Essays Tagged: "homosexual"

A Non-Religious Contract in America

a priest by getting a judge to marry them. Divorce is steadily on the rise. Today's society accepts homosexuals! Now the issue arises over whether we should allow homosexuals to marry. And you know wh ... y. And you know what? It is really none of the government's business.America can no longer deny its homosexual citizens the right to have a legal marriage. Looking at today's society, we can see that ...

(4 pages) 81 0 4.5 Dec/1994

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Homosexuality, Morality, and Human Rights

that has in recent years, begun to command the intensity of the foregoing, is the acceptability of homosexuality in mainstream society. Until recently, homosexuality was considered strictly taboo. If ... instream society. Until recently, homosexuality was considered strictly taboo. If an individual was homosexual, this revelation was considered a grave secret to be kept from all family, friends, and s ...

(7 pages) 544 6 3.2 Sep/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality

Court Case Number 15: Bowers v. Hardwick (June 30, 1986)

stitutionality of the statute as it criminalized sodomy. Hardwick asserted that he was a practicing homosexual, that the Georgia statute, as administered by the defendants, placed him in imminent dang ... "deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition."Proscriptions against a fundamental right to homosexuals to engage in acts of consensual sodomy have ancient roots. Sodomy was a criminal offense ...

(2 pages) 55 0 5.0 Feb/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Intro to Human Sexuality

Homosexuality is an erotic attraction, sexual behavior, emotional attachment, and a definition of th ... tional attachment, and a definition of the self. Over 7 1/2 million people in the United States are homosexual. These people are those who are interested in the same sex as lovers. They are often thou ... rsons sexual orientation is what sex one is attracted to, the types are: bisexuality ( both sexes), homosexuality (same sex), and heterosexuality (opposite sex).Most religious views of homosexuality a ...

(10 pages) 298 0 3.6 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

"A rose for Emily" (Faulkner) or something more? Talks of symbolism

at she loved Homer and her desire to stop change, how Homer's name and actions suggest that he is a homosexual, and how she could not get away from her father's control even after his death.First, Ms. ... (West 150)Homer Barron may also someone he does not appear to be. Homer might actually have been a homosexual. '[Homer himself had remarked - he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the you ...

(5 pages) 486 0 3.4 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Lesbian Poetry. Empasizes on Sappho

ry eras have eloquently described this romantic love between women. A few of the poets who wrote of homosexual love were in fact honored during their life, while others of them in more recent times ha ... n Sappho's time as it has been in more recent times (Cantarella 81). She has become synonymous with homosexual woman-love to the extent that two popular words describing it, lesbian and Sapphic, have ...

(10 pages) 126 1 4.1 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Should homosexual ideas be taught in school ?

Nowadays, homosexuality is becoming more and more popular in the society.According to some experts, homosexual ... ty is becoming more and more popular in the society.According to some experts, homosexuals are born homosexuals, and they do not have thechoice. Because of this, these people should not be discriminat ... hechoice. Because of this, these people should not be discriminated since it is not their will tobe homosexual. However, not many people understand this idea, and they should beeducated so that they h ...

(2 pages) 79 2 3.9 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality

This essay discusses the gender issue that took place in the film "Boys Don't Cry". It was written for my Womens Studies call and I recieved an "A" for it's content.

a lot of serious and difficult issues are addressed. Issues that tend to make people uncomfortable. Homosexuality, homophobia, and ideas about how women should act are the most obvious issues that wer ... are the most obvious issues that were explored.The main character, Tina Brandon or "Brandon", is a homosexual female living in a very homophobic environment. More specifically, Tina has the desire to ...

(1 pages) 103 3 2.6 Oct/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Andy Warhol.

orking man, a social climber, a person who liked to build things, an acquirer of goods, and a known homosexual. These attributes all contributed to the interesting and complicated nature of his art.An ...

(4 pages) 141 1 4.3 Nov/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

The Generation of Acceptance This essay describes the generation of individuals born in the 1980's and how social acceptance of homosexuality among youth has increased.

Homosexuality is accepted, and to a certain extent defended by individuals of my generation, while p ... lieve that " 'Someone must not be afriad to say, 'moral perversion is wrong.' If we do not act now, homosexuals will 'own' America!...If you and I do not speak up now, this homosexual steamroller will ... in its way...and our nation will pay a terrible price'"(Hostile Climate 15). Despite the attack on homosexuality by older individuals, the generation of the youth born in the 1980s is the generation ...

(4 pages) 105 0 3.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

"Homosexuality as a Deviance" The view that homosexuality is deviant allows society to discriminate against certain people.

to social norms, therefore is socially created. Since most people in the United States believe that homosexuality is wrong, society has created homosexuality to be a deviance. Since deviance is relati ... s created homosexuality to be a deviance. Since deviance is relative and not absolute to a society, homosexuality is not a universal form of sexual deviance. There are many cultures that accept forms ...

(6 pages) 381 2 4.7 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality

Living In A Multicultural Society

ect way to live is to be in a heterosexual marriage. Andrew Sullivan states in his article What Are Homosexuals For? that "Heterosexual marriage is perceived as the primary emotional goal for your pee ... w this cannot be your fate" (Sullivan 351). By stating this Sullivan makes it apparent that being a homosexual presents a challenge for the individual because he or she is considered different then ot ...

(3 pages) 218 0 4.9 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

A summer reading essay on the Picture of Dorian Gray

are legitimate repercussions for being different. Oscar Wilde, for example, was jailed for being a homosexual when he "came out of the closet." The irony in this is that the Europeans are often note ... to dealing with being different and the enemy of old age and death, and in short almost reveals his homosexual tendency.The book starts out with a painting, that of Dorian Gray. Upon advice from a ...

(3 pages) 57 0 5.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Title: Truman Capote and In Cold Blood: Pioneer or Playing Writer? This essay details the literary style of Truman Capote's "non-fiction novel" and it's effects on and from society.

perhaps known for, and he was often on television show, partly, perhaps, to play the stereotypical homosexual, which he was. He was well known for so-called "Southern gothic" stories, such as The Gra ...

(9 pages) 104 0 4.6 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Based on the poem "He Is More Than A Hero" written by Sappho. Talks about the author's sexuality

uotation from one of her many poems "He Is More Than A Hero" to support my theory that Sappho was a homosexual. Though the evidence is merely circumstantial, I feel that it is enough to convince one t ... hough the evidence is merely circumstantial, I feel that it is enough to convince one that she is a homosexual.The poem which I extracted my thesis statement is obviously being written to a woman, but ...

(2 pages) 49 0 4.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

"Allen Ginsberg." Gives a short biography, tells what elements of poetry he used,who impacted his life the most, and what I felt about his work.

azy, grotesque beats. He made many officials furious all over the world and not to mention he was a homosexual turned bi. His lust for other boys his age inspired a lot of his most noticed work.Ginsbe ...

(4 pages) 73 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Cultural Mythologies and Binary Oppositions in the Novel and Film, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.

rms of human interactions by comparing the heterosexual relationship of Evelyn and Ed alongside the homosexual partnership of Idgie and Ruth. In the film, "Fried Green Tomatoes," the director Jon Avne ... oduction of the content and themes present in the novel. In the novel the relationship presented as homosexual is functional and loving, whereas the contrasting heterosexual marriage is portrayed as u ...

(6 pages) 72 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner.

until she met Homer Barron that she seemed to change. However, Homer was a northern laborer, and a homosexual. That's when I believe the insanity began. Once again a fear of change, the fear of losin ...

(1 pages) 84 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Roman emperor Publius Aelius Hadrianus.

eral rumours that he tried to poison her. He's sexuality was also questionable and many said he was homosexual and in particular had a serious relationship with a handsome young man named Antinous who ...

(3 pages) 36 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > Roman History

"Was Hitler gay?" Discuses the evidence that points to the homosexuality of hitler. includes bibliography

not only for its slaughter of millions of Jews, but for its mass imprisonment and extermination of homosexuals under a German criminal statute called Paragraph 175. (Burleigh and Wipperman, 29) Howev ... in the early days of Nazi rule, there were actually a number of high-level party members whom were homosexual; including Hitler himself. (Lively and Abrams, 3)Hitler surrounded himself with homosexua ...

(10 pages) 252 8 3.1 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality