Gay Bashing

In 2008, 190 homosexuals were killed in Brazil, one e genuinely two days, know as a 55 percentage increase on the previous year. The annual report on murders of homosexuals, according to the Grupo Gay da Bahia from Brazil, says that 64 percent of the dupes were courageous men, 32 percent were transvestites, and four percent were lesbians. This is absolutely astonishing. Even though homosexuals have chosen an alternative lifestyle, they still deserve to tolerate a normal life without being victimized of physical harm for their choices.Homosexuality is not normal in biologic terms. If it were normal, then everybody would be homosexual and that is ego-evident. Homosexuals are actively striving to convince us that homosexuality is normal, simply they confuse frequency and familiarity with normality. Todays world is more familiar with homosexuals, their reputation, their struggles, their status in the population, only if that doesnt change the vestigial biology homosexuality is no t normal. We are all bulk. People who love, cry, eat and breathe just equal everybody else does. If homosexuality is not normal, then what is it? Homosexuals, and heterosexual as well, argue that it is not a choice, notwithstanding intact to who they are. With certain qualifications for people of confused identify, it is acceptable to believe that homosexuality is rooted in biology, and that the individual doesnt cull it. The American researcher Dean Hamer published research that seemed to prove that homosexual orientation could be genetically transmitted to men on the x chromosome, which they get from their mothers (Am I Gay? ). If it is rooted in biology, and is not normal, then therefore, homosexuality must be a genetic quirk, a genetic mutation that causes a person to have a sexual identity that is innately in contradiction with that persons physical self and with the natural instinct to pass ones genes to the next generation through procreation with a person of the diametr ic sex.If science proves homosexuality is innate, is there any basis to deny zippys equal treatment including the right to bind? But if scientists unravel the roots of sexual orientation, will it some day be possible to regenerate people who dont fit the norms or abort fetuses likely to be born laughable? (Doughton). In our culture, the victim of gay fringeing is considered the sinner. Thats why so often the crimes against homosexuals go unpunished until someone is found beaten, burned and fasten to a fence post. There is a pat psychological answergays are threatening to us because of homosexual tendencies built into the human psyche, which frighten us and which we must put away from usat any time, in any culture it seems to be convenient to have a group of people who can be demonized and excluded (Stop Bashing Gay People). The verbal taunts and persecution of people because of their sexual orientation are so banality they set the stage for murderers who think its no crime t o despise gays and to act on that detest. It is that instinctual fear of ball up that drives much of homophobia.Straight men often instinctually see gay men as a threat, and they instictively fear that threat. Its a fear of a loss of control, of dominance, of status (Bidstrup). As anybody can tell, the opportunity to be threatened, humiliated and to rattling in fear of being beaten to death is the only right our culture grants on homosexuals. If you listened to the opponents of laws designating gay bashing as a hate crime, youd think there really was some fundamental difference betwixt being a macabre man, who is beaten and dragged behind a truck, and being a gay man, who is beaten, his skull crushed, and leave tied to a fence to die. Gay bashing also sends the message that whether a person is actually lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, or queer, if they are perceived by others as being so, a negative (and potentially violent) reaction whitethorn occur (Matzner). The onl y real difference is the nickname the killers use to describe the victim. The one used for the black man is considered an obscenity so appallingly offensive, it cant be written, printed, or projected verbally. The one used for the gay man is a common expression. Its familiar in schools, comedy routines, the media, and on street corners all across America.There is the perception that homosexuals are a socially acceptable target. Therefore, when young people are asked, they will free and defend targeting gay people as inferior. Gaybashing is the most socially acceptable, and probably the most common, type of hate crime, especially among male teenagers and young adults (Matzner). Theres a belief nowadays that its not so cool to charge racial minorities. Its not so cool to assault women, Blacks or Jews. But assaulting gays is actually something humorous to a lot of young people. Its probably the last socially acceptable group to assault.Part of it is related to the fact that discrim ination against gays is still legalized and encoded. That sends a message to young people that, if gays dont have equal rights in employment, housing, child custody, the military, or marriage, then theres something wrong with them, and nobodys going to mind if we have some fun at their expense. According to statistics released by the FBI, hate crimes that are specifically committed in relation to the victims sexual orientation have go up over the past three years. There were 1,017 reported in 2005, 1,195 in 2006 and 1,265 in 2007.The FBI reported a 6 % increase in hate crimes against gay, lesbian and transgender people in 2008. A gay-bashing incident took institutionalise in Vancouver in March of this year. Hes a faggot. He deserved it. Im not a fag. The faggot touched me. He deserved it, the accused said to a witness. Richard Dowrey, a 62-year old man was punched in the face at a pub and has left him clinging to life in the intensive care unit at a local hospital. The force of th e punch threw him back scopes, falling to the ground and hitting the back of his head. Most commonly, respondents said that they were defending themselves against sexual predation (Franklin).The man will live with permanent brain damage for the rest of his life. Unfortunately, this incident was humorous to someone. What if you were the man who had to live as a vegetable for the rest of your life? Nobody should think that there is not a porta of this adventure the other way around. It may not be as likely, but there is always that possibility of a homosexual physically harming a heterosexual just for being heterosexual. Gay bashing occurs even among children of very young ages, and in this instance, it was too late. 11 year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover was found dead after he hanged himself earlier this calendar week by tying an electrical cord around his neck that was fastened to a support disseminate in his home. The child had enduring day after day of taunting with anti-gay s lurs at the school he attended (Hipps). People dont realize that they go too far with the unbearable taunting. not only may it lead to physical harm, but it really affects people emotionally and to the point that they may inflict harm upon themselves because they have lost their self-esteem. Being homosexual may not be the norm, but they are human beings just like the rest of the world.They have feelings as well. Another example of a gay bashing tragedy the heart-wrenching story of Brandon Teena, a young transsexual murdered in a hate crime, which took place in the 90s. Brandon was born biologically a female, but lived as a male. Because of this, he was subsequently brutally beaten, raped and murdered. His life story and death was later portrayed in the academy Award winning film, Boys Dont Cry. This story was brought to life again for people to manifest the dreaded actions that did and still do take place in our prejudice society.It is needed to have these stories known and fles hed out. It is miserable that our society lives in a country where hate crime legislation is not necessary, but it is. If a crime is committed because of a prevailing prejudice, that prejudice will only subside when we as a society are having an active conversation to bring the issues out into the open. The more they get shoved into the dark, the darker and more alarming they become. Acts and laws need to be passed in order to bring these issues to light in a way that the media cannot ignore.It would be the best way to both bring these crimes to justice and bring about cultural change in our society about a minority group. The cost to society is enormous, not just to the gay person, but to his family, his acquaintances, his employers, and to society as a whole (Bidstrup).Works Cited Am I gay? Are you born gay? Can you stop being gay? Bidstrup, Scott. Homophobia The Fear Behind The Hatred. The Nature of Homophobia. 3 September 2000. Doughton, Sandi. born(p) gay? 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