What's Wrong With Homosexuality By John Corvino

Title Is society becoming more accepting of homosexual and other non-heterosexual lifestyles? Many would answer yes to this question, but many others would disagree. Nevertheless, media and pop culture are beginning to increase queer representation in television and film, among many other things. In addition, many recent surveys reveal that Americans are becoming increasingly accepting towards homosexuality. However, many of these studies are lacking in a broader spectrum. In the LGBT community, gender is viewed as a wide spectrum ranging from strictly female or male to transgender and even genderfluid. Sexual and romantic attractions also range from heterosexual to homosexual and anywhere in between, and are often regarded as exclusive of

He introduces the topic abruptly in his first chapter, “We Shouldn’t Even Be Having This Discussion” and soon delves right into one of the most outspoken arguments against homosexuality in the second chapter “God Said It, I Believe It, That Settles It” throughout his book he cites many other popular arguments using references not only to people who have made many of these arguments, but also the original sources that are claimed to have supported such arguments against homosexuality. Corvino is an Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Wayne State University, and has traveled across the United States giving lectures and participating in debates on LGBT issues. Throughout his book, Corvino cites various arguments for and against homosexuality, using anything from biblical passages to quotes from significant debaters on the topic. He continues to break these down into their barest parts, to identify whether or not these arguments, old or new, are applicable. In this way, he provides a clear and strong argument in favor of homosexuality. However, Corvino states explicitly that he has bias in favor of homosexuality, as he identifies as such, (need to find that quote again) This could post a threat to his credibility but in actuality he succeeds in taking a relatively unbiased position, looking at both

But within the same month Noah Berlatsky published an article asking, “Is America Ready to Embrace Transgenders?” He critiques the People article not only in its use of sensational language, but also of the very hyper contrasting photos of Nikki as a [male] baby and after her transition to female. He argues that People frames Nikki’s story almost as a freak show, whether its explicit or implicit he doesn’t say, but he makes his point obvious. “People wants to be sure we see her as her—and it does so by photographing her in a way that emphasizes traditional markers of femininity.” He continues to argue against the way the article is presented saying that [cisgendered] “women and girls wear dress in gender neutral cloth8ing… without ceasing to be female.” But for a transgender woman to be accepted as female, she has to fit into a very narrow, traditional definition of femininity. This goes partially into the issue of sexism, but also remains relevant in the scope of LGBT issues as well: there are people who identify as neither male nor female, but because of their biological gender it is not acceptable (more often in the case of biological males) to wear feminine or androgynous clothing. Though, while media is increasingly representative of transgender people studies