Sexuality and Development

In today’s world so many things have changed. There are many support groups that help people cope and deal with different types of issues. The Lesbian,Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender known as the LGBT community is a support group that allows people from the same sex to walk freely and have rights to be themselves. LGBT is celebrated all over the nation and has grown since the 90’s. The LGBT community has dealt with society's perception of their community and the impact of same-sex marriages.

The LGBT are now in every culture, occupation, religion, state, socioeconomic class, country, marital status, and race. Virtually any place you go now, you will find a men or women who are gay or lesbian. Before people who were gay, lesbian, or transgender were afraid to come out the close because the norm was to be married as man and women. Society did not accept people who wanted to be with each other from the same sex so they would hide their sexuality and pretend they were normal. The LGBT member’s self-identity is definitions of what category their labeled in. For example someone who confronts heterosexism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, and heterosexual is labeled as Ally. Biphobia means the fear of discrimination against, Bisexual means a person emotionally, physically, or sexually attracted to males /men and females/women. The most common one in today’s world is transgender who is a person who identifies psychologically as a gender/sex other than the one to which they were assigned at birth. The differences between being gay/lesbian and transgender is gay being with men, lesbian are females who like being with women, and transgender like being a women and dressing up like a women. In the early 90’s Ru Paul was the first drag queen supermodel who was on T.V dressed as a woman who was confident and stood out. “What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn’t change what I decide to do. I don’t choose projects so people don’t see me as one thing or another. I choose projects that excite me. I think the problem is that people refuse to understand what drag is outside of their own belief system”(RuRaul) After he made his first appearance on T.V. dressed up as a drag queen, transgender, gays, and lesbians all over the nation started to feel comfortable to come out and express their sexuality. For the gay men and lesbians after actors and actresses like Robert Reed, Michael Landon,Allen De Generees, Queen Latifa, Ricky Martin, and many other famous people from Hollywood were afraid to come out and say they were gay/ lesbian.

Society's perception of the LGBT community was not accepted at first because of the stereotypes of society opinions and views. Though people started to unite together because they were tired of keeping the secret, violence due to being open