My essential question is: Is there anyone out there really doing something about the issue?
1. Are there any organizations out there to help them?
2. Are there any websites or places on the internet that they can go to?
3. What happens if they don’t get the help they need?
4. What are the people in office doing about it?
5. Are there any laws about harassment?
I changed it because the other one didn't make much sense.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Did you know
Notes
· In a national random survey on the prevalence of same-sex sexual behavior in the United States, 10% of adult men and 9% of adult women report at least one of the following: (a) currently attracted “mostly” or “only” to same-sex persons; (b) same-sex sex “somewhat” or “very” appealing; or (c) had engaged in sexual behavior with same-sex person since age 18. Comparably, the prevalence of left-handedness in the population is 8%.
· There are numerous theories about the origins of a person's sexual orientation. Most scientists today agree that sexual orientation is most likely the result of a complex interaction of environmental, cognitive and biological factors. In most people, sexual orientation is shaped at an early age. There is also considerable recent evidence to suggest that biology, including genetic or inborn hormonal factors, play a significant role in a person's sexuality.
· The two largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights organizations — the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Human Rights Campaign — today condemned the Feb. 27 arrest and detention of Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida. Smith was arrested during a heated hearing before the Largo City Commission in Florida, during which the commission voted 5–2 to begin the process of firing its 14-year city manager, Steve Stanton, because he announced his plans to transition from male to female.
· A number of countries have national laws that protect gays, lesbians, and bisexuals from discrimination, including Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, and Sweden. Australia bans employment discrimination and has some states that provide legal protection. Nine states in the United States have civil rights laws that include sexual orientation, and the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that an amendment in Colorado disallowing an antidiscrimination law on sexual orientation was unlawful. Still, there are seven states that ban the practice of certain sexual acts between adults of the same gender; sixteen states include heterosexual couples in the same ban of specific sexual acts
Brain scans have provided the most compelling evidence yet that being gay or straight is a biologically fixed trait.
The scans reveal that in gay people, key structures of the brain governing emotion, mood, anxiety and aggressiveness resemble those in straight people of the opposite sex.The differences are likely to have been forged in the womb or in early infancy, says Ivanka Savic, who conducted the study at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden."This is the most robust measure so far of cerebral differences between homosexual and heterosexual subjects," she says. Previous studies have also shown differences in brain architecture and activity between gay and straight people, but most relied on people's responses to sexuality driven cues that could have been learned, such as rating the attractiveness of male or female faces.
Sources
http://psychcentral.com/lib/2006/facts-about-sexual-orientation/
http://www.apahelpcenter.org/articles/article.php?id=31
http://www.thetaskforce.org/press/releases/prTFHRC_030107
http://family.jrank.org/pages/1553/Sexual-Orientation-Sexual-Orientation-Social-Policy.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14146-gay-brains-structured-like-those-of-the-opposite-sex.html
· In a national random survey on the prevalence of same-sex sexual behavior in the United States, 10% of adult men and 9% of adult women report at least one of the following: (a) currently attracted “mostly” or “only” to same-sex persons; (b) same-sex sex “somewhat” or “very” appealing; or (c) had engaged in sexual behavior with same-sex person since age 18. Comparably, the prevalence of left-handedness in the population is 8%.
· There are numerous theories about the origins of a person's sexual orientation. Most scientists today agree that sexual orientation is most likely the result of a complex interaction of environmental, cognitive and biological factors. In most people, sexual orientation is shaped at an early age. There is also considerable recent evidence to suggest that biology, including genetic or inborn hormonal factors, play a significant role in a person's sexuality.
· The two largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights organizations — the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Human Rights Campaign — today condemned the Feb. 27 arrest and detention of Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida. Smith was arrested during a heated hearing before the Largo City Commission in Florida, during which the commission voted 5–2 to begin the process of firing its 14-year city manager, Steve Stanton, because he announced his plans to transition from male to female.
· A number of countries have national laws that protect gays, lesbians, and bisexuals from discrimination, including Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, and Sweden. Australia bans employment discrimination and has some states that provide legal protection. Nine states in the United States have civil rights laws that include sexual orientation, and the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that an amendment in Colorado disallowing an antidiscrimination law on sexual orientation was unlawful. Still, there are seven states that ban the practice of certain sexual acts between adults of the same gender; sixteen states include heterosexual couples in the same ban of specific sexual acts
Brain scans have provided the most compelling evidence yet that being gay or straight is a biologically fixed trait.
The scans reveal that in gay people, key structures of the brain governing emotion, mood, anxiety and aggressiveness resemble those in straight people of the opposite sex.The differences are likely to have been forged in the womb or in early infancy, says Ivanka Savic, who conducted the study at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden."This is the most robust measure so far of cerebral differences between homosexual and heterosexual subjects," she says. Previous studies have also shown differences in brain architecture and activity between gay and straight people, but most relied on people's responses to sexuality driven cues that could have been learned, such as rating the attractiveness of male or female faces.
Sources
http://psychcentral.com/lib/2006/facts-about-sexual-orientation/
http://www.apahelpcenter.org/articles/article.php?id=31
http://www.thetaskforce.org/press/releases/prTFHRC_030107
http://family.jrank.org/pages/1553/Sexual-Orientation-Sexual-Orientation-Social-Policy.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14146-gay-brains-structured-like-those-of-the-opposite-sex.html
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Today I was trying to finish up my webliography, I found it very hard to get websites because most of them are blocked but the ones that I do have are good websites some of them answer my foundation questions and some of them give me new ones. As I keep going through finding information the more I am glad that I choose to do this particular topic because you don't know what people go through in their daily life's dealing with issues and problems with people who are absent minded and can't see past someones sexual preference.
Friday, January 23, 2009
My questions
My essential question is: How do people who have a different sexuality deal with the problems that go along with it?
1. Are there any organizations out there to help them?
2. Are there any websites or places on the internet that they can go to?
3. What happens if they don’t get the help they need?
4. Why does it matter if someone is different from you?
1. Are there any organizations out there to help them?
2. Are there any websites or places on the internet that they can go to?
3. What happens if they don’t get the help they need?
4. Why does it matter if someone is different from you?
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
January21,2009
My topic is: Sexual Preferences
My essential question is: Why is it such a big deal to be around someone who has a different sexual preferences?
Some of the websites i choose were some that talked about discrimination dealing with sexual orientation and others were teen talk websites.
10 websites
1. http://www.nolo.com
2. http://www.workfairness.com
3. http://APAhelpcenter.org
4. http://kidshealth.org
5. http://www.opm.gov/er/address2/Guide01.asp
6. http://www.onyourmind.net/
My essential question is: Why is it such a big deal to be around someone who has a different sexual preferences?
Some of the websites i choose were some that talked about discrimination dealing with sexual orientation and others were teen talk websites.
10 websites
1. http://www.nolo.com
2. http://www.workfairness.com
3. http://APAhelpcenter.org
4. http://kidshealth.org
5. http://www.opm.gov/er/address2/Guide01.asp
6. http://www.onyourmind.net/
Thursday, January 15, 2009
A kids wish
I choose to post this quote because I thought it was interesting that someone would say that.
"“A student once asked me if I could have one wish granted to reverse an injustice, what would it be? I had to ask for two. One is for world leaders to forgive the debts of developing nations which hold them in such thrall. The other is for the world to end the persecution of people because of their sexual orientation, which is every bit as unjust as that crime against humanity, apartheid... Archbishop Desmond Tutu”"
"“A student once asked me if I could have one wish granted to reverse an injustice, what would it be? I had to ask for two. One is for world leaders to forgive the debts of developing nations which hold them in such thrall. The other is for the world to end the persecution of people because of their sexual orientation, which is every bit as unjust as that crime against humanity, apartheid... Archbishop Desmond Tutu”"
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Crazy Crazy Crazy
I was reading this article and it said that "Although federal laws protect people from workplace discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, sex, age, and disability, there is no federal law that specifically outlaws workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the private sector." I don't think that is fair at all because discrimination is discrimination and its illegal no matter what and the fact that they don't have a law for that is just down right crazy to me.
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