Hello, my name is Kristen Damron and my blog topic is about violence against gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender peoples. As history is in progress people of the gay community are establishing more rights and fighting much harder for what they believe in then they have in the past. Gays are gaining more rights and establishing more movements for themselves. In the past it was very unheard to "come out of the closet" because it was socially unacceptable. Most of the time your family, friends and community would go against you, hurt you or even kill you at the extremes because it was seen as sinful. We have made some progress sense that but the problem is not totally fixed. There are still so many bullying cases in schools or even in public. It is hard for most couples of the gay community to go out into public without getting stares or harassed. The United States also has gay pride week and parades, there are always rioters trying to make the situation awful for the gay community and cause violence mentally and physically when they are just trying to express who they are as people like heterosexual peoples do. Even though progress is being made the gay community is still fighting to protect themselves and earn their human rights they believe that they deserve. It is amazing how hard people fight for who they are and their beliefs to live their lives and take the risks of the violence instead of staying in the closet or afraid to come out so they don't have to deal with how some of society treats them.
-Thanks for reading, Kristen.
I agree there is a slight change in efforts from then to know. I believe that society will never fully accept the fact that their are people who choose to live out of the social norms and just love each other. I just recently heard a story from a classmate on how one of her male friends who identified himself as bisexual was beaten by his father repeatedly to "beat the gay out of him." This is an example of violent against a bisexual.
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