LGBT Community in the United States and the World in the 21st Century

by Annette Underwood

Overview

Is the need for acceptance of one's sexuality as important as other issues like poverty, unemployment, global warming, natural disasters and proper health solutions for Ebola, Lyme that put our survival itself at risk? When meditating on this question, let us also analyse our own sexual fabric. We set the standards of our own yardsticks to measure a sexual identity as valid/ invalid, normal/ abnormal, natural/ unnatural, acceptable/ unacceptable, moral/ immoral and finally good/ bad. Perhaps, upon these standards we define and adopt a sexual identity that belongs to a privileged position.
One tends to overlook the privileges and rights that are available for heterosexual people, when denying the lgbt community the right to freedom and equality. The gay and lesbian people, though have the right to live a life with dignity like any other citizen, are denied of many of the basic civil rights. How can we being responsible citizens ignore the injustice and inequality that hover around the lives of marginalized sexual communities? The humiliation, shame and worthlessness one feels because of their variant sexual orientation, are inflicted by the society.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162399421
Publisher:	Steinbeck Publishers
Publication date:	06/02/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

It is intriguing to understand what pertaining to the lgbt community threatens the heterosexual society? Aren’t individual lives and choices important, so as to sustain the well- being of a society as a whole? The United States stands at a privileged position when considering the status of lgbt community across the world. In the twenty- first century the lgbt people are more in alliance with the other marginalised communities like immigrants, Muslim population and other racially marginalised community. The country can proudly claim the progressive and radical shifts made in response to the demands of lgbt community. Still, why even in the twenty first century people have to fight for equal rights as they encounter discriminations based on sexual attitude and identity in a country that stands for democratic and secular rules? There are many such questions one needs to ponder on, as we try to understand the position of the lgbt community of the US juxtaposing its achievements to the ones made in other countries across the world. Confronting homophobia, eradicating hate crimes and providing equal rights to the lgbt community are all to be considered considerable achievements of the society of the United States in general. Still the country has lost many lives because of the deep- seated prejudices against homosexuality and gender differences. The United States has been a country that has seen innumerable radical movements and fights for lgbt acceptance, presumably progressive as we still have countries that suppress the existence of sexually- marginalised community by all means.