Moment Differences In the world, we as a race have struggled with accepting the differences between our fellow-men and whether we actually accept them or merely tolerate them.This can be shown around the world however through one unfortunate accident Laramie Wyoming is plum smack in the middle of this chaotic mess and it led to a more specific examination of what people really think. It shows that people can tolerate anything, but that doesn 't mean they accept it. It shows the preprogrammed attitudes towards something different. However, this also shows that most are not all bad merely victims of their location. Moment tolerance One of the main differences that The Laramie Project focuses on is the differences between toleration …show more content…
Some people think that acceptance already .“As far as the gay issue, I don’t give a damn one way or the other as long as they don’t bother me…… Laramie is live and lets live.” While this might work for the heterosexual community the homosexual community could not disagree more. 'Live and let live ' is, at best, a load of crap. It basically boils down to: 'If I don 't tell you I 'm a fag, you won 't beat the crap out of me '. What kind of philosophy is that? In the Laramie project, there is the difference between acceptance and tolerance is attention. If we give it attention then we tolerate it. It no longer becomes a thing that we notice it becomes accepted. However, some in a Laramie thought that this was exactly how it was that gays did have something to fear that there really was a problem and something like this needed to happen for us to deal with this “ I feel. Everyone needs to own it. We are like this. We ARE like this. WE are LIKE this.”But some think that Laramie is a god place that they wish they could go back but there is just too much attention ”And they get this starry-eyed look and I’m like: If that’s where you want to live, do it. I mean, imagine if more gay people stayed in small towns. But it’s easier said than …show more content…
Moment education On thing, I have to point out, however, is the book of matt also has a view on why this happened and while I think that the issue of tolerance and acceptance is a good subject.I think that the real problem is not Matthew Shepard it is the people themselves. They have this preordained idea that gays are bad and that because of this they have to fear them they can 't say why all they can say is that they don 't like it. It is kinda like the same reason that kids today have an immediate prejudice to germans because of what happened in the holocaust none of us have actually experienced it and very few of us have actually had anything to do with this event yet somehow we still have this connotation that Hitler is bad. This is because society has told us that Hitler is bad it doesn 't highlight the good he did or anything else other than Hitler bad man kills poor old jews.I find that this attitude while not entirely without reason exaggerates the qualities of both sides to the point. Kids today feel a hatred or sadness based on an event they might not know a dang thing about. But when they finally realize that the differences didn 't need to be so blown out of proportion the realize
Matthew Shepard was the victim in one of the worst hate-crime murders in history. On the night of October 6, 1998, an openly gay man was viciously beaten. Matthew Shepard was a twenty-one-year-old openly gay man. Matthew hadn’t come out until after high school.
Never would I have thought that would be the appropriate place to put such a question. Society is going through such a change where the ones that are gay or bisexual, aren’t accepted in society. Today, society is not ready for such a big change, which is the reason why people act the way they do towards the LGBT community. S. Alan Ray is a professor at Elmhurst College who wrote, “Despite the Controversy, We’re Glad We Asked.”
“A group of people decided they’d had enough. They took a stand and in doing so began the New York Gay Activist movement. Which eventually spread to other parts of the country…. I very much doubt they know the impact of their decision to stand firm that day in 1969, but it’s because of those people that gay rights exist in this country today,” Lynley Wayne, LGBT Writer. Everyday people are trying to stand up for themselves.
She goes on to say that some people in Laramie may be more aggressive towards gays if they were drunk and the Laramie is live and let live. This means that many people in Laramie really don’t care about anyone else’s sexual
It also reduced the amount of fear within the community making hiding who they are a burden they no longer have to carry. The decriminalization of homosexuality in Canada in 1969 facilitated
Being a gay in this country has more recently become a national issue. Pertaining to the government, Federalism has affected being gay. There has been amazing progress in the recent years. Dual Federalism is our first form of federalism and also our longest lasting stage; lasting
Just like the writer, I instead chose to live a double life between family, friends, and my community and concealed my sexuality. Not because I was ashamed or had a fear of reprisal but because deep inside I felt like my preferences were wrong. The opposition of homosexuality was present in my upbringing as I recall statements like “that’s gay,” used as a disrespectful way to describe dislike for something. The author’s story was powerful, and correlates to my personal histories and the lessons I continue to learn
We also must let go of the idea of wanting a heterosexual lifestyle. Throughout LGBTQ history, equal rights somehow got equated to marriage equality. In this capitalist society we are currently living in, marriage and procreation are shown as the ultimate goal to strive towards, and so we, as societies scapegoats, put all of our efforts into making it so we could have these heterosexual practices. Oh yes, we are society 's scapegoats. As John D’Emilio put it, “...while capitalism has knocked the material foundation away from family life, lesbians, gay men, and heterosexual feminists have become the scapegoats for the social instability of the system.” (473).
Some people spend their whole life's hiding from the people they love because they are either unsure or scare to not be accepted. Many men in the film fund themselves invisible and alone, because they had to stay silent about their sexual orientation. Even if families do not agree with homosexuality they should strive to make each other feel like they would accept each other either ways. Also, parents and children both should look further into educating themselves and each other on the reasons for different sexual orientations. Being educated that not everything is black and white, or concrete can open up a greater understanding of things likes sexual
Nowadays, the homosexual people are coming into public view and are accepted by more and more people. It has attracted much concern to improve and protect their rights, such as the Gay-Right Movement which refers
Everyone can go to rallies, become a safe place for LGBT people in their life, speak out against homophobia. These are all the steps that we can take to make sure that LGBT people know that we care for them and they are valued and important. Confront to the homophobic and transphobic people in your life, and talk to them. Don’t support things like gay jokes or calling people gay as a derogatory term. Make it clear that homophobia will not be tolerated.
Many individuals think about how acceptance, or being bereft of it, can affect them. Acceptance makes you happier and healthier while rejection makes you bitter. Acceptance is a man's assent to the reality of a situation, often recognizing a difficult or negative situation without attempting to change it, protest, or exit. Acceptance saves energy.
They would have to change some laws or create some new ones. They would have to make some states change their minds on gay people. So yeah its going to take some time
Similarly, in Annie Proulx’s ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and its subsequent love story that begins in rural Wyoming in 1963 where homosexuality was still illegal due to sodomy laws, the character of Ennis also denied his sexual identity even from himself when he tells his male lover Jack “I’m not no queer” (Proulx, n.d., p. 6) during sex. Even in 1968 when the American Psychological Association reclassified homosexuality and moved it ‘… from the category of sociopathic personality disorder and listed it together with other sexual deviations such as fetishism, pedophilia' (Fejes, 2008, p. 29), which lessened its severity as a mental disorder, it still left a negative stigma due to the other conditions that were within the same category. The media of America reported on homosexuality '... typically still viewing it as a tragic sickness' (Fejes, 2008, p. 28) in the mid-1960s but people still believed that homosexual men in particular were the perpetrators of sexual attacks on children (Berkowitz, 2015, p. 81) hence why many homosexual men refused to acknowledge their sexuality from the fear of being accused.
Homosexuality was once considered sacred in ancient Rome, albeit being treated poorly since the middle ages. Like this, homosexuality has been suppressed for a long time and thenceforth, the public opinion towards it has been on a downward road until recent years when LGBT groups started stepping up front and coming out along with the increasing controversy towards their rights. The subject of homosexuality has always been polemical. Every once in a while a news article would come up saying something like "Manny Pacquiao provokes storm by calling gay people ‘worse than animals’" or "Sam Smith Talks Coming Out As Gay".