Due to this, there is no protection for those of the LGBT community who are subjected to the type of discrimination that this country has seen throughout our history with many different groups of people. ... This means that while the laws that protect LGBT individuals in the workplace are nearly non-existent, the changing views of the public are causing a rise in the acceptance of homosexuality and even the transgendered and are making it more of a social norm, thus causing the possibility of these people taking up legal action against those who wrong them. ... This is seen as to avoid any typ...

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There are four types of homophobia, personal, interpersonal, institutional and culture (Homophobia, 2014). ... Some believe that being heterosexual is better than being homosexual, by using the media and educating children of these norms (ALGBTICAL, 2014) What is Heterosexism? ... There are two types of homophobia associated with heterosexism, which are, institutional and cultural homophobia (Homophobia, 2014). ... This type of discrimination leads homosexual to denial of their sexual orientation, low self-esteem and other issues. ... We will see this type of behavior from the ones that do no...

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In our social norm, male attracts to female and female attracts to male. ... Clearly family, social norms, friends, teacher or school education can't make you to become gay, which is a minority orientation. ...

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Introduction Imagine a world in which every action or feeling must be suppressed in order to appeal to the overall norm. ... For this reason, male athletes are not encouraged to come out and are rather forced by societal norms to do everything they can to pass as heterosexual, in order to maintain society's accepted idea of masculinity required to participate in professional sports (Eng 2008). ...

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This "otherness" is a departure in characteristics and behavior from the range expressed as the local, safe norm. ... While the struggle for this type of legislation has been an upward battle, the most recent developments have been steps in the direction of tolerance and acceptance. ...

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Despite these different types of groups and everything going on in society, he gives out the message to the audience to live for no day but today. ... Through Rent, Jonathan Larson brings about new gender roles in a way that makes it seem like a norm to society. ... For example, he introduces different types of people such as transvestites, cross-dressers, bisexuals, and gay people. ...

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We can now readily accept that genes determine our eye color, height, blood type, and other biological factors. ... Although recent breakdowns of social norms have allowed homosexual couples some of the same privileges as heterosexual couples such as health insurance and legal marriage, homosexuality is still largely unaccepted. ...

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However, when homosexual parenting became visible to the public, negative opinions about their parent eligibility were commonplace, partially because heterosexual parenting has been taken as a norm. Hence, deviations from the norm have been implicitly represented as undesirable. ... China first explicitly announced its official policy to prohibit homosexual adoption in 2005, stating that homosexuality is a type of mental illness and against public morality and ethics (CCAA, 2005, para.1), which implies(explicitly asserts) that homosexual parents are unfavorable choices for adopted children. ...

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Same gender attraction violates a fundamental norm of society where men and women are encouraged to be attracted to the opposite sex, marry and reproduce. ... The reality is gay people are from all types of families. ... Peer pressure to conform to teenage social norms is enormous. ...

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