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How Does Gay Marriage Affect America

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Title Gay Marriage: Affects Everyday American lives Gay Marriage brings out a lot of issues, individuals and families have to overcome. Gay Marriage is where two of the same sex have forever relations recognize by local and state government. Some of the public agrees and most disagree. It’s only controversial due to everyone having different opinions like the church vs the non-religious world. The controversal topic of the (LGBTQ) Lesbian.Gay,Bisexual,Transgender,Queer community is affecting the culture of the world because of family concerns, religion, also trendy. Controversial is when everyone’s different opinion starts the argument. The two sides are people who support gays vs people who don’t support normally ( religious people). …show more content…

They don’t like it usually it either disrespect them or it makes them feel like they can’t announce their sexuality. This would cause family conflict in the household. In religious views is a sin towards jesus. Overall it causes problem in the household because their child wasn't raised to be gay they were raised to like straight like boys were raised to like girls, like girls are supposed to like boys not any other way. Most families just go distancing themselves from their children who went down the other road and disappoint them or starting another family all over …show more content…

People’s idols coming out gay makes them believe it’s ok to come out gay like Frank Ocean 6x grammy winner came out in 2014 via social media, ILoveMakonnen gained fame with the famous rap group Migos then he came out gay and was hatted for by one the the members saying “How can you talk about being gangsters and doing stuff with girls but you really in the shade messing with dudes i'm not homophobic but ion bang with that stuff it's messed up you now coming out here's some of his post on twitter coming out the closet. “Someone said to me next time they see me, they was gonna hurt me , I said next time I see me, I'm gonna love me up” “As a fashion icon, I can't tell u about everybody else's closet, I can only tell u about mine, and it's time I've come out.”Michael Sam all American Lineman who was drafted by the St.Louis Rams (L.A. Rams) came out gay right before the season started he's the first African American and only NFL player to ever come out gay as of 2014., Lil Peep passed away in November due to xanax he identified himself as bisexual on twitter 3 months before his passing. Jennifer Lawrence (actress) declared her love for both men and women on a talk show. E.J Johnson daughter/son of NBA Hall of Famer came out gay when he was younger in 2013. His wardrobe The 25-year-old son of Magic Johnson was moderating a panel called “The Gender Revolution,” and he was dressed for the part: black silk pants, crop top,

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