As a child parents try to instill certain morals and values, one value is who we love. Many children are socialized to believe that a man should love a woman. This ideal is constantly built into are minds as they way of life. However, there are some people who find love in the same sex. Be it a man with a man or a woman with a woman. This type of love is called homosexuality. People of this nature are usually stuck with a stigma as being “sexually selfish and irresponsible,” because they do not take the responsibility of “parenthood.” The even worse stigma homosexuals’ have dealt with is the prejudice that “all” homosexuals are “perverted,” and “prey on the young.” With thoughts like this many sought homosexuals as being mentally ill, and immoral.

A common judgment of homosexuals is that they have AIDS or HIV. “Those with HIV/AIDS face social disapproval regardless of how the disease was transmitted. Case after case reveals the potent reality of discrimination and stigma attached to the disease.” This stigma makes it very hard for homosexuals to live in society. That’s why many studies and liberating groups have started for the gay community.

The new liberation for homosexuals seemed to almost be directed towards making a gay community. Before it seemed that homosexuals would meet in un-noticeable areas, but after the liberation movement it seemed that they where “coming out of the closet.” There are other groups that have been created in hopes to help the “Gay Community” get away from the negative stigma. National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is an organization that works to help the civil rights of gays and lesbians. Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, which helps gays and lesbians out legally. The Human Rights Campaign Fund, which helps out with state and national legislator.

“It makes you feel like an outsider in everything, like you don’t belong, and it in turn makes some gay people who are not very happy with themselves try to do anything to fit in with gay stereotypes just to feel like they belong to something.”

The long and wrongful stigma of homosexuals has been hard for western civilization to cope with. All the studies in the world won’t prove that homosexual’s are the same as heterosexuals. It should just be understood, that they are. The common thing that links all together is that we are all human, and live together on this planet. The only way to come together on this idea is just blind faith. Just trust your instinct to being understanding and patient.

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