Although this supports the system of oppression for queer people, in the sense that gay men are feminine, it almost empowers
These efforts were rewarded in the sense that because lesbians were seen as having done a “good work” Homophobic fears began to subside within the ranks of women. Lesbians gained I respect they had not enjoyed before as heterosexual activist chain to appreciate their arguments and saw for themselves how lesbian baiting have been used to stifle the female self-assertion. Because of the growing women's movement in the early 1970s Congress was forced to passed more legislation for women's rights than ever before or since. Document 13 illustrates
In July of 2014, Jarrett Krosoczka gave a highly persuasive speech about an unusual topic: lunch ladies. This speech, titled “Why Lunch Ladies are Heroes,” uses tales if why lunch ladies going beyond just cooking food to change the audience of sophisticated people for the better. He also teaches how a person can change the life of a lunch lady. Lunch ladies are not thanked enough, and he is speaking out to change that. Krosoczka is greatly influential in the topic of lunch ladies and uses strong emotional stories and crafty informal language to change people.
In September of 1979, Audre Lorde, poet, spoke about the impossibility of dismantling the patriarchy through oppressive means. The black feminist woman, Lorde, who has cancer at the point of this speech, uses ethos, pathos, and logos in order to guilt the audience into making a change of how black feminists are represented. Ethos is the building of the author's credibility in order to become more persuasive because people tend to believe people who they deem likable or respectable. “I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for the Humanities conference a year ago, with the understanding that I would be commenting upon papers dealing with the role of difference within the lives of American women: difference of race, sexuality, class, and age. The absence of these considerations weakens any feminist discussion of the personal and the political.”
Even to this day, shame about one’s sexual orientation remains a prominent topic. Whether one identified themselves as gay, lesbian, and transgender, society viewed them and their actions as a sin, a crime, and a disease, which only increased the amount of shame–a painful feeling of distress or humiliation caused by the consciousness of wrong or fooling behavior–they saw within themselves. Then changes began to occur as a group of gays, lesbians, and transgender people confronted police in an event known as the Stonewall Riots or the Stonewall Uprising, which became a turning point for gay liberation. Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home is a 1980s, family tragicomic-graphic memoir that addresses this perspective turning point through the use of the labyrinth
In her article, “A Scar is More than a Wound: Rethinking Community and Intimacy through Queer and Disability Theory”, Karen Hammer examines how Jess’ traumatic experiences in Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues becomes the foundation for her and other transgenders to find “community and intimacy” (160). In doing so, Hammer expertly highlights Jess’ constant need to establish a home of acceptance to combat the violence she faces throughout the novel. Therefore, Jess uses her traumas to form connections with other transgenders to provide a sense of community. However, Hammer fails to acknowledge the consequences of forming a community based on shared experiences of violence. Jess expresses these consequences in her willingness to give up on the
Sylvia Rivera’s Influence on Equal Human Rights Niah Vazquez English 3 Period 2 Mrs. Tsuyuki May 8 2023 Outline Thesis: One of the most important and most impactful activists in U.S. history is Sylvia Rivera. She is not one of the most well-known LGBTQ+ activists in the world for no reason, not only did she fight for Gay liberation since she was at the early age of 18 years old, but she also was also a transgender lesbian activist and an advocate for the homeless. I. Her childhood and history A.
Moreover, Feinberg portrays the struggles and discrimination faced by the LGBTQ+ community, particularly butch lesbians, during the mid-twentieth century. The novel highlights how society, including law enforcement agencies and the medical establishment, viewed butch lesbians as deviant and pathological, subjecting them to harassment, violence, and conversion therapy. The absence of role models and the relentless hostility from society made it challenging for butch lesbians like Jess to find acceptance and
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
In the early 1970s, the Chicago Sun Times reportedly called the first gay pride parade “…just a bold but loosely organized stream of activist and drag queens who marched along the sidewalk …shouting and vamping for gay rights.” This statement reflected society’s view of homosexuals as "drag queens", a term traditionally used to imply a male who acts with exaggerated femininity. While “drag” is commonly associated with homosexual males, those who participate in drag actually vary in gender, class, culture, motivation, and sexual orientation. Disdain with the minimization of homosexual identity and demand for equal rights the University of Chicago Gay Liberation Front sought to take action to debunk and rid stereotypes of homosexual selfhood.
The article reveals the racism that gay men and women deal with within the black culture. It speaks on, an unspoken action that is ignored in the African American community. Lorde (1984) speaks about the African American women smuggles as a lesbian, Icard (1986) speaks no how the African American male is seen an inferior. Loiacano
They are linked. The issue is to be free from male supremacy, this social structure positioning men into a dominating class and women into a subordinating class. But would it be so easy by simply becoming lesbians? Of course not! (Lines 19-20).
Community plays a very large role in Leslie Feinberg’s “Stone Butch Blues”. Jess, the main character of the novel struggles with her gender identity throughout the novel, trying to fit societal norms as well as the norms set within the butch/femme community. She also struggles with her sexuality, and finds both acceptance and denial within the gay community. Jess deals with hatred and pain from others throughout the novel. From the beginning she does not fit other people's ideal of what a girl should look like, and often faces the dreaded question “‘...’
Cody Cooper Mr. Adams & Mrs. Tuckwiller 5th period 3-7-17 Scientific Evidence of Evolution: Support I have always wondered why people talked about evolution. In fact, I’ve always wondered what evolution was until I found some evidence of it. Now I am in support for evolution! I hope by the time you finish reading this paper, you’ll understand why I am all for evolution! I’m sure you’re thinking, what the heck is evolution?
People once used to enslaved people and abused people who simply had different skin tones; they were not conceived as human under the law. Now as history has shown us, that wasn’t justice. In every civil rights conflict we are only able to recognize the just point of view years after the fact and when the next conflict comes along we are blind once again. (Amanda) As I’m writing down this paper we are repeating history once in for all. LGBT communities are just HUMANS who are
