LGBT Creative Writings Samples For Students

Essay on my personal journey

My life has been characterized by constant struggles against various hurdles. It is a difficult world to adapt to in normal circumstances, but it is an altogether different story for people with different ways and traits. The world seeks the segregation and differentiation at all levels; it is nobody’s fault, however, as the world demands competition and struggle for survival the fittest. The identification of people within various groups gives them the hope and means to survive the realities of this world. While unity of purpose is a good thing, it is used to a detriment when people unite against others ...

Some people are wary or hostile towards individuals, or groups, who are different to them. Such hostility can be based on ignorance or fear, or a whole host of other factors. Lack of acceptance is a widespread problem but, often, people simply need it pointed out to them that everyone is different.

SOPHIE: Look at the state of that. Just when you think she can’t get any uglier, she does.

NICOLA: Who?
SOPHIE: Dora. Look, she’s just got on the bus. Look at her stretching up to put her bag on the shelf. That waistband looks like boxer ...

The 1999 film Boys Don't Cry, directed by Kimberly Peirce, tells the story of transgendered man Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank, in an Oscar-winning performance), who was born Teena Brandon, a woman. In his attempts to ingratiate himself with his male friends and pursue a relationship with a girl named Lana (Chloe Sevigny), his anatomical differences are discovered, and he is raped and murdered by those same male friends. The film examines the concepts of homosexuality, transgender issues, and identity in a way that few major studio films typically do. However, Boys Don't Cry presents a remarkably gender-binary worldview for its subject matter, as Brandon ( ...

“Careful dear,” my mother lovingly caressed my hair as I bumped into her while frantically running upstairs on my way to the roof top. I would be nine years old tomorrow and she still treats me as if I am a three. I didn’t in the least like her gestures of love. ”Why can’t she just keep her hands off me? Why on earth she has to make a show of it every damn time I am near her? Just the thought of her touching me makes me puke,” angrily I mused as I continued to run upstairs. I ...

Personal Cultural Identity: Heterosexual

The two diagrams represent how various social institutions play significant roles towards reinforcing cultural identities. In the case of my personal cultural identity, religion, family, school and the media, all serve to reinforce the belief that it is the acceptable path to follow. When it comes to religion, individuals are encouraged once they are of age to seek for members of the opposite sex and start a family. In fact, the bible in Proverbs chapter 18 verse 22, says “He who finds a wife finds a good thing.” In particular, it specifically implies that marriage is only considered so, if it is ...