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Introduction
We choose the topic Homosexuality. Our topic was "Survival in the Real World" and then we picked a
topic from there. I, of course, did mine on homosexuality.One of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, Dr Seuss, once said, "Be who you are and say
what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"
("Quotations"That is, essentially, the greatest advice a person can receive and is at the heart of gay
rights. As a young homosexual grows into adulthood and enters the "real world" he or she will, without
a doubt, encounter someone who "minds." Whether it be socially, legally, religiously, or even internally
challenges will emerge.
These challenges must be recognized, understood, confronted, and,
hopefully, overcome. Some of these challenges cannot be confronted without taking legal action or
changing the way another person thinks, therefore rendering the challenge, for most people, difficult
or otherwise impossible to overcome. In these cases the individual's only method of overcoming the
issue is through various resource organizations or support from friends and/or family. In other cases,
the challenge is an emotional one and can only be overcome through an internal process of
acceptance and understanding. Those cases are the most common for homosexuals and include
important processes such as "coming out."
Homosexuality, a term created by 19th cent. Theorists to describhe a sexual and emotional interest in
members of one's own sex. Today a person is often said to have a homosexual or a heterosexual
orientation, a description intended to defuse some of the long-standing sentiment among many
Westerners that homosexuality is immoral or pathological. Homosexual practices are not afforded any
special moral or psychological significance in many other cultures. A survey of 190 societies around
the world (1951) reported that homosexual practices were considered acceptable behavior in...