The activity I participated in for my cultural activity was an outing to a local gay bar called peaches. We met at the bar and walked in I felt very welcomed by everyone. My first thought’s before going were that people were going to assume that I was gay. After having walked in and my interviewee were questioned who is that with you and he told them just a friend from middle school. They left it at that and asked what I was drinking? Being as though I was there to do a paper I drank soda. I sat back and observed and saw that they dance around and act silly as any straight person does in a bar. It did however make me a little uncomfortable to see men on the dance floor dancing together and kissing. They didn’t make me feel uncomfortable as society probably would them walking into a place where predominately straight people hang out. The people were very friendly and welcoming into there community (gay bar) they immediately talk to me and made friends with me after my having told them I was straight. Where as if they were to walk into a straight bar as a couple they would be made to feel uncomfortable or even ignored.
The history of person’s who are Gay, Lesbian, or Bisexual that I can understand are that back when the WWI
In conducting my interview and doing research as well as participating in a cultural activity I learned that my theory that all people are created equal. And that we as society have no place to impose are judgments on others. The things that could be useful to me in human services are that I as a human services worker have to be nonjudgmental. In my activity I have to say that I placed judgment before I got to the bar I was under the assumption that they would view me as gay, and if not gay then they would treat me different because of my not being gay. Instead I know now to give people a chance. The one strength that really stuck out to me with gays was that they have a very close friendship. Also that they don’t view society as wrong but rather just uneducated. One of their benefits to being in the gay community is acceptance. If I ever come across a time where I have to counsel a person with same sex orientation I know now to be understanding. As with any cultural group outside of one’s own you have to be willing to educate and understand them. I really had no previous stereotypes to be challenged I’ve been friends with gay people since I got out of high school. My only stereotype did just not understand them. My interviewee asked me why I like guys, and you knew what I told him I don’t know. But I guess it’s because that’s what society puts in your heads that’s the way it should be.
I was going and Jews were in concentration camps they held people of same sex orientation there as well and they were made to wear pink triangles as the Jews were made to wear star of David. Some of the characteristics that were shared with me from a member of this group were that they consider themselves as being warm, caring, neutering, and at times predatory. There are many things of importance to this group there main importance that I got was the importance o
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