Gay Rights are Human Rights

Over 80 countries around the world currently have sodomy laws or other laws criminalizing homosexuality. Apart from the essential violation of criminalizing this sexual conduct, these laws empower police and other authorities to abuse, harass, estort, imprison and execute people whose sexual orientation, gender identity or expression differs from the dominant "normal". eliminating sodomy laws is fundamental in passing on a universal vision of human rights and decriminalizing homosexuality.

It is everyones responsibility to understand that all human beings are born into this society with rights that give us power, they give us the ability to control the outcomes of our lives and we as a society are not giving this specific group of people the oppertunity to grasp these rights rendered to them at birth.

The sooner we as a society accept and promote LGBTQ rights, is the sooner we will be on the way to decriminalizing homosexuality and providing this group of people with the rights they deserve as       human beings.                                                                                                                                         

What is Homophobia and Where did it originate?

Homophobia is defined as an extreme and irrational aversion towards homosexuality and homosexual people. Or simple just the hatred or fear of homosexuals. The word "Homophobia" was used for the first time in the 1960's by George Weinberg.

                                                                                               George Weinberg
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George Weinberg is an American Psychologist with a doctorate in clinical psychology and degrees in English and mathematics. Weinberg used the word "homophobia" to clarify that people who are prejudice against homosexuals are suffering from a psychological malady, or an irrational state of mind. Though being heterosexual himself, Weinberg became a successful leader in the struggle to remove homosexuality as a diagnostic category in the professional therapeutic handbook. One can call him an activist for the rights of  homosexuals.

                                                                                                                                                                      
Homophobia stems from individual social and systematic prejudice. Like all attitudes and behaviours based on predudice and hatred, such as sexism mysogyny and racism, homophobia has no real foundation. It comes from one's and society's inability to cope with the differences of others, which can be seen as a threat to individuals then eventually to society in general.