Human Behavior and LGBTQ Rights

Running Head: HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND LGBTQ RIGHTS
Human Behavior and LGBTQ Rights
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Introduction
While the stereotypical notions regarding people with different gender and sexual identity
persists among a considerable section of the heteronormative crowd, the widespread awakening
of the LGBTQ community has been instrumental in changing the perspectives of the majority
(Dentanto et al., 2016). People develop positive attitude towards things that reward them or come
to their aid; while anything that does not correspond with their conditioned set of beliefs is not
easily accepted. The essay locates four articles concerned with people’s attitude towards
individuals belonging from the LTBTQ community. The discussion of the paper is based on a
literature review of the articles and concludes with the consequences the behavioral difference of
the heteronormative crowd has on the people with queer identities.
Literature review
Institutionalized Homophobia
The authors of the article A Research Paper Presented to the Faculty of the Senior
High School Department Iligan City National High School. Arts And Social Sciences
Journal, conducted a research for determining the attitude of people towards the LGBTQ
community. The survey included 86 high school students and 12 teachers who were interviewed
for assessing the behavior of the majority crowd towards a minor community (Woods, 2014).
The reason why homosexuals are segregated so redundantly is because they possess
characteristics and temperaments extremely distinctive in nature although the changing
scenarios all over the world is opening up the opportunities for better interaction between
heterosexuals and homosexuals. The responses suggest that people have mixed feelings towards
the LGBTQ community; the expressed emotions are that of tolerance, pity, acceptance and even
repulsion. It was also observed that men respond to the LGBTQ community more negatively

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than the women. Institutionalized homophobia is still widely prevalent among elderly people
while the youth is moving towards acceptance and compassion, owing to social awareness and
activism of human rights. Christians are more averted to homosexuality than people following
other religions, as some followers believe it to be a violation in God’s way. The research follows
the quantitative approach for estimating the ratio of acceptability and resentment of homosexuals
among the heterosexual crowd. The study reveals that the majority of the surveyed crowd are
open and accepting of the LTBTQ community and the tolerance percentage have been going up
since the vindication of gay rights. The data suggest that admiration and acknowledgement are
among the top attitudes demonstrated the heterosexuals towards the community of LTBTQ
people.
Criminalizing the community
While there is hardly a shade of doubt concerning the rapid progress towards equality in
the United States, the article “How the world feels about LGBT people”, suggests that the
progress has not operated globally. Ever since Uganda passed a law making it harshly punishable
for anyone who offended people belonging from the sexual minorities, the country have been
witnessing attacks that are more frequent. Two gay right activists were killed in Bangladesh last
year and Russia criminalized the gay propaganda as an attempt to defend the country’s culture.
On the brighter side, maximum percentage of the respondents in the study agreed that human
rights should be applicable to everyone, irrespective of their race, gender and sexual orientation.
The article points out that movements in gay rights are operating around the world in vastly
different cultural paradigms and political climates. Many of these movements have achieved
commendable success and visibility (Rosenberg, 2017). Although the awareness and activism of
LGBTQ rights is relatively mild as compared to other issues of sociological interest such as