In the world today there are many differing opinions on homosexuality, some people choose to believe that it is a deviant lifestyle that goes against god while others prefer to believe that it is just another form of expression. The Catholic Church is one of the largest anti-gay groups in

“Over my desk hangs a picture of a young woman whose wet T-shirt reads: THANK GOD FOR AIDS.”(Monette 717) Truthfully homosexuals owe the rise of their social acceptance to the HIV virus. Many people though believe that gays are the reason that STD’s are spreading but that is far from the truth. The real reason that there has been a surge of STD cases in the nation is because people are not making good choices. The blame has always been put on gays because they are the easiest to target. The blame should really be falling on those people who are not thinking about what they are doing and are not making smart choices.

The media is the third and last of the main anti-gay groups of society. Gays are usually portrayed on TV as jealous, deceitful, girly, and feminine. In movies they were usually used as purely antagonistic characters because they thought that a gay person never deserves to be the hero. Silence of the lambs is a good example of how the media likes to portray homosexuals as. Even radio shows get in on the action laughing and jeering at each other’s homophobic jokes on the air. MTV though, recently released a groundbreaking made for TV movie called “Anatomy of a Hate Crime: The Murder of Matthew Shepard.” This movie tells of the life of a gay Wyoming College student who was beaten and pistol-whipped to death by two homophobic college students. MTV’s movie was the first movie of this genre to be released because of the public outcry that followed.

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