Oppression follows anything going against society's social norms and one thing that is still being oppressed is homosexuality. Througout time upon the appareance of homosexuals many crimes involve gruesome murder on account of their sexual orientation. Are these people's feelings really wrong? Why has society seen it like this? Oppression is pushing these people down and causing them to fall slowly but surely.
About 10% of the world is admitted to be gay but 42% claim that homosexuality is wrong. With this large amount it is no wonder that homosexuals feel pressured to not show their true and innermost feelings. Sexism, racism and religious persecution amongst others are still ran against but many legal terms have been put up to fight against these. Only one group is still being oppressed and it it progressing much slower than these other social problems and this group are the homosexuals of the United States. Events such as the AIDS epidemic has brought up attention the gay population. Also nicknamed the "gay plague" it was said that it was a punishment signifying "God's warth" proving that being gay was completely unnatural. This was a first start to the heavy discrimination against homosexuals, bisexuals and so on. Thanks to the horrible descrimination against the gay community many don't even have some of the basic human rights everyone is supposed to have.
A current problem within the gay community is the right to adopt children. Gay couples pleads are denied and rejected just because of their sexual orientation not because of how good their home is. There are no proven facts that show the difference between being raised by a homosexual couple or a straight one. Children will grow up how nature wants it regardless of their parents sex and relationship. By being excluded by society many gay people feel lost and fearful about how outsiders treat them. Just this year many homosexual kids have committed the act of suicide due to the taunting and pressure of anti-gay children and sometimes even parents. Many homosexual kids are disowned by their family or treated differently just because they admit being attracted to their same sex. Is this really the way people should be treated? Is a homosexual life less important than a heterosexual's? I believe not and many would agree. Oppression of this group has driven many to death and seclusion from society. These people keep being verbally and even physically abused and this will keep going if we do not put a stop to it.
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