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    including specific genders of people. These orientations may be heterosexual or homosexual in nature. Different persons seem to have stronger or less strong inclinations to be attracted to a wide range of persons, as the existence of bisexuality suggests. However, bisexuality, just like homosexuality or heterosexuality, seems to be a culturally-constructed phenomenon. Women tend to manifest bisexual tendencies more often than men, perhaps because our culture is more comfortable with women openly showing

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    media representation of bisexuals is scarce. When there are bisexuals in media, writers often either rely heavily on stereotypes instead of developing an interesting and complex character, like Alice in The L Word (Schrag and Dabis), or they use bisexuality as a plot point and gloss over it for the rest of the show, like Reagan in New Girl (Meriwether). If bisexuals were portrayed more

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    Thirdly, I asked John Blu about the activities and discussions that go on during the meetings that they hold on Thursdays. He stated that“Every meeting is different, there’s group conversations when an issue or situation comes up from a member, there has been presentations on bullying, and there’s activities like speed friending.” John Blu continued to talk and started to discuss about how they did an activity called speed friending He then began giggling and said “It felt like speed dating and that

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    MSM Men Who Have Sex With Men A Critical Concept Essay Tara L. Gill CIIS Sexuality is historically rooted vacillating through out time, adjusting to the individuals personal experience and is influenced by cultural norms. In the United States, sexual behavior and attitudes are driven by variations in gender, social class, ethnicity, and religion. In fact, sexuality is fluid and is different for everyone. It is a unique, diverse, complicated, secretive, and puzzling experience that

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    the LGBTQ community, the B is often left out. The B stands for bisexuality and it can be a confusing topic since it means being attracted to two or more genders. This can be scary for a twelve year old to navigate, so blogs about people’s journey are the best possible place to start. Bisexuals have been just as oppressed as gays or lesbians. In reality, they do not have as many activists and role models because many people view bisexuality as a joke or someone who is just too scared to come completely

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    sexuality often impacts the success of claims made by bi-sexual refugees. The author argues that this dominant understanding jettisons complex subjective positions and disregards varying realities. The refugee determination system misinterprets and misidentifies the lived experiences of bisexual claimants because of this knowledge, further disadvantaging this group of refugees. Rehaag observes that individuals seeking asylum on the basis of oppression for their bisexual tendencies have significantly

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    Homosexuality is genetic! How can this statement be true? It is indeed true in the precise fact that Romans 3:23 points out, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” Humanity has been cursed with being genetically embedded with sin and a sinful nature. The current worldview is that homosexuality and multiple sexual orientations come from nature, and not nurture. This viewpoint is correct in that it is human nature to sin and seek out one’s own selfish desire. However, No one is

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    things like: society, LGBT, and dating. Society catalyze them as people who you can 't trust, because they are confused or they just want to have sex. Now where the society is finally accepting homosexuality, you would think they will accept bisexuality but no. The thing is that the society thinks you are either: gay, straight, or lying; you like boys as well as girls; that you are either heterosexual or homosexual. Thanks to this, Bisexuals have always been labeled and judged to actually be gay

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    opinion, Zimmerman immediately clarifies why she believes this, stating that Martell is presented by Game of Thrones as someone with an “insatiable appetite” (Zimmerman 565) instead of a dissimilar sexuality. This has the result of devaluing his bisexuality and reframing it as “masculine libertine” (Zimmerman 565). Unfortunately, statistics and logic are rarely enough to persuade an audience about a topic, especially if that topic is emotional. Zimmerman handles this by using rhetorical examples which

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    Gaga Feminism Summary

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    Gaga Feminism was a book written by J. Jack Halberstam and released in 2012. Gaga Feminism was an ideal conceptualized by Halberstam as an ideal that aims to deconstruct sexuality, sex, and gender. This reading seems to come from a lesbian feminist perspective, which focuses on the empowerment of women over men specifically. On the other hand, this writer described that Gaga Feminism was grounded in the status quo and less concerned with equality and deconstruction. What aspects of their critique

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