Sunday, December 2, 2012

Accepting the LGBT Community



     Lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (the LBGT community) have been fighting for equality  of all sorts for years. As of November 7, nine states in the US have legalized gay marriage. This is an extreme accomplishment in the LGBT fight for equality that shows how much support this community has gotten over the years.
     The "It Gets Better" project is a prime example of the group's acceptance. For the project, people make videos talking about why life gets better for the LBGT community as adults, much like Tim Gunn's video above. But, what I think proves the acceptance of this group even more is a recent article by Fox News. Fox News is a news organization that's widely known for publishing content with conservative reporting bias. Recently, the news organization published a story about a same-sex marriage at West Point's Cadet Chapel. What's special about this story from this source is that it's written in a completely neutral manner. If the conservative Fox News reporters can accept writing about gay marriage without any biases, I think that shows how far Americans have come in accepting the LGBT community.

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