Prejudice “is a rejection of certain people solely on the basis of their membership in a particular group” (Parrillo pg 549). This is exactly what most of America and the world has towards gays, lesbians and bisexuals, the feelings towards these people are they are inferior to the rest of the “normal people” meaning heterosexuals. These so called normal people basically hate gays and lesbians not just because of who they are but because of with whom they associate with. There is also ethnocentrism which rejects all of the groups that the “in-group” says. In this case the in-group the heterosexual’s says to reject the group of the homosexuals referring to the gays, lesbians and bisexuals.

of their culture or subculture including religion nationality and social class” (Parrillo pg 557). This is to say that when the people are younger they don’t know any better so they

particular group. These feeling are usually based on stereotypes that people have about gays and lesbians. One stereotype people have about gay and lesbians are where they

So in conclusion understanding prejudice towards gays, lesbians and bisexuals is

thought they were gay they used the “dress like a homo, dance like a homo, must be a homo”(Vasquez pg. 494) thinking. In the story the two men named Brian and Mickey, Brian basically looked like a “homo” and Mickey danced like a “homo” which tells us why they were beaten and in his case practically killed. Parrillo states “one of the major findings were that people who scored high on authoritarianism also consistently showed a high degree of prejudice against all minority groups” (Parrillo pg 552). This means those people that were raised with extremely strict parents who beat them when they were younger are more likely to have a prejudice against minority groups and in this case it’s the gay and lesbian community is a minority group compared to the heterosexual population. It is stated in Parrillo’s essay that the prejudice people have towards people could be from their early childhood tensions, but there is nothing that proves that this is the cause for their high degree of prejudice in their adult hood. Another part of authoritarianism with the personality aspect is “people with low self-esteem are more prejudiced then those who feel good about themselves” (Parrillo pg 553). Here Parrillo is saying that, people that have low self-esteem put others down (physically or verbally) to make themselves feel better. This could result from not having a significant other or family which results in them being lonely, so the only way they could

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