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    LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender” [3]. In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the term gay in reference to the LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s [4]. Activists believed that the term gay community did not accurately represent all those to whom it referred [5]. In 2016 GLAAD's Media Reference Guide states that LGBTQ is the preferred initialism, being more inclusive of

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    Description of the importance of the topic The topic on the advocacy for LGBT community in schools among the student community is very important. In most cases the advocates of LGBTs have tried to persuade schools to improve their environment. Usually the school environment significantly determines whether the climate in the school is healthy and appropriate for LGBT students to learn in (Goldberg and Allen, 2013). Advocating for this community therefore means that school administrators are likely

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    Lgbt Research Paper

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    unfairness going on right now with LGBT people, sometimes the people adjudicating do not know how it is affecting the victims. If they did know they would know that it has an emotional impact on them in many ways. According to the ACLU they carry out this type of work through five central priority areas: Basic Rights and Liberties, Parenting, Relationships and Marriages, Youth and Schools, and Transgender Discrimination. Basic Rights and Liberties, the ACLU works hard to make LGBT people have equal opportunity

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    Lgbt Argumentative Essay

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    Lgbt- lesbains, gays, bisexuals, and transgender it doesnt matte everyday they go through the same injustice and inequality. Lgbt reformative is very dear to my heart because i have seen what people do to those that have different sexual preferences. Everyday they face discrimination against people especially highschool and college students. Lgbt goes through a poker match when they come out. Society mocks them. They don’t even have supports from their nation. Our president have been subjecting

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    Lgbt Pros And Cons

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    The Lgbt community has historically has been ostracized simply because of their sexual sexual preference. They are still denied the right to marry in certain states. Social security benefits has continued to be controversial. Recently transgender individuals using public restrooms has created an outrage. Finally in the following essay, i will discuss where the lgbt community will find a place in the trump administration also homosexuality and discrimination. On April 28. 2016, The supreme court heard

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    LGBT is an acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. The subject of being homosexual is a sensitive subject for almost anyone in America. That being, Americans have multiple different viewpoints that they have developed. Some having harsh views, and some just being a free spirit. The LGBT community has always had a controversial viewpoint in contrary to religion, social acceptance, and it even goes against what the president has to say. Christians believe that a man should love a woman

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    Lgbt And Indi Diversity

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    LGBT and India Throughout India, diversity is embraced and accepted in many forms. It emerges from differences in nationality, ethnicity, religion, region, language, physical ability, sexual orientation and many other differing views and attributions among the population. While diversity can be determined from birth, it can also be determined by the social constructs a person grows up with or around. Diversity has many positive consequences, but diversity also isn’t without negative consequences

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    Reflective Essay On LGBT

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    To the next LGBT in my family, There are millions of different reasons why people discriminate others. But did you ever think one would be because of the person you decide to fall asleep to every night? I know it may be hard to understand why someone would have an issue with who you decide to love and be with its still hard for me to understand the hatred towards it. I’m sorry to have to tell you that people will look down upon you and discriminate against you because of your sexuality. They won’t

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    Lgbt Mental Health

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    The Correlations between Mental Health and Faith in the LGBT Community Specific Aims • Is it true that there is a correlation between religion and mental health in individuals of the LGBT community in University of California, Riverside? • How does religion negatively affect college students who identify as part of the LGBT community? Introduction & Purpose Looking around in today’s society we can see the immense diversity of people who live around us. The vast differences among each individual in

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    Suicide By LGBT Youth

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    Getting Started The problem of Suicide by LGBT Youth is that majority of them get bullied by their heterosexual peers. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2014) Sometimes their parents will kick them out of the house because of their sexual orientation. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2014) Myself being a part of the LGBTQ community, I never came out to my peers at school. I kept to myself so I never experienced the bullying due to my sexual orientation but I do

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