of mainstream society are still ignorant and feel that homosexuals are threat to society. The majority of people are heterosexual who are attracted to the opposite sex and homosexuals might be aliens to them since no one really know what caused homosexuality. In definition, homosexuality is the attrac...