Sentences with phrase «face homophobia»

Bisexual people may feel at odds with their desire to begin a family and struggle with the added question of whether to have children with a same - sex partner and face homophobia in their family unit, or choose a heterosexual relationship to start a family and have to grieve the dream or the desire to have a same - sex partner in their family unit.

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Faced with so much violence around me, watching friends die one by one because of either drugs or other bad choices, watching corrupt politicians win local elections, and dealing with the same sort of racism, homophobia, and other things that caused me to flee to Ohio in the first place, it became clear to me that if I stay here any longer, I'll never be able to leave a place I'm so unhappy with.

Mr Johnson was keen to demonstrate his liberal views on the topic during the 2008 race after facing accusations of homophobia from some quarters.

They welcomed the Tories» decision to hold its first gay pride event last night, but added: «It will seem empty - a two faced gesture - if in the same week you fawn over allies whose homophobia has no place in modern Manchester, in modern Britain, or in Europe.»

The fanatical homophobia behind the Councilmember's comments is particularly damaging to LGBT youth of color, who face the highest rates of depression and suicide among any LGBT demographic.

When Rudy and Paul fight for permanent custody of Marco, the insurmountable legal hostility they face is staggering in its callous — and frighteningly contemporary — homophobia.

But Another Country is also an intensely prophetic book, in which Baldwin glimpses a world much more like the one we inhabit today, where overt, legal racism and homophobia is inexorably falling away, and what we have to look at, instead, is the face of the person we've feared and misunderstood and avoided.

Men who have sex with men face stigma in the form of homophobia.

A mix of documentary and archival footage, talking - head interviews, poetry, and dance, the film is an elegiac and erotic portrait of «black men loving black men» in the face of racism, homophobia, and alienation.

While same - sex / LGBT couples have many of the same challenges as heterosexual couples, they also face additional outside pressures due to homophobia that create conflict within the relationship.

I welcome artists working in and out of the mainstream; corporate execs resisting the limitations of their jobs; gays making good lives in the face of homophobia; parents coping with pressures on the family; intercultural couples struggling with identity and equality issues; and people of all persuasions striving for lasting intimate relationships.

If sexuality was so responsive to environmental cues as social psychology claims, then why does homosexuality persist in the face of substantial homophobia and heteosexism.

The LGBT community faces unique pressures from the underlying homophobia in our culture.