While As You Like It presents common Elizabethan notions of what it means to be male and female, it also makes an important point about the intelligence and capability of women by portraying clever and powerful girls who are capable of holding their own in a man's world. ... Everybody, male and female, seems to love Ganymede, the beautiful boy who looks like a woman because he is really Rosalind in disguise. ... Even though Orlando is supposed to be in love with Rosalind, he seems to enjoy the idea of acting out his romance with the beautiful young boy Ganymede "almost as if a boy ...

• Word Count: 1484
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Homosexuality has been documented throughout history, but recently the issue has had much attention in the spotlight with the legalization of "gay' marriage and the announcement from the Boy Scouts of America about the acceptance of homosexuals in their association. ... Since so much time is spent in these places, media can play a huge role in shaping the views and beliefs of a teenager, especially if a teenager's favorite celebrity is passionate about it. ... Two obvious celebrities who are passionate about the gay pride movement are Macklemore and Lady Gaga. ... Another signif...

• Word Count: 1034
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Due to Perry's has male anatomy, many students simply saw her as a boy in a blonde wig changing in the girls' locker room -- and that made them very uncomfortable. They whispered horrible things about her in the hallways, complained to faculty and told their parents, who brought it up at the school board meeting on August 27. ...

• Word Count: 486
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Of the cases studied involving molestation of a boy by a man, 74 percent of the men were or had been in a heterosexual relationship with the boy's mother or another female relative. ... There are many arguments today about what is moral and what is immoral. ...

• Word Count: 1894
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Researchers have found that although the ideas about homosexuality vary greatly, it is a fact of life that has been integrated into each society. ... Bailey explains that the Greeks had a common relationship which was formed between an older man and an adolescent boy which was sexual, and can be compared to the homosexual relationships of the west coast today. ... The historical base of homosexuality reveals much about the way we have reacted through fear and contempt. ...

• Word Count: 1372
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I will discuss how families are ignorant and narrow minded when talking about gay and lesbians and how society in general just do not talk about these topic in their household, people bluntly ignore the fact that these are people like myself and you. ... In many of our societies, we see our relationship with others, such as close family that bond by blood and those around us who care a lot about as, who contribute towards our lives as a depend and categories them as a kin Martin explains that gendering start early childhood when girls are forced to wear pink and boys blue, since your birth p...

• Word Count: 1494
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We will concern ourselves with that of Sebastian and Antonio which is a clear male/male relationship rather than draw focus on those characters whose relationship is based upon the cross-dressing that provides the drive of the plot (although there are worthy points to be made about the Cesario(Viola)/Orsino relationship). ...

• Word Count: 1749
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The media reports numerous acts of violence every day, for example, in 1998, a 15-year-old boy in a small Oregon town took a gun to school one day and randomly opened fire on a crowded cafeteria. ... I do not have an answer for the fifty- percent of identical twins that are not gay in the studies except that maybe we don't know all there is to know about identical twins. ...

• Word Count: 1595
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It is seen as normal or natural for a boy to be attracted to a girl and a girl to be attracted to a boy. ... Gary Hollander, a psychologist, talks about sexual identity formation in his article in the School Psychology Review (2000). ... Like everything in life families have to be educated about behaviors that are foreign to them. ... Other families that are somewhat accepting because they are educated and rational are still left to worry about the degree of harm their child will encounter. ... With organizations such as these families can learn and educate themselves about this issue. ...

• Word Count: 4517
• Approx Pages: 18
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They have believed misguided upbringing and their social environments bring it about. ... Many Asian cultures are known to be strict about many of their cultured customs. ... This was one topic that I did not see much conversation about the man, other than his role to sexually please the women. ... AIDS, at first, was only found to be attacking the gay population (minority), but the people that could do something about it, or controlled the money that could help with the situation were not being affected, and didn't feel threatened by it (majority). ...

• Word Count: 2418
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If the distance continues, the process never resumes, leaving a child feeling rejected, empty, and insecure as a boy or girl" (Olson p.13). ... The debate over same-sex marriage is not about "tolerance" but "preference." ...

• Word Count: 2159
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In "Selections from Matthew Shepard", Beth Loffreda discusses the death and community's reaction to the murder of Matthew Shepard, a boy who was killed solely due to his homosexuality. ... Unfortunately, as Solomon states, "Self-acceptance is part of the ideal, but without familial and societal acceptance, it cannot ameliorate the relentless injustices to which many horizontal identity groups are subject and will not bring about adequate reform" (Solomon 373). ... There are many activism groups today that meet to not only change society, but also to unite with each oth...

• Word Count: 1787
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When discussing the sexuality of their daughters however, the fathers did not address the potential reality that their daughters could be lesbian, and mostly laughed about it being a cry for attention, a phase, or to impress a boy, thus reinforcing the hetero-sexualization of lesbianism and the invalidity of true sapphic acts and relationships (Solebello and Elliott 2011). ...

• Word Count: 1895
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate