#1. How is the homosexual population similar to and different from other minority group?

#2.  What types of discrimination do gay and lesbian people experience?

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Respond #1

 

#1. How is the homosexual population similar to and different from other minority group?

Similar: They have to fight for many of the same issues as other minority groups did (and continue to do). Access to equal employment, rights, and services continue to be a problem. Just like other ethnic minority groups, homosexuals endure discrimination on a personal level purely based on the group thry identify with- such as hate speech.

Different: The gay and lesbian community is comprised of multiple ethnicities and cultures. Unlike other minority groups, they have no “homeland” that binds them together and no where that they can go where they are not considered a minority group.

#2. What types of discrimination do gay and lesbian people experience?

Beides the constant hate speech online and elsewhere, gay and lesbian couples are often treated as though their relationships are not as real or important as those of heterosexual couples. This is glaringly apparent in states that do not recognize gay marriage- those couples aren’t awarded the same benefits as traditional couples (such as hospital visitation and tax breaks. Like their love is somehow second-class. They are often discriminated against in personal ways too, business owners have been in the news recently because they are denying services to homosexuals based on their own beliefs. There is a huge debate going on between business owners rights to refuse service to anyone, and customers suing on discrimination-based claims.

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Respond #2

 

#1. The homosexual population is like all the other groups in our society. They really are no different except for their partner preferences. They work, go to school, sleep, eat and breathe the same as we do. They are still looked down upon as some minority groups and are restricted certain rights in most states. Society as a whole still have a hard time excepting them for who they are because of their upbringing and their religious beliefs. That is not to say that don’t except them as people, because they probably do, they just don’t approve of the “choice” they believe they are making. I honestly do not know how the homosexual population is different from other minority groups other than the ridicule and lack of rights. They are going through and have gone through what other groups have suffered through. The majority of people seem to not want to hear their voices.

#2. I believe people have been ingrained about what is socially normal. Athletes for example, when we look at them we don’t think about the possibilities of them being gay or lesbian, because a lot of them are icons or they are in the social media. Recently severely male basketball players have come out admitting that they were gay and they just didn’t want to hide it anymore. They had a lot of supporters but then there were the haters. Some players saying they didn’t want to share the same locker room as a gay person or that they were uncomfortable being naked around a gay person. I think a lot of that comes from fear. Fear of something different, of it being out of their comfort zones. Gay and lesbians are ridiculed a lot especially by those with deep religious beliefs and those in the later generations, because it was not something widely spoke of before.

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