Ganymede was a young boy from mythology that Jove fell in love with. The boy replaced Jove's wife as his lover. ... They are in deep conversation about Orlando and Rosalind is "singing his praises" to Celia. ... From the hints of homosexuality of Duke Senior and his friends in the forest to Orlando wooing a boy whose name is associated with male to male lovers. ... The point I have already made about women being "lesser" forms of men may have been acceptable in his day. ...

• Word Count: 1317
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• Grade Level: High School

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

The truth about black men, gays, and homophobia There's nothing easy about being black, but the struggle for a positive African American Identity is filled with support for fighting it. ... But what if one of these suspected brothers were to come out of the closet just think if Jay"Z rapped about freakin a boy in the back of his limo. ... I mean most African American males watch the HBO television show "Oz" ( a show about brothers in prison) but I would argue that while the African American male community are aware and even content with the fact that a man and another man might h...

• Word Count: 1889
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Eminem was constantly teased for being a white boy in a mostly black neighborhood and attempting to rap along with them. ... Yet this nightmare also made him a famous celebrity by his writing about it. Eminem not only writes about his childhood, he also reflects on events that have recently taken place in his life. ... Although Eminem's lyrics about homosexuals seem to be harsh, each person has his or her own right to freedom of speech. ... The real message Eminem sends through these lyrics is simply that he dislikes boy-girl groups, using New Kids on the Block as an example. ...

• Word Count: 2043
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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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• Has Bibliography
• 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

He now understands much more about the complexity of his own mind. ... Harry learns more about himself through the experiences that he shares with Maria. ... At the ball Harry encounters Hermine dressed as a boy. ... Harry learns a lot about himself through his experiences with drugs. ... Another overall theme that Harry learns about is sensual pleasure. ...

• Word Count: 1545
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• Grade Level: High School

Ask just about anyone. ... There are also a lot of stereotypes about gay relationships, and even a great deal of misunders! tanding of what marriage itself is all about. ... The studies are very clear about that. ... In California, Miguel and Tom adopted a little boy. ...

• Word Count: 1506
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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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This is because this life style is the only one they know about. ... When asked about their son, they replied, "he has had two physical parents, two psychological parents, and two emotional parents. ... In one scene, they are at dinner and one of the gay men talked about homosexuality. ... In the movie, the boy had a perfectly fine childhood. ...

• Word Count: 2000
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate